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They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

True Crime

4.6 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Basil and Avril Laitner’s day was filled with happiness. They watched their eldest daughter get married, and they spent the early evening at the reception, in a marquee tent in their back garden. When they waved their daughter and new son-in-law off on their honeymoon, they had no idea a stranger was watching too. The Laitners' dream day was about to turn into their worst nightmare...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 2, Episode 27 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.
0:22.2	Listener caution is advised as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions that some listeners may find distressing.
0:43.3	Basil and Avril Lavaitner's day was filled with happiness. They watched their eldest daughter get married and they spent the early evening at the reception in a marquee tent in their back garden.
0:51.3	When they waved their daughter and new son-in-law off on their honeymoon,
0:55.9	they had no idea a stranger was watching too.
0:59.4	The Leitner's dream day was about to turn into their worst nightmare.
1:18.3	Basil Leitner, a 59-year-old solicitor and his wife Avril, a 55-year-old doctor,
1:24.1	and a large house in the well-heeled village of Doran Sheffield, located on the edge of the picturesque peak district. At 11.15pm on October 22nd, 1983, after a
1:31.6	hectic day celebrating the wedding of their eldest daughter Suzanne, the couple and their two
1:37.5	youngest children, Richard and Nicola, just wanted to go to bed. Twenty-eight-year-old Richard
1:43.7	Leitner was a barrister
1:44.9	and his 18-year-old sister Nicola was a student at a secretarial college.
1:50.3	The reception ran from 4pm to 8pm
1:52.9	and afterwards Basil, Avril and Richard went out for dinner with family members.
1:58.3	Nicola stayed at home as she was feeling unwell.
2:02.3	The marquee was still set up in the garden. Plates of half-eaten food and champagne bottles were strewn across
2:08.1	the tables. Staff would be coming tomorrow to clean up. As Avril and Basil slept in separate bedrooms,
2:15.3	Avril retired to her room downstairs, while Basil,
2:19.3	Richard and Nicola all went to their respective bedrooms upstairs. Nicola had been a bridesmaid
2:25.3	at the wedding, so she took off her floral dress, put it on a coat hanger, and hung it on the
2:30.7	bedroom door as the other three members of the family also got ready for bed.
2:35.0	The lateness began to drift off to sleep, unaware that someone else was in the house.
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