The Settlement Project

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The Impossible Murder of Julia Wallace

An anonymous caller, an address that did not exist, and a woman murdered while her husband searched Liverpool for a road that wasn't there. The 1931 Julia Wallace case remains unsolved.

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The Campden Wonder
🗂 Case File 004
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The Campden Wonder

A missing rent collector. Blood on the road. Three executions. Then the murdered man came home. The Campden Wonder — a 1660 Gloucestershire case of wrongful execution and an unexplained disappearance.

Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire1660–166224 min read
HistoricalCrime Mystery
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The Somerton Man and the Trail Through Adelaide
🗂 Case File 003
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The Somerton Man and the Trail Through Adelaide

A dead man on a beach. A suitcase at a railway station. A book of poetry. A telephone number. A woman in Moseley Street. The Somerton Man is not one of those mysteries that stays neatly in one place.

Adelaide & Glenelg, South Australia1948–present15 min read
HistoricalCrime MysteryIdentity Mystery
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Samuel Herbert Dougal and the Moat Farm Murder
🗂 Case File 002
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Samuel Herbert Dougal and the Moat Farm Murder

A family connection, a missing woman, and the places that exposed a Victorian murderer.

England1847 - 190321 min read
HistoricalCrime Mystery
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Mary Allen, Charles Stanhope, and the Child at Holsworthy
🗂 Case File 001
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Mary Allen, Charles Stanhope, and the Child at Holsworthy

A family rumour, a Devon manor, and the reason I built The Settlement Project

England1808 - 182323 min read
HistoricalFamily Mystery
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