5. (Sort of) Off Topic: Who Put Bella In the Wych Elm?

Max tells us the true crime story of a mysterious skeleton found hidden in a tree (and the haunting graffiti that begs the question: Who put Bella in the wych-elm?)

Sources:

• Book, “Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? Volume 1” by Alex Merrill 
• Book, “Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? Volume 2” by Alex Merrill 
• Book, “Bella in The Wych Elm” by Andrew Sparke 
• Article: ““Who Put Bella Down the Wych Elm?” – An Unsolved Murder Mystery Seventy-Seven Years On” by Rose Staveley-Wadham 
• Article: “Bella in the Wych Elm: A Midlands Murder Mystery” by Brian Haughton 
• Article: “Who Put Bella In the Witch Elm?” by Meg Van Huygen 
• Article: “Is this the Bella in the wych elm? Unravelling the mystery of the skull found in a tree trunk” by Allison Vale (spoilers: it’s not) 
• Article: “Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?” by Amber Hunt and Emily G. Thompson 
• Article: “Mystery. Murder. And half a century of suspense” by Richard Askwith (from 1999) 
• Article: “Who put Bella in the wych elm?” by David Phelps 
• Article: “‘Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?’: Espionage, Witchcraft, and other Theories” from Curious Archive