A Killer Who Should Have Been In Prison / The Murder of Zara Aleena
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
They Walk Among Us
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🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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The weather was still warm at 2:30 am, and unusually, a married local couple decided it was a good time to go for a scenic stroll past the mansion and gardens in Valentines Park. They walked down Cranbrook Road until the pair reached the junction opposite Cranbrook Rise — that’s where they saw something that didn’t seem right amongst the large white houses that lined the street. The couple noticed someone lying awkwardly on a grey brick driveway. The woman was covered in blood and struggling to breathe…
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of sexual violence. |
| 0:10.3 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:14.7 | Listener caution is advised. |
| 0:28.5 | Ilford is a town in East London with almost 200,000 residents. |
| 0:36.2 | Both a commercial and residential area, Ilford has lively streets and peaceful parks. |
| 0:41.4 | Despite crowds of people leaving the pubs and bars in the town centre, |
| 0:51.1 | it was quiet on Cranbrook Road in the early hours of June 26, 2022. The weather was still warm at 2.30 a.m. and unusually a married local couple decided it was a good |
| 0:56.5 | time to go for a scenic stroll past the mansion and gardens in Valentine's Park. They walked |
| 1:04.4 | down Cranbrook Road until the pair reached the junction opposite Cranbrook Rise. That's where they saw something that didn't seem right |
| 1:13.4 | amongst the large white houses that line the street. |
| 1:17.8 | The couple noticed someone lying awkwardly on a grey brick driveway. |
| 1:23.4 | The woman was covered in blood and struggling to breathe. |
| 1:29.3 | He's single-minded. He was going to go for a woman that night. |
| 1:33.3 | It didn't care where it was. Cranbrook Road is a busy road. |
| 1:37.3 | It's residential. You have houses down there. You have CCTV down there. |
| 1:41.3 | But this didn't put him off. We constantly stuck in a loop of |
| 1:47.0 | disbelief, constantly stuck in a loop of images in our mind about what happened to her, |
| 1:56.0 | the horror that she faced, the pain she must have endured. |
| 2:02.8 | We live in a horror film. |
| 2:10.2 | Welcome to Season 8, Episode 38 of They Walk Among Us, |
| 2:22.1 | a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. A true crime. The walkers rushed over to the woman gasping for air. |
| 2:27.4 | It appeared as though she had been badly beaten. |
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