The Killer Next Door / Sheila Attwood & Horace Carter
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
They Walk Among Us
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🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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The summer flowers were in full bloom when Edith Ford and her teenage daughter Doreen strolled to the bottom of the long and narrow communal garden to pick a bouquet of wildflowers. Their eyes were drawn away from the plants and foliage, towards the ground. Two tiny bare legs protruded from the other side of a hedge near a public works yard. Was this the child so many people had spent the night looking for? Just two doors down from Edith Ford’s home, neighbours heard screaming. Edith was wailing, “I can't have seen it. I can't have seen it”...
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence. |
| 0:11.4 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:16.5 | Listener caution is advised. |
| 0:24.1 | The second and a caution is advised. The summer flowers were in full bloom |
| 0:27.0 | when Edith Ford and her teenage daughter Doreen |
| 0:30.2 | strolled to the bottom of the long and narrow communal garden |
| 0:33.8 | to pick a bouquet of wild flowers. |
| 0:41.1 | Their eyes were drawn away from the plants and foliage towards the ground. Two tiny bare legs protruded from the other side of a hedge near a public |
| 0:49.4 | works yard. Was this the child so many people had spent the night looking for? |
| 0:57.3 | Just two doors down from Edith Ford's home, neighbours heard screaming. |
| 1:03.7 | Edith was wailing, I can't have seen it. |
| 1:07.7 | I can't have seen it. |
| 1:12.8 | Welcome to Season 8, Episode 35 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK true crime. |
| 1:34.1 | It was midweek on August 1, 1951. |
| 1:45.5 | Sheila Ethel Atwood, a pupil at Burlington Street School in Aston, Birmingham, had thrown on her green mac, grey gym slip, and black plimpsoles. |
| 1:51.0 | Playing outside, she was making the most of the summer holidays. |
| 2:00.0 | Sheila was one of eight children, and she was old enough that her parents didn't always need to keep a close eye on her. |
| 2:05.9 | Sheila's mother Violet had her hands full with some of the younger Atwood children, |
| 2:08.4 | as they had additional needs. |
| 2:12.5 | Albert Atwood worked forging. |
| 2:15.9 | His hours were long and his pay was low. |
| 2:20.6 | Child care was down to Violet, but the Atwoods had been married for 25 years and were used to the routine. They lived on Cavisham Road in the area |
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