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They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

Killing Spree In Peterborough / Joanna Dennehy

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

True Crime

4.66.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Over ten days in 2013, Joanna Dennehy went on a sadistic killing spree. She murdered three men and left two others fighting for their lives...


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This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton. 


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Welcome. Welcome to Season 2, Episode 3 of They Walk Among us, a podcast dedicated to UK true crime.

1:00.7

Listener caution is advised, as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions that some listeners may find distressing.

1:11.6

Over 10 days in 2013, Joanna Denahey went on a sadistic killing spree. She murdered three men and left two others fighting for their lives.

1:25.6

Joanne Denahey, or Joanna, she is more commonly known, was born in Harpingdon, Hertfordshire.

1:32.6

A father, Kevin Denehy, a security guard and mother Kathleen a shop manager, had two children.

1:39.4

Their first daughter, Joanna, was born in August 1982 and the second Maria followed two years later.

1:47.0

The sisters had a strong bond during childhood. They shared a bed and even made up their

1:51.9

own secret language. Kathleen says a daughter Joanna was a sweet and compassionate child

1:57.3

and if she accidentally stepped on an insect or worm, she would be dist distraught her early years at school were happy and unremarkable she was intelligent had good grades and was always polite her parents had high expectations for their daughter's future hoping she would become a lawyer after attending university. They even paid for some extra tuition

2:19.3

to help her with her studies. It was only when she entered her teens that her personality started

2:24.9

to change. Playing truant from school was a regular occurrence and she often found herself in

2:31.1

trouble with the police. By the time Joanna was 14 years old, her parents

2:36.1

found her to be uncontrollable and she started a relationship with a man six years her senior.

2:42.7

Her mother and father didn't like her new boyfriend and were concerned she wouldn't finish school.

2:48.0

They pleaded with her to continue her education but their repeated requests

2:52.5

fell on deaf ears. Joanna left home at 15 to live with her boyfriend, John Traynor.

2:59.3

Kathleen hoped her daughter would get this rebellious streak out of her system and then she

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