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

Listener caution is advised as this episode contains adult themes and descriptions that some listeners may find distressing.

On Tuesday, November 24, 2015, Michelle James and an acquaintance were clearing out a communal garden in Bethy Wales after a neighbour Lisa Bean had passed away. The garden was a place where the residents relaxed, spent time

tending to the flower beds or socialising at barbecues. At these gatherings, Lisa Bean had

been the center of attention, often chain smoking and dressed entirely in black with

bleached blonde hair, she would entertain guests by reading

tarot card.

Before she had died, Lee, who was always talkative and very outgoing, had told her friend

Michelle there was a medical skeleton in the garden and laugh, suggesting it would be funny

to scare one of her friends with it.

This practical joke would lead to Michelle's arrest, spur a murder investigation that would

span the globe, and ultimately lead back to a two-pound stone frog that lived on Lee's

bedside cabinet. Anne Sabine, often referred to as Lee or Leanne, was born in 1940 in the village of Gellie,

which resides in the Ruther Valley, a former coal mining area in South Wales. Born to parents, Ronald and Margaret,

Lee had one younger sibling, a sister called Susan. For a time when Lee was five years old,

Lee and Susan were raised solely by their father after their mother deserted the family.

Margaret had been accused of stealing a

checkbook from the National Coal Board, so fled the family home and never saw her children again.

The sisters were distraught. Ronald felt he couldn't cope with raising his two daughters by

himself and so decided to place the girls into the care of social services.

They were first moved to a Catholic orphanage, then they were placed in a number of foster homes.

Ronald their father would go on to remarry and the two girls briefly returned to his care.

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