Season 8 - Episode 23

The television series ‘Midsomer Murders’ has been on-air since 1997. In a fictional rural setting, each episode of the British crime drama sees an individual harbour dark secrets as part of the ongoing whodunnit murder mystery. In a curious twist of life imitating art, the picturesque village of Furneux Pelham in Hertfordshire became an unwitting backdrop for a real-life murder mystery in 2004. An elderly man had been found dead on the front doorstep of his Grade II listed cottage. News outlets dispatched reporters to Furneux Pelham, and the media began to draw parallels between the murder and the fictional television series. As time passed and the crime went unsolved, life in Furneux Pelham slowly returned to normal. However, sometime later, a jailhouse confession would thrust the village back into the spotlight…

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This episode was researched and written by Emily G. Thompson.

Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.

Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton

Narration, editing assistance, additional writing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.

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MUSIC: 

The Edge by Caleb Etheridge 

The Rite by Wicked Cinema 

Dead Ends by Wicked Cinema 

Crooked Man by Wicked Cinema 

St Mary by Chelsea McGough And Stephen Keech 

Point of No Return by Salon Dijon 

Distances by Salon Dijon 

Sussex by Stephen Keech 

Beyond All Time by Moments 

Changing Tide by Moments 

Deceptive Cadence by JCar 

Recognize by Grant Borland 

Winter Train Home by Featherland 

Aurora by Featherland 

Dark Hour by Falls 

Strangers by Craig Allen Fravel 

Shadow Passage by Cody Martin 

Forbidden Wing by Cody Martin 

Depth of Loss by Cody Martin 

The Diary by CJ0 

Woven by Alice in Winter 

Aure by Alice in Winter 

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