Season 5 - Episode 23
They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
They Walk Among Us
4.6 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
It was a typical room for a teenage boy in the 1980s; football programmes on his desk with his homework, a well used Amstrad HI-FI system with a tape cassette and radio, used to record the top chart hits on a Sunday, hitting the pause button before the DJ fades back in. Posters of his favourite musical acts covered the walls; Mel and Kim, T'Pau, Madonna, Samantha Fox — standard fare in 1988. His single bed, pushed against the wall of his cosy room, with his black pyjama bottoms tucked neatly under his pillow to wear the next night, but there would not be a next night…
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More Scared of You by Nihilore
Meekness by Kai Engel
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Lost Forever by Little Glass Men
Snowmen by Kai Engel
Global Warming by Kai Engel
The Jewel and Me by Little Glass Men
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Wake Up by Kai Engel
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| 2:16.0 | This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence. |
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