First DNA Conviction / Lynda Mann & Dawn Ashworth / Colin Pitchfork
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
They Walk Among Us
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🗓️ 21 March 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Richard Buckland had spent the last three months in a jail cell. The 17-year-old had confessed to the brutal rape and murder of teenager Dawn Ashworth. A similar death had occurred nearby, three years before...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2, Episode 21 of They Walk Among us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 0:24.7 | Thank you. A podcast dedicated to UK true crime. Listener caution is advised, |
| 0:27.2 | as this episode contains adult themes |
| 0:29.6 | and descriptions that some listeners may find distressing. Richard Buckland had spent the last three months in a jail cell. |
| 0:47.3 | The 17-year-old had confessed to the brutal rape and murder of teenager Dawn Ashworth. |
| 0:53.3 | A similar death had occurred nearby |
| 0:56.0 | three years before. The victim Linda Mann had been found only a few hundred yards away |
| 1:02.0 | from where Dawn's body was discovered. The police thought the murders were connected, but Richard |
| 1:08.0 | Buckland vehemently denied having anything to do with Linda's death. |
| 1:12.5 | Dawn's body had been found near Carlton Hay's psychiatric hospital in Nabra, Lestershire, earlier that year. |
| 1:19.1 | Richard Buckland was employed as a porter at the hospital and his name had been brought to the attention of police. |
| 1:25.7 | A colleague of Richards called to report a conversation in which the porter said that |
| 1:30.4 | Dawn's lifeless body had been found hanging from a tree near a bridge over the M1 motorway. |
| 1:36.8 | Dawn wasn't discovered until a day after his comments. |
| 1:40.3 | Richard had been on the suspect list when Linda Mann was murdered. |
| 1:48.0 | At the time he was 14 and very tall for his age. He had mild learning difficulties. |
| 1:51.0 | He had unnerved a few women in his local village by hiding and jumping out at them |
| 1:56.0 | which prompted a number of people to suggest Richard to police. |
| 2:00.0 | Early on in the investigation, the belief |
| 2:02.9 | was that the killer lived locally. Richard lived in Narborough. Narborough and Enderby flanked |
| 2:09.5 | either side of the locations the girls were found. Police interviewed the 14-year-old |
| 2:15.0 | in relation to the murder of Linda Mann but crossed him off the |
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