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Once referred to by Raymond Chandler as the impossible mystety: “the impossible murder because Wallace couldn’t have done it and neither could anyone else.”
Is anybody else intrigues by this unsolved crime? Mild mannered Wallace tried and convicted for the brutal murder of his wife. Soon after his conviction was quashed and he was relesased.
The events of the crime, lack of motive, alibi and psychology all combine to make this all so puzzling.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 26, 2020 5:35 PM |
Great videos on YouTube avout the mystery
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 24, 2020 11:59 AM |
She had her head caved in and £4 stolen
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 24, 2020 7:24 PM |
Bump for evening interest
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 24, 2020 8:23 PM |
He has a very convuluted alibi, going off looking for a non-existent lead on an insurance sale. Looked deliverately setup
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 25, 2020 3:05 AM |
He did it! He had been having an affair with the porter in his chess club for years, and when the porter's wife died of cancer, the only thing standing in the way of the two of them finally having a life together was Julia. The porter committed suicide after Wallace was sentenced to hang, not knowing that he would be released from jail soon. Wallace was so distraught that he moved to another town and died of renal failure less than a year later. Such an interesting, tragic story.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 25, 2020 4:18 AM |
R5 I've never heard of the porter story before, where did you read about it?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 25, 2020 6:37 AM |
"Julia, Julia, what's happened to Julia?
She's all chopped up . . .
chop, chop, chop. . .
Killy Willy!"
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 25, 2020 6:56 AM |
Is there a really good account of it? I know that all the great writers on mystery think it's the ultimate murder mystery, and say all the evidence could equally point to William Herbert Wallace's guilt or his innocence, but I've never heard exactly how. And people always say the elements of the murder are chess-like, but I've never understood how in that regard either.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 25, 2020 7:25 AM |
R6 I'm sorry...I was bored last night, and after I looked-up the story, I thought it was interesting in its own rite, but decided to finish it off. Made the whole thing up. My apologies.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 25, 2020 3:03 PM |
Who did it?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 25, 2020 6:56 PM |
The husband did it, r11. It's always the husband.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 25, 2020 8:03 PM |
There was never a motive for her murder put forward at trial. It was just assumed that he would want to kill her simply because they were married and she was seventeen years older than he was. But everything seemed to suggest they always got along very well as a couple.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 26, 2020 6:44 AM |
Precisely R13 why would he need to kill her in such a gruesome way?
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 26, 2020 5:24 PM |
The Wikipedia article seems to indicate that most people feel it was his coworker with money troubles, who had lead Wallace on a wild goose chase with the plan to rob his home of that day's insurance collection, but Julia interrupted the robbery and was killed because of it.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 26, 2020 5:28 PM |
I remember reading once that the young co-worker had visited their house before and knew where the money was kept. He was also seen by a petrol station attendant with bloody gloves in the back of his car following the murder.
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