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Ritual Murder In Rural England: The Strange Case Of Charles Walton A brutal murder is reported in a quiet West Midlands village. Local authorities are unable to come up with a suspect or motive, so Scotland Yard sends its best detective to help crack the case. It could be the plotline to any number of classic English murder mysteries. However, the investigation into this particular homicide would soon take an unexpectedly strange turn. Hushed rumors of witchcraft, spectral black dogs, and ritual sacrifice would surround the case as it became entangled in the dark folklore and history of the region. Was this the work of a lone madman… or something far more sinister? On the evening of February 14, 1945, in the small Warwickshire hamlet of Lower Quinton, the mutilated body of Charles Walton was discovered in a field he had worked just below Meon Hill. A lifelong resident of the area, the 74-year-old Walton was known to be a quiet man and something of a recluse. He shared a small cottage...