They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime18 Dec 2024

Violent Intentions / The Uninvited Guest

Following a call to the emergency services just before 5 PM on February 22nd, 2023, the police, and paramedics from the East Midlands Ambulance Service, were dispatched to a property on Queens Park Way in Leicester. They found an elderly man lying on the kitchen floor, bleeding profusely from a deep wound to his chest. His ex-wife had witnessed the attack, and the suspect had been seen fleeing the area by several other witnesses. Still, no one knew who he was or why he had targeted 79-year-old Gerald Wickes…

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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.

Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.

Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton

Narration, additional audio editing, script editing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.

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MUSIC:

Fight To The Finish by Joshua Spacht

Enigma by Hill

Invisible Line by Stephen Keech

The Plot Thickens by Joshua Spacht

Spooked by jshirts

Endless Night by Moments

Those Lost by Moments

Unexpected Turn by Moments

R Naught by Kevin Graham

Sussex by Stephen Keech

Mystery by Third Age

Left For Dead by Wastelander

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