You Have The Right To Remain Silent / Tracy Main
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In February 1980, 13-year-old Tracy Main was found dead in her family's flat in Norfolk Court, a tower block in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. She had been home alone. The door had been locked from the inside. And yet someone had got in…
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence. |
| 0:11.9 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:16.4 | Listener caution is advised. |
| 0:22.3 | A brutal murder in Glasgow left many people fearing that a killer was among them. |
| 0:28.8 | Parents kept a close eye on their children out of concern for their safety. |
| 0:33.9 | However, an extraordinary turn of events meant that it was the accused who ended up needing protection. |
| 0:42.7 | Welcome to Season 11, Episode 15 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime. |
| 0:59.3 | Thank you. to UK true crime. Dorothy Main had just returned home to Norfolk Court in the Gourbles area of Glasgow. |
| 1:05.8 | She had left the address along with her husband Thomas early that morning. |
| 1:13.0 | He had dropped her off at a men's hostel where she worked as a cleaner. At the end of her shift, she had asked Thomas for a favor. Could he also |
| 1:20.3 | give one of her co-workers a lift home? He agreed taking Dorothy back to the block of flats on the |
| 1:27.0 | way before dropping off her colleague at home. |
| 1:31.0 | The 23-story Norfolk Court tower blocks were built in the 1970s to replace the older tenement housing in the Gourbles area. |
| 1:41.3 | Dorothy and Thomas Main lived in a flat on the second floor with their only child 13-year-old Tracy. |
| 1:49.9 | As Dorothy reached the second floor landing that day, she noticed that the door to the flat was slightly ajar. |
| 1:57.9 | With unemployment and crime rates on the rise since the late 70s, the first thought |
| 2:03.0 | the tenter Dorothy's mind was theft that someone had broken in. She decided not to check |
| 2:10.0 | alone. Dorothy knocked at the flat next door and asked her neighbor Miss Lewis to come with her |
| 2:16.1 | just to make sure no one was still in sight. |
| 2:19.9 | The two women cautiously approached the door to number 17 and stepped into the flat. |
| 2:26.8 | Within seconds their screams echoed through the building, then hurried footsteps as the women |
| 2:32.6 | ran back to Miss Lewis's flat. |
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