**Strange Harvest: “Form Follows Felony”** — Architecture/design analysis of the secret passageway. Source for: physical layout of passage between 3 and 4 The Cliff; coffin-shaped doorway; sickly green walls; hardboard fake cupboard back; breeze-block infill; carpet on concrete floor; new owner John Duffield showing police the opening; blocking up before properties sold; timing attributed to Anne (eleven months after disappearance).

**TIME Magazine (via archive)** — Sentencing contemporaneous report. Source for: confirmation of sentence lengths; DI Andy Greenwood description of Anne as “despicable”; Greenwood’s statement that the newspaper photo prompted the arrest and that Panama had no extradition treaty; Anne pulling away when John tried to squeeze her hand in the dock; confirmation of emails shown to jury described as loving and flirtatious; coercion defense summary.

**ABC News international report, December 2007** — Contemporaneous reporting. Source for: Anne’s Mirror statement “My sons will never forgive me” and “They knew nothing. They thought John was dead”; sons’ statement through Cleveland Police expressing “anger and confusion”; John O’Connor (former Metropolitan Police officer) characterizing the amnesia claim as “probably a last attempt to fool the authorities.”

**Woman & Home: “How did John Darwin get caught”** — Source for: post-prison lives (Darwin to Philippines, Mercy, near Manila; Anne in village near York, RSPCA job, Out of My Depth book, proceeds to RNLI and RSPCA); repayment figures (£122 by 2014, £40,000 ordered from pensions; CPS recovered £501,641.39); sons’ later relationship (Mark visited Anne in prison, reconciliation with both sons after release; one son in contact with John, one “completely disowned him”); Anne ending the marriage in prison.

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