Episode 63: Deadly Control - The Murder of Katie Simpson
REAL
Naomi Channell
4.8 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
21-year-old Katie Simpson was an exceptional and talented young woman who was thriving in the horse show-jumping community. She had a new relationship, a loving family and a job in a stables that she adored. So when her family were told that she had taken her own life, they couldn't believe it.
And their instincts were right and a very dark side of the horse riding community Katie was in, was soon exposed.
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. Please use discretion. |
| 0:07.6 | This episode contains references to domestic violence, sexual assault and suicide. Please take extra |
| 0:14.7 | care whilst listening. Grief is one of the worst things we go through as humans. It's almost certain that through our |
| 0:23.0 | lives, we will experience it at some point. Losing family, friends, members of our communities. |
| 0:32.5 | It's all-encompassing and something that reminds us all, just how precious life really is. |
| 0:39.9 | There are different types of grief too, often relating to the way that we've lost our loved ones. |
| 0:47.8 | Suicide and murder are often extremely hard to come to terms with. |
| 0:53.7 | To try to comprehend the circumstances surrounding someone's death |
| 0:58.5 | is often a huge factor in processing our loss. |
| 1:03.3 | But what if you were told that actually, |
| 1:07.0 | the way you thought you lost someone you loved, |
| 1:10.7 | was not actually the case. |
| 1:13.7 | What if a suicide turns out to be murder? |
| 1:18.0 | I'm going to Unfortunately, I have lost loved ones to both suicide and murder. |
| 2:04.7 | The grief felt different with each of them, as enormous as each other, but just in different |
| 2:11.2 | ways. Trying to understand the why behind both of these was important to me. Both were very hard to make sense |
| 2:21.3 | of. But with my friend's murder, we knew that her death wasn't the end of it. We knew there |
| 2:29.1 | would be a trial, press coverage, and reports from safeguarding agencies. we knew it wouldn't be a quick process, |
| 2:38.1 | and there was a lot of anger towards the perpetrator and those who failed to act before it was too |
| 2:43.9 | late. Suicide is one of the most complex grieving processes, often because we can internalise anger, |
| 2:53.1 | have feelings of guilt, and a whole load of emotions we may not usually associate with grief. |
| 3:00.7 | In today's case, which is also one of my most requested cases by listeners, |
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