Puzzle Over Real-Life Midsomer Murder
Steve Bird
Times Online
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Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire (UK):
A man detectives thought had died from natural causes was killed with a single shot to the neck, police said last night. Two inquests were carried out before detectives realised that Gary Morgan, 37, had been the victim of a mysterious shooting.
Mr Morgan was thought to have suffered a heart attack after his body was found slumped in his Nissan Micra in a ditch in Stanton St John, the village used as a setting for the Midsomer Murders television series, where he lived.
A post-mortem examination found a tiny laceration in the neck and a second examination by a Home Office pathologist discovered a bullet lodged in the wound. It is believed that Mr Morgan set off for work as usual from his cottage, where he lived with his wife and children, in the early hours of Monday.
His body was discovered half a mile away on a private road by a passer-by at about 5am that day. His car had sustained a number of recent minor dents to the rear but had not been involved in any known collision. It had been pushed backwards into a ditch. A Thames Valley Police spokeswoman said no motive for the killing had been established.
Oct. 21, 2005
Steve Bird
Times Online
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Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire (UK):
A man detectives thought had died from natural causes was killed with a single shot to the neck, police said last night. Two inquests were carried out before detectives realised that Gary Morgan, 37, had been the victim of a mysterious shooting.
Mr Morgan was thought to have suffered a heart attack after his body was found slumped in his Nissan Micra in a ditch in Stanton St John, the village used as a setting for the Midsomer Murders television series, where he lived.
A post-mortem examination found a tiny laceration in the neck and a second examination by a Home Office pathologist discovered a bullet lodged in the wound. It is believed that Mr Morgan set off for work as usual from his cottage, where he lived with his wife and children, in the early hours of Monday.
His body was discovered half a mile away on a private road by a passer-by at about 5am that day. His car had sustained a number of recent minor dents to the rear but had not been involved in any known collision. It had been pushed backwards into a ditch. A Thames Valley Police spokeswoman said no motive for the killing had been established.
Oct. 21, 2005
