S4 Ep16: S04E16: The Stockwell Strangler

Blood Ties Podcast

Peter Shevlin

Society & Culture, 415885

4.4 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Kenneth Erskine had a troubled childhood: abandoned by his parents, he was institutionalised when he was very young. When he grew up he became homeless and addicted to drugs. A spate of burglaries turned into a spree of killings. It is believed Erskine murdered between 7 - 11 elderly victims in their homes in the late 1980s. Once caught, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. But should he ever be released? CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: [email protected] BOOK:The Second Sleep by Robert Harris

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly Wansall.
0:03.0	And I'm Geoffrey Wansel.
0:04.0	And for the last 16 years or thereabouts, we've been having lunch every Saturday, and often our conversation turns to murder.
0:11.0	Which is what prompted us to start this true crime podcast called Blood Ties.
0:17.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast. I'm Molly Wansel and I'm here with my father
0:21.2	Jeffrey Wansall. Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you for listening. I hope you don't find
0:26.7	these two gloomy. But I find myself dealing with more and more murder. I don't quite know how it
0:35.1	happened, but mysteriously, over the last five years, I seem to have spent pretty much every day dealing with the worst faces of civilization.
0:45.3	When I put things on our Instagram, I write hashtag true crime legend about you.
0:52.3	Well, I don't know about that.
0:53.7	I don't know if you want that title or not.
0:55.7	I did send you a little bio this week, didn't I?
1:01.4	You did, indeed, yeah.
1:02.9	Which does seem to have quite a lot of death in it.
1:05.6	Quite a lot of death.
1:07.3	Not heavily weighted towards death.
1:10.1	It's funny how the world works.
1:13.6	It is, it is.
1:14.9	Where life takes you and all that.
1:16.7	Yeah.
1:19.0	I never knew, I never expected it to turn out like this.
1:23.9	But in a way, I'm incredibly grateful incredibly grateful a man I got onto a tube last week and
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