Julie Wallace

[Graham]

Then who committed this ludicrous murder, complete with 'Qualtrough' call to Wallace's club? Where's the motive for someone else to kill Julia and poorly stage a robbery? To bash her in the head multiple times (as is common with domestic murder but not robbery)? Motive is obviously more important to you than it is to me when the evidence literally only allows for Wallace to have been the killer.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

Good point!

Graham

[Tom_Wescott]

Then who committed this ludicrous murder, complete with 'Qualtrough' call to Wallace's club? Where's the motive for someone else to kill Julia and poorly stage a robbery? To bash her in the head multiple times (as is common with domestic murder but not robbery)? Motive is obviously more important to you than it is to me when the evidence literally only allows for Wallace to have been the killer.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Graham]

Hi Tom,

well, the vast majority of murders are domestic, so I've read, and I guess it can't be ruled out that even someone like WHW could just snap one night and decide he'd had enough of his old lady. But personally I doubt it. I'd have said he was more likely to shut her in the attic for the rest of her life....

As to getting away with murder, he was actually sentenced to death, and statistically, in the UK at least, most appeals against death-sentences in the 20th century failed. And if he did have the satisfaction of committing the perfect murder, he didn't enjoy it for long, did he?

Cheers,

Graham

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Graham,

There are multiple possibilities as to why a semi-intellectual like Wallace would want to kill his burdensome wife. I'm sure you can think of all the reasons I could. Personally, I think the underlining reason was that he simply wanted the satisfaction of having gotten away with murder.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Graham]

Marko and Graham,

Julia lived at home. She went almost nowhere and knew almost no one. When he wasn't working, Wallace was home with his wife. Pray tell, who other than Wallace would have had motive for killing Julia? The case against Parry has been shattered, so who does that leave but Wallace?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

So can you please suggest a plausible motive? The fact that his missus was a stop-at-home is no motive. He himself wasn't exactly a bundle of fun.

I've got no axe to gring one way or the other re: the Wallace Case except that it's interesting as are most murder mysteries.

Graham

[Tom_Wescott]

Wallace wasn't allowed to stay in his own house. The police had torn it apart and it was uninhabitable. He had to stay somewhere.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Gideon Fell]

Hi Gideon. There's no evidence at all that Wallace was having an affair. I think it was more personal than that.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

It doesn't get more personal than that. Wallace went to stay with her after the murder.

[Tom_Wescott]

Hi Gideon. There's no evidence at all that Wallace was having an affair. I think it was more personal than that.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Gideon Fell]

Marko and Graham,
Julia lived at home. She went almost nowhere and knew almost no one. When he wasn't working, Wallace was home with his wife. Pray tell, who other than Wallace would have had motive for killing Julia? The case against Parry has been shattered, so who does that leave but Wallace?
Yours truly,
Tom Wescott

...who was having an affair, probably with his sister in law.

[Tom_Wescott]

Marko and Graham,

Julia lived at home. She went almost nowhere and knew almost no one. When he wasn't working, Wallace was home with his wife. Pray tell, who other than Wallace would have had motive for killing Julia? The case against Parry has been shattered, so who does that leave but Wallace?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Gideon Fell]

Guilty

Wallace was guilty of course, but some people just love a mystery.

[Tom_Wescott]

Marko,

Perhaps it was unfair for me to say that Goodman, et al didn't do their homework if they were refused access to pertinent info. Of course, my point that all books prior to Murphy's are therefore rubbish still stands. The case against Parry absolutely disappears, and the case against Parry was the sole reason for questioning Wallace's guilt. That and the false notion that Wallace couldn't have made the phone call. Goodman tried to put Wallace on a tram, when in fact he took the much quicker bus, leaving plenty of time to make the Qualtrough call and get to the club. There really should be no doubt that Wallace was guilty. The fact that there is can only be proof of wishful thinking.

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Marko]

Hi Marko,

I asked about a plausible motive for WHW because in my opinion there isn't one! Not that I'm at all well-read about this case, but it seems to me that WHW had no reason whatsoever to kill his wife. To suggest that he did so because she was 20-odd years older than he is both ridiculous and immature.
But someone killed her, obviously...

By the way, WHW was the dead spit of Neville Chamberlain!

Yes Graham. I'm with you re: motive. I have to laugh at 'Wallaceites' (those who believe Wallace guilty) when they say 'you don't need a motive to murder' and that is true. But it also applies to anybody else. The problem is, they then put some of the most ridiculous theories forward as to why Wallace would have committed it and say nobody else had any reason to murder Mrs. Wallace... Chamberlain:

Marko,

I spent a pleasant hour last night leafing through the Wallace blog on YoLiverpool, per your link. Interesting (and very baffling).

Mind, its 80 pages pale into insignificance compared with the 500 just pegged up on the A6 Case thread on this forum.

Cheers,

Graham

Thanks for that as well Graham. I have to say that I don't get time to read all the posts. I am currently writing a book on the Wallace Case and hope to get it done this year (finally!!).

Best regards

Mark

[Graham]

Marko,

I spent a pleasant hour last night leafing through the Wallace blog on YoLiverpool, per your link. Interesting (and very baffling).

Mind, its 80 pages pale into insignificance compared with the 500 just pegged up on the A6 Case thread on this forum.

Cheers,

Graham

[Graham]

Hi Marko,

I asked about a plausible motive for WHW because in my opinion there isn't one! Not that I'm at all well-read about this case, but it seems to me that WHW had no reason whatsoever to kill his wife. To suggest that he did so because she was 20-odd years older than he is both ridiculous and immature.
But someone killed her, obviously...

By the way, WHW was the dead spit of Neville Chamberlain!

Cheers,

Graham