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Offline Paul Caswell

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Re: Programme History Cold Case
« Reply #27 on: Friday 01 July 11 20:29 BST (UK) »
My OH and I thought it would have been so much fun if it had been a serial killer.

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« Reply #28 on: Friday 01 July 11 21:36 BST (UK) »
I was also disappointed by this episode.  But if you didn't see the first series, don't give up just on this one, as some of the previous episodes were really interesting.

Worthwhile sticking with it, I think, just for a bit.

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Re: Programme History Cold Case
« Reply #29 on: Friday 01 July 11 22:02 BST (UK) »
I found it quite interesting, tad on the gruesome side, but least they were frank and didnt skirt the truth.  I recognised the older bleach-blonde lady from Meet the Ancestors - loved that programme (and her amazing facial reconstructions of skulls of all conditions/completeness).  BBC should definitely commission another series of that!

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« Reply #30 on: Saturday 02 July 11 07:49 BST (UK) »
Caroline Wilkinson - she was the 'assistant' on Meet the Ancestors, doing facial reconstruction the hard way with clay.

Now she's a Professor   :)

Interesting (and good!) that the 3 lead figures in History Cold Case are all women

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« Reply #31 on: Saturday 02 July 11 19:13 BST (UK) »
Set up my Sky+ to record it and due to atmospherics the whole recording failed.  Will now have to watch via laptop, a real nuisance!!!!
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« Reply #32 on: Monday 04 July 11 15:43 BST (UK) »
Programme was a little too drawn out and I think the lack of skulls didn't help plus they couldn't get any DNA.

In view of the place they were all found I wonder if maybe not so much a ritual sacrifice but more of an execution of an 'enemy' family. Perhaps a family were ostracised by their tribe and had fled to the moors to live, then been found by the other tribe and killed?

Don't think it was a ritual sacrifice area because not enough bodies and why only one adult male?

Maybe I missed a bit, did they say how the bones had been discovered in view of the size and depth of the hole

Next episode looks like could be more interesting.

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« Reply #33 on: Thursday 14 July 11 19:55 BST (UK) »
Hi all

Just spotted that The Bodies in the Well is being shown tonight at 9.00pm.




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« Reply #34 on: Friday 15 July 11 09:52 BST (UK) »
I think this series has been disappointing so far. I was hoping the bodies in the well episode would revive my interest but it didn't really reveal much more than what I had already read in the media write ups. I wanted to know more than what I already knew and it failed to deliver. I might have enjoyed it more if they hadn't revealed so much to the media before broadcast.

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« Reply #35 on: Friday 15 July 11 10:46 BST (UK) »
My husband and I find the programme very interesting - but - yet again - another programme ruined by the intrusive, totally unnecessary background music ... 
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