Rumours | Three Doors Down Ep 2

The Walkers: The real Salt Path | Tortoise Investigates

The Observer

Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.6 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Rumours choke the case and a vulnerable suspect is arrested. The first 48 hours after a crime are crucial: what did the police get so wrong in the days after Nikki went missing?

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1:47.0	I'm Jack. I see you are still having no look cutting me. I see you are still having no look catching me. I have the greatest respect for you, George. But Lord, you are no need of catching me now.
1:55.0	And four years ago when I started, I reckon your boys are letting you down, George.
2:01.6	In the 1970s, the police made catastrophic mistakes in their investigation of a serial killer in the north of England.
2:10.6	Mistakes which resulted in the wrong suspect being pursued, the victims themselves being blamed, and the real killer going on to commit more offences.
2:21.3	I warned you in March that I'd spread his in. They never learn do they, George.
2:27.3	I bet you warned them, but they never listen.
2:31.3	The police implied that the victims brought about their fate by going out alone, drinking with
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