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Elmsley is a small market town within the North York Moors National Park.

The Visit Helmsley website describes it as the perfect base for enjoying the wider area.

Elmsley has numerous attractions, including a nature reserve, an art gallery, happy ruins,

and a market square boasting a range of shops and excellent restaurants.

Named Britain's best market town in 2015 by the Great British High Street Awards,

the coin terrier on the banks of the river Rai is a peaceful and quiet place to live.

It's one of Yorkshire's hidden gems, rarely mentioned in the media.

That was until a grizzly discovery thrust Helmsley under the National Spotlight.

Welcome to season 7 episode 47 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

People

had come from far and wide to join in the festivities and lounge on the banks of the river Rai,

after long rambling walks through the historic Rai Dail Area of the North York Moors National Park.

The summer of 2018 had been busy in Helmsley. The town held a number of events and festivals

over the warmer months. When classes resumed in schools and universities in September,

and things seemed to be quietening down, pharmacist Steve Awards sees the opportunity to go on holiday.

When she returned to work at the pharmacy in Helmsley's surgery medical centre,

Eva was told an unsettling story by her colleagues.

They explained that while she was away, every day a man and a woman had been buying bottles of

surgical spirit. It seemed bizarre, and when Eva was told on September 24th that the pair had come

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