WEBVTT - Unexplained Halloween Special: Night Tales 0:00:00.390 --> 0:00:03.490 Hello and welcome back to Night Tales, with me, your 0:00:03.510 --> 0:00:06.710 humble host, Catherine Marsh. I've got something special for you 0:00:06.730 --> 0:00:09.590 this week. In fact, I've been so creeped out by it, 0:00:09.830 --> 0:00:11.410 I don't know if I should even share it with you. 0:00:12.490 --> 0:00:14.550 It's one of those stories that really digs under the 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:17.580 skin and makes you wonder if, by sharing it, you 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.060 might unleash a little something of it back into the world. 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:22.640 But it would be cruel to tease you like that. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:26.200 So don't worry, I'm not going to leave you hanging. So, 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:37.920 without further ado, let's get into it. In 14 years 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:42.060 of making this podcast, I've covered my fair share of murders, disappearances, 0:00:42.300 --> 0:00:46.080 hauntings and general weirdness. I have delved into the lives 0:00:46.140 --> 0:00:48.690 of all manner of people who have done all manner 0:00:48.729 --> 0:00:52.030 of things. And yes, I have read case files that 0:00:52.070 --> 0:00:55.550 I subsequently wish I hadn't. But by and large, I 0:00:55.590 --> 0:00:59.430 am not by nature someone who frightens easily. But this 0:00:59.470 --> 0:01:06.929 story is different. It begins in a small market town 0:01:07.010 --> 0:01:10.330 in the north-east of England. Ilsham is one of those 0:01:10.410 --> 0:01:13.010 typical northern towns that sprang up in the midst of 0:01:13.050 --> 0:01:17.790 the Industrial Revolution to service the ever-expanding mining industry. Its 0:01:17.830 --> 0:01:21.270 epicentre of grand Victorian town hall and quaint market square 0:01:21.390 --> 0:01:24.690 quickly flattening out into a suburban sprawl of red-brick semis 0:01:25.090 --> 0:01:27.810 and post-war council housing. And it was on one of 0:01:27.860 --> 0:01:30.800 those suburban streets that in the early hours of May 0:01:30.819 --> 0:01:35.150 1st 1975, just as the sun was coming up, a 0:01:35.190 --> 0:01:40.870 man was spotted walking aimlessly, completely naked and covered in blood. 0:01:47.060 --> 0:01:50.400 The man was Peter Calloway, but the blood was not his. 0:01:53.500 --> 0:01:56.980 Shortly after, at his home on Dunwich Close, police officers 0:01:57.030 --> 0:02:02.410 discovered the grotesquely mutilated body of his 34-year-old wife, Rachel Calloway, 0:02:02.870 --> 0:02:06.730 on the living room floor. Their four sons, aged between 0:02:06.780 --> 0:02:10.739 three and nine, were still asleep upstairs. Mercifully, they had 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.920 not been touched. Peter Calloway would later plead guilty to 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:18.139 his wife's murder before being sentenced to 16 years in prison. 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:20.600 Case closed, it might seem. 0:02:21.940 --> 0:02:23.389 Except.... 0:02:27.310 --> 0:02:30.330 I first came across the Calloway murder about 18 months ago, 0:02:30.730 --> 0:02:32.890 when a listener sent me a box of documents which, 0:02:33.110 --> 0:02:33.670 at the time. 0:02:34.090 --> 0:02:34.210 I. 0:02:34.169 --> 0:02:36.690 Didn't quite know what to do with. I knew I 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:38.740 had to cover the story and share it with you all, 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.320 but I also knew it wasn't quite complete. 0:02:42.260 --> 0:02:43.959 For that, I needed time. 0:02:45.139 --> 0:02:47.430 But now, I think I have everything I need to 0:02:47.470 --> 0:02:51.730 share it with you in its entirety. The documents belonged 0:02:51.810 --> 0:02:54.490 to the listener's aunt, or so they told me, a 0:02:54.530 --> 0:02:59.230 retired North Yorkshire police detective named Edith Smith. But before 0:02:59.389 --> 0:03:02.389 Edith was a detective, she was a trainee police officer, 0:03:02.830 --> 0:03:07.350 working in Ilsham. Edith was the first officer on the 0:03:07.389 --> 0:03:12.110 scene on that harrowing May 1st morning back in 1975. 0:03:12.310 --> 0:03:14.889 She would spend the better part of 20 years trying 0:03:14.930 --> 0:03:17.340 to get to the bottom of the one question that 0:03:17.460 --> 0:03:20.899 no one else seemed to be concerned about. Just who 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:35.490 on earth was Cassie? PC Edith Smith was 27 years 0:03:35.630 --> 0:03:37.830 old and eight months into her training when the call 0:03:37.850 --> 0:03:40.330 came in. It had been shaping up to be just 0:03:40.390 --> 0:03:44.050 another routine Thursday morning. She and her partner PC David 0:03:44.090 --> 0:03:46.790 Hartley were making a sweep of the town centre, just 0:03:46.830 --> 0:03:50.370 looking out for the usual things, teenage delinquents, drunks and 0:03:50.410 --> 0:03:55.390 rough sleepers, when their radio burst into life. There'd been 0:03:55.430 --> 0:03:58.290 a report of a naked man covered in red paint 0:03:58.530 --> 0:04:02.340 walking along Ashfield Road, a quiet residential street on the 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.770 southern edge of Ilsham. Of course, when they got to 0:04:05.830 --> 0:04:09.250 Ashfield Road, the man was nowhere to be seen. After 0:04:09.290 --> 0:04:11.930 cruising around the area for a few minutes, they soon 0:04:11.970 --> 0:04:15.210 caught up with him. They quickly pulled the car over 0:04:15.270 --> 0:04:17.940 and got out to confront him, assuming he was probably 0:04:17.980 --> 0:04:21.600 just drunk. But, as Edith said in her notes, it 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:26.740 was immediately clear they were dealing with something else entirely. Firstly, 0:04:26.820 --> 0:04:28.940 when they approached him, he seemed not to notice them 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.029 at all. He just kept shuffling forward, staring into the 0:04:32.050 --> 0:04:36.270 middle distance. Then Edith caught a whiff of something metallic. 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.840 Growing up the daughter of a butcher, she knew that 0:04:39.900 --> 0:04:43.270 smell anywhere. It wasn't paint the man was covered in. 0:04:43.940 --> 0:04:44.420 It was blood. 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:48.940 As soon as she said as much to PC Hartley, 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.789 everything changed in an instant. Hartley quickly grabbed his arms 0:04:52.820 --> 0:04:55.529 and hauled him over to the panda. Calloway didn't resist 0:04:55.589 --> 0:04:57.750 or even make a sound as Hartley pushed him up 0:04:57.810 --> 0:05:01.010 against the car and cuffed him. Only when Smith and 0:05:01.050 --> 0:05:03.750 Hartley got into the vehicle did he finally say something, 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:08.099 muttering it under his breath. It was Cassie, he said. 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:17.360 Cassie made me do it. At least, that is, according 0:05:17.380 --> 0:05:20.860 to Edith Smith. PC Hartley claimed not to have heard this, 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.980 and Calloway also later denied making the statement. But perhaps 0:05:25.020 --> 0:05:28.700 we should just park that for a moment. At some point, 0:05:28.900 --> 0:05:32.670 after some gentle cajoling from Edith and some not-so-gentle cajoling 0:05:32.730 --> 0:05:36.169 from PC Hartley, Calloway finally told them his name and 0:05:36.190 --> 0:05:39.030 where he lived. And this is where we come to 0:05:39.070 --> 0:05:42.070 the grimmest part of the story. If you're of a 0:05:42.110 --> 0:05:44.750 delicate disposition, or you're listening to this in the car 0:05:44.790 --> 0:05:47.790 with your kids, may I suggest you skip the next 0:05:47.850 --> 0:05:52.770 few minutes. A lot has been written about what happened next, 0:05:53.210 --> 0:05:55.859 much of it exaggerated. so I feel it's best to 0:05:55.900 --> 0:05:58.480 stick to what Edith's official notes say from the time. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:03.020 14 Dunwich Close is a red brick semi on a 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.859 quiet cul-de-sac. It's a pretty street, right on the outskirts 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.860 of the town, lined with cherry and hazelnut trees. At 0:06:10.900 --> 0:06:13.100 the southern end of it, the road narrows into a 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:17.339 walking path that leads off into the surrounding countryside. In 0:06:17.380 --> 0:06:20.659 other words, there was absolutely nothing to hint at what 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:21.840 Edith and PC. 0:06:21.580 --> 0:06:22.940 Hartley were about to discover. 0:06:25.110 --> 0:06:27.429 Calloway was kept handcuffed in the back of the car 0:06:27.670 --> 0:06:30.469 as the two officers cautiously made their way toward the house, 0:06:31.010 --> 0:06:35.029 where they found the front door, unlocked. It swung open 0:06:35.089 --> 0:06:40.560 at a touch. Inside, the hallway was clean, almost comically normal. 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.719 Coats on hooks, shoes by the door, children's drawings and 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.980 family photos on the wall. For a moment, Edith wrote, 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:51.820 she wondered if they had the wrong address. Then they 0:06:51.860 --> 0:06:55.510 reached the living room doorway. For this bit, I'll refer 0:06:55.550 --> 0:07:00.050 back to Edith's original incident report. 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Edith noted one 0:09:16.010 --> 0:09:19.570 final detail before ending the report. On the kitchen table, 0:09:19.790 --> 0:09:21.840 two mugs of tea had been made and left to 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.840 go cold. Two chairs pulled out, as if whatever happened 0:09:25.980 --> 0:09:36.960 had simply begun as a conversation. Later, when he was 0:09:37.020 --> 0:09:40.660 formally interviewed and after all the irrefutable evidence was presented 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.490 to him, Peter Calloway confessed to killing Rachel, but claimed 0:09:44.500 --> 0:09:45.950 to have no recollection of. 0:09:45.950 --> 0:09:46.530 How it happened. 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.980 Peter was 35 years old at the time of his 0:09:50.020 --> 0:09:53.130 wife's death. They had lived in Ilsham for 11 years, 0:09:53.410 --> 0:09:56.810 before that Harrogate, and before that, Peter had lived in Leeds. 0:09:58.550 --> 0:10:02.500 Neighbours on Dunwich Close described him consistently as quiet and well-mannered. 0:10:03.140 --> 0:10:04.860 He was the kind of man who remembered your name 0:10:05.020 --> 0:10:09.440 and asked after your children, they said. In 2008, his 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.180 eldest son Daniel gave a single interview in the Daily Mail. 0:10:12.860 --> 0:10:16.240 He described remembering Peter as a devoted father who heaped 0:10:16.340 --> 0:10:18.980 love on his family, even when things had got difficult. 0:10:20.020 --> 0:10:22.850 And by all accounts, the 18 months prior to Rachel's 0:10:22.870 --> 0:10:30.790 death had been extremely difficult. Peter had been made redundant 0:10:30.809 --> 0:10:33.490 from his position as a logistics manager at a haulage 0:10:33.510 --> 0:10:37.470 firm in the spring of 1974. It was not, his 0:10:37.510 --> 0:10:42.360 former colleague Graham Lister told me, entirely unexpected. The company 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:45.220 had been struggling for some time, but it hit Peter hard. 0:10:46.220 --> 0:10:49.000 As the sole breadwinner, it appears he felt deeply shamed 0:10:49.059 --> 0:10:52.300 by his redundancy and blamed himself for letting the family down. 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.559 With the UK in the grip of a deep recession, 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.440 he struggled to find another job, and by the autumn 0:10:58.460 --> 0:11:03.890 of 1974, he stopped looking altogether. Rachel, who'd previously worked 0:11:03.950 --> 0:11:06.870 part-time at a local primary school, was forced to take 0:11:06.950 --> 0:11:10.630 on work again. This, for Peter, only seemed to compound 0:11:10.690 --> 0:11:15.890 what had by then developed into depression. Friends noticed him withdrawing. 0:11:16.500 --> 0:11:21.120 He stopped returning calls. One neighbour, Janet Horbury, told me 0:11:21.179 --> 0:11:23.510 she'd seen him sitting in his car outside the house 0:11:23.570 --> 0:11:28.230 on several occasions, not going in, just sitting there, sometimes 0:11:28.250 --> 0:11:32.910 for over an hour. But then, in January of 1975, 0:11:32.910 --> 0:11:41.780 something shifted. A friend of the family, Barbara Hendy, suggested 0:11:41.820 --> 0:11:43.880 to Rachel that she and Peter might like to come 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.950 along to a social evening she was organising. Barbara was 0:11:48.010 --> 0:11:52.030 involved with a local church group, a small charismatic congregation 0:11:52.070 --> 0:11:54.290 that met on Thursday evenings in the back room of 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.480 a community centre on the edge of town. It was, 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.260 she told Rachel, more of a social thing than anything religious, 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:03.140 just people getting together and singing songs. 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:05.900 Rachel was sceptical. 0:12:06.380 --> 0:12:09.020 The Calloways weren't at all religious and had never done 0:12:09.179 --> 0:12:13.220 anything like that before. But to her surprise, Peter agreed 0:12:13.260 --> 0:12:17.939 to go. By February, he was attending every week. By March, 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:23.780 Rachel later told a friend, he was barely recognisable. He 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.939 was engaged and energised, even more than he had been 0:12:26.980 --> 0:12:30.890 before the depression. He started sleeping properly for the first 0:12:30.950 --> 0:12:33.810 time in over a year. He even began looking for 0:12:33.830 --> 0:12:37.930 work again. But mostly, he just talked about the group, constantly. 0:12:39.190 --> 0:12:41.600 Seeing their future open up again before them for the 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.120 first time in months, an overjoyed Rachel told her friend 0:12:45.179 --> 0:12:47.960 how happy she was. that Peter finally seemed to have 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.380 found what he needed. But what he had found, it 0:12:51.420 --> 0:13:05.809 turned out, was Cassie. Cassie is where Edith Smith's investigation stalled. 0:13:06.770 --> 0:13:09.470 And Cassie is where I want to be careful about 0:13:09.510 --> 0:13:13.270 what I tell you and how I tell it. What 0:13:13.309 --> 0:13:17.540 I can say with certainty is this. The name Cassie 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:21.960 appears in seven separate witness statements taken during the original investigation. 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:25.050 It appears in Peter Calloway's own statement given in the 0:13:25.070 --> 0:13:27.770 weeks following his arrest. It appears in the notes of 0:13:27.809 --> 0:13:30.010 two members of the church congregation who spoke to the 0:13:30.050 --> 0:13:33.630 police in the months after the murder. Beyond the name, however, 0:13:34.190 --> 0:13:43.840 things become considerably less clear. In her own investigation, conducted 0:13:43.900 --> 0:13:47.270 many years later in her spare time, Edith Smith interviewed 0:13:47.350 --> 0:13:52.690 six ex-members of the congregation. All six remembered Cassie. When 0:13:52.770 --> 0:13:55.849 asked to describe her, their answers were all fairly vague. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.320 They described her variously as youthful with short dark hair, 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:09.360 that she was softly spoken and had startlingly rich azure 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.520 blue eyes. That was the one thing they all remembered. 0:14:13.380 --> 0:14:18.980 The eyes. Most seemed fairly indifferent about her, though one member, 0:14:19.180 --> 0:14:22.300 who has asked not to be named, said curiously that 0:14:22.340 --> 0:14:25.700 Cassie made her feel uncomfortable in a way that she 0:14:25.780 --> 0:14:30.030 couldn't quite articulate. But none of them knew or ever 0:14:30.090 --> 0:14:32.790 saw Cassie outside of the group, nor did they stay 0:14:32.830 --> 0:14:36.690 in touch with her after Rachel's murder. The one thing 0:14:36.710 --> 0:14:39.880 they were all sure about was that Peter was utterly 0:14:39.930 --> 0:14:43.900 transfixed by her. His account of Cassie is the most 0:14:43.940 --> 0:14:47.360 detailed of all, In one police interview, he describes her 0:14:47.460 --> 0:14:49.940 as someone he felt he recognised from the moment he 0:14:49.980 --> 0:14:53.460 met her, though he couldn't say from where. He described 0:14:53.500 --> 0:14:57.080 a growing closeness, a sense of being known by her 0:14:57.140 --> 0:15:00.260 in a way that was difficult to explain. He described 0:15:00.300 --> 0:15:04.430 confiding in her things he had never told anyone. He 0:15:04.470 --> 0:15:06.370 said she had a way of looking at him that 0:15:06.410 --> 0:15:10.410 made him feel. He paused here according to the interview transcript. 0:15:11.550 --> 0:15:11.830 Seen. 0:15:13.090 --> 0:15:16.050 Or rather, like, she could see exactly what I was, 0:15:16.390 --> 0:15:19.310 as he put it. When pressed on what he meant 0:15:19.370 --> 0:15:26.609 by that, he refused to elaborate. Edith spent the best 0:15:26.670 --> 0:15:29.650 part of a decade trying to find Cassie, but ultimately 0:15:29.710 --> 0:15:34.610 came up empty-handed. She found no surname, no address, no 0:15:34.670 --> 0:15:38.570 formal record of any kind. The congregation meanwhile had no 0:15:38.630 --> 0:15:41.790 membership list or register, meaning there wasn't even a record 0:15:41.830 --> 0:15:46.010 of her attendance at the community centre. It seems Cassie 0:15:46.050 --> 0:15:49.310 had simply been there, and then she had not been there, 0:15:50.130 --> 0:15:52.610 and nobody knew where she'd come from or where she 0:15:52.650 --> 0:16:03.200 had gone. Edith took early retirement in 1999, after which 0:16:03.260 --> 0:16:06.620 it seems her spare time was entirely devoted to finding Cassie. 0:16:07.060 --> 0:16:11.800 as though it had become an obsession for her. In 2004, 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.660 she was diagnosed with cancer, and died two years later 0:16:14.780 --> 0:16:18.020 having never established who Cassie was, whether she had any 0:16:18.060 --> 0:16:20.880 connection to the crime, or whether she even existed at 0:16:21.020 --> 0:16:23.240 all beyond the accounts of people who claimed to have 0:16:23.260 --> 0:16:27.420 met her. If only for Edith, if nothing else, I 0:16:27.500 --> 0:16:30.760 couldn't let that be the end. So I went back 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:34.350 to her notes, scouring through them for something, anything that 0:16:34.390 --> 0:16:37.700 might point me in the right direction. And then I 0:16:37.750 --> 0:16:47.640 found it. It was something she'd written in the margins 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.710 of an early constabulary report detailing Peter Calloway's criminal history. 0:16:52.970 --> 0:16:55.670 The report stated that he had no record of any 0:16:55.730 --> 0:16:56.729 past misdemeanours. 0:16:57.630 --> 0:17:01.030 Edith's note was more a query. But why only as 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:02.340 far back as 21, she'd written. 0:17:04.540 --> 0:17:07.000 She was so meticulous with everything, I was sure she 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.300 would have followed this up herself, but there was. 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.120 Nothing in all the documents I received. 0:17:12.220 --> 0:17:14.420 I asked her niece if she was absolutely sure she'd 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.270 given me everything, but she was adamant there was nothing missing. 0:17:18.590 --> 0:17:21.970 So I looked into it myself. And here's the thing. 0:17:23.170 --> 0:17:26.410 Peter Calloway's records, at least everything I could find on him, 0:17:26.890 --> 0:17:32.369 census details, employment history, all of it stops in 1961, 0:17:32.369 --> 0:17:44.229 when he would have been 21. It wasn't easy, but 0:17:44.310 --> 0:17:46.550 after a little more digging and pulling a few strings, 0:17:46.950 --> 0:17:50.710 the type of which is perhaps best left unmentioned, I 0:17:50.770 --> 0:17:52.820 managed to find his national insurance details. 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:56.820 And there it was. The vital clue that Edith missed. 0:17:57.740 --> 0:17:59.979 Although I don't want to say missed exactly because I'm 0:18:00.060 --> 0:18:03.000 certain she would have got there herself. Perhaps she just 0:18:03.020 --> 0:18:05.560 ran out of time. Or maybe she just didn't have 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:09.050 access to the, cough cough, search tools we have today. 0:18:09.070 --> 0:18:10.750 Anyway. 0:18:10.770 --> 0:18:11.070 Anyway. 0:18:11.690 --> 0:18:13.930 The reason there is no Peter Calloway before the age 0:18:13.950 --> 0:18:17.240 of 21 is because for those first 21 years of 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:22.460 his life, Peter Calloway had a completely different name. Peter 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.419 Calloway had in fact been born as Daniel Greaves. He 0:18:26.460 --> 0:18:30.870 had deliberately changed it. Once I knew that, I went 0:18:30.910 --> 0:18:41.640 looking for him. What I Found buried in the archives 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.520 of West Yorkshire Police and partially digitised as part of 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:50.080 a cold case review programme, was a report dated March 1961. 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.609 The report involved a female student at the University of 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.909 Leeds who accused another student of rape. His name was 0:18:56.950 --> 0:19:01.129 Daniel Greaves, a second year economics student who was 21 0:19:01.130 --> 0:19:05.379 at the time. Now, I can't verify for sure that 0:19:05.390 --> 0:19:08.619 this is our Daniel Greaves, but the facts certainly suggest 0:19:08.660 --> 0:19:11.460 it could be. that both Daniel and Peter were known 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.990 to have lived in Leeds, both were the same age, 0:19:14.070 --> 0:19:16.230 and the fact that Peter seems to have not existed 0:19:16.310 --> 0:19:32.760 at any time before this incident, all fits. 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We look forward 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:08.740 to hearing from you. 0:21:20.090 --> 0:21:23.730 Cassie, born Cassandra Linton, was 20 at the time of 0:21:23.770 --> 0:21:26.470 the report and in her first year of a history degree. 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.540 A former housemate, a woman now in her 80s living 0:21:30.580 --> 0:21:32.790 in Hull, who I managed to track down a few 0:21:32.830 --> 0:21:37.170 months ago, remembered her as exceptionally bright and disarmingly funny, 0:21:37.550 --> 0:21:39.850 in her own way. She was the kind of person 0:21:39.890 --> 0:21:42.730 who only revealed themselves if you gave them time, she said. 0:21:44.369 --> 0:21:46.409 She didn't have a picture of her, but she remembered 0:21:46.430 --> 0:21:48.649 her face as though she'd seen her only the day before. 0:21:49.609 --> 0:21:53.909 She had short, black hair and almost alabaster-like skin, but 0:21:53.930 --> 0:21:57.419 it was her eyes that she had never forgotten. striking 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:02.160 azure blue eyes. She remembered the change in her after 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:06.760 the spring of 1962, after the case was dropped. She 0:22:06.780 --> 0:22:09.480 seemed to stop eating, just spent all her time in bed. 0:22:10.220 --> 0:22:12.939 She stopped attending her classes, saying she couldn't face the 0:22:13.010 --> 0:22:15.720 humiliation of having to turn up every day and the 0:22:15.790 --> 0:22:18.609 thought of seeing Daniel again was utterly crippling for her. 0:22:19.890 --> 0:22:23.770 Cassie Linton left university without completing her degree and in 0:22:23.810 --> 0:22:27.280 the winter of 1963 she took her own life She 0:22:27.300 --> 0:22:37.190 was 22 years old. Armed with all this, I went 0:22:37.230 --> 0:22:40.390 back to the original witness statements. I looked at every 0:22:40.490 --> 0:22:43.510 physical detail anyone had offered about the Cassie they remembered 0:22:43.550 --> 0:22:48.490 from the church group in Ilsham in 1975. As I said, 0:22:48.570 --> 0:22:51.229 the descriptions are vague, but on the crucial points, they 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:55.379 do seem to match. The short dark hair, the quiet disposition. 0:22:56.109 --> 0:23:00.210 and the strikingly blue eyes. Every witness placed her age 0:23:00.250 --> 0:23:04.010 somewhere in her early twenties, and every witness, when asked 0:23:04.050 --> 0:23:06.169 where they thought she might be from, said they had 0:23:06.210 --> 0:23:09.889 assumed she was local. But no one had actually ever asked. 0:23:14.369 --> 0:23:15.580 I don't know what to do with all of this, 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:17.560 other than to simply lay out the facts as I 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:20.560 know them to be. Now we come to the most 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:23.640 complicated bit of it all, the bit that everyone remembers 0:23:23.700 --> 0:23:26.930 about the case. Most of what we know about it 0:23:26.970 --> 0:23:30.080 comes from Peter Calloway's own account, given across a series 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:33.200 of interviews in the lead-up to his trial. No other 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:35.859 member of the church group, the seven that Edith traced 0:23:35.920 --> 0:23:40.020 and interviewed, confirmed that it ever happened. Although, to be precise, 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:42.540 two said they had no knowledge of it, while the 0:23:42.580 --> 0:23:45.030 others said only that there had been some kind of 0:23:45.109 --> 0:23:54.909 late-night meeting in which they tried to help Peter. The 0:23:54.950 --> 0:23:58.480 fact that a local Methodist priest was quite publicly reprimanded 0:23:58.500 --> 0:24:01.879 for his involvement in the meeting suggests there may be 0:24:01.960 --> 0:24:05.540 more than a little truth to Peter's account. What we 0:24:05.580 --> 0:24:08.260 do know is that roughly two weeks prior to Rachel 0:24:08.280 --> 0:24:11.710 Calloway's murder, Cassie appears to have left the church group. 0:24:12.390 --> 0:24:14.629 This seems to have sent Peter into a tailspin and 0:24:14.670 --> 0:24:18.780 his depression came back with a vengeance. His son Daniel, 0:24:18.880 --> 0:24:21.780 in that single interview he gave many years later, remembered 0:24:21.820 --> 0:24:25.109 his dad becoming suddenly violent and short-tempered in ways he 0:24:25.170 --> 0:24:28.609 had never known him to be before. He couldn't remember 0:24:28.650 --> 0:24:31.870 who first mentioned the word possession, only that he definitely 0:24:31.930 --> 0:24:36.419 remembered it being discussed. According to Peter's own confused and 0:24:36.460 --> 0:24:39.459 disjointed account, at some point he was introduced to the 0:24:39.500 --> 0:24:42.139 Methodist minister who promised him he would do whatever he 0:24:42.200 --> 0:24:45.280 could to help. He told him it wasn't Peter's fault, 0:24:45.580 --> 0:24:48.280 and that he suspected Cassie, who by then seemed to 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:51.379 have completely disappeared, had something to do with it all. 0:24:55.700 --> 0:24:58.320 Peter remembered feeling relief that he had agreed to help, 0:24:58.840 --> 0:25:02.260 but had also begun to suffer terrible nightmares, filled with 0:25:02.380 --> 0:25:08.859 hideous bloody visions and earth-shattering screams. At some point he 0:25:08.900 --> 0:25:11.729 became too afraid to even go to sleep. and pleaded 0:25:11.770 --> 0:25:14.369 with his wife to keep watch over him, in case 0:25:14.410 --> 0:25:18.070 he did. There was an incident with the minister's cat 0:25:18.150 --> 0:25:20.909 during a later meeting at his home, which Peter wouldn't 0:25:21.020 --> 0:25:24.020 fully detail, saying only that he had never meant to 0:25:24.060 --> 0:25:27.060 hurt it. Rachel wanted to take him to the doctor, 0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:29.699 but the group insisted that only the church could save him. 0:25:31.480 --> 0:25:34.520 By then, some had openly begun to wonder if Cassie 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:37.380 had in fact been some kind of agent of Satan, 0:25:37.880 --> 0:25:42.200 and had been secretly corrupting Peter against his will. Peter 0:25:42.260 --> 0:25:45.060 didn't remember how he got there, only that one night 0:25:45.180 --> 0:25:48.159 he suddenly found himself lying on his back, staring up 0:25:48.200 --> 0:25:51.989 at the rafters of a church he didn't recognise. There 0:25:52.030 --> 0:25:54.750 were lit candles all around him and about seven people 0:25:54.810 --> 0:26:00.310