The Russell Murders - Part 1 / An Attack On Cherry Garden Lane

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

True Crime

4.6 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Half of the members of a happy family are murdered in one day. There is one survivor of the motiveless attack — a 9-year-old girl, clinging to life, hanging on, by the finest of threads. Will the correct perpetrator of these ruthless crimes be punished in the case known as The Chillenden Murders?… (Part 1 of 2).

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 6, Episode 49 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK true crime.
0:24.7	This is part one of a two-part case.
0:29.2	The next instalment will be available next week.
0:36.3	This episode contains distressing themes,
0:40.6	explicit language and descriptions of violence.
0:45.2	This podcast is intended for a mature audience.
0:49.8	Listener caution is advised.
0:55.7	They walk among us as part of the A-cast Creator Network.
1:02.5	This is the final case of season six. After the members of a happy family are murdered in one day.
1:23.6	There is one survivor of the motiveless attack, a nine-year-old girl, clinging to life,
1:31.1	hanging on by the finest of threats.
1:34.8	Will the correct perpetrator of these ruthless crimes be punished in the case known as the
1:40.9	Chilinden murders?
1:47.0	It's difficult to pick a crime that arouses stronger feelings of revulsion and pity.
1:52.0	That's how the judge described the attack that horrified the nation.
1:55.0	Two members of the jury were reduced to tears when they had to look at photographs of the scene.
1:59.0	Somehow the idyllic location, Cherry Garden Lane,
2:02.6	surrounded by the cornfields of Kent, made it all seem far worse.
2:07.6	No forensic evidence or identification has ever linked him to the crimes.
2:11.6	I've always known and always believed in my heart that Mick was innocent.
2:16.6	I still believed that today.
2:19.3	My view, the last major miscarriage of justice in this country.
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