With the many myths and the few facts, it's impossible to sum up what really happened. I have tried to give logical explanations for unanswered questions, but a lot of it is supposition on my part based on what I know of the people involved, and a long history of studying forensics privately. There are more people out there who could be interviewed, and it may be worth talking again to people we have already spoken to. There are questions which need to be answered; who was Dr. Crispe and why can't we find a record of him? Why did Francis Camps do the post-mortem? What exactly was in those 24 bottles? Why was Joe's body identified by a police officer?

I do have my own opinions on what I think happened, but I will refrain from giving them here as my intention has been to put all sides of the story in the most unbiased manner that I can, and leave you to make up your own mind. There are two things that I am 100% certain of though; one, Joe was most definitely not murdered, and, two, he did not kill Mrs. Shenton intentionally in cold blood.

I stress again that a lot of what you have just read is myth. There is fact woven in there, however, and some of the rest of it may well be true; all we can do at this point is use common sense to determine which is which. I tend to think that this is a Jack the Ripper type case. I once read that when on Judgement Day, Jack the Ripper is asked to step forward, we'll all look at him and go - "Well, who's he then?" When - if - we find the key to the deaths of Joe and Mrs. Shenton, it will probably be quite unspectacular. Not so Joe's state of mind leading up to the morning of February 3rd 1967; that is a mystery that can never be unravelled, for however well we might think we know him, Joe is the only person who can really tell us, and he's not talking...or is he?

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