Completing the two part tale concerning the murder in September 1994 of 38 year old Carol Wardell - abducted from home by a gang of raiders, who, after beating and drugging her husband Gordon, forced her to open the building society in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, where she was deputy manager, emptied the safe, and then suffocated Carol, dumping her body in a layby.

At least, that was Gordon's account, anyway....

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Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
• Frank Turner - A Love Worth Keeping

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• References - Assorted articles from the BBC, The Free Library, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, The Times, The Independent, Coventry Telegraph, Birmingham Mail, Birmingham Daily Post, Hull Daily Mail, Sandwell Daily Mail, Newcastle Journal, Solihull News, Liverpool Daily Post, Hinckley Times, Heartland Evening News - sourced online and through the British Newspaper Archive, and Newspapers.com. Produced upon request.
• (91) The Brutal Murder Of Carol Wardell | True Crime Documentary - YouTube
• (91) George Joseph Smith and Gordon Wardell - Documentary - YouTube
• (91) Tears, Lies & Videotape (ITV 2009) - YouTube
• "The Jigsaw Man" - Paul Britton 1997 pp 371-399

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Remembering Carol. The episode is dedicated to her.

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The discovery of a woman's body in a rural Warwickshire layby in September 1994 was the start of what would become to detectives one of the most complex investigations in Warwickshire Police history, and would ultimately lead them to a cold and calculating killer.

This time and next on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, I shall bring you the story.

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Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• Audioslave - Hypnotise
• Martha Wainwright - Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole

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"I have just murdered my wife in her bed. I have just stabbed them, and slit their throats. His name is Martin Griffiths. There is blood everywhere. This has just happened. My children are safe at my mother's house"

This was the context of a call to an emergency services operator in the early hours of New Year's Day, 2020, the implications of which were to rock the village of Duffield, in Derbyshire, to the core - and leave three families destroyed.

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Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• The Charlatans - Crashin In
• Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness

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• Fran Runs To France

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Remembering Martin and Helen. The episode is dedicated to them.

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