Welcome to season 5 episode 38 of A Walker Mungus, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence. This podcast is intended

for a mature audience. This in a caution is advised.

If you Google Rocklin in Khankai, the first article that appear mentioned crawl and senseless

murders committed in 2000. The views and B and Bs in the sleepy scenic West Cornwall

village take second place. The villagers had seldom seen a police officer in the area

if at all. There was never any need for one to visit, let alone patrol. It was that kind of place.

But in the autumn of 2000, officers swarmed a family home at midnight when five people went missing.

Michael, a father of four, would see his children every other weekend in Telford,

where he and his former partner Leslie grew up and later met.

Michael's 21 when they got married and Leslie was 18.

The couple crossed paths by chance in the early 1980s. Leslie was travelling by bus on her way

to work when she first met Michael Tranta. The pair hit it off and the relationship evolved

speedily from there on. Michael and Leslie seemed perfectly suited and both wanted to start a

large family at a young age. Leslie worked in a care home for the elderly until her first child

Sarah Jane Tranta was born on January 10, 1983. A father Michael later reminisced with

fondness to a reporter for the Mirror newspaper about the day he married Leslie and the birth of

their first born. When I held her in my arms for the first time, I was over the moon.

Nothing apart from the day I married Leslie had ever come close. She was a lovely tiny little

thing, just six pounds. I took to fatherhood really well and Leslie was a brilliant mum.

Michael and Leslie went on to have three more children in quick succession.

Leslie was pregnant with Anne Marie only a couple of months after giving birth to Sarah Jane.

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