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E317: The Campden Wonder

E317: The Campden Wonder

Fresh Hell Podcast

February 20, 20261h 12m

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Show Notes

In 1660, a respected estate steward left the English market town of Chipping Campden to collect rent and never came home. His bloodstained belongings were soon found by the roadside, and suspicion quickly fell on his servant, John Perry. What followed was a chain of confessions, accusations, arrests, and a trial that ended in execution.

There was only one problem....Nearly two years later, the supposedly murdered man walked back into town alive.

BUT...where had he been?!


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