Episode 126: Lethal in the Hay
On today’s episode, Kate and Paul head to 1931 England where a fire in a hay field causes alarm. When the body of a young local college student is discovered in an unlikely manner, the ensuing investigation is conducted by a legendary figure.
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Sources:
“Oxfordshire burned body mystery unsolved for 85 years” by Sophie Perry (Oxford Mail, September 25, 2021)
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19603447.oxfordshire-burned-body-mystery-unsolved-85-years/
“Death Mystifies” (The Expositor, May 16, 1936)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/733186334/?match=1&terms=%22thomas%20patteson%20moss%22%20balliol
“Broken Tooth to Identify Dead Student” (Evening Standard, May 16, 1936)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/764491999/?match=1&terms=%22thomas%20patteson%20moss%22%20balliol
“What Sir Bernard Spilsbury Found” (Sunday Dispatch, May 17, 1936)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/813521394/?match=1&terms=%22thomas%20patteson%20moss%22%20balliol
“Letters Clue in Rick Fire Riddle” (Daily Mirror, May 18, 1936)
“New Light on Oxford Riddle” (The Daily Telegraph, May 19, 1936)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/786737298/?match=1&terms=%22thomas%20patteson%20moss%22%20balliol
“Ricks Tragedy” (The Sunday People, May 24, 1936)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/940415088/?match=1&terms=%22thomas%20patteson%20moss%22%20balliol
“Sir B. Spilsbury’s Theory in the Rick Mystery” (Evening Standard, June 18, 1936)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/764496751/?match=1&terms=%22thomas%20patteson%20moss%22%20balliol
“Undergraduate’s Rick-Fire Death Not Cleared Up” (Birmingham Gazette, June 19, 1936)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/783598090/?match=1&terms=%22thomas%20patteson%20moss%22%20balliol
“Spontaneous Combustion a Possibility With Wet Hay” (Oklahoma State University, September 4, 2020)
https://news.okstate.edu/articles/agriculture/2020/stotts_braums-fire.html