Absolution

On this episode of They Walk Among America… A small town built on a bend in the Mississippi is ranked among the most dangerous places to live in the United States, despite the small population of approximately 300 residents. Three murders occur on a single property in Horseshoe Lake, Arkansas, separated by two decades…

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Liability

On this episode of They Walk Among America… The wife of a successful Atlanta lawyer is abducted and killed in front of the couple's small children. What began as a murder investigation brought light to a shady underworld that had permeated the system built to protect people...

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Unanswered Questions / Where Is Bernadette Walker? - Part 1

A 17-year-old spends the night with her grandparents. The next day she is collected, ready to be driven home. Part-way through the journey, the car stops, and she exits the family car for a final time before she is never seen again. Appeals are made by relatives, but no one seems to know what happened. Was she living off the grid, going unnoticed or was the unthinkable a terrifying reality…(Part 1 of 2).

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Anglesey Satanic Panic Kidnapping

As soon as the car stopped, something did not seem right. Before their seatbelts were even off, another vehicle, a silver Citroen Picasso, parked up in a hurry alongside the foster carer’s car. There was a female in the driver's seat of the Citroen, and a man emerged hurriedly from the back seat. In a matter of seconds, the stranger was outside the car, something silver and shiny in his hand, a knife…

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Terror At Tate Modern / Jonty Bravery

The tenth level of the Tate Modern has a viewing balcony where visitors can take in scenic views of the city. It was also a place to pick up some refreshments. Children with endless energy and enthusiasm ran around. Not many people took notice of the 17-year-old loitering. Later, when CCTV footage was analysed, it was evident that he had trailed behind some children, intermittently peering over the railings, seemingly to look at the hard concrete, ten floors below…

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Extremism & The Classics

Ben John stood before a jury at Leicester Crown Court. The 21-year-old denied all seven of the charges he faced. John had been arrested around a year and a half earlier after the authorities had raided his flat in January 2020. Counter-Terrorism Policing East Midlands had been monitoring his online activity for some time. Although he was later released, an investigation by a Special Branch of Lincolnshire Police took most of the year with a team of forensic investigators trying to bring to light the dark secrets of Ben John’s digital life…

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The Mansfield Murders / Patricia & William Wycherley - Part 2

William and Patricia Wycherley had not been seen for a decade and a half. Family, friends, doctors and financial institutions all assumed they were alive, enjoying a new zest for life during their later years, taking in the fresh air and sightseeing at seaside towns across the country. But the couple, who rarely socialised with anyone else, were not living the life of Riley. Far from it… (Part 2 of 2).

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The Dark Web, A Death Wish & Consensual Homicide

On this episode of They Walk Among America… October 13, 1996. Maryland native Sharon Lopatka tells her husband she is going to visit friends in Georgia for the week. Instead, she boards an Amtrak train in Baltimore, with what one can only assume is a one-way ticket, bound for Charlotte. 12 days later, her bound body would be found buried under 2 and a half feet of soil. What transpired over the course of the investigation would expose the taboo underground world of a dark web, filled with sex, torture, bondage and a death wish…

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