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Catching Melanie's Killer - A True Crime Podcast by ITV News

Catching Melanie's Killer - A True Crime Podcast by ITV News

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 When Melanie Road's body was found on a June morning in 1984, it prompted one of the largest manhunts in Britain. But the schoolgirl's killer wasn't found. How did a team of cold case officers rebuild the inquiry after decades and bring justice to a family still in grief?ITV News Politics & Government True Crime
Episodes
  • Episode 1: All Hell Let Loose

    Episode 1: All Hell Let Loose
    Jan 12 2021
    How do you find a killer from the past? June 9th 1984. 17 year-old schoolgirl Melanie Road is murdered while walking home after a night out in the tourist city of Bath. In ITV News’ True Crime podcast, correspondent Robert Murphy learns how a murderer appeared in the night, killed this popular, bright student and disappeared. Leaving clues which detectives would pore over for decades.
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    22 mins
  • Episode 2: Green Blood on Camden Crescent

    Episode 2: Green Blood on Camden Crescent
    Jan 12 2021
    A nationwide manhunt begins for the killer of schoolgirl Melanie Road. In the hours after the murder, a blood trail is discovered by detectives. Cold Case investigator Julie Mackay takes ITV News correspondent Robert Murphy back to the scene to describe how this gave police in 1984 their first clues. Inquiries start to stretch from this small city all over the world.
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    33 mins
  • Episode 3: Another Melanie

    Episode 3: Another Melanie
    Jan 19 2021
    Has the killer of Melanie Road struck again? Police look at similarities between the stabbing of schoolgirl Melanie Road in June 1984 and the disappearance of a young mother two days afterwards. And years into the future, police ask chilling questions when another woman called Melanie disappears. She vanishes from the same city on the same date as Melanie Road was killed.
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    29 mins
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I remember Melanie's murder clearly because I'm a Melanie and was also 17 on 9/6/84, doing A levels and enjoying clubbing. This was a true needle in a haystack case, only down to the perseverance of 2 detectives did the investigation continue throughout this period to a successful outcome.

The podcast is well narrated and police procedures described, however unlike other podcasts the episodes don't run successively. You might be listening to episode 6 then it would run into episode 5 or 1. That aspect is extremely frustrating so it became impossible to listen to while driving. Each episode after 4 needs to be selected.

the Police at their best (mostly)

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excellent and very sad ,but justice was served.Excellently narrated. Full credit to the police for not giving up.

Brilliant Listen.

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I was hooked from episode one.
A true crime mystery with real people, real work, real heartbreak and genuine care.
The police were utterly heroic in their efforts to solve this heinous crime and they kept pegging away at it.
Rob Murray takes the listener in a journey from start to finish with an amazing family and determined, human police officers . He assumes intelligence on the part of the listener and spares no information that give this sad tale a real depth. I came away understanding more of police procedure and diligence than any number of crime shows ever imparted.
Hearing how this terrible crime effected the family over time, the police, Murray, the people of Bath adds to the richness of detail and gives a real sense if how shocking this crime was and how long lasting the impact of it.
I cried and cried at the end, the combination of how Melanie died coupled with the witness statements left me moved and horrified.
Brilliant that they got this waste if space off the streets.
Hands down the best thing I have heard in Audible.

They never gave up.

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Great listen , an in depth podcast, couldn't stop listening
amazing how they got him .

Brilliant police work !!

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Legit made me cry A really sad story, amazing how they caught the kilker.

Super sad but amazing.

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