S1 Ep7: Stephen Port, The Grindr Killer

Devils in the Dark

True Crime, Comedy

4 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Helen Anderson and Danni Howard take a look into the horrible crimes of Stephen Port, The Grindr Killer. After masquerading as a graduate from Oxford University, a member of the armed forces, and even a special needs teacher on online dating site Grindr, Stephen Port evaded police for months, going on a sick killing spree that spread fear and shock throughout the LGBTQ+ community. Expect ridiculous police failings, harrowing tales from the victims' families and the incredible story of how one family's determination to see justice solved the case. Devils in The Dark contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence and is not intended for all audiences. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

00:00 - Introduction

05:01 - Where Stephen’s story begins

06:20 - Stephen moves into his first flat and meets Ryan Edwards

08:08 - Stephen starts online dating

19:40 - The murder of Anthony Walgate

29:10 - The murder of Gabriel Kovari

32:11 - The murder of Daniel Whitworth

36:32 - Stephen fakes a suicide note

39:40 - Stephen goes to prison

41:61 - The murder of Jack Taylor

43:46 - The Taylor family go to the police

51:22 - The trial of Stephen Port

53:57 - Outro

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Devils in the Dark with me, Helen Anderson and me, Danny Howard.
0:05.0	In every episode we're going to be turning back the clock and looking at some of the worst murder cases in history.
0:11.0	In this episode, it's the Grindr Killer, Stephen Port. The first, Annie, how are you?
0:28.4	What have you been up to?
0:31.2	I'm okay.
0:32.5	Have I been up to anything?
0:33.7	I can't say that I have.
0:34.7	You've been decluttering your house.
0:36.4	Well, you've been decluttering my house. I've been decluttering. You've been getting your house ready to move
0:42.0	house, haven't you? Yes. But now we have started decluttering. I am a hoarder.
0:47.1	Mm-hmm. She is. Yep. And that's an actual thing. Now that we're, you know, I can see the house.
0:52.7	It's all parts of the house that you have cleaned for me.
0:56.8	I like it.
0:58.8	Now you don't want to move.
1:00.0	I don't know if I want to move.
1:01.1	I definitely do want to move.
1:02.9	There's a few things that my house doesn't have that I would really like to have in a house.
1:08.4	But one big one of them things is me me being round the corner of from it oh yes
1:16.9	not a driveway not a drive way because i could use your driveway yes helen keeps trying to get me to
1:24.0	move next door yes i do which I'm not actually not opposed to.
1:28.3	Save us a lot of time, wouldn't it? Yeah, Defo. And we'd still ring each other like six times a day.
1:35.7	But we'd also get walkie-talkies. Yeah, I think that would be, I'd actually love that. Yeah.
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