71 - A Walk in the Dark: The murder of Rachel Moran
Mens Rea: A true crime podcast
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🗓️ 5 July 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the mens rea podcast and this is the story of Rachel Moran. The Oh, Rachel Morin was born on the 17th of January 1981. |
| 0:46.0 | She was the youngest child in her family and the youngest girl, with two big sisters who were 17 and 11 at the time and a brother who was six years |
| 0:55.5 | older than her. At the time of her birth in Dublin her father Ray who was from |
| 1:00.6 | County Wicklow was a deep-sea, which left Rachel's mother Wanda at home looking after the four kids. |
| 1:08.6 | Six months after Rachel's birth, the family decided to move back to England where Wanda could have more support raising the kids. |
| 1:16.4 | Ray got a job working locally and was home more often then. |
| 1:20.8 | Earlier in their marriage Wanda says things had been less stable. |
| 1:25.0 | Ray had been employed in the fishing industry in Hull, but it had collapsed, which was what had prompted the move abroad to his own home in Ireland. But Rachel's childhood days were stable. |
| 1:36.8 | They had a large home in Hull with a big back garden and both Ray and Wanda were present and involved in Rachel's life. |
| 1:44.0 | Wanda admits that they were perhaps a little overprotective of their youngest child, |
| 1:49.6 | who because of the age gap between her siblings was treated nearly like an only child, |
| 1:55.0 | but all in all they were happy and content. |
| 2:00.0 | Rachel was a bit of a shy child but she loved to dance and had begun Irish dance lessons while she was in primary school. |
| 2:07.0 | She took to it, and Wanda recalled in her book, The Murder of Rachel, that you'd never guess from Rachel on stage that she was shy, |
| 2:15.2 | as all that fell away when she was performing. |
| 2:19.1 | Rachel moved on to ballet and tap once she'd finished primary school and before long she was placed in an advanced |
| 2:26.1 | ballet class such was her talent. Rachel was slim and strikingly tall, eventually standing six foot, and made a very graceful ballet dancer. |
| 2:36.9 | At 16, though, she hung up her shoes, too tall to ever have a chance of continuing with ballet. |
| 2:44.0 | Wanda recalls that it was around this time that Rachel really started to become a teenager. |
| 2:50.0 | She decided she'd had enough of studying for her A levels and transferred instead to the local college to study IT. |
| 2:57.0 | She took up smoking and became secretive. Her mother Wanda says that at the time she was alarmed and worried but |
| 3:04.9 | admits looking back it wasn't really anything out of the ordinary nor was there |
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