Louise Tume
The Missing
Darrell Brown
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This episode takes us into the UK care system – and the story of how a young girl disappeared after a string of failed foster placements. We hear from her sister Rebecca – still desperate for news on what happened to Louise – amid fears that she fell into a dangerous crowd, and perhaps came to harm. Louise was 18 when she vanished, in June 2005, from her home in Durham, with the last sighting a week later in North London.
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| 0:00.0 | This season we're launching a new episode of The Missing every week, but if you don't want to wait, all episodes are currently available completely ad-free on what's the story crime. Signing up is really easy. |
| 0:15.0 | Just follow the link in our show notes. |
| 0:17.0 | You're guaranteed to find your new favorite true crime listen. |
| 0:21.0 | From con men to missing people, forensic investigations to miscarriages of justice, |
| 0:27.0 | what's the story crime is the home for all true crime fans who want bingeable, addictive, crime-based content. Children in the UK's care system are 20 times more likely to go missing than children who live with family. |
| 0:56.1 | Children in care are also far likelier to be reported missing more than once. |
| 1:01.6 | While the disappearance of 18-year year old Louise Chum occurred just after she'd left the care |
| 1:06.0 | system, it would be foolish to separate her disappearance from a childhood of trauma and an |
| 1:11.8 | adolescence shaped by a series of ill-fitting foster families. |
| 1:16.0 | Louise had become a perpetual runaway, constantly leaving for days and weeks before she was brought back by social services, a pattern which |
| 1:25.2 | foreshadowed her eventual disappearance in June 2005 and led to people not taking her |
| 1:31.0 | disappearance seriously of first. people not as |
| 1:32.8 | as well as well as it should be. |
| 1:34.0 | Louise's story is not as rare as it should be. |
| 1:37.9 | Her sister Rebecca had a largely positive time in the care system and it's the gap between their experiences that |
| 1:45.1 | dictates the story you're about to hear. I'm Pandora Sykes and you're listening to |
| 1:50.8 | the missing a podcast series produced by What's the Story Sounds, |
| 1:55.5 | and brought to you with help from the charities Missing People and Locate International. |
| 2:01.1 | They believe that all of the cases in this series could still be solved. |
| 2:07.0 | This is the missing, the middle child of three. |
| 2:26.0 | Barry, the eldest, was born with Angleman's Syndrome, a genetic disorder which causes delayed development, problems with speech and balance, |
| 2:35.0 | intellectual disability and sometimes seizures. |
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