The Chatroom: Episode 373 (Part 2/2)
UK True Crime Podcast
UK True Crime Podcast
4.3 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
At the beginning of this century, when the internet was new for most people - and before the social media giants claimed their turf - chatrooms were very popular, especially with teenagers.
Mark was 16 and lived in Stockport in the north-west of England. He was a regular on the Manchester Teens chatroom. But whilst he was there to have some fun and chat to girls, not everyone he spoke to had such simple motives. As he was soon to discover...
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Sources:
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/mark-and-john-the-fantasists
https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/article/the-boy-who-incited-his-own-murder
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/may/29/crime.uknews
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/02/bachrach200502
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/boy-14-posed-as-spy-to-arrange-his-own-murder-565124.html
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/internet-murder-boys-told-never-1110248
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 373 of the UK True Crime Podcast, I'm Adam. |
| 0:07.0 | Thank you so much for joining me today and we will skip the month of the year game this week, |
| 0:11.0 | as you will recall today's part two of an episode |
| 0:14.0 | written by a listener and my good friend Gemma Gold. So if you haven't listened to |
| 0:19.0 | the last episode I suggest you do because today we're going to pick up where we left off. |
| 0:25.0 | Last week we looked at the story of 16 year old Mark who lived in Stockport in Manchester |
| 0:30.0 | and his experiences on the Manchester teen chatroom. His girlfriend he met there |
| 0:35.0 | he met there Rachel was raped and murdered by another member of the |
| 0:39.0 | chatroom Kevin McGregor. |
| 0:41.0 | Mark also became good friends with Rachel's little brother John. He then met another character |
| 0:46.5 | there, Lindsay East, who confessed that she was actually a member of MI6 and there to protect |
| 0:51.8 | John. He was under government protection as he was being targeted |
| 0:56.0 | by the psychopathic killer Kevin who'd murdered his sister. |
| 1:00.1 | Lindsay left abruptly but her boss in my six |
| 1:03.2 | 44 year old Janet Dobinson joined the chat |
| 1:06.8 | and asked Mark's care to number of assignments for her with a promise |
| 1:10.3 | of joining the secret service himself, lots of money and sexual services. |
| 1:16.0 | Whatever the word is. |
| 1:18.0 | And she told him also that his friend John was actually James Bell, a fellow My6 operative who was trusted |
| 1:26.6 | by the Queen to have access to jewels at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, worth a staggering |
| 1:32.1 | $568 billion. |
| 1:34.6 | Mark's success or failure was judged on his ability |
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