Sophie Ellis
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Body Of Proof di Sophie Ellis
Interesting crime investigation in Scotland. Did he do it or didn't he?
This was an audible original and the narration and background were just horrendous. There was constant background sounds (probably like a newspaper office) and if there weren't those sounds they had music playing. This interfered with my hearing the words--which were not by professional narrators-but by reporters. This was more like a documentary than rather than book. I returned the book to Audible because it was so bad. This was the story of Suzanne Pilley's disappearance in Edinburgh in 2010 and the subsequent conviction of David Gilroy. Gilroy was convicted on circumstantial evidence. The reporters found nothing new--after all that struggle to listen!… (altro)
Questioning Circumstantial Guilt
Review of the Audible Audio edition (2019)
This is a true crime podcast that is split into several episodes. It follows a disappearance case in Scotland where a man was convicted for the murder of his co-worker with whom he had been having a affair. There was no body found and there was no apparent forensic evidence to tie the suspect to the crime.
The main circumstantial evidence seemed to be that the suspect made a long car journey the day after the disappearance for no real strong reason (i.e. you would think that an innocent man would postpone his incidental business trip and volunteer to help the police with their search and inquiries). During that trip he took a few extra hours of travel time each way with the only excuse that the car broke down and he had to fix it himself (the prosecution saying that was when the body was disposed of somewhere off-road). The other main circumstantial evidence was the romantic attachment and a huge number of the suspect's text and phone messages to the woman which stopped being sent after the woman's disappearance (the prosecution saying that a guilty person would know there was no point in texting a dead victim).
On this basis, the Scottish jury convicted the suspect and he is currently serving his sentence while trying for appeals. The case is definitely bizarre as it requires you to think the suspect was such a criminal mastermind as to subdue the victim without any witnesses or forensic evidence and was able to hide the body where no one could find it, but yet was so incompetent as to make a suspicious car journey and stop sending text messages so abruptly.
There isn't really any smoking gun in this audio podcast to prove anything one way or the other. There is only the briefest hint of an alternative suspect in that someone else disappeared from the streets of Edinburgh and was later found murdered.
The podcast was well done by the two writers / narrators, but did not provide a resolution, which leaves an unsatisfactory aftermath.
Body of Proof was one of the free Audible Originals available to members in September 2019.
Trivia and Link and Spoiler
I have been intentionally vague about the specific names in the above review, but if you want to read about the actual case and see any updates, you can do so herehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Suzanne_Pilley .… (altro)
Review of the Audible Audio edition (2019)
This is a true crime podcast that is split into several episodes. It follows a disappearance case in Scotland where a man was convicted for the murder of his co-worker with whom he had been having a affair. There was no body found and there was no apparent forensic evidence to tie the suspect to the crime.
The main circumstantial evidence seemed to be that the suspect made a long car journey the day after the disappearance for no real strong reason (i.e. you would think that an innocent man would postpone his incidental business trip and volunteer to help the police with their search and inquiries). During that trip he took a few extra hours of travel time each way with the only excuse that the car broke down and he had to fix it himself (the prosecution saying that was when the body was disposed of somewhere off-road). The other main circumstantial evidence was the romantic attachment and a huge number of the suspect's text and phone messages to the woman which stopped being sent after the woman's disappearance (the prosecution saying that a guilty person would know there was no point in texting a dead victim).
On this basis, the Scottish jury convicted the suspect and he is currently serving his sentence while trying for appeals. The case is definitely bizarre as it requires you to think the suspect was such a criminal mastermind as to subdue the victim without any witnesses or forensic evidence and was able to hide the body where no one could find it, but yet was so incompetent as to make a suspicious car journey and stop sending text messages so abruptly.
There isn't really any smoking gun in this audio podcast to prove anything one way or the other. There is only the briefest hint of an alternative suspect in that someone else disappeared from the streets of Edinburgh and was later found murdered.
The podcast was well done by the two writers / narrators, but did not provide a resolution, which leaves an unsatisfactory aftermath.
Body of Proof was one of the free Audible Originals available to members in September 2019.
Trivia and Link and Spoiler
I have been intentionally vague about the specific names in the above review, but if you want to read about the actual case and see any updates, you can do so here
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