The Witch of Tewkesbury: 25 Years of Captivity / Amanda Wixon
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
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🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On a quiet street in Tewkesbury, a secret remained hidden for over two decades. In March 2021, the police uncovered one of the most disturbing cases of prolonged abuse in modern UK history. Inside a neglected home, officers found a woman who had effectively vanished from society, malnourished, isolated, and living in conditions described as inhuman…
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence. |
| 0:14.7 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:19.1 | Listener caution is advised. |
| 0:24.9 | On a spring day in March 2021, |
| 0:29.4 | the police were called to a residence in Chukesbury, Gloucestershire. |
| 0:34.3 | They discovered a woman who appeared emaciated |
| 0:37.0 | and was living in conditions described by officers as absolute squalor. |
| 0:42.3 | The person who had kept the woman trapped for two and a half decades was a mother of ten named Amanda Wixen. |
| 0:50.3 | The victim had another name for her captor. She called her the witch. |
| 0:57.0 | The victim of this case was subjected to decades of torment, exploitation and control. |
| 1:03.0 | She hardly left the address while she was there, probably only left the address on a handful of occasions. |
| 1:09.0 | She had scars on her, on her lips, |
| 1:11.6 | and she had calluses on her feet from the amount of time she spent on her hands and knees cleaning. |
| 1:16.6 | She was denied her freedom, made to live in appalling physical and emotional conditions |
| 1:21.6 | and forced to act on the women of a woman who imprisoned her. |
| 1:25.6 | Welcome to Season 11, episode 16 of They Walk Among Us, |
| 1:31.7 | a podcast dedicated to UK true crime. |
| 1:40.1 | As it turns out, the alarm was raised by one of Amanda Wickson's sons. |
| 1:46.0 | He contacted the police as he was concerned about a woman living at his mother's home on dispenser road in the Price Park area of Chooksbury. |
| 1:56.0 | Upon arrival around 10.40pm, an officer from Gloucestershire police found the woman in her late |
| 2:02.7 | forties who was frightened, gaunt and severely malnourished. A strong odour emanated from her body. |
| 2:10.8 | It was obvious even from two metres away. Her hair was cropped close to her head and bruises marked her arms. |
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