Strange Stories UK: The Messiter mystery, a Southampton murder.

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This podcast has a dog snoring throughout, some cats make an appearance  but dont seem to have any audio affects. The window is open so warning there may be some crow or frog noise.
Anyhow,  I remember the story being told during a Christmas with elderly relatives in the 1960s in the city where the murder was committed.  
The most cogent memory  in the 1960s is distant relatives giving my sisters and I stocking shaped presents with mars bars, milky ways and similar offerings which did not really connect with children, they were such boring presents, but they must have seemed such treats to elderly relatives who would have had to make do with an orange and a couple of Brazil nuts  at Christmas, or so we were told . 
What I remember most is sitting in uncomfortable chairs in yellow light lightbulbs having to talk with very old people who were my elderly relatives. This the atmosphere when I heard about the Messiter case. A case I was totally uninterested in at the time but now have made into a podcast and probably am better informed than my elderly relatives at the time.
It isn't really much of a murder either.