Season 6 - Episode 29

Within three months, 16 children were removed from their homes in a small island community and taken into the care of social services. The media explained the reasoning behind the removal; they claimed the children had been victims of satanic abuse. Three decades later, the Orkney child abuse scandal remains one of the most notorious child protection failures in the United Kingdom… (Part 1 of 2).

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Season 6 - Episode 28

“She replaced invisible handcuffs for real ones but at least then she knew where she would be. She would no longer be constantly told that everything she did was not right and wrong. She would most importantly not have to lie anymore” — Clare Wade QC, Bristol Crown Court, October 2021

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The Gift

On this episode of They Walk Among America… Christmas Eve 2013. A 14-year-old calls 911 and pleads with the operator to send someone to an apartment at Lake Luzerne in New York. She tells the dispatcher that her mother has been stabbed, and is on the floor, dying. The teenager gives the operator a detailed description of the suspect because she knows the man well. It is her father...

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A Mother's Love (Part 2)

On this episode of They Walk Among America… A teenage mother, who was a ward of the state, reluctantly gave up her baby son Dennis. She was convinced it was the right thing to do as she was told her child would be safe and loved. When Dennis would have turned 19, his mother Jerry tried to contact him only to discover her son died when he was just three and a half years old. But when Jerry looked into Dennis’ death, all was not what it seemed. She pushed to get answers for the little boy she lost. Would justice prevail?… (Part 2 of 2).

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Season 6 - Episode 26

The high pitched sound of the home telephone echoed through the Neailey household. Liz Neailey answered. Someone from her son's school was on the other end of the line. It was June 5, 1998. The staff member told Liz her son, Wesley, had not been feeling well and needed to come home…

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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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Season 6 - Episode 23

An 83-year-old man is murdered while walking his dogs in a rural area of Norfolk. His injuries were so severe that investigators believed he had been attacked by his dogs. The pensioner's catastrophic wounds were not caused by an animal but rather someone who was still at large…

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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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Season 6 - Episode 22

On July 18, 2020, Bernadette Walker disappeared. Her parents initially claimed that she ran away from home following an argument. But as the search to find the missing student intensified, not everything was as it seemed, and soon a terrifying possibility considered unimaginable became a frightening reality… (Part 2 of 2).

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Season 6 - Episode 21

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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Season 6 - Episode 20

On August 10, 2011, the metropolitan police were called to do a welfare check at a flat on New Road in Harlington. The property was close to London’s Heathrow Airport. Officers discovered two bodies. Both victims had been brutally murdered. The hunt for their killer began, but the police did not need to look far...

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Season 6 - Episode 19

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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