Former Chronicle editor speaks out over unsolved murder
29/04/16
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FORMER Chronicle editor Don Booker was a clerk at the newspaper when a story broke in 1948 about the body of a Barnsley librarian being found in Sussex.
The murder case of Joan Woodhouse captivated the press and public at the time and a new book published this month penned by Martin Knight revisits the unsolved case.
When the story broke, reporters from across the country scrambled to snatch a ‘scoop’, descending on Barnsley to be the first to lay their hands on a photograph of the ill-fated librarian - which is used in the cold case book.
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