Welcome to season 4 episode 9 of They Walk Among Us.

A podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

This is part 1 of a two-part case.

Listen a caution is advised as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions

that some listeners may find distressing.

The sun was barely starting to go down on the summer evening in 1961 when Michael Grexten and Valerie Story

pulled off the road into the cornfield at Dornie Reach Buckinghamshire.

They frequently went parking there or trusting as was often said at the time.

Sometimes others had the same idea but on this particular Tuesday evening it was just them

and the faint sound of cars passing along the road behind.

They sat in the grey Morris Minor for half an hour smoking and chatting

without the faintest idea that anyone else was there.

It was the tapping on the driver's side window that startled them.

Earlier that evening on Tuesday August 22nd 1961 Michael and Valerie had finished work

at the Road Research Laboratory in Slao-Barkshire.

Michael 36 had known 23-year-old Valerie for a long time.

She had worked at the Road Laboratory which research road safety and traffic management

for five years in school and she was at the time a scientific assistant.

Michael was a scientist at the lab and according to Valerie they were a fairer at the beginning years earlier

at a Christmas dance when she was 20.

By the summer of 1961 Michael and his wife Janet were separated but not divorced

and their two young sons live with their mother.

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