Reverend Emyr Owen: The Minister’s Dark Secret
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
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🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
A minister was hiding a terrifying secret. For years, Reverend Emyr Owen was one of the most respected men in the Welsh Presbyterian community, a charismatic preacher trusted to lead funerals, conduct marriages, and guide his congregation through life’s darkest moments. But behind the pulpit, Owen harboured a dark obsession. When anonymous letters threatening local families, including a four-year-old child, led police to his door, a detective’s gut feeling uncovered something far more disturbing than poison pen letters…
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains distressing themes, profanity and descriptions of violence. |
| 0:12.4 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:17.0 | Listener caution is advised. |
| 0:22.9 | Funeral rituals vary between cultures and religions, but they all serve a common purpose, |
| 0:29.5 | to honour the debt, to give support to loved ones and to offer comfort with the hope that the |
| 0:35.0 | person who has died will be restored to perfect health in eternal |
| 0:39.1 | life. Often the person expected to help people navigate this difficult time is a religious leader. |
| 0:47.0 | The congregation trusts preachers to lead by example because they feel as though their |
| 0:52.1 | salvation depends on it. |
| 1:05.0 | Welcome to Season 11, Episode 5 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. Within Cardigan Bay on the west coast of Wales is a small seaside town called Toin. |
| 1:20.0 | It was a predominantly Welsh-speaking area that expanded in the 1800s by the opening of slate quarries |
| 1:26.7 | and the subsequent building of a railway line. |
| 1:30.8 | Apart from being a mining area, Toin has long been a tourist destination |
| 1:35.3 | due to the beach that runs along the Wales Coast path, which can be accessed from Victorian |
| 1:41.2 | Promenade. |
| 1:43.6 | At the end of the 18th century, Calvinist Methodist churches were built in Towing and the |
| 1:49.5 | surrounding areas. Also known as the Presbyterian Church of Wales, Calvinists were integral to |
| 1:56.3 | the Welsh revivals as the ministers preached in Welsh. Part of the theology of the Calvinist Methodists |
| 2:03.6 | includes the idea that humanity is inherently sinful without divine grace. Resbyterian churches |
| 2:10.7 | had a strong standing within the community and the chapel served as hubs with significant influence on |
| 2:17.3 | education and language. |
| 2:20.0 | The congregation were expected to adhere to strict moral codes, |
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