Roseangle Murders / Henry John Gallagher

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

True Crime

4.6 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In the years following the murders of Alexander and Dorothy Wood, urban legend surrounding the case spread, with unsubstantiated claims published in the newspaper pages across Britain. Rumours suggested that the killer had posed the bodies, their glassy open eyes staring out through a basement window. It was said, they were positioned to face the direction of the church across the road, where they stayed until they were discovered...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Season 5 Episode 31 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK true crime.
0:25.8	This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence.
0:32.8	This podcast is intended for a mature audience.
0:37.1	Listener caution is advised.
0:52.2	In the years following the murders of Alexander and Dorothy Wood, urban legends surrounding the case spread, with unsubstantiated claims published in the newspaper pages across Britain.
1:07.4	Rumours suggested that the killer had posed the bodies, their glassy open eyes staring out through a basement window.
1:17.1	It was said they were positioned to face the direction of the church across the road, where they stayed until they were discovered.
1:51.0	Music until they were discovered. According to Henry John Gallagher,
1:58.5	Before his birth, Gallagher's mother and siblings were abandoned by his father, while his mother was pregnant.
2:05.3	Born on April 3, 1951, he was raised in Dundee, Scotland.
2:10.9	Unusual for the time, his parents were not married.
2:14.0	Gallagher took his mother's surname,
2:19.1	although he often referred to himself using his father's name of Reed.
2:23.9	Young Henry Gallagher believed his father was a hero.
2:31.0	He put the man he did not know on a pedestal, an object of escape from the miserable life Gallagher found himself in, even though his mother told her son his father
2:35.8	left the family without money for food and essentials after he lost their meagre income while gambling.
2:44.0	More than once, she told her boy she was regularly beaten. Once so viciously, her arm was broken. Gallagher was convinced his mother never got over
2:55.3	his father leaving, and she still loved him. Maybe that was just projection on his part.
3:07.4	As Henry John Gallagher grew, he had a string of minor convictions, nothing remarkable at first.
3:16.1	He married, fathered two sons, but divorce followed soon after.
3:22.3	Between court appearances, Gallagher took jobs waiting tables.
3:27.2	Still, like his father before him, he was fond of alcohol and gambling,
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