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Evidence Locker True Crime

118: The Cobham Body-in-a-Wheelie-Bin Case | England

Evidence Locker True Crime

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

When 30-year-old Melanie Wallner died of natural causes inside her Surrey home, her family was devastated. Many things didn’t add up, especially when they learnt how quickly her widower had found a new love. Three years after her death, a grisly discovery changed everything.
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Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe
Narrated by Noel Vinson
Audio editing: Blackwell Post
Music: “Nordic Medieval” by Marcus Bressler
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This True Crime Podcast was researched using open source or archive materials.

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Our cases have been researched using open source and archive materials it deals with true crimes and real people

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Some parts are graphic in nature and listener discretion is advised each episode is produced with the utmost respect to the victims, their families, and loved ones.

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Peter Wallner had taken a long trip from England to South Africa with his wife's ashes, so she could be laid to rest on her family's farm.

0:58.0

German-born Peter met Malani at work in London, and they had been married for five years.

1:04.5

Malani's sister and ordained minister led a memorial service in Pretoria's inner city

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and family members spoke about Malani's life in South Africa before she moved to the UK.

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30-year-old Malani had migrated to England 10 years before her untimely death.

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Friends and relatives did not really know her life as a married woman.

1:23.7

Still, many people attended the service to support the grieving family and pay their respects to

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Malani. At the ceremony, Malani's husband Peter, a tall man with sandy hair was without emotion.

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He was slightly awkward and did not engage much in conversation.

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No one thought too much of it. Perhaps he was still in shock.

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Malani had died unexpectedly due to natural causes. He must have been heartbroken.

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A young widower who had lost everything at the young age of 31,

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it must have been overwhelming to be in a foreign country surrounded by strangers

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