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Sep 2022
51m 58s

Football Betting Scams & Brutal Double M...

They Walk Among Us
About this episode

A young couple are found brutally murdered in their flat in Newcastle’s West End. The investigation into their deaths exposes a shadowy underworld of illegal betting scams, and traverses continents as detectives try to find the person responsible…

 

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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.


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


Narration, editing, additional writing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton.


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MUSIC: 


Don’t Let Go by Alice In Winter 

Ripley by Falls 

Winds of Change by Four Trees 

Fractals by Stephen Keech 

Fable by Stephen Keech 

Jun by Kevin Graham 

Fractured Light by Stephen Keech 


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