Killing For The Sake Of Killing / Colin Ash-Smith
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
They Walk Among Us
4.6 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
From the start, it was clear to detectives that this was a murder inquiry. Officers were immediately dispatched to search the area for a possible suspect, maybe someone in bloody clothes or acting suspiciously. Onlookers had seen a man fleeing the scene. They noted he was wearing a light beige waist-length jacket. But despite a quick response from the Kent constabulary, asking all potential witnesses near the scene if they had seen anything, officers drew a blank…
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5, Episode 42 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK true crime. |
| 0:31.8 | This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence. |
| 0:40.2 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:45.1 | Listener caution is advised. known as Tilt to her classmates, 16-year-old Claire Tiltman was planning to visit her friend Vicky Atkins. |
| 1:21.0 | Claire had only celebrated the birthday milestone four days earlier. |
| 1:27.0 | At around 6pm, she left her home on Woodward Terrace in Hornscross. |
| 1:34.0 | She walked almost a mile on the familiar route to Riverview Road in Greenhithe, a town in Dartford, Kent. |
| 1:44.3 | Claire was a pupil at Dartford Girls' Grammar School. |
| 1:48.9 | That day she had completed another milestone, |
| 1:52.9 | the last of her mock GCSE exams. |
| 1:57.4 | Claire was eager to chat with her friend about which direction they planned to take their lives over the next year. |
| 2:05.6 | Both Claire and another friend Lisa were trying to gain their Duke of Edinburgh's award by volunteering at Dartford Fire Station. |
| 2:15.6 | Claire had ambitions to be a firefighter, and she was deciding on the best way to |
| 2:21.3 | achieve that goal. That evening, instead of going directly to Vicky's house, Claire Tiltman took a |
| 2:30.3 | detour and stopped at a local shop to buy some cigarettes. |
| 2:37.0 | Years later, Vicky Atkins, Claire's friend spoke about what had happened. |
| 2:42.0 | I wanted to come and discuss college courses with me and my mum had popped into her house that evening and offered her a lift, but she wasn't quite ready, so she turned to her mum's lift down. |
| 2:55.3 | Purchasing cigarettes could very well have been the reason why Claire declined the offer of a lift when Vicky's mother was at Claire's house earlier in the day. |
| 3:06.5 | What's more Claire wanted to get changed and do her hair after getting in |
| 3:10.8 | from school. It was not late in the evening, but being winter, the nights were drawing in early. |
| 3:22.1 | Claire crossed the high street as she had done many times before. |
| 3:27.8 | A steady flow of traffic was standard on this stretch of road. |
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