EPISODE 40: Crumbles Beach
In this week’s episode, Paul and Kate head to 1920 England where a 17-year-old typist has taken herself on vacation and subsequently goes missing. When her body is found on the outskirts of town, a legendary investigator is brought in to help assess the evidence and find her possible killers.
Sources:
“Irene Munro and the Beach Murder of 1920” by Jonathan Oates
“Bernard Spilsbury His Life And Cases” by Douglas Brown (1951)
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.63919
“Rescuing the reputation of 1920 East Sussex beach murder victim” by Phil Hewitt (Sussex World) 2021.
“Woman’s Body Buried in the Sand” (The Guardian) 1920.
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/47777842/murder-of-irene-munro/
“How Early Forensic Strategies have been used in the past” (Incognito Forensic Foundation)
https://ifflab.org/5-cases-solved-using-early-forensics/
“Murder at the seaside: The tragedies that made the Crumbles notorious for the wrong reasons” by Joe Thomas (Sussex Live) 2020.
https://www.sussexlive.co.uk/news/history/murder-seaside-tragedies-made-crumbles-4336090
“Murderer’s Row: An International Murderers’ Who’s Who” by Robin Odell and Winifred Gregg (2011)
“An Old Contemptible and An Irish Pasha” by Reg Fitzpatrick
“Patrick Herbert Mahon” (Murderpedia)
https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mahon-patrick.htm
“Crumbles Murders” (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumbles_murders
“Hampden Park, Eastbourne” (Wikipedia)