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Sep 2023
1h 3m

Neglected / The Death Of Kaylea Titford

They Walk Among Us
About this episode

Early on an autumn morning, the emergency services received a call that a teenager was unresponsive in Newtown, Wales. It was Saturday, October 10th, 2020. What the panicked woman on the other end of the line described was a far cry from the typical teenage weekend drinking sessions that ended with alcohol poisoning or injury. The caller was the motionless girl’s grandmother. She contacted the emergency services as she had received a call from her son, Alun Titford. Alun was panicked. There was something seriously wrong with his 16-year-old daughter Kaylea. The caller relayed all the information she had to the operator. Her son told her that Kaylea was cold to the touch…


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


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MUSIC: 


Gravity by Caleb Etheridge and Chelsea McGough 

Dead Ends by Wicked Cinema 

Twilight Moon by Caleb Etheridge 

St Mary by Chelsea McGough And Stephen Keech 

Introspection by Shimmer 

Onward by Chelsea McGough 

Mind Over Matter by Chelsea McGough 

What You Do Not Know by Joshua Spacht 

Recognize by Grant Borland 

Crescendo by Featherland 

Road to Nowhere by Caleb Etheridge 

Bamburgh by Stephen Keech 

Woven by Alice in Winter 

Falling by Adrian Walther 


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