Unsolved Mystery: The Impossible Murder of Julia Wallace

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[captainweekend]

It's worth noting that £4 back then was not a small amount of money. It only sounds so because of the predecimal system, £4 back then would have been equivalent to about £300 today.

[c.w.]

I wonder if someone wanted to take revenge on the husband, maybe something he didn't even consider a big deal, a rejected insurance claim maybe, people can go ballistic over something like this.

[Queen_Nyxie]

My first thought about the lock wasn't that it was rusty, but rather he didn't want to be alone.

I remember hearing about a case a long time ago where the person came home to find someone murdered and instead of calling for help they left again and made up an excuse for the neighbour to come with them. They then pretended to discover the body for the first time. They weren't the killer, but thought being the first person to discover the body and to be alone at the time would put them as the #1 suspect and that having someone there with them would clear them. Unfortunately, once the police figured out this ploy, it made them look more suspicious than if they just outright called the police themselves.

[sophiaisabelle]

The case of Julia Wallace is intriguing to learn about. Seems like the motives behind her murder are far more intricate than anyone of us could assume.

[mx]

Oh man, poor dude, came back home to find his wife dead and was accused of murdering her

[johndifool]

Maybe it initially was a robbery, but the wife surprised the thief and he panicked, grabbed the poker and beat her to death, then just cleaned and left in a panic without stealing anything else. About 99.9% certain the husband was innocent, they found his private journals where he wrote about how he missed his wife and wanted to find the killer. In addition to his pretty ironclad alibi.

[ppaatt]

I just simply love old British mysteries. You should definitely check out the death of Thomas Patteson Moss, an Oxford student who was going back to his home at the evening and ended up 10 miles away in a burning haystack day after. Investigators speculated... that drunk Thomas just lied down in the haystack to sleep and the haystack combusted itself. They didn't explain anything regarding how Thomas even got to the village in the first place and why. My wild theory was that he was ran over by a car and the driver thought he killed the man. (but just got him unconscious). Driver put him to the car and drove to a random village at night to drop the body and set the fire on.

[juliankohler]

Lots of possibilities. People were extremely private back then, to a degree that's unimaginable today. Probably a lot of people who should have been suspects flew completely under police radar. Sherlock Holmes would've solved this one in no time.

[benmcreynolds]

Maybe the criminal was still in the house when he was trying to first open the doors and they crouched down and held onto the doorknobs to stop the doors from opening then sneaking out when he went to the neighbors?? Idk?

[Azvee]

As soon as you dropped the name William Wallace I immediately recognized this story from the Poisoner's Cabinet podcast. The hosts had lots of thoughts about the event.

[taticatnineland]

I wish your videos didn’t end so abruptly and you discussed more, giving your thoughts and opinions if there isn’t enough for an actual analysis.

[ReekayClipz]

I’m guessing this was the video you were working on during the live?? Anyway, I enjoy your content :D

[BX]

I think the killer is someone he knew at the chess club.
Someone who:

A) Could have had a beef with him

B) Knew, or could figure out, his schedule

C) Had a calculating and devious mind, to come up with a plan that complex.

[BaronVonFisticuffs]

Well researched and beautifully presented!

I'd love to hear you relate the tale of the poisoned partridges and the sinister telegram.

[dethkillerspiral]

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[Forflipsake]

In England we have many judicial 1st but also many injustices.

The “ let him have it” being a notable one.

I known this case well and it’s such a bizarre story, in a way he could’ve have set it up but then there are also other possibilities.

His closed and stern personality didn’t help him much which isn’t a reason to judge but how will we ever know.

[robertmitchell]

Reign drops a new video?! The Christmas present we all wanted, but don't deserve.

[crystalxgalaxy]

My first thought is I think someone had it out for Julia in particular. Did she have any enemies?

[jesseerven]

keys don't work and he cant find the street just sounds like him creating alibis

[mynameisleave]

I actually know of this case because of a Chills video, funnily enough. This was back when his content was decent, and the video where he talked about the case was from 2016, titled "6 Scary & Unexplained Phone Calls". As soon as I saw the title of this video in my notifications, I knew what case this video was about.