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Can anyone remember the murders halfwy between baslow and owler bar up baslow hill on the left..It was a lane that ran through ,and some guys were killed brutally behind a dry stone wall??? Cant remember the name of the lane??

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It was somewhere up Clod Hall Lane, I'm going for 1980'ish. Didn't the murderer let one of the captives out to shop and maintain normality?

 

Ok, perhaps its the case crookesey was thinking about though?

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Can anyone remember the murders halfwy between baslow and owler bar up baslow hill on the left..It was a lane that ran through ,and some guys were killed brutally behind a dry stone wall??? Cant remember the name of the lane??

the first clod hall lane murder happened 1960 and the victims bubble car was found in a street in chesterfield hence the reason it became know locally as the bubble car murder.. the second murder was a year later and the victims car was again left in the same street in chesterfield. the murderer was brought to justice in 1965 and was given a life sentence

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The murderer's name was Michael Copeland from Chesterfield. He was found guilty of murder in 1965. He had murdered two local men & one other when he was serving in the army in West Germany.

A former work colleague told me that he had seen Copeland throw someone through a shop window during a fight; not only that, he went in after his opponent & carried on beating him up. Apparently Copeland was about 6' 4" & built like a brick you-know-what.

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