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Corpus Delicti

227: Case Closed: Colette Aram

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Colette Aram was making the 10 minute walk to her boyfriend's house and was never seen alive again. The next day, which was Halloween, Colette was found deceased. Despite finding DNA, there was no one to match it to and the case went cold until several years later.

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Music by:

Kai Engel

"Daemones"

Blooper music by:

Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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Sources:

DNA profile may solve 25-year-old murder case | The Independent | The Independent

BBC NEWS | England | Nottinghamshire | Man remanded in 1983 death case

Killer of schoolgirl Colette Aram dies in custody - BBC News

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Nottinghamshire | Torment of murdered girl's family

Colette Aram's killer jailed for life 26 years after her murder (telegraph.co.uk)

Man jailed for life over 1983 murder of Colette Aram | Crime | The Guardian

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone's Jen, and this is Lindsay.

0:26.5

And welcome back to Corpus DeLicti, the podcast.

0:29.4

We are currently still going with our Cases Solved series.

0:34.8

Yeah, so again, keep in mind, these are ones that did go cold for a time, but they do not

0:39.1

stay cold. So if you like a solved case, stick with this one because they all will be.

0:45.4

And this week, we have a new case to talk about with you. And this one actually takes place

0:51.6

in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire, England.

0:56.3

On October 30, 1983, a 16-year-old was walking down the street in her small village to meet her

1:03.6

boyfriend. She would never make the mile and a half trip alive. Now, a little bit about this

1:10.1

village, it's not a town, it's not a city. It literally is a

1:14.3

village. It's key worth. It is very idealistic. This community has grown up with each other for

1:21.5

generation. Now, it logs anywhere between 6 to 8,000 people. And when you think small English village, this is it.

1:31.0

It has cobble roads, historical churches, those red foam booths are still there.

1:37.8

So, Collette Aram was a sweet, quiet, calm teenager.

1:43.2

She lived with her mom, Jackie, and her father, Tony, as well as her

1:48.0

brother, Mark. And originally, she wanted to be a nurse. So she would volunteer time at the

1:54.8

local hospital. Although, you know, she's young. And soon her ambition started to change because her great aunt actually bought a hair salon.

2:05.0

So Colette and her best friend decided after school they wanted to be hairstylist.

2:10.8

And her great aunt started to teach them when they were not at school.

2:14.4

So they would go home after school, go to the salon, start to learn the

2:18.3

tricks of the trade. It was just a normal Sunday evening on October 30th, 1983. This is when Colette

2:26.4

left her home to meet up with her boyfriend, Russell Godfrey. Now, she had spent earlier part of that

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