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🗓️ 30 September 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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0:00.0 | Our episodes deal with serious and often distressing incidents. |
0:17.6 | If you feel at any time you need support, please contact your local crisis centre. |
0:23.2 | For suggested phone numbers for confidential support and for a more detailed list of content |
0:28.6 | warnings, please see the show notes for this episode on your app or on our website. |
0:35.5 | Today's episode involves crimes against children and won't be suitable for all listeners. |
0:46.3 | Married couple Debra and Sherwood Helmick worked hard to provide a comfortable life for |
0:50.9 | their three young children. |
0:53.4 | In mid 1985, the couple saved enough money to move out of the home they'd been sharing |
0:58.2 | with relatives and into a space of their own. |
1:02.2 | The Shiloh Mobile Home Park in South Carolina's Richland County provided modest yet pleasant |
1:08.2 | accommodation. |
1:10.1 | With just 13 trailers on the property, there was a relatively close-knit, hard-working community |
1:15.7 | where residents looked out for one another. |
1:19.2 | By June, the Helmicks had been living at the trailer park for two months. |
1:24.0 | Although their busy schedules didn't leave them much time for socialising with the other |
1:28.0 | tenants, they were starting to settle in. |
1:31.9 | On the afternoon of Friday June 14, Debra prepared for her waitressing shift at a local |
1:37.0 | barbecue restaurant. |
1:39.1 | Her husband Sherwood hadn't yet returned home from his construction job, so Debra had |
1:43.9 | a little choice but to bring her three children along for the drive. |
1:48.6 | Debra didn't have a car, but her neighbour Vicki was happy to help out. |
1:53.8 | Vicki agreed to drop Debra at the restaurant and then keep an eye on her kids until Sherwood |
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