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Jean Ritchie

Jean Ritchie

American singer-songwriter

Nov 3, 2026

33:53
But I thought it was quite an important part of the archive of the history of the Moores murders.
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and the history of their relationship.
34:02
And I think you could probably argue quite strongly for coercive control.
34:06
And had she done that at the first trial, her trial, she probably would have been maybe out after about a certain length of time for being his accomplice, which she certainly was.
34:20
She wasn't all innocent in all of that.
34:23
She was quite strong in many ways.
34:26
And I still say that when you fall in love with somebody the first time when you're a teenager and you're very young, you might end up standing on a wet touchline watching him play football when you'd rather be at home.
37:18
What did Peter Topping make of the help and the willingness, seemingly willingness to confess and help that Hindley gave him? And where did that lead in terms of what happened to her then in prison, whether parole was on the horizon? She died.
6:44
What happened to Rachel when she was grabbed back in, I think it was February the fourth, nineteen ninety, wasn't it?
6:50
If you remember, Michelle had predicted he will strike again, and he did strike again, Russell Bishop, because this young girl who had recently moved to this part- the estate in, in Brighton, where he also lived with his girlfriend and children, she had gone with her f- uh, she had been given some money by her father to go and buy some sweets.
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She'd gone to the shop on her roller skates.
7:17
The shop was closed.
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It was a Sunday.
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In those days, shops closed on Sundays.
7:22
And on her way back, she realized she didn't quite know where she was.

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And so when it finally got to Lewis Crown Court and he was accused of their murders, what were the weak points, do you think, Jean, in the prosecution's case?
17:22
Well, I think the prosecution's case was quite shoddy.
17:26
the weakest point was the timing.
17:28
They said that the girls had been killed before 6.30.
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The pathologist said after seven.
17:36
Because there were sightings of him after that time, and actually sightings of the girl, it confused the whole case very seriously.
17:46
The time thing, which for some reason the prosecution stuck to, they didn't broaden it, they stuck to that time.

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It must be difficult to hear what families like that have gone

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