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Murder She Wrote is murder capital of TV detective world

Statisticians at the OU researching the deadliest place in TV crime fiction have found Cabot Cove, the small town in 'Murder She Wrote' has the highest murder rate per head of the population. Read more in The Telegraph.

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The discovery aired on the OU on the BBC Radio 4 mathematics programme "More or Less". They have found Cabot Cove is 50 times more deady than Honduras - the real-life murder capital of the world.

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TweetStatisticians at the OU researching the deadliest place in TV crime fiction have found Cabot Cove, the small town in 'Murder She Wrote' has the highest murder rate per head of the population. Read more in The Telegraph. The discovery aired on the OU on the BBC Radio 4 mathematics programme "More or Less". They have found Cabot ...

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