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Dec 2024
31m 6s

Violent Intentions / The Uninvited Guest

They Walk Among Us
About this episode

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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