Red Flags and Warning Signs: The Tragedy of Nicola Edgington

I Wish You Were Here

Michelle Cuervo

True Crime

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In this episode, we dive into the deeply unsettling story of Nicola Edgington—a woman with a violent past and a history of severe mental illness who slipped through the cracks of the system. After being released from psychiatric care for a previous killing, Edgington warned authorities she was a danger to others. Her cries for help were ignored—and within hours, she struck again. We break down the timeline, the failures that allowed it to happen, and the haunting questions left behind. How many warnings does it take before tragedy repeats itself? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, beautiful people of the internet. Welcome to episode two if I wish you were here.
0:04.1	Also wanted to say in the off chance, I really doubt it, but in the off chance that you
0:08.0	stumbled across this podcast and you don't follow me on TikTok, I've been doing this kind of
0:11.8	content on TikTok for over a year now. So if you're ever waiting for a podcast episode and
0:16.5	you're bored, go to TikTok. Or like don't, if you don't want to. That's also an option.
0:20.1	You do have free will.
0:24.4	Today's story has been on my mind for a while now because of how conflicting I feel when I talk
0:29.7	about it. You'll see what I mean when I get into it. And we've talked about stories like this before,
0:33.1	but it's so conflicting when you could feel sad for a person, but also what they do is so messed up that you can't feel sad for them because they were responsible.
0:41.0	I don't know. It's a hard one and you're going to see exactly what I mean when we get into it.
0:44.4	But that being said, I do have to be talking about mental health and how tough it can be and how hard it can get and all the struggles and the things that come with it. So if you think that
0:57.9	that's a trigger potentially for you or you just don't think that would be best to listen to for
1:02.0	your mental health, please skip this one and I will see you in my next one. Nicola Edgington was
1:06.1	from southeast London. I believe Greenwich specifically. She was an older sibling. She had two younger siblings and they all lived with their mom.
1:12.5	And at the time of this case in 2005, Nicola Edgington was a woman teetering on the edge.
1:18.1	She had previously attempted to move out. She went to London, tried to make it in the big city on her own.
1:22.8	But the reason why she was back living at her mother's place was because of how hard her battle that she was fighting with with her mental health was. And in her 25 years of life, she really had been through
1:32.1	it. At this stage of her life, she was caught between her past, her pain, and a system that
1:36.3	couldn't quite figure out how to help her. It would come to light after the first event of today's
1:40.6	story that she was suffering from schizophrenia. But again, where we are now at the
1:44.5	beginning of the story, she unfortunately had not been diagnosed with that, meaning that she
1:48.1	wasn't receiving any of the care or any sort of treatment that she really did need. Because
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