The Paper Boy Who Never Came Home: The Murder of Carl Bridgewater | Ep. 260

Podcast: British Murders with Stuart Blues · Stuart Blues

Opublikowano: 2026-07-05

On the afternoon of September 19, 1978, 13-year-old Carl Bridgewater set off on his usual newspaper round through the village of Wordsley in the West Midlands. A quiet, hardworking schoolboy who loved fishing, football and Scouts, Carl had only recently started earning pocket money delivering newspapers after school. With just a handful of deliveries left to make, he arrived at an isolated farmhouse where he was due to leave a paper for the older residents. He never made it home. Carl's murder shocked the UK. Detectives launched one of the largest murder investigations the Midlands had ever seen...