The Men Next Door / Drugs, Coercive Control & Cases Mirroring the Pelicot Trial / Rodney Johnston
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
They Walk Among Us
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🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
When Gisèle Pelicot waived her anonymity in 2024 and exposed her husband's crimes to the world, many assumed what happened in Mazan was an isolated case. It wasn’t. A 66-year-old carer from Norfolk subjected a woman to almost three decades of sexual exploitation. He operated in plain sight, using digital networks to recruit men, threatened his victim into silence, and recorded everything…
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains distressing themes, profanity and descriptions of sexual violence. |
| 0:11.6 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. Listener caution is advised. |
| 0:22.1 | When 72-year-old Giselle Pelico waved her right to anonymity in 2024, the world learned not only |
| 0:30.9 | of her husband's depraved acts, but also the predatory nature of dozens of seemingly ordinary |
| 0:37.4 | men. |
| 0:39.0 | The French case made international headlines and expose lesser-known types of crimes |
| 0:43.9 | where victims were stripped of their ability to consent by being drugged or coerced. |
| 0:50.1 | Many assumed it was an isolated case. |
| 0:53.5 | They were wrong. |
| 0:56.7 | Welcome to Season 11, Episode 11 of They Walk Among Us, |
| 1:02.0 | a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 1:24.3 | In September 2020, 62, 68-year-old Dominic Palakow was caught upskirting women in a supermarket near his home in Masson in the southeast of France. |
| 1:30.0 | A security guard had noticed Palakow had been following a woman through the store, |
| 1:35.9 | and they suspected he had been taking images up her skirt using a camera he had hidden in a back. |
| 1:37.5 | Pelico was arrested and his devices, including his phones and computer, was seized. |
| 1:44.0 | In a folder titled abuses, the authorities found images and videos appearing to show him |
| 1:50.4 | and other men raping his wife as she slept. |
| 1:55.3 | Nine years before his arrest, Dominic Palico had joined Coco, |
| 2:00.2 | a website that hosted unmonerated chat rooms where he |
| 2:03.5 | spoke about his fetishes, including having sex with his wife while she was asleep. |
| 2:10.0 | Around that time, he began exchanging messages with a man who claimed to be a nurse. |
| 2:15.8 | The nurse sent Pelicoe photographs of his own wife sleeping and said that |
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