The Beast Of Birkenshaw / Peter Manuel

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They Walk Among Us

True Crime

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🗓️ 12 July 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On May 12, 1958, 31-year-old Peter Manuel went to trial at Glasgow High Court for the murder of eight people. So desperate were people to get a seat on the public benches for the trial of the infamous Beast of Birkenshaw, they queued outside the court overnight...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 2, Episode 1 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK true crime.
0:27.0	Listener caution is advised as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions that some listeners may find distressing.
0:47.3	New York in the 1920s was a thriving industrial metropolis. Migrants travelled there from cities in the north
0:50.3	and immigrants made their way to Manhattan on ships. The population was nearly
0:56.2	six million and people flocked to America from all around the world hoping to make
1:01.2	their fortune. The native Scottish parents of Peter Manuel were no different and they
1:06.9	expected their migration to New York to be a prosperous one. They left their home in Coventry behind and boarded a ship to begin their new life overseas.
1:16.6	They had an infant son James who they had left with family members in the UK,
1:21.6	hoping to be able to send for him once they had established themselves in their new home.
1:26.6	Things were not as easy as the
1:29.0	couple had imagined. In 1926 they found out they were expecting a child and in March 1927
1:37.4	their second son Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel was born. The family of three moved from New York to Detroit, Michigan after the
1:47.0	1929 Wall Street crash, hoping the relocation would improve their prospects. Their luck didn't
1:54.0	improve, but they stuck it out until 1933 when they decided to leave America and return to Scotland. They settled in the village of
2:04.1	Birkenshaw in North Lanarkshire, which is located east of Glasgow. It isn't known if Peter was even
2:10.7	aware of his elder brother James's existence before arriving in Scotland. Upon their return, James moved in with his parents and his younger brother.
2:21.0	Five-year-old Peter found it difficult adapting, no longer being the only child.
2:26.8	School life was equally as hard as Peter's thick American accent made him a target for bullying.
2:33.0	After a couple of years, he was upset further when his
2:35.8	parents had a third child, Teresa. By the time Peter was 10, his behaviour was out of control
2:42.6	and the court ordered him to be placed in an approved school, which was a residential
2:47.4	institution for juveniles that had committed petty crimes. The approved schools
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