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Ted Bundy did the same thing.
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[quote=pie-eyed;84948814]He went to the gallows without seeming to be too bothered about it. I remember reading that he actually ran out to the hangman's noose.[/QUOTE
Apparantly he said "turn the radio up and I'll go quietly" |
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Nowadays a character like Peter Manuel would be on the X Factor or something to get himself in the public eye.
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I think it was the juice from a tin of pears he opened.
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The final episodes was spoilt for me. The show was on series link, but did not play, so I had to watch on ITVPlayer with no available subtitles. The mix of my bad hearing and scotsspeak made me miss a lot.
![]() There's another reason why the Beeb is superior: IPlayer does permit subtitles. |
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He confessed to everything too easily after being so cocky about the other murders. What proof did they really have that it was him who uses the pound notes at the pub. Did his father really help him bury the body?
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It was thought at the time that he knew if he confessed he could use that in his defence claiming a forced confession which he actually went on to do after sacking his defence lawyers. It was reported after the trial that the Judge thought Manuel actually carried out a very good account of carrying out his defence. Perhaps the ploy of making him see his father in a cell and believing that he couldn't resist confessing and seeking the headlines was fictional but could also have been true and dramatised as such. No one can really know especially as he used it as a key part of his defence.
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He confessed to everything too easily after being so cocky about the other murders. What proof did they really have that it was him who uses the pound notes at the pub. Did his father really help him bury the body?
Brilliantly acted series and how easily he was caught out in the end. It also showed how much more difficult and slower police work was before today's technology. I wonder if insight into psychopathic behaviour was that advanced in the 50's or if it artistic licence. |
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I'm surprised that curtain twitching eye-witness testimony was not more prominent, were neighbours puzzled to notice the Smart family NOT leaving for their holiday, or notice an unknown man hanging in and about their house or the same man taking the family car out of the garage and driving it away ?
God, my nosey neighbour knows my domestic routine better than I do |
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Not as clever as he thought he was.
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