Free to Kill Again: Episode 391
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Marcella adored Dione and to make a living for her and her daughter, Marcella worked as a sex worker on the dangerous streets of the red light district of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.
One evening, Marcella dropped Dione with a friend as she headed off to work and promised she would be back at 11pm. But Marcella was never seen again.
The prime suspect in Marcella's disappearance was local man Paul Brumfitt. On close inspection, it turned out he had a long track record of crime - including being twice found guilty of murder...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:02.0 | welcome to episode 391 of the UK True Crime Podcast, I'm Madam. |
| 0:07.0 | Thank you so much for joining me today when we look at a shocking murder story |
| 0:11.0 | covering Merseys, Essex, Denmark and the West Midlands. |
| 0:15.0 | Okay, so let's quickly set some context for today's story of our guest in the month and year game. |
| 0:21.0 | Top of the UK charts was Blondie with Maria, whilst Britney Spears |
| 0:25.8 | was at number one in the US with Baby One More Time. In Australia, Shenaya Twain |
| 0:31.5 | had the top selling album this year with Come On Over. |
| 0:36.0 | In the news this month, the US President Bill Clinton was acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment |
| 0:41.8 | trial. The state of Arizona executed Carl Le Grande a German national |
| 0:47.8 | involved in an armed robbery in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him. |
| 0:54.1 | The Football Association dismissed Glenn Hodworth's England manager |
| 0:57.7 | due to the controversy sparked by his ludicrous comments about disabled people. |
| 1:03.6 | And in UK due crime news, Howard Shippman, the Hyde GP, accused of murdering |
| 1:08.0 | eight female patients the previous year, was charged with a further seven murders. year was February 1999 |
| 1:15.0 | February 1999. |
| 1:20.0 | Maybe next week. |
| 1:22.4 | We joined today's story on the 7th of February 1999. Marcella Ann Davis was a 19 |
| 1:28.9 | year old mum of a nine month old baby Dion. To make a living for her and her daughter, Marcella worked as a sex worker, |
| 1:38.3 | on the dangerous streets of the Red Light District of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. |
| 1:45.2 | Almost every time she went to work she faced violence and danger was an ever-present threat to Marcella and the others |
| 1:50.0 | who worked alongside her. On this cold February evening she left her daughter |
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