The Reconstruction: Episode 397

UK True Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It was a bright winters day in Sheffield at about 4pm as two friends were walking to return a drill bit to a tool factory. As the walked, they saw something just off the pavement in the hedges – it hadn’t been covered up and was easily spotted. It was a three foot holdall.

The two men who found it carried it down the road, thinking it contained something valuable like an engine; it was certainly big enough. The bag was covered by a bedding sheet tied with rope and the body was wrapped in polythene. They undid the rope, unzipped the bag, peeled open the polythene and got the shock of their lives. They had found a badly decomposed body - a body that was soon confirmed to be that of a man who had been murdered a number of years before.

Just who had dumped the body in this area where it would easily be found. And who had killed him - and why?

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Sources:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/615460.stm
BBC News | UK | 'Fascinating puzzle' of Mr X
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/in-25-years-crimewatch-snares-57-398587
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1190207.stm#:~:text=Police%20believe%20Mr%20Ali%20was,house%20and%20move%20to%20Sheffield.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1190207.stm
BBC NEWS | UK | England | South Yorkshire | Body in bag killer loses appeal

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the slightly delayed episode 397 of the UK True Crime Podcast, I'm Madam.
0:08.0	Today's story is about family, money and greed and it's from Sheffield where I will be for the first British True
0:15.2	Crime Convention on Saturday, 7th of September. There are so many interesting speakers from the world of law
0:22.1	enforcement and tickets are now on sale for only
0:25.2	44 pounds for the full day including lunch, which is amazing value.
0:30.6	If you look in the show notes, you will see a link to the event so take a look get a ticket and I'll see you there
0:36.4	Okay, so before we start the story today let's quickly set some contacts when the events we talked about occurred
0:47.0	with our never copied, I guess the month and the year game. Why is that I wonder? Anyway, Britney Spears was top of the UK music charts Have Born to Make You Happy.
0:53.0	In the US, smooth was at the summit from Santana featuring Rob Thomas.
0:58.2	And in Australia, Macy Gray was at number one with I Try.
1:10.2	In the news this month, the favourite of conspiracy theorists, Bill Gates, stepped aside as chief exec of Microsoft, and promoted company president Steve Bulmer to the position.
1:15.0	A Scottish trawler, the Solway Harvester,
1:18.0	sank in the Irish Sea, killing seven sailors.
1:21.0	And there were two significant pieces of UK True Crimeneys.
1:25.5	Firstly, Harold Shipman was sentenced to life in prison.
1:28.9	After being found guilty of murdering 15 patients in Greater Manchester between 1995 in 1998.
1:36.4	The subsequent inquiry concluded he killed at least 215, staggering. And the Liberal Democrat MP for Cheltenham, Nigel Jones, was attacked his constituency
1:47.9	surgery by a man with a samurai sword.
1:51.4	39 year old Andrew Pennington, a councillor, came to Nigel's defence. sword. the month and year it was January 2000 when we were all looking to the new
2:05.0	millennium with such optimism for the future do you still feel the same?
2:10.8	Oh dear today's story comes from Sheffield, a city known for its still heritage with easy access to the Pennines and the Peak District.
2:20.0	It's around 30 miles south of the home of World Football Leeds and about 165 miles northwest of London.
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