In this very special episode, Everyone Dies in Sunderland teams up with the wonderful Jenny from Its Murder Up North to take a look at the crimes of Hartlepool-born multiple murderer Arthur “The Fox” Hutchinson, one only 23 prisoners to be serving a whole life tariff.
Don’t compare Bold the Fox Cub to a murderer though – call him “Slapstick Bundy” or “Twat Mustard”.
In September 1983 the police left Hutchinson unattended by an open window at Selby police station. Three people – a family celebrating a wedding – would lose their lives before he was recaptured.
He would spent his time on the run “taunting” the police with letters and calls in which he tried desperately try to make the nickname “The Fox” happen, boasted of being “the master of disguise” (sunglasses) and insisted HE HAD NEVER BEEN TO WORKSOP.
Not so much of a criminal mastermind that he hadn’t left his teeth marks in a block of cheese at the crime scene though.
We also take a look at 1986, learn that Matthew Broderick was involved in almost as many deaths as Arthur Hutchinson while holidaying in Northern Ireland and discuss innocuous things which scared you as a child, including Family Ness and Fraggle Rock (John) Bananaman (Jenny), Playdays (Claire) and Short Circuit on the Commodore 64 (Gareth).
Clare has bad moussaka at a wedding (I think that’s what the aubergine emoji means) Gareth gets nostalgic for acid rain. John ruins a school assembly. Jenny hijacks a school bus. Jim Davidson gets punched in the face by a werewolf.
Along the way: Radioactive Sheep! Incest! The not dissimilar fates of the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger and Rod Hull! Basil Brush’s dark origin story! More onstage fatalities!
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Our theme music is the song “Steady Away” by Pete Dilley and can be found on his album Half-truths and Hearsay which you can/should buy/stream here: https://petedilley.bandcamp.com/album/half-truths-and-hearsay
I am Rod Hull https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQsRClW77_4