(True Crime) The Witchcraft Murder of Charles Walton pt. 2

A brutal murder. A Scotland Yard detective. And a story that would grow more unsettling with every retelling.

In the conclusion of our two-part investigation, we return to the killing of Charles Walton beneath England’s Meon Hill. More than eighty years after his death, the murder remains unsolved—but the mystery has become inseparable from tales of witchcraft, rural superstition, and the supernatural.

How did a violent crime become known as the “witchcraft murder”? What do the surviving accounts tell us, and how much of the story took shape in the years that followed?

As we sort through the investigation and the legends surrounding it, we come back to the question at the heart of the case: Who killed Charles Walton?

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• The Case That Foiled Fabian: Murder and Witchcraft in Rural England — Simon Read, The History Press
• The Meon Hill Murder, 1945: Unsolved Crime in Witch Country — M. J. Trow
• “Murder in Long Compton” — Our Warwickshire; background on local folklore and an earlier witchcraft-related killing
• “Killing of Charles Walton” — case overview and additional references

The witchcraft connection remains part of the case’s folklore and speculation; a ritual motive has not been established.

Content note: This episode discusses murder and disturbing crime-scene details.