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I’m indebted to Dr Marc Feldman for answering my questions about mothers who deliberately harm their children, sometimes fatally, in order to gain attention. Dr Feldman is a clinical professor of psychiatry at The University of Alabama and an international expert in Munchausen’s syndrome and Munchausen’s By Proxy. He’s also a respected author whose latest book is the revealing Playing Sick.

I’m also grateful to crime scene investigator Paul Millen for explaining gun residue to me, an intriguing aspect of the Neil Entwistle case. Paul has over 30 years’ experience in the management and scientific investigation of crime and his work has been commended by the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police. He was responsible for the development of the prestigious diploma in Crime Scene Investigation awarded by the Forensic Science Society, and went on to be elected the Society’s vice president. He is author of the book Crime Scene Investigator.

I’d similarly like to thank Jerzy Morkis, editor of the Scottish newspaper East Fife Mail, for keeping me up to date with details of the Robert Thomson case and for answering my questions. Thomson’s frenzied murder of his children, followed by an attempted suicide, received far more coverage in his native Scotland than it did in the English press.

Last, but certainly not least, I’m delighted that Gregg Olsen, one of America’s foremost true crime authors, granted me an interview. Gregg visited Tanya Reid in prison following her convictions for child abuse and murder and wrote a revealing book, Cruel Deception, about this particularly troubling case.