Season 5 - Episode 11

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

True Crime

4.6 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

When you choose a partner in life, you take on their family too. Ideally, you get on, and you live in harmony. Some people invite their in-laws into their homes with open arms, unaware that their new family member has left behind a murderous past.

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Allégro by Emmit Fenn

No.2 Remembering Her by Esther Abrami

Clouds by Huma-Huma

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It’s Coming by Josh Kirsch / Media Right Productions

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Surrender by Asher Fulero

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to season 5 episode 11 of They Walk Among Us.
0:28.3	A podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.
0:38.9	This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence.
0:44.4	This podcast is intended for a mature audience.
0:48.8	This in a caution is advised.
1:09.8	When you choose a partner in life, you take on their family too.
1:15.2	Ideally you get on and you live in harmony.
1:20.2	Some people invite their written laws into their homes with open arms and aware that their
1:25.5	new family member has left behind a murderous past.
1:45.8	Stillu Christoffe was born in Cyprus during 1900 at a time when the country,
1:54.8	an island in the eastern Mediterranean, was a dependent territory of Britain.
2:01.5	Although a paper trail cannot be found, it is reported stillu was married at 14,
2:07.9	not unusual for the small village where she lived, nor was it rare during that period.
2:15.2	She did not receive an education and stillu Christoffe remained illiterate her entire life.
2:23.4	Her husband was known to be one of the poorest men in the village.
2:28.1	He owned a small olive grove where stillu worked.
2:32.5	In spite of the physical demands of the job, the financial rewards were small and they scrimped by.
2:39.8	The couple would go on to have five children and when their only son, Stavros was born,
2:48.9	they hoped as he grew older he would on a tradition and help provide for the family.
2:59.6	Stillu's son Stavros left the village to find work in the capital of Cyprus,
3:05.4	in Nicosea. By the late 1930s he had saved up enough money to afford passage to England,
3:12.4	settling in London. During World War II a young man with service industry experience was a rare
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