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hello and welcome to episode two hundred ninety
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six of the uk
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recon parker
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last week when it to the dreadful murder all
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perry wallace by william back
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cool that's we we let the how i can
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you will bury wallace went missing in december
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nineteen ninety nine after his work christmas
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party when he crossed paths
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with william back not
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hey what's high impact came across
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very wallace on the fourth of december
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the will continue to declare his innocence
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there we did both later to a friend of
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a sexual conquest that night
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sweet young man
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the beginning
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absolutely clear is that barry
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was taken to pay is flat
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what he was secured on the wrists and ankles
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beaten
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they are you sexually assaulted and have
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to the need
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and chopped up his body and
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deposited a lot lomond
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the three of the west coast of scotland
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finish last week hearing
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how off the banks was committed murder
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the police revealed that when they thirty back
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and kimono looking for evidence
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about the disappearance of very wallet how
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much more than just the evidence
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presented in court it
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wasn't the ferries got that was found in fact
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is home
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democrat from seventeen different men
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discovered
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pictures of young men all over his place
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when it's what was described the seventieth
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and trophy
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the would impact killed more innocent young
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men
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to here
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that her back to the north east of england
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inoculate seven
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find out just what happened
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when you're very old them the do with anything
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bolton
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not really sets were doing is twenty
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enjoyed working and ball and like to move
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around
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the main i can examine he headed to
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newcastle in the northeast
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they have a thing with that the
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right play evening at newcastle bus
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station
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thought his belongings in one of the lockers
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i'm headed off to that gay nightclub
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looks shots it
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was the last time anyone the t barry alive
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mutilated body
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shortly afterwards
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the game people
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hybrid car parked by cleveland
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on the north yorkshire moors
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the the berlin
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the great had been flashed a badly
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they chuckle a painter been habits
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in an attempt to be made the topic
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limpid album
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neither in his neck
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what their regular at rock
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shots nightclub
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with his track record what me to
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suspect and with
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striking similarities
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the case with heard about barry wallet
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the taxes went to his flat they found
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buried blood an
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impact from fat to the murder
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the could he had killed barry
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they've been self defense when the to
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been camping on the north yorkshire moors
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barry that she attacked him
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the cat who couldn't believe it for one moment
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they believe the off the bags had
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taken very home from the nightclub
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the pair had had set up the which banks
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to kill barry
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try to remember him
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they dumped him a molar
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think the jury and he thought crown court charged
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with murder perry odin they
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found guilty and sentenced to life in
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prison which was overturned
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on appeal the
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crown it apply to try him and a number of
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winning charges involving other men
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alongside the murder charge the
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judges try that he thought crown court
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t not making seven allowed the application
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the horse repeal had that he was
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wrong with downside and quash
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the conviction that
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meant that for the gruesome murder of barry all
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them
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after two years in prison
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quite how the family of perry one
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it the killed twelve years
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later must feel about that when
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big should it be knocked up in china the tommy
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megan barry
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we can only imagine
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honey fitz gerald he was head of north yorkshire
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see id the bag was convicted
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of
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right
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he said
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a cold and years ago
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with heresy or we caught a serial
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killer in the making
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we thought we were lucky because we managed to catch
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him after his first killing
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conviction was overturned on appeal
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i remember i was quite a goth
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that when it happened they like what
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we knew about this man
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the great without griffin and a free man
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and he knew he had to move away from the north east
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of england and make a new style
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op his release from prison back me back
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to northern ireland the wouldn't here
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for long
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then he headed to come on of his
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eyelids to have a girlfriend
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they said that his neighbors here we're very
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wary very early on
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the for nicknamed him fred west
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teach was creepy behavior
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the managed to secure job at the housing upset
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with come on i can loud and council
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the last long as he was sacked doctors
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found he like on a tv that
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you put together in prison waiting
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for the outcome of his appeal
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i'm sure sit here and i don't
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know many people who even had any
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that the long as he v
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they always stretch the point somewhat they
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that while he
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took the to another level
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the council spokesman said
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he said he was working on some kind of
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m c project within the prison
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it turned out he was actually a prisoner
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the enough to dismiss everybody
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mine a surprise you that the council pick
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up on it
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the much more serious than this
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soon after he arrived in scotland
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the managed to infiltrate the scout movement
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even accept young boys
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the was actually made in assisted leader
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of the seventy second
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out briefing come on it
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september the twenty nine ninety ninety
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how people are caught the boy aged from
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eleven sixteen
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he was a fan
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the out leader
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winning the top of the boys in the palace
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scout leader it was
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only in may ninety ninety one falcon
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chiefs found out about who he was a
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body imagine
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that fear felt by the scout leaders
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to that moment of realization that
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the truth that who they were working
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with duffy the
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chief of staff of the scottish council for
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the scout association play
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what happened saying
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even anonymous tip off that bags
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been in court on serious charges
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the paid a copy of the appeal court transcripts
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that was felt he was that
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completely inappropriate passing
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the with how to get alpha scouting scotland's
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the mall with violent attacks on young men
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continued
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ninety ninety one he met grime mcquillan
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the young church worker and
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i a topic glasgow
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the path and was disturbingly familiar
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the court in a the past them with disturbingly
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familiar with bags a cat
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brian with a razor
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i am with the cause terrified
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the naked he jumped for a dog window
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the front of the house with a
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the banks was sent to prison
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six years
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the prime mcquillan with a serious
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the great man and he wrote
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to number of newspaper editor in december
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nineteen ninety two
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warning that bag for that the take
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fleet dangerous man he would attack other
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the wrote
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the largest part of my anxiety and
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sorrow
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the the parents and friends are very old
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him
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if you want began set free
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the likely
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next victim
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candid he later about
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he the deal
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the daily record newspaper thing
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jumping to die
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i wouldn't have had
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the be killed
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people would know what that ball
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the done for me
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that kind of a plausible guy and we the lot
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in common
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the help of a fight outside the club
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and we got chatting
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the all i want to go back to his face
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with drink
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have you became a letter word the full of anything
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the call going to come on at he was very
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chatty funny it
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was about four am when we got back
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i'm take that pacific rim
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he came back he had a huge market
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you said was filled with gross beer
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the tenth it really funny and i can drink it
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he was really keen on the finishing
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then it hit me
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really really drowsy like of his trunk
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out my mind
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that i hadn't had that much to drink in the club
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i never to thank men time
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i'm convinced that bags drugged me
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completely athletes
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that when i thought to realize that something
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wasn't right the with never
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and he had been caught the only time he had sex
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with other men when they were both very
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drunk he
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woke me on three different occasions that
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in the kept my mouth i'm making the drink it
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fifteen i should finish it
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we didn't have that
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when i won't hit one point he was rip
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your my pencil he was drafted
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him the fuck the show
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the last thing i remember with him lead
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me to the hallway the bathroom
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shutting the door
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i woke up this incredible pain
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one my back in he pushed my left
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leg up with us with my shoulder
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that are actually thought he was fighting the top of
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my life
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there was blood everywhere
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i grabbed his hand pushed his face
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the jump up and ran to the door to a
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police chase me
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the then keeping with dreadfully wrong
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there's blood everywhere it's right up his bedroom
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walls covered him and saturated
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fat
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the graphics rec but lose so much blood
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a reason he could easily slip
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away
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the was just telling me forward
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they come back to bed
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it made me do this over and
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over again
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the kid he dies is something i'll never forget
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he was completely the men hit something
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snapped and his head
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the way what was happening and i just try
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to stay calm
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the wouldn't let me leave that room
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i knew i was on dead
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there's no way someone who could inflict that
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kind of pain with can't let me other health
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alive
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and human
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if you can like through the catholic by the time
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will the outline of the window frame
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etti about grief but why
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the divided with metal frame
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i didn't realize his side high up like
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playing out had for to die
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the people would notice for that path that
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have done
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within three years back from south of the
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slammer for this attack
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back in his come on a council flats
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the neighbors were understandably on
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happy to have him back
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the all they cope to get him a victim
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can you imagine that have it back to the neighbor
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you'd never get any sleep with you
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and care he'd known henge the moving
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on again and he bought his council
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flat
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to security life and
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a video camera can add up
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the we had monitor the whole street the lookout
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for any potential attack
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on his property or his car
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the police i'm watching him play the tape
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the without the compaq opposite the ninety
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ninety four about the murder inquiry
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that he chose not to say
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the no action taken
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the would also spoken to a number of
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other time
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up into the murder perry wallace ninety
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ninety nine
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no action
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that hacking again they
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reinvented himself again
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he was real have a bright academically
13:50
the by ninety ninety nine he was working for
13:52
an edible call center setting
13:54
for a doctorate at pace university
13:57
applying computer technology higher
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patient
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her leg to pay the university
14:04
round about management's at them
14:06
outfit university milton keynes
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but he continued to bring them back to his flat
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on the blog a club bennett's and
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other places nearby
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he will help convicted of any other attack
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until the bird rebury wallace
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many stop attacking young men they
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don't you think but it seems highly unlikely
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to me
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i want her back to a quote from grime mcquillan
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the man he jumped out the window it begs
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come on it
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my primary wanted his family
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i always knew that banks with murder
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again
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i don't believe he when that long before killed
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again
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i'm to think he is murdered and a half
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hours we don't know about
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the my eyes
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the kotick serial killer
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he thought of young with the petty
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griffin
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little thing
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they graduate the kenny perry oh them
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fab every one is have to die
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before he would look up again
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some way that go safe of banks because
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he is so
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again
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that know anyone could fully grow
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overhead on my hand
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the time
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the much hatred for that the rest
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of his life
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it really
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you can again
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the all the other murdered the to be carried
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out by william bags
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yeah the answer
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there were rumors about variety of emergency
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to be responsible for
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as far out with the disappearance of
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damien nettleton the on why
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the we i covered recently in
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a patriot bonus episode
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the scene of unlikely to me
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the view shared by the tech to superintendent
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didn't he
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let the investigation
15:55
into the disappearance of barry wanna
15:57
keeping faith it more likely to be response
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a local crimes
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traveled he said
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it was more individuals he came to scotland
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from all over
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that was okay
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the finity to ingratiate himself
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an average a man you
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don't post office hospitality and
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have enough to drink on
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many occasions nothing happened you
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made me to keep pumping clean we're
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trying to trying everyone who's ever there
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is pat the attract
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many people who were there and he was fine
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if you have evidence to indicate that some
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people read that house
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we've not trying
16:39
regular now it's over the unsolved murders
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the banks could potentially be responsible
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number one the murder of twenty four you wrote
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eric sharing
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or do with found in bush's in the east end
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of glasgow
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by the celtic football club stadium
16:55
in ninety ninety four
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the been strangled
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the half naked body is something we
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i target the love hiking
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within about six thirty pm
17:08
the twenty fifth september nineteen ninety
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four
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walking from plan is a street
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the on the made
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the party with than the next day
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the record the who july twenty twenty
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two
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nobody has been convicted of murder
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the only way to investigation into chat
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with eric newbies killer
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that had agreed to meet him athletic club
17:31
or maybe he'd met with murderer in the central
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cloud can impact been home
17:36
they could make the pills eric
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pack penetrate back home
17:42
the both knives raises
17:44
another man was challenged
17:47
there it murdering two thousand and fifteen
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lead in two thousand and seventeen
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often to the dna samples
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marketing contaminated
17:57
the commentaries murder banks was a free
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man haven't just been released from jail
18:02
the pack on brian mcclellan
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in
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2001 i
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don't see many unlikely
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it is the possibility
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deaths
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of two other men in
18:16
the world of back
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creepy
18:21
like bones are washed up on
18:23
a beach in law on the west coast of scotland
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in the two thousand the publication
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true and twenty
18:30
one year old student
18:32
hollins swipe at the body
18:34
was found in the with high in ninety nine
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taken a couple christopher
18:41
twenty seven he with their postgraduate
18:43
students
18:44
i remembered men
18:46
eating grin and may in environmental
18:48
studies at strathclyde university and
18:51
he lived in love
18:53
in february nineteen ninety eight he range
18:55
learn to a friend in a couple of days
18:58
they didn't show
18:59
i've never seen alive again
19:02
for the appeal for information about his disappearance
19:05
came to nothing there's just
19:07
a with two years later that a swimmer
19:09
in the see in love
19:11
came across a human bone
19:13
the thing to than three part of poll
19:16
no other parts of the pointy were ever discovered
19:18
mom died
19:21
the year before not name with has some of
19:23
the live with that
19:24
the that handy said
19:27
didn't have any enemies as far as i know
19:29
that the time he went missing i rode out power
19:31
play
19:32
the after the bones were compounded post
19:35
and the head
19:36
there were few strange things about the circumstances
19:39
the manning that the parents
19:42
one of the last people to see polar live with
19:44
a policeman he went through thought by mistake
19:46
so cool with three other
19:48
people also in the house
19:51
the point of he was my police the three
19:53
paper have never come forward
19:55
check on very strange
19:58
the added that the police did not
19:59
how how all method that
20:02
not enough of a body have been house
20:05
the would never the time to take his own life
20:07
in my opinion
20:08
that opinion
20:11
they believe it must have been a terrible accident
20:14
the a terrible accident
20:17
the poor a his own life
20:19
what did he have the awful misfortune
20:22
the pop band
20:25
when your student com swiping
20:28
working in a bar was searching for jogging
20:30
fine the graduating
20:32
with have club degree in chemical engineering
20:35
strathclyde university holland
20:38
disappeared off my cat were friends at
20:40
minutes might have renounced ninety ah
20:43
but which you'll recall that breaks was a regular
20:47
calling from glasgow was lot of
20:49
it that about three am on
20:52
the twenty fourth of november
20:54
i can finish chip shop in
20:56
the city centre
20:57
an hour of be left senate
21:00
the body was found in the river clyde five
21:02
months later
21:08
the cause of death was never established
21:11
sprint didn't think that that friend the taken
21:14
his own life
21:15
the course none of it can never say assassin
21:19
they lack who chrissy
21:20
with a terrible accident
21:23
hank anything like
21:25
maybe that he ran into
21:27
william back single out that favor
21:31
earnest in a story where we started with
21:33
the murder very old conviction
21:37
was quashed on appeal on a technicality
21:40
the law that will
21:42
deputy rules may he could never be tried
21:44
again that years
21:46
after the law change the cps
21:48
received a letter from bearing fat albert
21:50
older in them if
21:52
they were able to consider any prosecution
21:55
the copays unit of north yorkshire police
21:58
major crime t
21:59
the average
21:59
the case regularly am from my reading
22:02
sources confirmed that the fourth
22:04
with make every effort the persuade the
22:06
cps math nikkei
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the more we thought of map conceited
22:13
they do not believe the case for meet the high bar
22:15
that by the cps in
22:17
a profit in some of the second time
22:19
the murderer
22:21
the said
22:23
the bloody bases flattened weapons private
22:25
barry odom
22:27
they'll be in a technique the now much more
22:29
farm from the produce a far stronger the
22:31
fiscal pace
22:33
the professional judgment
22:35
then it would not be accepted as fresh
22:37
evidence
22:38
that the cps are unlikely
22:41
to seek in a trial
22:43
he was professional
22:45
judgment
22:48
i guess it back behind bars and resources
22:50
hi
22:51
the decision should be a surprise
22:54
the white one the think
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i'm from two thousand and nineteen
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it was free to apply for parole
23:02
a poll very wallet fat
23:04
he and he said
23:05
very with a cane a good lad the all
23:08
his life ahead of him
23:09
any parent he loses a child
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