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David Attenborough helped solve grisly murder involving a boiled up skull
Sir David Attenborough once helped to solve a murder after making a gruesome discovery - a woman's skull in his back garden.The broadcasting icon was instrumental in helping to solve a murder known as 'the Barnes mystery'.Workmen discovered the skull as they carried out work in the back garden of his Richmond, Surrey, home.Police were called and forensic tests carried out.Professor Gordon Cook, of Edinburgh University, was able to carbon-date the skull despite the murderer having boiled it after cutting up the victim.And back in 2011 a coroner ruled that the skull was that of Julia Thomas, a wealthy widow killed by her maid in 1879. The coroner delivered a verdict of unlawful killing.The coroner concluded that the victim died from asphyxiation and a head injury.