In 1946, a couple of schoolboys found Olive Balchin murdered in the debris left from WWII bombings in Manchester, England. Police were convinced they had their man when they connected a convicted murderer named Walter Graham Rowland to Olive. But then another man confessed, and a similar murder cast doubt on Rowland’s guilt. Was the right man put to death?
Also, the hat people are called milliners.
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Episode Source List:
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1951/dec/06/murder-conviction-inquiry
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/nostalgia/mystery-body-bomb-crater-search-30318856
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/nostalgia/walter-rowland-strange-case-stockport-21710501
https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1954/apr/15/david-john-ware-death-in-broadmoor
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/75734015
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/132856264
https://mail.murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rowland-walter.htm
https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/Walter%20Rowland.html
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