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They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

Overboard / The Death of Lu Na McKinney

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

True Crime

4.56.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The torchlight from the police boat was directed to the water surrounding the hired cruiser. An officer on board saw something gently swaying on the surface. At the same time, a man huddled in a blanket at the back of the cruiser noticed an object in the water next to the stern. He shouted, “Oh Lu Na, I see my wife!”…


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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.


Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.


Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton


Narration, audio editing assistance, script editing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode contains distressing themes, profanity and descriptions of sexual violence.

0:12.1

This podcast is intended for a mature audience.

0:16.3

Listener caution is advised.

0:21.9

The torchlight from the police boat was directed to the water surrounding the hired cruiser.

0:29.2

An officer on board saw something gently swaying on the surface.

0:35.0

At the same time a man huddled in a blanket at the back of the cruiser noticed an object in the water next to the stern.

0:43.3

He shouted,

0:44.3

Oh, Luna, I see my wife.

0:48.3

As Stephen maneuvered the small boat from its murring.

0:51.3

No one could ever have envisaged the horror that lay ahead.

0:55.2

The weather was good and the water was calm, which made what happened next difficult to explain.

1:00.5

Please, say my life's falling on the wreck.

1:04.8

Welcome to Season 9, Episode 31 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK true crime.

1:21.0

Officers from Enniskill and Police Station in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland,

1:26.1

were dispatched to the jetty at Devonish Island

1:28.6

on Lockhearned shortly after 1.15am on April 13, 2017. A telephone call had been received from a

1:38.8

distraught husband reporting that his partner had fallen overboard.

1:46.7

He explained that despite his best efforts,

1:50.0

he had been unable to pull her out of the water.

1:54.8

The caller identified himself as Stephen McKinney.

2:00.3

He explained that he was cold and had jumped into the water after his wife,

2:02.3

but he couldn't find her.

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