Fifty years ago, on March 26th 1971, the body of a young man was found in a secluded spot, an island in the River Trent with extremely limited access. He was buried in a kneeling position, naked except for socks and a wedding ring. His hands and ankles had been bound. So began one of the UK’s most baffling murder mysteries, a grisly crime that has remained unsolved to this day.
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The jury was certain. Francis Clarke had murdered Tina Sellars. But as we discovered in the last episode, there are serious doubts as to whether the time required to commit the crime tallied with the window of opportunity that Clarke had to commit it.
As as we find out in this episode, there are other reasons to suspect there was a potentially entirely different explanation for the crime.
But what about the scientific evidence? That's incontrovertible surely?
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Saturday Jun 06, 2026
Saturday Jun 06, 2026
Francis Clarke has been convicted of the murder of Tina Sellars and starts to serve his life sentence. But something's not quite right about this case.
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Tuesday Jun 02, 2026
Tuesday Jun 02, 2026
For DCS Bob Stewart the pressure to solve the Blackpool Street murder was intensifying, The violent nature of the killing suggest they were dealing with a man who had the potential to murder again. He needed to break the case and he needed to do it fast.
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Saturday May 30, 2026
Saturday May 30, 2026
The night of the 15th June 1980 was drizzly and unseasonal. In the Midlands town of Burton upon Trent, an 18 year old student steps off the bus and walks back to her grandparents house.
An hour later she was found murdered and mutilated, but what exactly happened in that next hour? Welcome to the Mysterious Case of the Blackpool Street Murder.
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Saturday May 16, 2026
Saturday May 16, 2026
In Part 2 of our deep dive into Anthony Hardy, we're able to establish his exact whereabouts, we speak to those who knew him as a youngster and just maybe there's another Burton murder we need to concern ourselves with.
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Sunday Apr 12, 2026
Sunday Apr 12, 2026
In November 1972 a young women is murdered in a bedsit flat in Maida Vale, London. That murder is still unsolved. But how on earth could this be connected to our search for Fred?
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Monday Feb 23, 2026
Monday Feb 23, 2026
As our research continues along the points we determined where key to moving the case forward, we're met with frustrating responses, but we're making progress in other key areas.
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Saturday Jan 24, 2026
Saturday Jan 24, 2026
Fred was found with a plain 9ct ring on his right wedding ring finger. Surely we've found all of the information we possible could about that - Well, maybe not.
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Sunday Dec 28, 2025
Sunday Dec 28, 2025
As we finish 2025. there's a lot going on with Fred and maybe we've just taken some more steps forward, but with an unexpected plot twist.
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Sunday Nov 23, 2025
Sunday Nov 23, 2025
There's a name that keeps appearing in this investigation - Brian Edge - and he's important, because in the early years of the investigation, he's the prime candidate to be Fred.
And, because we keep discovering more information, we've again narrowed the time window even more - and he's right in it.
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Saturday Oct 25, 2025
Saturday Oct 25, 2025
Sometimes, when you least expect it, something happens quite of the blue, that changes everything.....
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Saturday Aug 16, 2025
Saturday Aug 16, 2025
The plot thickens - Why does a seemingly impossible thesis - keep surprising us. Suggesting there might be more to this case than meets the eye.
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