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The high-pitched sound of the home telephone echoed through the Neailey household. Liz Neailey answered. Someone from her son's school was on the other end of the line. It was June 5, 1998. The staff member told Liz her son, Wesley, had not been feeling well and needed to come home…
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 6, Episode 26 of They Walk Among Us, |
0:22.9 | a podcast dedicated to UK true crime. |
0:31.0 | This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of sexual violence. |
0:40.4 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
0:45.5 | Listener caution is advised. |
1:00.8 | They walk among us as part of the Acast Creator Network. They walk among us as part of the home telephone echoed through the Neely household. |
1:33.3 | Liz Neely answered. |
1:35.9 | Someone from her son's school was on the other end of the line. |
1:40.4 | It was June 5, 1998. |
1:45.0 | The staff member told Liz her son Wesley had not been feeling well and needed to come home. |
1:53.0 | The 11-year-old Wesley had epilepsy, and that day he had a seizure, which left him exhausted and confused. When he got home, Wesley rested |
2:05.2 | for a while before feeling much better. It did not take long for the boy to want to move about. |
2:15.6 | Wesley had not been allowed outside to play in a couple of weeks. He was not in any |
2:21.3 | trouble. That's not the type of child he was. Wesley was, if anything, too helpful. The insistence |
2:31.6 | he stayed inside came from his mother. |
2:35.0 | She was concerned after an alarming incident a few weeks earlier. |
2:40.0 | Wesley had been approached in the street by a man he did not know. |
2:46.0 | The man asked Wesley if he would be interested in helping him fix his car. |
2:53.0 | Excited about the prospect, Wesley told his mother. |
2:58.1 | Liz was immediately suspicious of the stranger. |
3:03.2 | Why would he be asking her young son to help him with something like that? |
3:09.0 | She went outside, but the man was gone. |
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