Incorrect trivia statement


Someone had put in the trivia portion of this film, that the film took liberties as he did not kill his step mother in real life... this is completely false. I have studied this case (and many others) since I was a teenager, and the reason he was arrested and sent away was because he had killed his stepmother. Anyone with a brain in their head can look him up and see that. There are tons of books on the case that state the same thing.

The only liberty I feel it took was when it showed him when he got out and his sister flipped and thought he was trying to poison her daughter. Nothing I read to date ever stated that this ever occured.

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Actually...

He was never convicted for the death of his step mother.

I believe (if memory serves me) that when she died she had been ill but, doctors thought her cause of death was due to delayed effects from a resent car accident. As a result she was cremated. Graham was arrested at a later date for poisoning his father, sister and school friend. Although police suspected he was behind his step mothers death there was no evidence as she was cremated so it never went to trial.

At some point a fellow inmate of broadmoor institute claimed he confessed the murder to him but who's to say if this was true or not.

The most realistic account of events can be read in "The strange tale of Graham Young" by his sister Winifred Young.

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