They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

He had already spent much of his teenage years in and out of facilities for youth offenders. Edinburgh-born Alastair Thompson, at only eighteen years old, was about to commit a heinous crime that would see him put behind bars for over a decade and a half...  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton.  Illustrati...

PLEASE LISTEN TO SEASON 4 - EPISODE 15 FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE.  On March 19, 2002, Linda Razzell vanished on her way to work. After a lengthy investigation, police set their sights on Linda’s estranged husband, Glyn. His whereabouts on the morning she went missing could not be accounted for, and a considerable amount of Linda’s blood was found in a car he had borrowed. Glyn Razzel...

At 8:40 am on the morning of Tuesday, March 19, 2002, Linda Razzell got into her red Ford Escort along with her partner Greg Worrall and three of her four children. She was running late, which was not uncommon... (Part 1 of 2) .  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and written by Benjamin Fitton.  Narration, audio editing and production direction also by Benja...

A nineteen-year-old Oxford student suddenly goes missing in 1991. Can the police weave their way through the lies to get to the truth?... *** 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...

PLEASE LISTEN TO A CONFESSION (Part 1) FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE.  On March 24, 2011, Christopher Halliwell was arrested in connection with the suspected kidnapping of Sian O’Callaghan. Halliwell subsequently admitted to the murder, leading police to not only Sian’s body but the remains of another victim. After DNA testing, police identified the woman to be a Swindon native, Reb...

Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher had been with the police force for 25 years. Following a missing persons appeal in 2011 — that quickly unravelled into a double murder inquiry — he couldn’t have imagined that his actions, to find the truth, would not only bring about the end of his career but almost cost him his life  (Part 1 of 2).  This episode is brought to you in associa...

The New Forest is a beautiful and peaceful part of rural Hampshire. Purple heather covers grassland, horses roam freely, deer wander through the woodland. In 1986, the tranquillity was disturbed by one of the most heinous crimes in British history...  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton.  Illustrations and prod...

The official Murdertown podcast is returning for season 2 this September with Benjamin Fitton ( They Walk Among Us ). Are you ready to delve into the dark side of your town? These are the true crime stories from 10 more towns across the UK. Ten stories of people who might appear just like us — but are capable of evil. Get in touch to let us know which cases you'd like us to cover by using #Murdert...

Witches, warlocks, grave robbing and vampire hunters may seem like the subjects reserved for fantasy and horror films, but this case actually happened in 1970s Britain...  *** 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 editin...

PLEASE LISTEN TO SEASON 4 - EPISODE 9 FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE.  Following the murder of Michael Gregsten and the rape and attempted murder of Valerie Storie, a call was made to James Hanratty to turn himself in. Scotland Yard had dropped Peter Alphon as a suspect, and after questioning Charles ‘Dixie’ France. Police learned that Hanratty had referred to the upstairs back seat...

The sun was barely starting to go down on the Summer evening in 1961 when Michael Gregsten and Valerie Storie pulled off the road into the cornfield at Dorney Reach, Buckinghamshire. They frequently went parking there, or “trysting” as was often said at the time. Sometimes others had the same idea, but on this particular Tuesday evening, it was just them and the faint sound of cars passing al...

Through their line of soft toys, Dena and Lee hoped their self-created character ‘Sean the Leprechaun’, on which their toys were based, would earn them a fortune and be developed into a hit animation film for children. Following a holiday in Florida, Dena convinced her husband that they would be earning £50 million through a deal she had struck with the Walt Disney company... *** LISTENER CAUTION...

PLEASE LISTEN TO SEASON 4 - EPISODE 6 FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE.  Over the course of three days at Winchester Crown Court, the jury decided if the evidence the prosecution presented was sufficient enough to prove that Matthew Hamlen stabbed, robbed and bludgeoned to death 77-year-old Georgina Edmonds on the wet and grey afternoon of January 11, 2008. Hamlen had been in custody f...

Kiln Lane is a narrow road flanked by woodland, crossing the River Itchen, and winding south-east from the village of Otterbourne to the quiet hamlet of Brambridge in the south-east of England. Although isolated, measuring roughly a mile, the road is used as a commuter route, so a considerable amount of traffic passes through it during peak travel times. Shortly before 6 pm, on Friday, Januar...

At the end of May 1998, nearly two months after Sylvia Fleming went missing, building developer Patrick Haughey was woken early one morning by the telephone. Police needed access to a four-bedroom detached house he was developing on Circular Road in County Tyrone...  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton.  Illust...

Ruth and Dean Neave lived on Redmile Walk in the Welland Estate of Peterborough. Social services were highly involved with the family. The children were placed on the at-risk register, and Ruth was vocal with authorities about not being able to cope — she even threatened that she might hurt her children... *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and writ...

In the 1980s, cases of consumer terrorism had reached a peak. You may have heard about the Tylenol murders in America. Seven people lost their lives when they consumed tablets from bottles purchased in chemists and supermarkets. They had no way of knowing the pills they swallowed were randomly laced with potassium cyanide. A few years later, the United Kingdom had its own scare when lethal contami...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 4 - EPISODE 1’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE.   After a shooting on a smallholding that left one man dead and two injured, Albert Dryden was arrested and taken into custody... (Part 2 of 2). *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and written by Benjamin Fitton.  Narration, audio editing and production direction also by Benjamin Fitto...

On a smallholding in the North-East of England, a three-year planning dispute between a former steelworker and the local council was streamed live to millions of homes across Britain. The confrontation, which left one man dead and two injured, would result in a police siege against a gunman who had amassed an armoury of weapons that included a cannon that was ready to be mounted to the front of a...

PLEASE LISTEN TO SEASON 3 - EPISODE 42 AND EPISODE 43 FOR PARTS ONE AND TWO OF THIS THREE-PART CASE. On October 28, 1986, after a total of nine and a half hours of deliberation, the jury had to decide if Jeremy Bamber was guilty of killing his family, blaming the murders on his sister in order to inherit his family's estate... (Part 3 of 3)  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode wa...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 3 - EPISODE 42’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS THREE-PART CASE. Fourteen months after five members of the Bamber family had lost their lives, Jeremy Bamber was pleading not guilty to their murders at Chelmsford Crown Court during the start of October 1986... (Part 2 of 3) *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and written by Benjamin Fitton.  Narration,...

PC Michael West was hoping for a quiet night operating the switchboard for Chelmsford Police Station, until he received a hurried call in the early hours of August 7, 1985... (Part 1 of 3)  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and written by Benjamin Fitton.  Narration, audio editing and production direction also by Benjamin Fitton. Script editing, illustration...

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 3 - EPISODE 40’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. One month before the trial was due to take place at the Old Bailey on May 2, 1978, Joyce McKinney and Keith May, now daily fixtures in the tabloids, disappeared... (Part 2 of 2). *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton.  Illustrations and produ...

The now 21-year-old Kirk Anderson was standing outside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Ewell, Surrey on September 14, 1977. He was getting on with his day but had no idea he was being watched by the woman he had broken off a relationship with, in his late teens... (Part 1 of 2).  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and written...

As more punches were thrown, Christopher struggled, but it was no use. He was now on the ground and felt something around his neck. He heard an engine slowly getting louder. It was the sound of the sit-on lawnmower...  In a moment of realisation, he knew he was either going to be strangled to death or mutilated.  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and written...