Case 29
The Burgate House Murders
The 80-year-old retired publisher Joseph Clever lived with his wife Hilda at Burgate House, a secluded mansion on the edge of New Forest in Hampshire, England. On the evening of September 1 1986, they invited their son Tom and his wife Wendy over for dinner. The following morning, two maintenance workers arrived to find the property engulfed in smoke.
Investigators rushed to the scene soon realised that fire was the least of the problems. As they ventured further inside Burgate House, it was clear that something far more sinister had taken place.
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EPISODE:
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RESOURCES
BOOKS:
Serial Killer: Massacre in the New Forest – W. Lacky
ARTICLES:
Dinner party mass killer fails to get sentence reduced – Daily Echo
Real crimes and how they were solved magazine, issue number 15, 1993
ARCHIVES:
Fordingbridge murders – Murderopedia
George Stephenson – Murder UK