Crime is all over the place these days and everybody loves crime stories (just look how popular the television shows Matlock and People’s Court are). Over the history of time there have been quite a few crimes committed that could make your blood curdle. Crimes so strange and so “away from the norm” that the entire “40th Anniversary Ironsides Boxed Set” couldn’t even begin to convey the diversity of crimes committed. Matlock himself would find himself in a precarious position trying to solve these offenses committed by obvious masters of crime.
Lets start from the beginning, we take you to the jolly olde times of England/Ireland…
The Case of the Missing Cask of Ale
A pub owner reported a missing cask of Ale back in 1773. It has not been found to this day! Did someone drink it or were more sinister motives in play? It is not currently known if the pub owner was reimbursed for his loss. It is known, however, that the pub owner died under mysterious circumstances 27 years after the incident.
The Sneaker in the Hedges
A homeowner around the hour of 11PM reported strange rustling outside in the hedges. She kept talking about the hedges. She never shut up about the hedges. Then at 11:45PM the homeowner was found strangled. The weapon used? A pair of hedge clippers. The motive? A shipping tariff dispute. The murderer was never caught but did purchase a large parcel of land two years later.
The Case of the Mysterious Gold Doubloon
A news-sheet sales-boy checked his coin-purse at the end of the day and found that his prized gold doubloon had been stolen. At least that’s the tale he told the bobbies. Friends of the boy say that the “doubloon” was actually a bottling-cap wrapped in tinned-foil and that it not been stolen but had been lost in a friendly game of Three Card Monte. But the boy sticks to his story to this very day, even after his death by Black Plague in 1665.
The Case of the Disappearing Body Wrapped in Cloth
A small tomb was unearthed in 1721 in the small rural English town of Eastwaddonwick and a corpse was found wrapped tightly in cloth within the confines of the tomb. The corpse itself was that of a male aged between 17 and 87. After retrieving the body from the tomb, a group of local bishops placed the body in a small room in the basement of the Eastwaddonwick Abbey until they could devise a plan to dispose of the eyesore. Upon hearing this, the wrapped body got up and prowled the countryside killing every bishop within a 75 kilometer radius. The wrapped body was never seen again. Or was it? Historians speculate that the wrapped corpse may have re-wrapped himself in newer cloth to disguise himself.
