“Landscapers,” which premieres Monday on HBO and will air weekly, is so named because a judge concluded that Christopher Edwards killed his in-laws, at his wife’s insistence, and then buried their bodies in their back garden, planting shrubs atop the makeshift grave, where they lay undiscovered for 15 years.
It was a consuming obsession financed, according to prosecutors, by the more than 285,000 pounds (more than $475,000 at the time) the couple stole from Susan’s parents after killing them. The reclusive British couple, who were convicted the next year of murdering Susan’s elderly parents and sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison, are now the subjects of a tragicomic four-part television drama that leans surprisingly heavily on their Hollywood fixation. These were just some pieces of the thousands of dollars’ worth of Golden Age Hollywood memorabilia that Christopher and Susan Edwards had amassed by the time they turned themselves over to police in London on Oct. A limited edition poster of “High Noon.” Some rare postage stamps featuring Frank Sinatra. A typed fan letter signed by Gary Cooper.
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