Coup de Grâce // 182

This episode is available early and ad-free on Invisible Choir + on Apple Podcasts and Patreon, and is scheduled for free/regular release on Sunday, October 25th, 2026.

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The process of divorce isn’t easy on anyone, but some separations are more bitter than others. Such was the case for 42-year-old Robert Rhodes and 38-year-old Dawn Rhodes.  After months of tension, just when they were getting ready to sign the paperwork, one wound up injured and the other one dead…

Written by Trevor Pason, Edited and Engineered by Scott Ecklein, and Executive Produced by Michael Ojibway.

Written/Sources:

1. Man jailed for murdering wife after child revealed plot in rare retrial 

2. Carpenter who cut wife's throat during row after her affair with colleague walks free from court - The Mirror 

3. Murderer recruited his child to help ‘get rid of Mum’ and got away with it for a decade

4. Earlswood - Wikipedia

5. R v Rhodes.Sentencing Remarks for publication.16.01.26

6. Housing Trust Funds | PolicyLink 

7. Man jailed for at least 29 years and six months for murdering wife after child's new evidence led to retrial

8. Earlswood murder trial: Husband said wife 'turned into the Hulk' during divorce argument, jurors told | Surrey Live

9. 'Murdering' carpenter Robert Rhodes 'cut wife's throat' | Daily Mail Online 

10. R v Robert Rhodes-[2024] EWCA Crim 1411.pdf

11. the UK Garrison 

12. Man sentenced for murder following re-trial | Surrey Police 

13. Man cleared of wife’s murder found guilty after child provides new evidence | Crime | The Guardian 

14. How Redhill killer Robert Rhodes got away with murder for 9 years before finally being found guilty | Surrey Live 

15. Surrey murder charge after woman's body found in Redhill - BBC News 

16. Husband who slit wife's throat after she 'flipped like The Hulk' cleared of murder | UK News

17. Coup de grâce

18. Seven in 10 women killed by partner told someone they were suffering domestic abuse, chilling report finds | The Independent 

19. Femicide-Census-10-year-report.pdf

20. 'Do you want to get rid of Mum?' - The plot to kill Dawn Rhodes

21. Man jailed for murdering wife after child revealed plot in rare retrial | UK News 

22. Double jeopardy murderer sentenced to life imprisonment | The Crown Prosecution Service 

23. Double jeopardy - Wikipedia 

24. Man guilty of wife's murder after child reveals plot 

25. TWISTED husband who GROOMED his child into COVERING UP for wife’s murder is JAILED after retrial

26.  Man found guilty of murdering his wife in rare retrial

Music & Sound Effect Sources

• Opening Track: “Reflections of Mind” by Mandala Dreams

• Closing Track: “Slow Rhodes” by Blue Saga  ;“Death Whistle OUTRO” by Michael Ojibway

Music & Sound Effect Sources

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