249: The Mysterious Murder of Julia Wallace

On a winter evening in 1931, a soft-spoken insurance agent was lured from his Liverpool home by a strange telephone message. The address he searched for didn’t exist. By the time he returned, his wife had been brutally murdered. Who was the caller? Was the alibi a masterstroke of deception? Or did someone exploit the perfect opportunity?
Tried. Convicted. Acquitted.
Nearly a century later, the murder of Julia Wallace remains one of the most baffling cases in British criminal history.
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Resources
Book
Jonathan Goodman – The Killing of Julia Wallace
Web
The Julia Wallace Murder Foundation
Wikipedia – William Herbert Wallace
Wikipedia – R v Wallace (1931)
Articles
The Unredacted – The Killing of Julia Wallace: An Impossible Murder
Chess Notes by Edward Winter – Wallace Case
The Spectator Archive – "The Wallace Case"
Murder Archives: Liverpool Echo Retrospectives

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Music: "Nordic Medieval" by Marcus Bressler
Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios
This True Crime Podcast was researched using open-source or archival materials.