REPLAY - Unsolved / Lee Boxell
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
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🗓️ 14 January 2024
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It was a typical room for a teenage boy in the 1980s; football programmes on his desk with his homework, a well-used Amstrad HI-FI system with a tape cassette and radio, used to record the top chart hits on a Sunday, hitting the pause button before the DJ fades back in. Posters of his favourite musical acts covered the walls; Mel and Kim, T'Pau, Madonna, Samantha Fox — standard fare in 1988. His single bed, pushed against the wall of his cosy room, with his black pyjama bottoms tucked neatly under his pillow to wear the next night, but there would not be a next night…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. In today's episode, we're revisiting Season 5, episode 23. |
| 0:06.5 | It's a case that is still unsolved, and we thought it was important to highlight it again while we're away from the studio. |
| 0:13.8 | We'll be back with a new episode in a few days. Welcome to Season 5, Episode 23 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 0:52.7 | This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence. |
| 0:59.1 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 1:03.2 | Listener caution is advised. It was a typical room for a teenage boy in the 1980s. |
| 1:22.6 | It was a typical room for a teenage boy in the 1980s. Football programs on his desk with his homework. |
| 1:31.7 | A well-used Amstrad hi-fi system with a tape cassette and radio used to record the top chart hits on a Sunday, |
| 1:39.8 | hitting the pause button before the DJ fades back in. |
| 1:47.6 | Posters of his favourite musical acts covered the walls. |
| 1:56.2 | Melan Kim, Tappau, Madonna, Samantha Fox, standard fair in 1988. |
| 2:03.4 | His single bed pushed against the wall of his cozy room, with his black pyjama bottoms tucked neatly under his pillow to wear the next night. |
| 2:08.1 | But there would not be a next night. There was no school that day. Being a Saturday, Lee Boxall could do what he wanted, while his mother |
| 2:29.6 | Christine was going to Bromley to visit her sick mother who she was looking after. |
| 2:36.2 | 13-year-old Lindsay Lee's sister was spending the day at a friend's house. |
| 2:42.0 | Lee's father Peter was going shopping in Sutton. |
| 2:46.1 | That left Lee, who had plans to meet a friend Russell Clark in Sutton High Street. It was September 10th, |
| 2:54.8 | 1988, and the weather was still pleasant. Lee got up later than the rest of his family. It marked |
| 3:04.0 | the end of the first week back at school after starting a new term. |
| 3:09.6 | When the teenager plodded downstairs in his pyjamas and slumped into the armchair, still waking up, |
| 3:16.5 | his father asked Lee what he was up to that day. |
| 3:20.7 | Lee replied in a sleepy mumble, and his family left the house in Sheem South London to get on with their day. |
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