Welcome to Season 2, Episode 14 of They Walk Among us, a podcast dedicated to UK true crime.

This is part two of a two-part story.

Please listen to Season 2 episode 13 for more details on this case.

Listener caution is advised,

as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions

that some listeners may find distressing.

On June 30, 2003, the 14-year-old girl was found stabbed to death behind a wall on Rowan's

Dyke Path, a countryside shortcut in Daukeith, Scotland.

The investigation into her death continued for nine months with little result, but all that

would change in April 2004.

On the night she died, Jodie Jones was using this shortcut to get to her boyfriend's house. She never made it. Somewhere down

this lane she came into contact with her killer. She was subjected to what police

described as a brutal and frenzied attack with a knife. Her body dumped behind this wall.

Since then Lothian and Borders police have spared neither manpower nor money in the hunt

for the killer.

Maticulous searches have been conducted around the community of Dalkeith, but progress, it had

been thought, was slow.

Late last year, the force presented all of its evidence to the prosecutor's office

and asked if they could now take the next step in their investigation.

Just before 8 o'clock this morning, officers took a 15-year-old boy and his mother

from their home near Edinburgh and into custody.

They spent the rest of the day searching the house.

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