William Corder & The Red Barn Murder

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In the first half of the 19th century, there was a single murder that, having ensnared the English countryside in a web of scandal, permeated throughout society and popular culture for decades after its conclusion. Having all the elements of a story written as a gothic thriller, theso-named Red Barn murder sparked a year-long mystery, culminating in a revelation that exposed a history of darkness, hidden beneath a façade of respectability that shocked the nation to its core.SOURCES Harley, Laurence (1988) The Church And Parish of Polstead, Suffolk. BGA Print, Suffolk, UK. McCorristine, Shane (2014) William Corder & The Red Barn Murder: Journeys of the Criminal Body. Palgrave Macmillan, Hampshire, UK. Maggs, Peter (2015) Murder in the Red Barn: The Tragic Story of Maria Martin and William Corder. Mirli Books Ltd. Essex, UK. Foster, George (1828) An Accurate Account of the Trial of William Corder. George Foster, London, UK. Gibbs, Dorothy & Maltby, Herbert (1949) The True Story of Maria Marten. East Anglian Magazine, UK. Morning Chronicle (1828) Horrible Murder. Morning Chronicle, Thurs 24 April 1828, p3. London, UK. Morning Chronicle (1828) The Mysterious Murder. Morning Chronicle, Sat 26 April 1828, p3. London, UK. Morning Chronicle (1828) Murder At Polstead. Morning Chronicle, Mon 28 April 1828, p3. London, UK. For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	In the first half of the 19th century there was a single murder that having ensnared the English
0:06.5	countryside in a web of scandal permeated throughout society and popular culture for decades
0:12.2	after its conclusion. Having all the elements of a story
0:16.0	written as a Gothic thriller, the so named Red Barn Murder sparked a year-long mystery culminating in a revelation that exposed the history of darkness hidden
0:26.4	beneath the facade of respectability that shocked the nation to its core.
0:32.1	This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction.
0:38.8	Hello and welcome to Dark Histories. I'm Ben as always. This is Series 8, Episode 10. And today's episode.
0:46.4	This is one that I've been meeting to do for a long time. It's had a lot of people
0:50.0	I asked me to do it, requested, and you might have noticed I've been doing a few more requests this season.
0:55.1	I've sort of consciously gone back and been trying to do episodes that have been
1:00.7	frequently requested and this is always one of them.
1:04.0	But the funny thing is about this episode
1:05.0	is I actually thought that I'd done it.
1:09.0	I had all the books.
1:10.0	I keep folders on my computer of all my research and stuff and all the materials that I've been using for every episode and I actually had a
1:20.9	folder on my computer with all like birth certificates and death certificates and all sorts in.
1:26.8	I must have at one point started this episode and then discarded it halfway through for whatever reason,
1:38.5	which made obviously the research for this episode a little bit easier than normal because I had a lot of it right there. So that was good.
1:39.5	Here we are anyway. We got there in the end. This is William Corder and the Red Barn Murder.
1:47.0	Nine miles north of Colchester in the English County of Suffolk, 80 miles northeast of London,
1:54.3	Polstead is a small picturesque rural village with a population of 900.
1:59.4	A single medieval church, with roots dating all the way back to the 7th century sits to the south of a pair of murky brown ponds making up a trio of the most prominent features of the village.
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