354: The Babes in the Wood

Morbidology

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On October 9th, 1986, two nine-year-old girls vanished from a Brighton council estate after dark. Their disappearances sparked one of the longest and most complex investigations in British history - a case that would take over three decades to solve, require a change in the law itself, and prove that justice delayed doesn't always mean justice denied.

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1:31.3	The Thee Thee I want to know, is there any reason why you would have touched her that night? I would say I'm not coming to me. Okay. Because if you didn't touch her, I've got nothing to say. The Brighton is located on England's southern coast, where the chalky cliffs of the south downs meet grey waters of the English Channel.
2:28.3	For centuries it was a fishing village, until the Georgian era transformed it into a fashionable
2:34.3	seaside resort. The Prince Regent built his extravagant royal pavilion there in the early
2:39.3	1800s and suddenly Brighton became a place where London's elite escaped for some fresh sea air. By
2:45.6	the 1980s Brighton had evolved into something else. It was still a resort town, still drew tourists to its pebble
2:51.9	beaches and Victorian pier. But it had also become a working-class city with a grittier edge.
2:58.9	The Grand Regency terraces stood alongside Council Estates. The wealthy and the struggling lived
3:04.5	just streets apart. Milscombe was one of those estates, built between the wars to house Brighton's working families.
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