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Once Upon A Crime | True Crime

7: Killer Kids: Chapter 2: Mary Bell

Once Upon A Crime | True Crime

Esther Ludlow

True Crime, Society & Culture, Crime, Truecrime, Criminology, History, Criminals

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

An 11-year-old is accused of murdering two boys in the 1960s.

Several resources were used in the research for this episode including:

Gitta Sereny, The Case of Mary Bell (London:Pimlico), 1995.

Audio Clip: The Mary Bell Case. YouTube, uploaded by chewyisacat, March 7, 2013. https://youtu.be/moFhGzE_xRI

Transcript

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0:00.0

Every 90 seconds in the UK, someone goes missing.

0:03.6

Kevin went down there at 20 to 9 and that was the last we saw of him.

0:09.7

I'm Pandora Sykes and you're listening to the missing.

0:13.0

Stephen didn't have his wallet, he didn't have his glasses, so he has just finished.

0:20.4

We covered the lengths and breaths of the UK in search of answers surrounding the

0:25.0

disappearances of a diverse range of people.

0:27.8

I mean, somebody has obviously committed the perfect crime.

0:31.3

And how they sleep at night, I don't know.

0:33.5

Subscribe or follow now wherever you find your podcasts and check out the missingpodcast.org.

0:55.5

Thank you for joining me for our continued series, Killer Kids.

0:59.3

This is chapter 2, Mary Bell.

1:06.4

Every 90 seconds in the UK, someone goes missing.

1:10.1

Kevin went down there at 20 to 9 and that was the last we saw of him.

1:16.2

I'm Pandora Sykes and you're listening to the missing.

1:19.5

Stephen didn't have his wallet, he didn't have his glasses,

1:24.0

so he has just finished.

1:27.0

We covered the lengths and breaths of the UK in search of answers surrounding the

1:31.5

disappearances of a diverse range of people.

1:34.3

I mean, somebody has obviously committed the perfect crime.

1:37.8

And how they sleep at night, I don't know.

1:40.0

Subscribe or follow now wherever you find your podcasts and check out the missingpodcast.org.

1:53.5

On time, her neighborhood was called Scotswood.

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