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The Storyteller: Naked Villainy

The Storyteller: Murder Most Foul EP 2

The Storyteller: Naked Villainy

Isla Traquair

True Crime

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

After the shock of the initial sight of Melanie Sturton’s injuries, the pathologist and forensic team continue their painstaking examination of her body and home. Every fibre and blood spot helps them piece together the trainee nurse’s final movements. Meanwhile Melanie’s family struggle to race home from Spain and before they're informed she’s been murdered, they are at the top of the list of suspects.


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0:00.0

Ola, imagine you're in Spain, and you've just poured a refreshing Strya Galicia,

0:05.6

Cervesa. You hear the bubbles in the glass calling out.

0:08.6

In the Penlyown and bro Alithia since 1906.

0:15.0

100% authentic.

0:17.3

But not all Spanish beers are what they seem.

0:19.8

A bit like me.

0:21.1

I'm not Carlos from Acrouna. I'm Charles from Cambridge. Estreia Galicia.

0:27.4

Spanish. Not Spanish.

0:30.0

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

0:40.0

Previously on the storyteller, Murder Most Fowl. A mother fears the worst for her 22-year-old daughter.

0:52.0

Kav said that she's not here and I just went,

0:55.0

distant the moat and I just knew something that happened until then.

1:00.0

Please go to Melanie Stirtin's home in the upmarket West End of Aberdeen and make a gruesome discovery.

1:10.0

When the police officers arrive they try to open the door into her flat, and when they had opened the door, they had found what appeared to be a body behind the door.

1:22.0

Concealed under a duvet, forensics revealed the shock of what they uncover.

1:29.0

We went in expecting this, perhaps not to be all that serious and taking one look just from the doorway

1:37.0

and realizing that really this was something much, much worse.

1:43.0

There was a noticeable sort of draw a breath at the horrific nature of the throat injuries

1:47.0

because at that point it still wasn't necessarily obvious what we were dealing with.

1:51.0

And it was only in turning her over and seeing particularly the gaping

1:55.1

injuries to her throat just what we were dealing with.

1:59.7

This wasn't a typical murder and almost as shocking as the injuries inflicted was the identity of who wielded the life.

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