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Jan 2024
38m 48s

The Killer Next Door / Sheila Attwood / ...

They Walk Among Us
About this episode

The summer flowers were in full bloom when Edith Ford and her teenage daughter Doreen strolled to the bottom of the long and narrow communal garden to pick a bouquet of wildflowers. Their eyes were drawn away from the plants and foliage, towards the ground. Two tiny bare legs protruded from the other side of a hedge near a public works yard. Was this the child so many people had spent the night looking for? Just two doors down from Edith Ford’s home, neighbours heard screaming. Edith was wailing, “I can't have seen it. I can't have seen it”...


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This episode was written by Rosanna Fitton. Research by Benjamin Fitton.


Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.


Script editing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton


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


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MUSIC: 


Invisible Line by Stephen Keech 

Dead Ends by Wicked Cinema 

Introspection by Shimmer 

Harboring by Salon Dijon 

Mighty Hand by Stephen Keech 

Memoir by Lincoln Davis 

Spooked by JShirts 

Moonchild by Elision 

The Haunting by Craig Allen Fravel 

Strangers by Craig Allen Fravel 

Wolgrim by Cody Martin 

Etheria by Cody Martin 

The Diary by CJ-0 

Contact by Bryant Lowry 


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