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They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

The Pingle Bridge Murders / Janice & Connie Sheridan / Kevin Cotterell

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

True Crime

4.56.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In January 1999, 79-year-old Constance “Connie” Sheridan and her 56-year-old daughter Janice were found murdered inside their secluded home near Upwell, Norfolk. Surrounded by the dogs they loved, the mother and daughter had lived quietly, until a brutal double murder led the police into the world of dog shows, fingerprints, forensic evidence, and a pale car seen near Pingle Bridge…


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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.


Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton.


Audio editing by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.


Narration, additional audio editing and mixing, and script editing by Benjamin Fitton.


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0:00.0

This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of sexual violence.

0:13.3

This podcast is intended for a mature audience.

0:18.2

Listener caution is advised.

0:24.6

Thank you. audience. Listener caution is advised. The small brick house at the end of the road was home to dozens of dogs owned by

0:30.4

reclusive mother and daughter. It was only when the pair hadn't been seen for three days

0:36.8

that the relentless barking

0:38.2

became less of a nuisance and more of a concern.

0:42.2

When someone finally managed to get into the house, they realized why the dogs were so distressed.

0:51.8

Welcome to Season 11, episode 19 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast episode 19 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.

1:05.0

Seventy-year-old Constance Sheridan's love of animals came from her parents, who had bred

1:15.9

Peacanese dogs when she was growing up in Kent. The twice-married mother of three passed

1:22.7

that love of animals onto her youngest daughter Janice, who had a special affinity for Whippets.

1:29.8

In 1987, 45-year-old Janice moved in with her mother known as Connie to a secluded house

1:37.3

at the end of a dead-end road called Pingle Bridge near Upwell in Norfolk.

1:43.0

The property named Zealmire was the perfect place to breed dogs thanks to the vast open

1:49.4

Fendland that surrounded it.

1:52.3

Janis described the pathway that ran along Well Creek behind the house as soft golden

1:58.2

carpets that line the water's edge.

2:02.2

The mother and daughter kept to themselves,

2:05.3

but were friendly to their neighbours

2:07.0

and socialised with like-minded people at dog shows and events.

2:13.2

Janice had worked in production at a poultry factory for years

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