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Harold Shipman, Fred West, Myra Hinley, Dennis Nielsen, Peter Sutcliffe, Levi Belfield. I'm certain that most of you will be

familiar with those names. They are, of course, all UK serial killers. But what about these names?

Mark Martin, Colin Norris, Peter Moore, Anthony Russell. They too are UK serial killers, but their names are

seemingly a lot more unrecognisable. In this episode, we're going to look at the crimes

committed by Anthony Russell, who became a cold-blooded serial killer in the year 2020,

and the depth and depravity of this man's actions may leave you wondering why this monster and the pain that he inflicted on so many

people is still widely unknown. I'm Naomi Channel, and this is real.

Music I'm Naomi Channel and this is real. To see The To be the Today's case takes us to Coventry in the West Midlands of England.

On the 24th of October 2020, 58-year-old Julie Williams picked up her phone and called the police. Her son, 32-year-old David Williams,

was missing. No one had seen him for four days, and her mother's instinct told her that something

wasn't right. She had been in touch with his friends and had been round to the street he lived on, which was the same as hers, but no one had seen or spoken to him since the 20th of October.

Julie put appeals out on her social media pages, with people in the local area sharing her posts, asking for information regarding her son's whereabouts.

She even phoned a local radio station and asked them to put out an appeal. The police were

looking into who David was. They discovered that he was a drug addict and this made him

particularly vulnerable.

Most of his friends were also struggling with addiction.

Many of them helped with the search, but none of them had any idea as to where David had

gone.

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