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Catching Melanie's Killer - A True Crime Podcast by ITV News

Episode 3: Another Melanie

Catching Melanie's Killer - A True Crime Podcast by ITV News

ITV News

News, True Crime

4.8796 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Has the killer of Melanie Road struck again? Police look at similarities between the stabbing of schoolgirl Melanie Road in June 1984 and the disappearance of a young mother two days afterwards. And years into the future, police ask chilling questions when another woman called Melanie disappears. She vanishes from the same city on the same date as Melanie Road was killed.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Melanie Rhodes' heartbroken family starts to think they will never achieve justice.

0:07.0

I decided that the person was never going to be found and I had it in my mind that they had

0:15.0

actually got away with the perfect murder.

0:18.0

Just days after Melanie Rhodes' murder, detectives ask, has the killer struck twice?

0:22.6

She never returned home.

0:24.6

She was never seen again.

0:26.6

That was a missing person inquiry.

0:28.6

It was obvious.

0:29.6

It was totally out of character.

0:31.6

A nationwide manhunt, a desperate appeal.

0:34.6

But does anyone come forward?

0:36.6

It could be an elderly man, middle-aged or a young man.

0:39.3

He's committed a terrible crime, and we believe that somebody knows him.

0:43.3

A ghoulish coincidence, has the killer struck again?

0:47.3

Twelve years later, on the same date, in the same city, a young woman disappears.

0:53.3

Her name is Melanie. In a short while, we'll be

1:00.8

learning about the most chilling development in the inquiry. It involved another young woman

1:05.4

called Melanie, and it happened more than a decade after Melanie Road was killed. But first we need to rewind to the

1:12.6

Monday after the 17-year-old schoolgirl was found dead. It's June the 11th, 1984. We're in South

1:20.6

Bristol and a mother is ushering her children from their home. Her name is Shelley Morgan.

1:26.6

Looking back now, it is impossible to know

1:29.8

if Shelley had heard about Melanie Rhodes' death two days earlier. News bulletins are saying

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