Month: February 2018

Spooky Trees

Media Review – Birmingham Live article on Bella in the Wych Elm (2018)

It would appear that Alex Merrill’s new book and the facial reconstruction he has commissioned has sparked some interest in the case. I was reading a Birmingham Live article (author Mike Lockley) that came out today. It is so full of errors, I can’t even begin to touch on all of them. They do, however, […]

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Book Review – Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm Vol 1 The Crime Scene Revisited – Alex Merrill (2018)

The Book Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm – Volume 1 – The Crime Scene Revisited. Alex Merrill. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. Summary Well, this was a surprise! A 16 year old from Halesown, Alex Merrill, has written a book on Bella in the Wych Elm. It came out on Friday, February 23,

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Spooky Trees

Debunked: Bella in the Wych Elm was the wife of spy Johannes Marinus Dronkers

It’s fair to say, I think, that Bella in the Wych Elm was definitely not the German cabaret singer Clara Bauerle. I’ve laid out the facts in other blogs and the evidence seems pretty overwhelming. But even though we can lay Clara Bauerle to rest, there is another Clara whose name has been circulated as

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