“They didn’t go on a trip”: The story of a woman who hid her parents’ murder for 15 years

Susan Edwards She, along with her husband Christopher, entered the history of Igiris crime in 2013 after police made an eerie discovery in the yard of a modest home in Mansfield.

That side Susan Edwards She buried her parents Patricia and William Witchary after murdering her parents in 1998 with the help of her husband. The event shocked Britain and the series has just been released. Landscape architectProduced by HBO based on this story.

That’s unusual For 15 years, the murderer was able to keep the murder secret. That is, until 2013. In fact, Susan wrote a fake Christmas card from her parents and told her family that an old couple had moved to Ireland and they needed to be alone.

in the meantime, She and her husband were stealing a total of £ 285,286 from the victim’s savings. Susan and Christopher Edwards spent it on souvenirs and relics of the famous artist as a movie fan.

Susan Edwards’ tragic life

Little is known about Susan Edwards’ early life... She was born around 1958 and is the daughter of William Witchary, who was 46 at the time, and her 23-year-old wife Patricia, who was already pregnant when she got married.

Susan later claimed that she had an unhappy childhood. She confessed to police that William had been abusing her until she was 11 years old. According to Susan, her mother, Patricia, couldn’t believe the horrors her daughter experienced on a daily basis, so she was silent.

A few years later, In the 1970s, Susan’s grandmother left her £ 10,000 as an inheritance. But that was the reason for the dispute with the mother who tricked her into robbing her of the money.

Susan’s life lasted as long as she could, and the pain persisted, but remained calm. After working shortly as a librarian, she met her future husband, Christopher, through a dating agency.

They combined memories with love for the past. Christopher liked military history, but Susan liked the golden age celebrities of Hollywood movies. In common with these, they got married in 1983.

Over time, his debt, among other things, Because the couple used to pay for stamps, collector’s signatures, and other things... Their tendency towards fetishism slowly led them to ruin.

Therefore, their financial difficulties began to increase.

The owner of a local store near Edwards’s house remembered that Christopher always seemed worried about what he was using. “He paid great attention to his money,” he told reporters who reported the incident. “”When you made a change to him, he counted it in cents.He stood by the door, looked at the receipt, and checked it over and over again.“.

According to police, it was financially oppressedSusan and Christopher thought there was an easy way to get a lot of money fast.. With the murder in mind, they headed to Susan’s parents’ home in the East Midlands on May 1, 1998.

That side, Christopher and Susan each shot Susan’s parents twice in her chest and wrapped her body in a duvet. And I buried them 3 feet underground in the backyard.

Two days later, when the bank reopened Susan Edwards withdrew £ 40,000 from her account. But that was just the beginning.

Susan Edwards kept the murder of her parents secret for 15 years

Susan and Christopher Edwards knew how to keep secrets for almost 20 years. Over time, they made Patricia and William believe they were still alive.

One of the keys to lying It was to impersonate the victim with postcards and letters sent to other relatives. ..Also, Susan just wants to get in touch with her because her parents weren’t in good health, so they Retirement in Ireland.

“My father is old and my mother isn’t always in good health, but I went to Ireland to enjoy the good air,” Susan wrote to her relatives in 2007.

On another occasion, in 2011 Susan praised her parents for enjoying the “second youth” And wrote: “I’m glad to see you with such enthusiasm.”

Susan and Christopher sucked money from William and Patricia’s accounts. They created loans and credit cards in the name of the deceased couple, forged pension documents, and provided disability allowances.And even sold their home with a forged signature.

in the meantime, The bodies of William and Patricia Witchary remained underground and were not found.

But the money they stole wasn’t used for savings or real estate. Instead, Susan and Christopher continued to eject thousands of pounds of celebrity memorabilia...

£ 14,000 was once spent on Gary Cooper collectibles.. On another occasion, they burned £ 20,000 in a collection of unproven signs, but they didn’t care.

It wasn’t until 2012 that I started to get nervous. That year, William Witchary turned 100 and the Department for Work and Pensions requested a direct interview to commemorate the opportunity.

In addition, from Buckingham Palace they also wrote where to ask Send a telegram to congratulate the man on his 100th anniversary..

Susan and Christopher panicked and fled to Lille, France, with their most valuable movie memorabilia.

There they discovered that they could not access Wycherley’s bank account from abroad. They refused to sell “relics”. So cornered, they saw how their money began to run out. At that point, Christopher called his stepmother to get more.

She was the one who warned British police to talk to them about the couple’s strange escape to France. And he asked the police to do an archaeological investigation in Witchery’s yard because “something strange happened.”

Police did so and found the buried body.

No money, persecuted by the authorities, Susan and Christopher Edwards have decided to surrender to British police only if they pay their return ticket., By train, from France. And they kept their promise.

Susan Edwards and her husband’s decision

Both were sentenced to 25 years in prison at Nottingham Crown Court in 2014.Currently, they have already been sentenced to seven years in prison and live in prisons not disclosed by the authorities.

Rob Griffin, chief inspector of the East Midlands Serious Crime Unit, spoke with the BBC and said the couple “did not live a luxurious lifestyle” after the ruling. Most of their money seems to have been spent on the following entertainment world souvenirs: Signed and certified items from people they admire. It’s amazing to think they spent money on it. “

Griffin saidWycherleys didn’t have many close friends, they weren’t particularly close to their family.. They made great efforts to maintain the lie that their parents were alive. “

Griffin told the Nottingham Post about adapting the police case to the show: These are family victims, which have changed people’s lives forever. You don’t have to relive it all again. “..