They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

“She replaced invisible handcuffs for real ones but at least then she knew where she would be. She would no longer be constantly told that everything she did was not right and wrong. She would most importantly not have to lie anymore” — Clare Wade QC, Bristol Crown Court, October 2021 *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***  This episode was researched and written by Benjamin Fitton.  Narrat...

Temperatures dropped as low as -8 degrees celsius in Coventry on Christmas Eve 2014. Sleet fell hard and fast on the street...   *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***     This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane. Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton. Narration, additional aud...

The high-pitched sound of the home telephone echoed through the Neailey household. Liz Neailey answered. Someone from her son's school was on the other end of the line. It was June 5, 1998. The staff member told Liz her son, Wesley, had not been feeling well and needed to come home…  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***     This episode was research...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 6 - EPISODE 24’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. In November 1989, 22-year-old single mother Julie Hogg disappeared without a word, leaving her parents and young son distraught. Almost 3 months later, her body was discovered concealed behind a bath panel in her home… (Part 2 of 2). *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***     This episode was re...

In November 1989, a 22-year-old single mother disappeared without a word, leaving her parents and young son distraught… (Part 1 of 2). *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***     This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane. Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton. Narration, additional audio e...

An 83-year-old man is murdered while walking his dogs in a rural area of Norfolk. His injuries were so severe that investigators believed he had been attacked by his own dogs. The pensioner's catastrophic wounds were not caused by an animal but rather someone who was still at large… *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***     This episode was researched and writ...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 6 - EPISODE 21’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. On July 18, 2020, Bernadette Walker disappeared. Her parents initially claimed that she ran away from home following an argument. But as the search to find the missing student intensified, not everything was as it seemed, and soon a terrifying possibility considered unimaginable became a frightening reality… (Part 2 of 2)...

A 17-year-old spends the night with her grandparents. The next day she is collected, ready to be driven home. Part-way through the journey, the car stops, and she exits the family car for a final time before she is never seen again. Appeals are made by relatives, but no one seems to know what happened. Was she living off the grid, going unnoticed or was the unthinkable a terrifying reality… (...

On August 10, 2011, the metropolitan police were called to do a welfare check at a flat on New Road in Harlington. The property was close to London’s Heathrow Airport. Officers discovered two bodies. Both victims had been brutally murdered. The hunt for their killer began, but the police did not need to look far...  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***     This ep...

As soon as the car stopped, something did not seem right. Before their seatbelts were even off, another vehicle, a silver Citroen Picasso, parked up in a hurry alongside the foster carer’s car. There was a female in the driver's seat of the Citroen, and a man emerged hurriedly from the back seat. In a matter of seconds, the stranger was outside the car, something silver and shiny in his hand,...

"The blood is the life, I have drunk the blood, and it shall be mine, for I have seen horror” — This handwritten passage, penned by Allan Menzies, was found among his things when Lothian and Borders Police searched his home. *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***  This episode was researched and written by Benjamin Fitton.  Narration, audio editing and production direction also by Benjamin...

The tenth level of the Tate Modern has a viewing balcony where visitors can take in scenic views of the city. It was also a place to pick up some refreshments. Children with endless energy and enthusiasm ran around. Not many people took notice of the 17-year-old loitering. Later, when CCTV footage was analysed, it was evident that he had trailed behind some children, intermittently peeri...

Ben John stood before a jury at Leicester Crown Court. The 21-year-old denied all seven of the charges he faced. John had been arrested around a year and a half earlier after the authorities had raided his flat in January 2020. Counter-Terrorism Policing East Midlands had been monitoring his online activity for some time. Although he was later released, an investigation by a Special Branch of Linc...

It was implausible that Nova Welsh would have up and left with no word, leaving her two young children without a mother. But she was gone, and nobody knew where…  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***     This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton.  Illustrations and production direction also by Rosanna Fitton. Narration, audio editing, scr...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 6 - EPISODE 15’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. William and Patricia Wycherley had not been seen for a decade and a half. Family, friends, doctors and financial institutions all assumed they were alive, enjoying a new zest for life during their later years, taking in the fresh air and sightseeing at seaside towns across the country. But the couple, who rarely socialise...

It was puzzling, to say the least. Following a tip-off, officers from the Nottinghamshire Constabulary were dispatched to an address on Blenheim Close. Located in Forest Town, a former mining village in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, the brick-built semi-detached two-storey home sits on the corner of a quiet cul-de-sac close to public walkways and green grassland. On that autumn day in 2013, off...

We all want to believe that we are good judges of character; that if someone close to us was a bad person, we would know. But how well do you know your neighbors? How much can you trust those around you? What does a killer look like? Monsters don’t live under the bed; they walk among us.    From the award-winning team behind the UK true crime podcast — They Walk Among Us — They Walk Amon...

Proving once again that true crime is not just a modern fascination, a crowd had amassed early at 4 am on that winter morning of December 6, 1922, desperate to witness the trial. Members of the public pushed and prodded as they fought to get in. Every spectator was hopeful of gaining a ringside seat in the courtroom. Some people paid for the privilege, handing over large sums of cash, which would...

“You behaved how you did despite the serious nature of the charge your sons faced and persisted in attempts to give them a false alibi for two months. Not even a mother is entitled to lie with impunity to save her sons who she knows to have been involved in a terrible crime” — Judge Clement Goldstone QC, Liverpool Crown Court, April 2013 *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***  This episode was r...

Anthony Morley clothed himself in a white dressing gown, over his underwear, and put on some flip-flops. He was covered in blood when he left his house on Bexley Place in Leeds. He stumbled into a local takeaway and told shocked staff to call the police… *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***  This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton.  Illustrations...

After school, Shelley’s children got onto the bus, but unusually, their mother was not waiting for them at the end of the journey. The children were independent enough to make their way home from the bus stop, although when they arrived, they realised their mother was not there, and the front door was locked… *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***  This episode was researched...

An 18-year-old student goes missing after a night out clubbing. Almost a week would elapse before his body was discovered in a river eight miles from where he was last seen being chased by a gang of youths. Arrests were made, and a trial date was set. But why did he die?… *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***     This episode was researched and written by Benjamin Fitton.  Narrat...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 6 - EPISODE 9’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. Patrick Mackay was arrested in March 1975. He was suspected of murdering Isabella Griffiths, Adele Price and Father Anthony Crean. But while he was being held on remand in Brixton prison, Mackay told a fellow inmate he was locked up for murdering 11 people. He repeated this story to anyone that would listen inclu...

Before he passed away, Harold whispered to his 10-year-old son Patrick, "Remember to be good” (Part 1 of 2). *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***  This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton.  Illustrations and production direction also by Rosanna Fitton. Narration, audio editing, script editing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.    B...

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