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Following the news that Olivia Colman is set to star as notorious Mansfield murderer Susan Edwards, journalist Andy Done-Johnson recalls the day almost seven years ago when the Chad first broke the story, and the book he has publish about the macabre yet fascinating story.

It was raining outside, grey and horrible and it was a quiet day in the office - one of those where there was nothing much going on . . . the worst sort of days when you’re a reporter.

I was on the calls shift, as it was then . . . things are very different now. Back in 2013 you’d call the police every hour to see what was happening, you’d call the fire service and basically deal with all the breaking news.

Then I saw a conversation on a Facebook page, people discussing a forensics tent that had been put up in the back garden of a house in Forest Town . . . talk that they had found bodies in the ground. The cul de sac Blenheim Close was mentioned.

Police in the rear garden of the house in Blenheil Close, where the Wycherley's remains were unearthed

I grabbed my phone, my pad and a handful of pens and headed to the scene, while colleagues got on the phone to the police.

It wasn’t difficult to spot. As I pulled over there were two police officers stationed at the top of the road, guarding the property on the corner; the tent clearly visible from the road.

Mansfield Chad journalist publishes true crime novel about the Wycherley Murders...

I hadn’t even got out of my car when the mobile rang. The office. Police confirmed two bodies had been unearthed and removed. They wanted to make it clear it was a historical find, no mad axeman on the loose, sort of thing.

Susan and Christopher Edwards, who were both jailed for 25 years for the murders

Mansfield Chad reporter recalls day two bodies were found and the year that he spent covering the Wycherley Murders