Pembrokeshire Murders / Serial Killer John William Cooper
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
They Walk Among Us
4.6 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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John Cooper was an unassuming man. He claimed to suffer from a frozen shoulder and near-debilitating arthritis. But John was living a double life...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 Episode 17 of They Walk Among us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 0:18.6 | Listener caution is advised, as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions that some listeners may find distressing. |
| 0:34.6 | John William Cooper was born on September 3rd in 1944 in Milford Haven, a town located in the south-west of Wales. |
| 0:43.3 | At 15 he left school, initially training in carpentry and upholstery and later finding work as a farmer's labourer. |
| 0:51.3 | A few months before his 22nd birthday on July 11th, 1966, John married |
| 0:58.2 | Patricia, his long-term partner who he had known since childhood. The couple would have two children, |
| 1:04.9 | a boy called Adrian and a girl Teresa. In 1978 while working at the Gulf All refinery in Milford Haven, John won |
| 1:13.0 | 90,000 pounds and a new 4,000 pound Austin Princess luxury saloon car in a spot |
| 1:19.7 | the ball competition. In the game a player has to guess the exact position of a removed |
| 1:24.6 | ball from a photograph of a sporting action shot. The traditional promotion |
| 1:29.3 | used to frequently appear in newspapers and was most often associated with football. John reportedly |
| 1:35.8 | took his wife Patricia on holiday to America and shared a portion of his fortune with family members. |
| 1:42.0 | With his newfound wealth he decided to quit his job at the oil |
| 1:45.4 | refinery. He set up a family run small holding where he grew barley and his wife bred horses. |
| 1:52.3 | John carried out work for some local farmers and the family purchased a property that |
| 1:56.8 | overlooked Hazel Beach near the seaside town of Neeland. After they moved, Patricia was |
| 2:02.2 | injured in a horse riding accident and was unable to work, so the family moved to St Mary's Park |
| 2:08.0 | in Jordanston where they lived for much of the 1980s and 1990s. Their son and daughter grew up |
| 2:15.1 | and had children of their own. During the early 90s, their granddaughter contracted meningitis, so John and Patricia spent the following years taking her to and from medical appointments while her parents were at work. |
| 2:27.3 | From the outside, there was nothing extraordinary about John William Cooper. |
| 2:32.3 | He was sociable. He had hobbies. |
| 2:34.8 | He acted as an official at local dance tournaments |
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