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Mar 2023
1h 16m

The Mount Stewart Farm Murder Mystery

BEN CUTMORE
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In 1866 a gruesome murder on a rural farm in the centre of Scotland shocked the local community. With little clues to go on outside of a bloody axe, a boiled egg and a missing door key, the police would eventually be left having to rely heavily on a string of unreliable testimony to do their job, a factor that would go some way in creating what would wind up ... Show More
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