They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

John Cooper was an unassuming man. He claimed to suffer from a frozen shoulder and near-debilitating arthritis. But John was living a double life...  *** 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 dire...

A dangerous prisoner escapes from custody. The events that unfolded are what worst nightmares are made of... *** 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.   More inf...

Monday, August 23, 2010. Officers from the central London police force visited the home of Gareth Williams at his top-floor flat on Alderney Street in Pimlico, London. Gareth had been working as a communications officer at the Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham. The cypher and codes expert was seconded to the secret intelligence service headquarters on the bank of the Thames, aro...

On the evening of Friday, February 3, 2017, 95-year-old Denver Beddows and his 88-year-old wife, Olive, received a visit from their son and daughter-in-law at their semi-detached home in Woolston. Denver, or Charles to those that knew him, had been struggling to care for his wife of 65 years, as she had been involved in a car accident which had left her increasingly anxious. Both her physical...

WARNING: THIS IS PART TWO OF A TWO-PART STORY. PLEASE LISTEN TO ' SEASON 2 - EPISODE 13' FOR MORE DETAILS ON THIS CASE.  On June 30, 2003, a 14-year-old girl was found stabbed to death behind a wall on Roan’s Dyke Path, a countryside short-cut in Dalkeith, Scotland. The investigation into her death continued for nine months with little result, but all that would change in April 2004... (...

On the morning of Wednesday, December 8, 2004, a jury stepped on to a bus to travel from Edinburgh High Court to Roan’s Dyke Path, a countryside short-cut between the residential areas of Newbattle and Easthouses in Midlothian, Scotland. Wilted sunflowers, stuffed bears, candles and tributes marked the spot of a horrendous tragedy. A year prior, this countryside trail was the location where a...

Scotland in the 1960s saw two murders, with each case centred around a complex love triangle. Even though the motives and methods of these crimes were strikingly similar, the outcome was very different...  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton.  Illustrations and production direction also by Rosanna Fitton. Narra...

WARNING: THIS IS PART TWO OF A TWO-PART STORY. PLEASE LISTEN TO 'SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10' FOR MORE DETAILS ON THIS CASE.  Jennifer and June Gibbons were twins. They would shut themselves away in their bedroom, not coming down for meals, and even when they did, they would barely acknowledge their family. All this changed in the summer of 1981, but their actions would lead them to the gates of Br...

From a very early age, identical twins Jennifer and June Gibbons were insular. They created their own secret language and refused to talk to anyone else. Following a conviction for burglary and arson during their late teens, they were both sent to Broadmoor psychiatric hospital. This selective muteness would leave them trapped in the secure facility, on a cocktail of antipsychotic medica...

On Friday, May 6, 1927, a large black trunk was abandoned in the luggage office at Charing Cross station in London. The trunk sat amongst the other abandoned luggage in the stifling heat until Monday morning. Staff arrived to begin their working week and were hit by a pungent odour. The source appeared to be coming from the large black trunk. An officer arrived and pried it open. He saw five large...

Stephen Farrow was born in 1964. He was the black sheep of the family...  *** 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. More information can be found on our website at ht...

Bijan Ebrahimi lived on the ground floor in a four-storey block of flats located on Capgrave Crescent in Bristol. Bijan, a shy man and an Iranian immigrant, suffered from health problems that left him disabled. He had a close bond with his family and took joy in tending to his garden in a communal area that overlooked the surrounding flats. Despite being quiet, he didn't go unnoticed. He was verba...

Alan Hopkinson is a former member of Mensa with an IQ of 159. He was a computer programmer and had served in the Royal Air Force. At the time of his arrest, he was middle-aged with salt and pepper hair and a moustache. Nothing about him stands out. You could pass him on the street and not take notice. Alan Hopkinson is also highly dangerous due to his obsession with young girls... *** LISTENER CAU...

In 2009, Christopher Monks persuaded a boyfriend he met through an internet chat room to kill his parents in return for a disturbing reward... *** 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, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton. ...

WARNING: THIS IS PART TWO OF A TWO-PART STORY. PLEASE LISTEN TO 'SEASON 2 - EPISODE 4' FOR MORE DETAILS ON THIS CASE.  During April 2016, Helen Bailey, a successful author, disappeared. She allegedly left a note, found by her husband to be, asking that no one contact her as she needed some time alone. Over the following weeks and months, appeals were made by Helen’s friends and family in the...

Ian Stewart lived on Baldock Road in Royston with his fiancée, successful author Helen Bailey. The couple shared their home with Ian's two sons, from a previous marriage, and Helen's beloved miniature dachshund called Boris. Ian and Helen had planned their wedding for September 2016, but in April of that year, Helen disappeared. A note left that looked to be written by Helen requested that no one...

Over ten days in 2013, Joanna Dennehy went on a sadistic killing spree. She murdered three men and left two others fighting for their lives... *** 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 Ben...

On Tuesday, November 24, 2015, Michelle James and an acquaintance were clearing out a communal garden in Beddau, Wales, after a neighbour, Leigh Sabine, had passed away. Before she had died, Leigh, who was always talkative and very outgoing, had told her friend Michelle there was a medical skeleton in the garden and laughed, suggesting it would be funny to scare one of their friends with...

On May 12, 1958, 31-year-old Peter Manuel went to trial at Glasgow High Court for the murder of eight people. So desperate were people to get a seat on the public benches for the trial of the infamous Beast of Birkenshaw, they queued outside the court overnight...  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED *** This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton.  Illustra...

They Walk Among Us returns for Season 2 on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. More information can be found on our website at http://theywalkamonguspodcast.com MUSIC Sunset by Kai Engel Track can be purchased here: https://kaiengel.bandcamp.com/track/sunset  All music sourced from http://freemusicarchive.org and used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ SOCIAL MED...

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