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The Storyteller: Naked Villainy

The Storyteller: Murder Most Foul EP 1

The Storyteller: Naked Villainy

Isla Traquair

True Crime

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this chilling first episode The Storyteller Isla Traquair begins her journey by meeting up with the murder victim’s mother Susan Patrick and pledging to do her best to find some answers to this motiveless crime. Susan bravely recalls the awful moment a ringing phone changed her life forever. Her mother’s instinct was strong and we learn what horrors unfolded. Sadly there was far worse to come…


Transcript

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0:00.0

Please note the storyteller, Murder Most Fowl, contains descriptions of a crime scene and injuries that some people may find disturbing.

0:10.0

October 11th, 1999, 9.30 PM. A woman's body is found face down behind her door in the

0:17.9

upmarket west end of Aberdeen, an affluent city in the northeast of Scotland.

0:23.0

Her neck has been cut so deeply and repeatedly

0:26.8

it's almost severed.

0:28.8

She's lying on bedding which has been saturated with her blood.

0:32.2

The discovery of her body that night changed many lives forever, mine included.

0:39.0

This is the storyteller, Murder Mostowl, written produced and edited by me, Islet Require.

0:47.0

It's a shock. It's the utter life-changing thing that you never ever thought it would ever help to you.

0:53.0

I can't conceive what somebody has in them that makes them think that it's going to be okay if they go down

1:01.4

so here is a big knife.

1:02.4

They wouldn't have taken what It's going to be okay if they go downstairs with a big knife.

1:03.0

They wouldn't have taken much more to several the next,

1:06.0

so that tells you how bad it was.

1:11.0

I would love to know exactly what happened that morning.

1:15.0

The twists and turns and the, you know, there were all sorts of things that made this a different investigation.

1:30.0

It's sort of unfolded almost like a paperback crime novel. Murder, Noun, the unlawful killing of one person by another.

1:57.0

In Scotland under Scots law, murder occurs where a person kills another either intentionally or with wicked recklessness.

2:05.7

Murder most foul, a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet, is actually in the dictionary as an example

2:11.1

of using the word foul, synonyms evil wicked sinful immoral

2:17.3

bad corrupt and godly vile the list goes on.

2:24.4

This isn't a Shakespearean story, but it is indeed murder most foul.

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