By David Crabtree, Midlands Correspondent
Susan and Christopher Edwards have been found guilty of murdering her parents and burying them in their own back garden.
Susan Edwards shot Patricia and William Wycherley twice at close range before she and her husband hid their bodies in the back garden of their home in Blenheim Close, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
The debt-ridden Edwards then carried out a 15-year-long deception, pretending to neighbours and the authorities that they were still alive.
They sent Christmas cards, forged signatures and set up timers in the house where Susan's parents had lived to keep up the pretence for a decade and a half.
The Wycherley's bank accounts were closed and a new one set up which allowed the couple to syphon nearly £250,000 from her parents, from state benefits payments, pensions and the eventual selling of their home.
The couple were only discovered after a group tried to get in touch with Mr Wycherley, at the point he would have turned 100, prompting them to flee to France.
The police dug up the back garden after Christopher Edwards contacted his stepmother to ask for help and she tipped them off.
The two-and-a-half-week trial at Nottingham Crown Court heard that until they were exhumed in 2013, relatives and officials had no idea the Wycherleys had died in 1998.
One letter written by the Edwards in December 2007, nine years after the killings, reads: "Actually, my father is remarkably fit for his age - as well as being more adventurous than in younger years, as his Ireland travels would show!"
The Edwards stole more than £173,000 from the Wycherley's bank accounts benefits and pensions. They made a further £66,000 from selling the couple's home.
Police found the bodies wrapped in bedding in a grave beside a fence near the back door of the property.
Susan Edwards had claimed that she heard a bang whilst staying with her parents and found her father lying on the bedroom floor and her mother with a gun in her hand.
She claimed a row broke out and Mrs Wycherley said she'd had a sexual relationship with Christopher Edwards.
Christine Edwards, 58, claimed she 'flipped' and shot her mother after grabbing the gun, hence her plea of guilty to manslaughter.
The Edwards fled to France after they received a letter from the Centenarian Society asking to speak to Mr Wycherley at the approach of what would have been his 100th birthday.
Christopher Edwards' mother contacted police after he asked her for money and confessed to helping his wife bury her parents 15 years earlier.
The couple were traced to France. Then on October 30 the couple contacted the officer in charge, Detective Chief Inspector Rob Griffin and gave themselves up to UK Border force authorities.
DCI Griffin said: "To think that a couple such as the Edwards can plan to kill their parents, parents in law, bury them in their own garden and then maintain the pretence that they were still alive for 15 years whilst stealing all their money is exceptionally unusual.
"It was straightforwardly about money. There was a history of financial fall out between Susan and her parents where they, in her eyes, took her life inheritance from her step-grandmother spending that money on a house and then going on to sell the house and banking the money for themselves. She was aggrieved."
In another bizarre twist it was revealed that Susan Edwards had an obsession with celebrities. She faked a decade long writing relationship with French film star Gerard Depardieu and spent thousands of pounds buying letters written by the Hollywood star Gary Cooper.
They were found to be £160,000 in debt, depsite stealing a total of £245,000 from the Wycherley's. When arrested Police found they held only one euro in cash
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