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Mens Rea: A true crime podcast

48 - Milly, Marsha and Amelie: The Bus Stop Murders

Mens Rea: A true crime podcast

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2019

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

In March of 2002, Milly Dowler went missing. She was 13 years old and had been walking home after school that afternoon, down a busy road in a familiar area, near to her middle class home. Despite efforts by Surrey police to locate her there were no leads. Her body was found 20 miles away over 6 months later. No one knew who had taken Milly, or what had happened to her. Nor was it know that hers would be the first - and most high profile - in a series of murders and violent attacks carried out by a man who hated women and young girls. This is the story of the murders of Milly Dowler, Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange, the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy and their murderer, known as The Bus Stop Killer. ********** Head to www.beer52.com/mens to get your 8 free beers today! Just pay postage (t&cs apply) Find us on Facebook or Twitter! With thanks to our supporters on Patreon! ********* Theme Music: Quinn’s Song: The Dance Begins Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Additional Music:   Allemande (Sting) by Wahneta Meixsell. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ “BossaBossa” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ******** Sources: Gemma Dowler (with Michelle Lovric), My Sister Milly: The sotry of two stolen childhoods (London: Penguin, 2017) Purchase here  Colin Sutton, Manhunt: How I brought seriel killer Levi Bellfield to justice (London: John Blake Publishing, 2018) Purchase here  Goeffrey Wansell, The Bus Stop Killer (London: Penguin, 2011)  “Levi Bellfield: Profile of 'heinous' serial killer” from BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35541060 (10 February 2016)    Ben Ando, “Levi Bellfield takes the stand” from BBC Newshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7190212.stm (15 January 2008)  Neal Baker, “Victim of Evil: What happened to Amelie Delagrange, when was she murdered by Levi Bellfield and what is Manhunt about” in The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6772036/amelie-delagrange-levi-bellfield-manhunt-itv/ (7 January 2019)    Emily Retter, “Levi Bellfield: Monster 'could have been stopped before he killed Amelie Delagrange” in The Mirror https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/monster-levi-bellfield-could-been-13830650 (8 January 2019)    “Levi Bellfield police interview: 'No Comment'” from BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-13909105/levi-bellfield-police-interview-no-comment (24 June 2011)    Steve Bird and Sean O'Neill, “Levi Bellfield inquiry prompts fresh plea over murder of illy Dowler” in The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/levi-bellfield-inquiry-prompts-fresh-plea-over-murder-of-milly-dowler-xkm0nv68z7f (25 February 2008)    “Levi Bellfield 'joked about Milly Dowler'” from BBC News  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-13547193 (25 May 2011)   “Milly Dowler: A timeline of the investigation” from ITV.com https://www.itv.com/news/2016-01-27/milly-dowler-a-timeline-of-the-investigation/ (27 January 2016)    “Levi Bellfield 'admitted Kent hammer murders in confession' lawyers say” from Sky Newshttps://news.sky.com/story/new-evidence-may-link-serial-killer-levi-bellfield-to-kent-hammer-murders-lawyers-say-11148611 (30 November 2017)    “Police ' regret' over Milly Dowler phone hacking” from BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-surrey-37307139 (8 September 2016)    Cathy Gordon and Brian Farmer, “Milly Dowler killer Levi Bellfield appeal bid rejected” in The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/milly-dowler-killer-levi-bellfield-appeal-bid-rejected-6661707.html (8 February 2012)    “Levi Bellfield trial jury discharged” from BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-13903710 (24 June 2011)    “Milly Dowler killer Levi Bellfield seeks appeal” from BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-16936092 (7 February 2012)    “Profile of Bellfield's victims” from BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-13455748 (23 June 2011)    Kevin Rawlinson, “Levi Bellfield confessed to Russell murders, say convicted man's lawyers” in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/29/new-evidence-may-link-levi-bellfield-to-russell-murders-say-lawyers (29 November 2017)    “Levi Bellfield guilty of Milly Dowler Murder” from BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-13875507 (23 June 2011)    “Levi Bellfield seeks leave to appeal against Milly Dowler murder conviction” in The Guardianhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/feb/08/levi-bellfield-appeal-milly-dowler (8 February 2012)  “'Levi Bellfield raped me hundreds of times' says ex partner” from BBC News  https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-42323966/levi-bellfield-raped-me-hundreds-of-times-says-ex-partner (12 December 2017)    Michelle Hennessy, “Levi Bellfield admits killing British teen Milly Dowler” from TheJournal.iehttps://www.thejournal.ie/milly-dowler-admits-2570929-Jan2016/ (27 January 2016)  Megan White, “Milly Dowler's killer Levi Bellfield 'part of grooming gang that is still at large' warns council report” in The Evening Standard https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/milly-dowlers-killer-levi-bellfield-part-of-grooming-gang-that-is-still-at-large-warns-council-a4027456.html (31 December 2018)    John Simpson, “Milly Dowler's killer Levi Bellfield ' confessed' to Lin and Megan Russell murders” in The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/milly-dowler-s-killer-levi-bellfield-confessed-to-lin-and-megan-russell-murders-z58l8q6hf (30 November 2017)    Alexander Robertson, “Levi Bellfield has a cast iron alibi and did NOT kill Len and Megan Russell says policemen who sent him to jail” in The Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5140699/Levi-Bellfield-alibi-did-NOT-commit-Kent-murders.html (3 December 2017)    Wikis:    Operation Weeting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Weeting  Milly Dowler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Milly_Dowler  Levi Bellfield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Bellfield

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to the mens rea podcast and this is the story of Millie dowler, Marsha

0:07.2

McDonnell and Amelie Delicrange. range. You're going to be here.

0:23.0

Oh. Oh. On the 21st of March 2002, 13 year old Millie Dowler went to school as usual. She and her older sister Jemma had gotten a lift with their mother who was working at their school, Heathside, as a math teacher. The family lived in Walton-on-Tems, a decidedly middle-class area in Surrey in England.

1:08.4

Sally was a teacher and Bob Deller was a computer programmer and analyst and regularly made and

1:13.3

regularly made the hour-long journey into London for his work.

1:18.3

Millie and her older sister Jemma could not have been more different.

1:23.0

Jemma was a quiet kid, reserved, and liked things to be in order.

1:28.0

Millie, on the other hand, was a whirlwind, a ball of energy, and a comedian.

1:35.0

The whole family loved music.

1:37.0

Milly played the saxophone and the girls both sang.

1:41.0

Theirs was a typical life lived by a family of girls in the early 2000s,

1:47.0

although Millie being a newly minted teenager left her in that strange position of knowing all the words to

1:53.7

Esclup 7 songs as well as the lyrics of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

1:58.4

That day the three had arranged to meet and drive home together in the late afternoon, but Millie had finished up the work she needed to do before lessons finished, and so asked her mom if she could get the train home with friends.

2:14.4

After getting permission she left her heavy PE kit bag with her mum who would drive it home

2:19.7

while she and her friends headed out the school gate for their short journey.

2:25.0

The small group walked among the sea of other girls leaving the school after a long day of

2:29.8

lessons.

2:31.3

It should have taken them 15 minutes or so to get to the station, but likely it was a bit longer.

2:37.0

According to Jemma, who released her book, My Sister Millie last year, Millie liked to take her time walking. She was notorious for

2:46.7

Doddling. On top of that, groups of teenage girls aren't known for their focused movement.

2:52.0

The girls laughed and chatted on their way and when they got to Wabrid Station,

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