Continuing with The Lost Girls series arc, and in the summer of 1983, almost a year to the day, the fear that Susan Maxwell's at large killer could strike again was suddenly realised, when on a warm Friday evening in July, a five year old girl didn't come back in from the final five minutes play she had been allowed before bedtime.

This is Caroline's story.

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• Pyncher - Get Along
• Snapped Ankles - Raoul

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Continuing The Lost Girls Arc on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we now go back to Northumbria in 1982, and a chance walk home for a young girl after a game of tennis...

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• Horsegirl - Switch Over
• People's Choice - Do It Any Way You Wanna

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Remembering Susan. The episode is dedicated to her.

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The 9th Series multi episode arc begins this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, through which we shall timejump over a long period, and in which I bring you the full, in depth tale of who is/was very likely, Britain's most prolific child killer, one who if the cases he is suspected of are laid at his feet, will dwarf those of Brady and Hindley, perhaps even Cotton and Dyer.

This is a true monster here, who we will get to meet. But this time around, lets start with how he was captured....

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• Adult DVD - Doomsday Prepper
• The Horrors - More Than Life

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Remembering Laura. The episode is dedicated to her.

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Completing the two part tale concerning the murder in September 1994 of 38 year old Carol Wardell - abducted from home by a gang of raiders, who, after beating and drugging her husband Gordon, forced her to open the building society in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, where she was deputy manager, emptied the safe, and then suffocated Carol, dumping her body in a layby.

At least, that was Gordon's account, anyway....

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• Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
• Frank Turner - A Love Worth Keeping

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• (91) The Brutal Murder Of Carol Wardell | True Crime Documentary - YouTube
• (91) George Joseph Smith and Gordon Wardell - Documentary - YouTube
• (91) Tears, Lies & Videotape (ITV 2009) - YouTube
• "The Jigsaw Man" - Paul Britton 1997 pp 371-399

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The discovery of a woman's body in a rural Warwickshire layby in September 1994 was the start of what would become to detectives one of the most complex investigations in Warwickshire Police history, and would ultimately lead them to a cold and calculating killer.

This time and next on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, I shall bring you the story.

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• Audioslave - Hypnotise
• Martha Wainwright - Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole

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"I have just murdered my wife in her bed. I have just stabbed them, and slit their throats. His name is Martin Griffiths. There is blood everywhere. This has just happened. My children are safe at my mother's house"

This was the context of a call to an emergency services operator in the early hours of New Year's Day, 2020, the implications of which were to rock the village of Duffield, in Derbyshire, to the core - and leave three families destroyed.

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• The Charlatans - Crashin In
• Manic Street Preachers - Motorcycle Emptiness

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• Fran Runs To France

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We head up to the Scottish Highland city of Inverness, and back to the early 2000's this time on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, for a harrowing tale of a crime that shocked Scotland to the core, a definition of cruelty, evil, and a hauling over the coals of a system that, so tragically, failed a little girl.

5 year old Danielle Reid. Hers is a name that following this, I doubt you will forget.

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• The Lathums - Stellar Cast
• Jack White - You Got Me Searching

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• Herbison Report - Danielle Reid

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The Hampshire beauty spot of Farley Mount Country Park, located near the city of Winchester, is a popular destination in daylight hours for families, joggers and dog walkers, whilst of the evening, it takes on a different kind of visitor - couples, and the voyeuristic who enjoy watching these for their own gratification. During the 1990's, it was also the scene of several disturbing incidents and attacks by an offender who to this day, remains at large, having never faced justice.

Or did he?

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• Black River Delta - Burning And Burning
• Laura Marling - What He Wrote

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• "The Real Cracker" - Stephen Cook (2001) pp 165-200
• Crimewatch UK March 1989 - Tunbridge Wells Rape (from 14:47 onwards)

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