Body On The Moor

[mongers]

Body on the Moor
Why did this man travel 200 miles to die here?

The discovery

Time / Date: 10:47 Saturday 12 December

Incident Log 936: Man found deceased, approximate age 65 to 75

Location: Beauty spot, Chew Track from Dovestone Reservoir

It was the position of the body which somehow seemed strange.

The cyclist who found the man thought he looked like he was having a rest, although it was bitterly cold and the rain was torrential.

The Chew Track, which runs between two reservoirs, is steep. The dead man was positioned on his back perfectly in line with the slope.

Stuart Crowther saw the body while out on one of his regular bike rides.

His head was uphill and his legs were straight downhill - perfectly straight. His arms were across his chest."

He was on a small patch of grass, beneath what is known as Rob's Rocks.
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Full article here with photos/video, interesting read:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-e8c6cbab-da44-4a3c-8f9b-c4fccd53dd24

[garbon]

I don't understand. Does the UK have so little news that they are going to keep bringing this story up with no new information as to why?

[LaCroix]

I don't understand. Does the UK have so little news that they are going to keep bringing this story up with no new information as to why?

the man traveled a whole 200 miles

[garbon]

I don't understand. Does the UK have so little news that they are going to keep bringing this story up with no new information as to why?

the man traveled a whole 200 miles

Yes and they've been providing 'updates' every month or so since January - all asking the question why, with understandably no answer.

Recall, I'm in the UK and can see how many times this story has surfaced here.

[Capetan Mihali]

They haven't figured out cause of death?

[Richard Hakluyt]

It just doesn't seem surprising at all to me, so like garbon I don't get the media interest 

[The Brain]

200 miles is a lot of miles.

[Brazen]

They haven't figured out cause of death?

He took strychnine, which was in a medicine bottle labelled in English and Urdu. He also had an unusual plate in his leg linked to a hospital in Pakistan. Despite looking to all intents and purposes like a tall old white bloke. 

[Brazen]

It just doesn't seem surprising at all to me, so like garbon I don't get the media interest 

As the article says, strychnine poisoning is very unusual, to the point the forensic toxicologist in the article had never seen it in his career, and is a very unpleasant way to die compared with easily available alternatives.

Why travel to that spot rather than die in your living room and leave a note? Why would the place be significant to someone who'd at least spent some of his latter life in Pakistan? Why go out of your way to remain anonymous? How do you even remain anonymous in the UK? 

I think it's a fascinating case anyhow. Podcast and TV series have been dedicated around less of a story!

[Capetan Mihali]

Ugh, strychnine poisoning.  Not my first or hundredth choice for a suicide method.  As the sheriff says at the end of Hitchock's Psycho: "Strychnine.  Ugly way to die."