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Mar 2017
32m 10s

The Bogus Gasman: Episode 16

Always True Crime
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This episode of the weekly UK True Crime Podcast takes us to Bristol, July 1985. A local shopkeeper is brutally murdered and the suspect is an unknown man claiming to be from the gas board. The television programme Crimewatch UK features the reconstruction and following the show, the story shifts to Portsmouth on the south coast where events unfold..

Credit for the research and content to Paul at: truecrimeenthusiast.wordpress.com


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