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Inspector Morse - The Wench Is Dead

Seizoen: 11 - Aflevering: 1 / 51 - Eerst uitgezonden: 11 november 1998 - Episode ID: 413154

Morse is laid up in hospital, and Lewis is away on an Inspector training course. To pass the time, Morse reads a book by American criminal expert Dr Millie Van Buren on the Oxford Canal Murder of 1859, in which the corpse of a young woman, Joanna Franks, was found floating in the canal, the apparent victim of four roughneck boatmen, Oldfield, Musson, Towns & Wooton, who were transporting her to London. The subsequent trial of three of the men resulted in the execution, by hanging, of two. Morse becomes convinced that the wrong men were convicted, and enlists the help of the Thames Valley Police Department's newest recruit, Adrian Kershaw. They dust off the physical evidence from the crime, stored in a nearby archive, and subject it to some very modern forensics tests. The results lead Morse to unearth a clever, duplicitous plot, the key to which lies in an abandoned grave in Ireland, and which would have spelled quite a different fate for the men who hanged in 1863.