Murdered After A Christmas Party / Lorraine Benson
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
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🗓️ 31 December 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Women in southwest London lived in terror after a string of sex attacks on lone commuters travelling from Waterloo to Kingston. The police were desperately trying to locate a man believed to be responsible for half a dozen rapes over a three-month period in late 1988. Just days before Christmas, it seemed the rapist had crossed another line: he was now a murderer…
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains distressing themes, profanity and descriptions of sexual violence. |
| 0:12.2 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:16.7 | Listener caution is advised. |
| 0:24.1 | Women in southwest London lived in terror after a string of sex attacks on lone commuters |
| 0:30.7 | travelling from Waterloo to Kingston. |
| 0:34.4 | The police were desperately trying to locate a man believed to be responsible for half a dozen rapes over a three-month period in late 1988. |
| 0:45.3 | Just days before Christmas, it seemed the rapist had crossed another line. |
| 0:51.3 | He was now a murderer. |
| 1:02.0 | Well, apart from describing him as a maniac, he is obviously a very dangerous man, and I think the sooner we catch him, the better for everybody concerned. Just must be totally mad, mustn't he? Crazy person? |
| 1:06.0 | Can't understand the way his brain thinks. |
| 1:09.0 | If you've got a madman out there, like with a mad dog, you kill it. |
| 1:12.9 | Anybody can stand there afterwards and cry. |
| 1:15.8 | The whole legal system in this country, as far as I'm concerned, it's all the cop. |
| 1:20.8 | Welcome to Season 8, Episode 34 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 1:37.3 | Lorraine Benson was the youngest of three daughters born to Michael and Patricia Benson, known informally as Mick and Lynn. |
| 1:47.4 | Mick, a minicab driver, that first met Lynn over 30 years earlier when he was stationed in Dover |
| 1:53.6 | with the army. By 1988, they had been married for 29 years, and for decades had lived at their home on Woodside Park near South Norwood in Croydon. |
| 2:07.4 | 22-year-old Lorraine was a friendly and outgoing person who lived at home with her parents and her older sister's 25-year-old Tanya, |
| 2:21.5 | who was expecting her first baby and 28-year-old Tanya, who's expecting her first baby, and 28-year-old Karen. Lorraine also had two pets that she adored, a budgie and a tortoise named George. |
| 2:30.7 | Mick and Lynn were pleased Lorraine was still living with them. |
| 2:38.5 | She had grown to be an incredibly kind and gifted young woman. |
| 2:48.4 | As proud as they were, her parents weren't always sure things would work out the way Lorraine wanted, especially when she was in school. |
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