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Episode 91: The Case of Megan Newborough

REAL

Naomi Channell

Society & Culture, News, Documentary, True Crime

4.8725 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On the 6th of August 2021, 23-year-old Megan Newborough left her family home to go and meet someone. Her parent's weren't sure who she was meeting, but when she hadn't returned home the next day, they frantically filed a missing persons report.


What unfolded from here is enough to break the coldest of hearts.


This is Real.


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0:00.0

Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. Please use discretion.

0:08.0

This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence and sexual assault against minors,

0:13.8

whilst the descriptions are not explicit. Please, take extra care whilst listening.

0:25.2

A few people have asked me what I find hardest about doing podcasts like these. Most would be forgiven for assuming that it would be reading the

0:31.1

horrible details of the crime, reading the coroner's reports or the crime scene details. But actually, for me, it's when I read

0:40.6

the words of those left behind, the parents, the children, siblings or friends, those trying to come

0:49.1

to terms with the fact that a person that they loved won't get to live their life anymore. It's over, because

0:57.2

someone has taken it, and sometimes that reality can get lost amongst the headlines and the

1:04.1

details. I remember reading the tributes to the victim in today's case, because her killer didn't just take her life.

1:13.7

He destroyed many others in the process.

1:17.2

I'm going to When I put together these episodes, I always think of a film that I watched many years ago, called The Butterfly Effect.

2:07.2

It's a thought-provoking watch and lays out the theory that one small change can cause huge unpredictable consequences elsewhere over time.

2:19.0

Many cases covered Unreal could absolutely fit into that theory.

2:25.1

What happened to someone in their life that took them from being an average person

2:30.4

to being able to kill someone?

2:34.1

In August 2021, Megan Nubra was 23 years old.

2:40.5

She lived with her parents in Nuniton, a town in the middle of England. She worked for a company

2:47.0

called Ibstock Brick in the Human Resources Department. They're a clay manufacturer and

2:53.0

produce bricks and masonry. Megan lived with her family and on the night of the 6th of August,

3:01.1

she told her mother Elaine that she would be going to meet someone. She wasn't dressed up.

3:07.4

She hadn't done her hair or makeup,

3:09.7

so her mother thought that whoever she was going to see must be someone that she felt

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