staff seemingly cleared. None in any event appeared to have any motive for such a horrendous crime. Certainly there was no financial gain apparent. For, the estate fell to the sons in order of birth. The death of a daughter held no immediate reasoning.
Back-ground checks locally revealed no scandal or gossip against the deceased. She appeared to live a quiet peaceful existence, no record of debt nor any traumatic love affairs.
Pearson found himself with a blank sheet as to reasons or motive. The death just seemed a pointless waste of life.
There remained no motive whatsoever for the death of this young lady. To all intents and purposes it was either murder by mistaken identity of done without motive or any hop of gain.
The mystery had only deepened.
December the 27 th 2012
The following day the family and staff once again in deep mourning were joined by two cousins
A Miss Liza Macdonald and Leanne Carr, arriving to give support to what remained of the family.
The house in mourning the family and staff wearing black it was therefore with some surprise that when the household awakened the cousins Macdonald and Carr hearing a banging noise looked through their bedroom window when they saw their cousin Rupert Crampton working on his vintage sports car.
Although accepting he was an enthusiast and possibly in shock and requiring a distraction it was nevertheless thought as rather undignified.
They washed, dressed and arrived for Breakfast. They were joined by Charles Crampton a younger member of the family.
Rupert failed to show and it was not until Linda Gibson the local post girl arrived. Being off duty over Christmas she was a keen horse rider and often visited Crampton Hall as a part time stable maid and groom.
They heard her diesel Land Rover pull up and stop, this was followed by screams causing the breakfasters to rise and look though the window. They witnessed the devastating sight of seeing Mister Rupert lying still.
His car lying upon his chest. They all ran to the scene but he appeared dead,
Help came in the mode of Miles the handy man who ran from a nearby building attempting to raise the car Jack but was unable to do so. Another was brought by Mister Charles from his car. He and Miles were then able to raise the stricken sports car from off Mr Rupert.
Miles gave what assistance he could including, mouth to mouth resuscitation but Rupert failed to respond.
An ambulance was called but although Rupert was removed to hospital he was pronounced dead on arrival by Doctor Khan the casualty officer at Chester hospital.
The scene was visited by Inspector Pearson the local uniform sergeant and on this occasion Superintendent Jinton.
Clearly from enquiries made at the scene it appeared the death was accidental, through failure of the Jack. Pearson had recalled that at least Mr Rupert had taken his advice and refrained from using bricks. The advice was it seems insufficient.
The vehicle jack was however seized and sent for examination.
A post-mortem was carried out again by Professor Hallam who announced death had been caused by compression of the chest cavity when the car lay upon it.
It was some days later when the Forensic Science Laboratory contacted Detective Inspector Pearson that they had discovered the jack had in fact also been sabotaged.
It was discovered that a compression part, a small but vital rubber grummet had been removed. This had resulted in the jack working for some minutes but then had failed and suddenly dropped.
As a result the case had been reclassified as suspicious and in fact recorded as murder.
The family and staff were interviewed at length, all being at the hall or around or near the scene prior to and at the time of the accident.
The village came to a standstill, the local farms were silent.
The village church was full to capacity as was the area outside.
The service being piped by loud speakers to mourners unable to enter the body of the building.
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Back-ground checks locally revealed no scandal or gossip against the deceased. She appeared to live a quiet peaceful existence, no record of debt nor any traumatic love affairs.
Pearson found himself with a blank sheet as to reasons or motive. The death just seemed a pointless waste of life.
There remained no motive whatsoever for the death of this young lady. To all intents and purposes it was either murder by mistaken identity of done without motive or any hop of gain.
The mystery had only deepened.
December the 27 th 2012
The following day the family and staff once again in deep mourning were joined by two cousins
A Miss Liza Macdonald and Leanne Carr, arriving to give support to what remained of the family.
The house in mourning the family and staff wearing black it was therefore with some surprise that when the household awakened the cousins Macdonald and Carr hearing a banging noise looked through their bedroom window when they saw their cousin Rupert Crampton working on his vintage sports car.
Although accepting he was an enthusiast and possibly in shock and requiring a distraction it was nevertheless thought as rather undignified.
They washed, dressed and arrived for Breakfast. They were joined by Charles Crampton a younger member of the family.
Rupert failed to show and it was not until Linda Gibson the local post girl arrived. Being off duty over Christmas she was a keen horse rider and often visited Crampton Hall as a part time stable maid and groom.
They heard her diesel Land Rover pull up and stop, this was followed by screams causing the breakfasters to rise and look though the window. They witnessed the devastating sight of seeing Mister Rupert lying still.
His car lying upon his chest. They all ran to the scene but he appeared dead,
Help came in the mode of Miles the handy man who ran from a nearby building attempting to raise the car Jack but was unable to do so. Another was brought by Mister Charles from his car. He and Miles were then able to raise the stricken sports car from off Mr Rupert.
Miles gave what assistance he could including, mouth to mouth resuscitation but Rupert failed to respond.
An ambulance was called but although Rupert was removed to hospital he was pronounced dead on arrival by Doctor Khan the casualty officer at Chester hospital.
The scene was visited by Inspector Pearson the local uniform sergeant and on this occasion Superintendent Jinton.
Clearly from enquiries made at the scene it appeared the death was accidental, through failure of the Jack. Pearson had recalled that at least Mr Rupert had taken his advice and refrained from using bricks. The advice was it seems insufficient.
The vehicle jack was however seized and sent for examination.
A post-mortem was carried out again by Professor Hallam who announced death had been caused by compression of the chest cavity when the car lay upon it.
It was some days later when the Forensic Science Laboratory contacted Detective Inspector Pearson that they had discovered the jack had in fact also been sabotaged.
It was discovered that a compression part, a small but vital rubber grummet had been removed. This had resulted in the jack working for some minutes but then had failed and suddenly dropped.
As a result the case had been reclassified as suspicious and in fact recorded as murder.
The family and staff were interviewed at length, all being at the hall or around or near the scene prior to and at the time of the accident.
The village came to a standstill, the local farms were silent.
The village church was full to capacity as was the area outside.
The service being piped by loud speakers to mourners unable to enter the body of the building.
County
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