They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

THIS IS A CASE UPDATE. FOR MORE DETAILS PLEASE LISTEN TO SEASON 4 - EPISODES 27 TO 30.  In the media, the crimes were referred to as The Babes In The Wood murders. The bodies of Karen Hadaway and Nicola Fellows were found in woodland around Wild Park, a short distance from their home in Brighton. They had gone out to play together one day in October of 1986 but never came home… ***...

“The prosecution say this was a persistent, very determined, very prolonged attack by the defendant. The prosecution say, quite simply, the defendant was a man who knew at all times what he was doing. His actions were clear and had one aim - prevent at all costs his wife leaving the house and seeking help” — Prosecutor Matthew Roberts, Swansea Crown Court, February 2021 *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADV...

“In the simplest of terms, assisted by her husband, she starved him to death, thereby securing for herself and her family the windfall she craved” - Oliver Saxby QC, Reading Crown Court, January 2020  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***  This episode was researched and written by Benjamin Fitton.  Narration, audio editing and production direction also by Benjamin Fitton. Script edit...

One of the men reached into his pocket to get out the money to pay. He pawed at a wedge of £10 notes. The cashier noticed a large gold ring on one of his fingers and saw what she thought was blood above his knuckles. Maybe he had been fighting? The cashier then glanced up. There was no break in their polite conversation. The customer had not noticed her looking, or perhaps the...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 6 - EPISODES 1, 2, 3 & 4’ FOR THE PREVIOUS PARTS OF THIS FIVE-PART CASE. On Tuesday, November 21, 1995, after two days of deliberation, the jury had finally made some progress on the murder charges they were considering. There were 10 in all, but so far, jurors were only able to reach verdicts for 2 of them. The accused, Rose West, stood in the dock. Tears hung he...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 6 - EPISODES 1, 2 & 3’ FOR THE PREVIOUS PARTS OF THIS FIVE-PART CASE. Born towards the end of September 1941 to parents Walter and Daisy West, Frederick Walter Stephen West was raised in the rural village of Much Marcle, surrounded by green rolling fields on the border of the tranquil south-Herefordshire countryside. Both his parents were seen as pleasant, hard-working...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 6 - EPISODES 1 & 2’ FOR THE PREVIOUS PARTS OF THIS FIVE-PART CASE. A great deal of anger in the media was directed at Rose West after her husband’s death. There was a sense that Fred West had escaped justice by taking his own life, and now, he would not have to answer for his crimes. The anger towards his widow was not tempered when it was reported that a unit of...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 6 - EPISODE 1’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS FIVE-PART CASE. Each passing day, the increasing crowd of bystanders observed scene-of-crime officers, carrying box upon box of evidence out of the garden of 25 Cromwell Street, their boots heavy with mud, marking the tarmac outside... (Part 2 of 5)  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***  This episode was researched and written b...

When asked if they wanted to visit the property on Cromwell Street, the jury were unanimous in their decision. They were transported to the scene by bus. The windows were covered and jurors were told not to talk to anyone. The route they would make on foot, from the rear of the house, into the building, was shielded from view. It was vital the numerous camera crews still filming the property...

‘They Walk Among Us’ returns for Season 6 on Wednesday, June 16, 2021.  More information can be found on our website at http://theywalkamonguspodcast.com MUSIC: Addicted by VYEN Seductress by Francis Preve SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter - https://twitter.com/TWAU_Podcast Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/theywalkamonguspodcast/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theywalkamonguspodcast/ Acast - ht...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 5 - EPISODES 47 & 48’ FOR PARTS ONE & TWO OF THIS THREE-PART CASE. The waters of the River Aire were in the process of being searched by divers from The West Yorkshire constabulary. Excavation work also continued around the flats where Stephen Griffiths lived in Holmfield Court on Thornton Road in Bradford. A collection of crossbow bolts, two crossbows, n...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 5 - EPISODE 47’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS THREE-PART CASE. Stephen Griffiths was the man who ended Suzanne Blamires’ life. That was not something he could argue as he had been filmed on CCTV executing her with a crossbow. Suzanne’s remains were later found in the River Aire. Griffiths was also suspected of killing Susan Rushworth and Shelley Armitage. Their whereabouts wer...

The footage captured by a CCTV camera around 2:30 am, early that Saturday morning is grainy. It pictures a corridor on the third floor of a building. A male and a female are walking side by side. They enter one of the flats through the front door. Minutes later, the door flings open, and the woman is seen running as fast as she can... (Part 1 of 3)  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *...

Love, betrayal, jealousy and greed are themes that are as old as time. These emotions can dominate someone's thoughts and lead them to murder. But if they take a life, they seldom get away with it. So focused on the spoils of their ill-gotten gains, they think scarcely about the person that is gone or how the death will negatively impact the lives of the victim's loved ones. However...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 5 - EPISODE 44’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. A mother of two was brutally bludgeoned to death during the evening of August 31, 1995. Police at first believed the crime to be a burglary gone wrong. But when the focus of the investigation quickly turned to her surviving family, things took an even more insidious turn... (Part 2 of 2)  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVI...

A mother of two is found bludgeoned to death in a suspected burglary gone wrong. The attack is barbaric. Blood spatter covers the ceiling. But in spite of the carnage, only a small sum of money has been stolen. Is a woman's life really worth the £100 that was reported missing? The attack shocks the quiet suburban neighbourhood as police struggle to find a suspect. Is this really a random...

After conception, if a fertilised egg splits in two, it produces identical twins. They can share the same sac in the womb, rapidly growing, entwined with each other. Their DNA is almost identical, so similar in fact, it was, only until recently, impossible to tell them apart. When they are raised, they encounter many of life's milestones together; they go to the same school, know th...

From the start, it was clear to detectives that this was a murder inquiry. Officers were immediately dispatched to search the area for a possible suspect, maybe someone in bloody clothes or acting suspiciously. Onlookers had seen a man fleeing the scene. They noted he was wearing a light beige waist-length jacket. But despite a quick response from the Kent constabulary, asking all potent...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 5 - EPISODES 39 & 40’ FOR PARTS ONE AND TWO OF THIS THREE-PART CASE. In early April 2016, the judge began his summary of the case. Approaching its eighth week, during the trial the jury were told of the 100 plus injuries that were inflicted. Weighing six and a half stone, Angela Wrightson was beaten, not only punched and kicked, but assaulted with a table, a...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 5 - EPISODE 39’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS THREE-PART CASE. On the morning of December 9, 2014, Angela Wrightson was found lifeless on the sofa in her living room. She had died from multiple injuries inflicted during a brutal assault committed over the course of several hours. Due to the severity of the attack, a pathologist could not confirm a cause of death. Two teenagers...

The property did not stand out. Closed vertical blinds shielded the windows from prying eyes. The front door and brick facade were painted white. The chipped paint was offset against half a dozen bouquets of flowers all the colours of the rainbow, that had been secured to a drainpipe running parallel against the front door. In County Durham, around two weeks before Christmas 2014, the body of...

If you google "Rocklyn in Carnkie", the first articles that appear mention cruel and senseless murders committed in 2000. The views and B&Bs in the sleepy, scenic west Cornwall village take second place. The villagers had seldom seen a police officer in the area, if at all. There was never any need for one to visit, let alone patrol — it was that kind of place. But in the autumn of 2...

Just north of an old toll bridge on the border of Dalkeith, Scotland sits a property called The Neuk in Bridge End. The beautiful home with servant quarters and outbuildings in Midlothian was the place for an exceptional party on February 3, 1911. As the evening was drawing to its conclusion, a party deemed a roaring success, it was time for one last drink, a coffee. But things were about to take...

A forensic team dressed head to toe in white overalls combed the field. In their hunt for clues, they stood several metres apart as they steadily manoeuvred through the muddy grassland which was bordered by trees and dense bushes. A nearby road was closed off, and tracking dogs were deployed around the scene. The discovery was made by refuse collectors near the Cheshire village of A...

"He murdered because he wanted to, for sexual or other gratification, or perhaps to see what it was like to kill - like so many of his heroes who he had clearly been researching” — Brian Altman QC, The Old Bailey, July 2007 *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***  This episode was researched and written by Benjamin Fitton.  Narration, audio editing and production direction also by Benjamin F...