Ruthless Richard Edwards

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Ruthless Richard Edwards
News of the Times Episode 312 | 1842
It is 1848 in the mining town of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. 72 year old Tamar Edwards has gone missing from her small dilapidated cottage within the village. Her son, who has just recently reunited with his wife, has moved her into his mother’s cottage and explains his mother’s disappearance as her having gone to visit in the next parish. The couple sleep in his mother’s bed.
It is payday and Edwards, Tamar’s son, must make the trip into the next town to pick up his wages. His instruction to his wife is to not look under the bed. The wife consults with her friends and neighbours who think she should look under the bed in which she and her husband have been sleeping. A gruesome discovery awaits. From here, accusations fly as to who was actually responsible for the body under the bed.
We take a look at the disappearance of Tamar Edwards in this crime story from 1848 rural Wales in today’s episode of Sinister Saturdays.
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1. Ruthless Richard Edwards (00:00:00)

2. [Ad] Ambivalent Offenders: Re-Examining History’s Most Questionable Figures (00:14:28)

3. (Cont.) Ruthless Richard Edwards (00:15:17)