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They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

True Crime

4.6 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The 1980s were plagued by a string of rapes and murders carried out near train stations in and around London. Fear spread to commuters throughout the country. DNA analysis had yet to become standard practice, and the perpetrators, sly and elusive, left investigators increasingly desperate to crack the case…

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This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton.

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0:00.0	This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of sexual violence.
0:18.8	This podcast is intended for a mature audience.
0:23.4	Listener caution is advised.
0:28.2	They walk among us as part of the ACAST creator network. The 1980s were plagued by a string of rapes and murders carried out near train stations in and around London.
0:49.3	Fear spread to commuters throughout the country.
0:53.3	DNA analysis had yet to become standard practice. fear spread to commuters throughout the country.
0:58.0	DNA analysis had yet to become standard practice,
1:01.5	and the perpetrators, sly and elusive,
1:06.7	left investigators increasingly desperate to crack the case.
1:11.6	Just how many cases are we talking about? Well, at the moment we are now talking about three murders
1:16.6	and a number of rapes are possible.
1:21.6	We've looked at something in the region of about 27.
1:24.6	It would appear that the main connection is the railways.
1:31.5	All these incidents have taken place adjacent to railway.
1:36.7	Welcome to Season 7, Episode 11 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.
1:53.7	June 1982, a woman reported to police that she had been raped by two men close to Hampstead Heath railway station in North London.
2:06.5	She did not know the men who had attacked her.
2:10.6	They were strangers before that awful day.
2:14.5	With a population of nearly seven million people in London at the time, it was hard to know where to start.
2:22.9	Initially, there was not much evidence to go on, and it was years before DNA was introduced to help identify perpetrators.
2:33.0	Unfortunately, investigators could not decipher who the rapists were, and the crime temporarily
2:39.4	sat on file.
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