Reconstruction filmed from a car driving along Camden Street in Walsall where Christine Darby was abducted in August 1967. The reconstruction continues with the car (an Austin A55) travelling to Cannock Chase where Christine's body was found. Library pictures of police searching Cannock Chase and Detective Superintendent Ian Forbes at a police press conference. We then see library pictures of posters being put up and views inside the incident room at Cannock and shots of the filing cabinets of information. This is followed by a police door to door investigation in Walsall carried out in January 1968. Another library interview with Ian Forbes from around this time.
The turning point in the case was the attempted abduction of a girl from Bridgeman Street in Walsall on 4 November 1968 by a man driving a Ford Corsair. The car was traced and it was found to be owned by local man Raymond Morris. It was then discovered that Morris had previously owned a grey Austin A55 which linked him to the Christine Darby murder. We see views of the tower block in Walsall where Morris lived and Clifton Motor Company at Ladypool in Birmingham where he traded his cars. We then see crowds at Cannock magistrates as Morris is brought into court for the first time on November 16 1968.
The next section is a background to Morris and we see the house on Halford Crescent at Leamore in Walsall where he was brought up; North Walsall Secondary School; Hopes Engineering at Walsall where he was first employed; Royal Airforce Bridgnorth where he did National Service; St Peter's Church at Walsall where he married his first wife Murial; and the plastics firm of Healey Mouldings in Oldbury where he worked from 1952 to 1963.
Jeffrey Watson interviews his first wife Muriel (they were married in 1951 and divorced in 1963). We then see photographs of Morris with his second wife Carol Horsley whom he married in 1964. Jeffrey Watson also talks to Carol Horsley who remembers watching the funeral of Christine Darby on television with Morris (library shots of the event are shown). Interviews with Morris's workmates at an Oldbury engineering firm about his arrest. We then see inside his flat (in Regent House on Green Lane in Walsall). Finally Reg Harcourt talks to Detective Superintendent Ian Forbes about the solving of the case.
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Raymond Morris is also the chief suspect in the murders of Diane Tift and Margaret Reynolds but they are not referred to in this film.