The Murder of Vicky Hall / Steve Wright: The Suffolk Strangler

In August 2024, Mikhail Ackrim was found dead and undressed in a Glasgow flat. Street valium and alcohol were in his system, along with suspicious bruising and four stab wounds to his body, inflicted after he died. Police Scotland concluded no criminality. His mother disagrees…  *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***     This episode was written by Rosanna Fitton. Research by Benjamin Fitton. Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions. Illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton Narration, additional audio editing and mixing, and script editing by Benjamin Fitton. To get early ad-free access, including Season 1, sign up for They Walk Among PLUS, available from Patreon or Apple Podcasts. More information and episode references can be found on our website https://theywalkamonguspodcast.com SOCIAL MEDIA: https://linktr.ee/TheyWalkAmongUs Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theywalkamongus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In June 2016, Dawn Rhodes was killed at the family home in Redhill, Surrey. Her husband, carpenter Robert Rhodes, who cut Dawn’s throat and claimed self-defence, told the police that she had attacked him. In 2017, a jury at the Old Bailey believed him. He walked free. But in 2021, one of the couple's children disclosed the truth to a therapist… *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***     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 and mixing, and script editing by Benjamin Fitton. To get early ad-free access, including Season 1, sign up for They Walk Among PLUS, available from Patreon or Apple Podcasts. More information and episode references can be found on our website https://theywalkamonguspodcast.com SOCIAL MEDIA: https://linktr.ee/TheyWalkAmongUs Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theywalkamongus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the summer of 1976, one of the hottest on record, a young man's body was found in a ditch on a lonely Leicestershire road. At first, it looked like a hit-and-run. It wasn’t. 25-year-old plumber Gary Toms had been in a relationship with a married woman named Marlene Evans. Her estranged husband, Harold Evans, had spent months watching the relationship develop, attending court for breach of the peace, attempting suicide, and quietly acquiring a pistol. Was this a man pushed beyond breaking point, or a calculated, premeditated murder dressed up as provocation?… *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***     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 and mixing, and script editing by Benjamin Fitton. To get early ad-free access, including Season 1, sign up for They Walk Among PLUS, available from Patreon or Apple Podcasts. More information and episode references can be found on our website https://theywalkamonguspodcast.com SOCIAL MEDIA: https://linktr.ee/TheyWalkAmongUs Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theywalkamongus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1983, Michael Bell left a Scottish camping trip to head home to Birmingham. He called his parents twice. Then nothing. Over four decades later, he's still missing… *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***     This episode was written by Rosanna Fitton. Research by Benjamin Fitton. Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions. Illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton Narration, additional audio editing and mixing, and script editing by Benjamin Fitton. To get early ad-free access, including Season 1, sign up for They Walk Among PLUS, available from Patreon or Apple Podcasts. More information and episode references can be found on our website https://theywalkamonguspodcast.com SOCIAL MEDIA: https://linktr.ee/TheyWalkAmongUs Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theywalkamongus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In January 2018, in a quiet flat in Rugby, a three-year-old girl stopped breathing. Her mother, Louise Porton, told paramedics she had simply found her daughter in bed, unresponsive. No obvious cause of death was found. Seventeen days later, the child’s sister was dead too. Both girls, described by those who knew them as golden, were gone. Porton insisted their deaths were unexplained, but evidence from her mobile phone told a different story… *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED ***     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 and mixing, and script editing by Benjamin Fitton. To get early ad-free access, including Season 1, sign up for They Walk Among PLUS, available from Patreon or Apple Podcasts. More information and episode references can be found on our website https://theywalkamonguspodcast.com SOCIAL MEDIA: https://linktr.ee/TheyWalkAmongUs Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theywalkamongus. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.