"More recently, it’s Eddie who helps to find a body buried under a flagstone at the former orphanage, Haut-de-la-Garenne, in Jersey, setting for a terrible case of paedophilia and child murder."
Amaral: chapter 17Actually ... no he did not. But what is one more inaccuracy in a book which is full of inaccuracies.
Sometimes mistakes are made and when they are they should be acknowledged as such.
It is remarkable that the 'field full of bodies' as indicated by the use of ground radar has not become an urban legend or that Eddie's 'alerts' to the infant skull never mention that it was actually a very old coconut shell
http://metro.co.uk/2008/05/18/skull-fragment-is-not-bone-145799/ or that the 'alert' in the bunker was to semen and blood.
I don't think there is much to say about a children's home and the discovery of milk teeth.
Jersey ‘graves’ could be ‘Bergerac TV props’Tuesday 4 Mar 2008 4:39 pm
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A police source told The Times:
The field was turned into a graveyard.
They used fibreglass gravestones but they were going to have a burial scene, so they also actually dug a number of full graves.
The full graves go quite deep. They were filled in, and the places where there had been digging registered on the radar.
No-one realised until one of the local officers pointed it out.”
The source said that when Lenny Harper, the deputy chief officer of Jersey Police, was told the real reason they had found so many suspicious spots was because of Bergerac, “he put his head in his hands and uttered a few choice words.
However they added that the search was now being done with the knowledge that there may be an alternative explanation, The Times claimed.
Read more:
http://metro.co.uk/2008/03/04/jersey-graves-could-be-bergerac-tv-props-23444/#ixzz3fEH9kpQE