They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

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. Altho…

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 de…

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 v…

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 …

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 custod…

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 confrontati…

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…

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 t…

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) 

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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 …

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 be…

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 s…

The following excerpt was found in Gregory Davis' leather-bound diary in 2003: "Quit job tomorrow. Get Mick killed. Get Stuart to withdraw cash every day. When all gone, kill him. Repeat Mick plan ad…

Around 9 am on Monday, October 28, 2002, police officers were called to a warehouse on the Huyton Industrial Estate in Brickfields, Merseyside...

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Just before sunset on Saturday, June 18, 1988, a local patrol car slowed as it travelled eastbound along the M50 motorway. Walking along the hard shoulder was a young girl carrying a baby. The office…

The Rooney Family lived on a travellers' site in Drinsey Nook, Lincolnshire. They splashed out on plastic surgery, driving top-of-the-range BMW cars while wearing expensive Rolex watches and designer…

In a school in Pontypridd, Wales, Christopher May sat peacefully playing a piano, oblivious to the firefighters around him. He continued to play as the flames circled, flames from the fire he had sta…

Anne Fitzpatrick, a market stallholder, lived with her Yorkshire terrier on Church Lane in Moston, Manchester. On the evening of May 30, 1983, at 11:30 pm, the 29-year-old dressed in her pyjamas, sec…

You drop the kids off at school at nine in the morning. The next six hours of their day are spent in the care of trustworthy professionals. The majority of the time, they are safe in the hands of the…

After receiving a 999 call in the early hours of Thursday, July 7, 2016, two police officers from the Avon and Somerset Constabulary arrived at a property on Wells Road in Bristol. The caller confess…