DESCRIPTION:
It was a typical room for a teenage boy in the 1980s; football programmes on his desk with his homework, a well-used Amstrad HI-FI system with a tape cassette and radio, used to record the top chart hits on a Sunday, hitting the pause button before the DJ fades back in. Posters of his favourite musical acts covered the walls; Mel and Kim, T'Pau, Madonna, Samantha Fox — standard fare in 1988. His single bed, pushed against the wall of his cosy room, with his black pyjama bottoms tucked neatly under his pillow to wear the next night, but there would not be a next night…
THIS EPISODE WAS PUBLISHED IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM ON DECEMBER 2nd, 2020.
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This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton.
Script editing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton
Narration, audio editing, additional writing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.
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MUSIC:
More Scared of You by Nihilore
Meekness by Kai Engel
Nothing Bonus Track by Kai Engel
Lost Forever by Little Glass Men
Snowmen by Kai Engel
Global Warming by Kai Engel
The Jewel and Me by Little Glass Men
Caterpillar by Little Glass Men
Traffic by Kai Engel
Wake Up by Kai Engel
All music used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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REFERENCES:
METROPOLITAN POLICE
https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/foi-media/metropolitan-police/disclosure_2018/march_2018/information-rights-unit---information-about-the-disappearance-of-lee-boxell-in-1998
NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES
Newcastle Journal - 19 September 1988
Daily Express - 09 December 1988
Sunday Mirror - Sunday 18 December 1988
Daily Mirror - 20 December 1989
Daily Mirror - 21 December 1989
Staffordshire Sentinel - Monday 20 February 1989
Daily Mirror - Wednesday 10 April 1991
Dundee Courier - Wednesday 17 July 1991
Daily Express - 19 July 1991
Newcastle Journal - Thursday 23 September 1993
Aberdeen Press and Journal - Tuesday 05 October 1993
Staffordshire Sentinel - Tuesday 19 April 1994
DIGITAL ARTICLES
BBC NEWS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21469464
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21613502
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26115971
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22089293
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-26938990
TELEGRAPH
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/christmas/2017/11/10/missing-lee-lost-boy-desperate-family-charity-gave-strength/
STANDARD
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/graveyard-searched-for-signs-of-lee-boxell-who-went-missing-in-sutton-24-years-ago-8162602.html
SUTTON AND CROYDON GUARDIAN
https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/17497226.lee-boxell-cheam-schoolboys-portrait-features-exhibition/
https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/11000844.watch-police-appeal-to-paedophile-victims-with-20000-reward-to-find-missing-teen-lee-boxell/
https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9077984.cheam-child-rapist-william-lambert-jailed-for-11-years/
https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9036610.how-cheam-child-rapist-william-lambert-was-finally-caught-20-years-after-his-crimes/
https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9012037.warlock-gravedigger-william-lambert-told-raped-girl-magic-could-cure-her-pregnancy/
https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/8716795.man-accused-of-five-historic-rapes-has-further-charge-added/
https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9023212.jury-in-cheam-village-churchyard-rapes-case-retires-to-consider-verdicts/
https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9026382.st-dunstans-church-gravedigger-convicted-of-sex-charges-against-young-girls-in-cheam/
https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9036597.daughter-of-cheam-churchyard-rapist-willaim-lambert-speaks-out/
https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9000096.cheam-gravedigger-william-lambert-forced-girl-to-entice-other-victims-court-hears/
THE SUN
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8955955/lee-boxell-missing-bedroom-murdered/
VICE
https://www.vice.com/en/article/neaqjb/the-missing-teen-whose-cold-case-was-revived-with-the-probe-of-a-warlock-pedophile-ring
THIS IS LONDON
https://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/17929508.fresh-appeal-information-disappearance-sutton-teen-lee-boxell/?ref=ebln
OTHER
https://jameshawkinsmusic.com/missing-people-choir-to-release-single/
https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/did-margaret-thatchers-son-really-go-missing
DAILY MAIL
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381831/Gravedigger-William-Lambert-raped-schoolgirls-Surrey-church-yard.html