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Episode 101 - Joanna Dennehy: Spree Killer

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode the girls are off to the ditches of Peterborough to cover the case of spree killer Joanna Dennehy, only the third woman in Britain to ever receive a whole of life sentence. Joanna was just 30 years old when she went on a 14 day killing spree that left 3 men dead, dumped in the ditches in rural Cambridgeshire. They were found covered in stab wounds consistent with a frenzied attack, and placed in humiliating poses - what led such a young woman to kill with such rage?


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0:00.0

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0:16.5

I'm Sauruti. I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded.

0:20.6

Today, we're taking you to rather an exotic location I thought because we're off to the ditches of Peter Bra.

0:27.4

Woohoo! Look, your holidays! No shade to be it, bro. Don't at me.

0:33.8

I was going to say they're going to fucking come to you. I'm just saying. I like Peter Bra.

0:39.8

But yeah, we're off to the ditches of Peter Bra to cover the case of a violent spree killer who killed three men

0:46.8

and left two with near-fatal injuries over the course of just 14 days in 2013.

0:53.4

The three murdered men were found on the rural fence of Cambridgeer farmland in drainage ditches

0:58.7

and the MO was very specific. They all had multiple stab wounds, their bodies had been dumped like

1:04.6

rubbish and placed in humiliating poses. And the real kicker in this case? The killer was a young 30 year old woman named Joanna Dennyay.

1:14.3

So let's get into it. In 2013, a 53 year old man named Kevin Lee was living in Peter Bra working as a

1:21.4

letting agent for a business called Quick Let's. He specialised in getting accommodation for homeless and vulnerable people.

1:29.2

Mainly he worked on a densely populated estate. Basically it used to be like a big council estate,

1:35.2

but now the homes were mainly privately owned. And the vibe as you can imagine was very much one of

1:41.9

minimal vetting. And after being released from prison having served a 14 week sentence for theft,

1:48.1

30 year old Joanna Dennyay rocked up to Quick Let's and met Kevin Lee for the first time.

1:53.8

Even though Joanna had only served 14 weeks in prison, she told Kevin that she had just got out

2:00.3

having served eight years for killing her father because he'd raped her and burning two people

2:06.6

in a house fire and having hit two people with her car. In what universe are you getting eight years

2:14.9

for those things? It's very strange, like the lie she tells. Firstly, such a specific and

2:19.8

weird list of things to have done and also a very odd number of to say eight years. Maybe because

2:26.0

she's still very young, she's only 30 so she guess she has to make it somewhat believable

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