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UK True Crime Podcast

History Repeating. Echoes of Murder : Episode 445

UK True Crime Podcast

UK True Crime Podcast

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.42.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When Valerie Page first met her future husband David, he had a serious secret to tell her - that he was already a convicted murderer. Little did Valerie know that there were so many other secrets in his life. And one of them, would eventually lead to her own tragic death...


Writing Credit: Chris Wood

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 445 of the UK True Crime Podcast. I'm Adam.

0:07.8

In today's story from the south of England, we return to a familiar theme on this podcast, Deception.

0:14.0

Often we talk about the Facebook effect where we believe that those people, we know we're living the perfect life via Facebook and other

0:21.6

social media sites. And sometimes we wish our lives could be more like that until we find out

0:28.3

that it was all just a facade. Today it's more simple and it's just lies being told in a relationship.

0:36.6

Many of us have maybe been there in the past and we want to believe all that we're being told, don't we?

0:42.8

Which perhaps makes it even more shocking when the truth emerges, and it usually does.

0:49.4

But first, let's set some context for our story for the guests a month and year game.

0:54.8

You ready? Top of the UK a month and year game. You ready?

1:04.6

Top of the UK music charts was Girls Aloud with I'll Stand by You. In the US, my boo from Usher and Alicia Keys was in the top spot. And in Australia, the top album at the time was

1:10.3

on core from M&M. In the news this month, George Bush, spot, and in Australia, the top album at the time was On Core from Eminem.

1:12.5

In the news this month, George Bush was re-elected as president of the US,

1:17.9

defeated the Democrat candidate John Kerry.

1:21.1

Swedish author, Stiegel Arson, whose work included Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,

1:26.3

died of a heart attack at just 50.

1:29.3

And this month saw the often Nervat Rail Crash, covered on this podcast in episode 162,

1:36.0

when seven people were killed when a train was derailed by a car deliberately left on a level

1:41.6

crossing in Berkshire. It was the beginning of the end for Top of the Pops as the BBC announced it had moved

1:47.6

from its Friday evening BBC 1 slot to die a slow death on Sunday evenings on BBC 2.

1:55.1

And in UK cinema, top films released this month were The Incredibles and Bridget Jones,

2:00.6

The Edge of Reason.

2:02.3

And finally this month saw the premature death of Liverpool football legend Emlyn Hughes

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