Unsolved / RAF Servicewoman Rita Ellis

They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

They Walk Among Us

True Crime

4.6 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The dog seemed determined to get to something in the undergrowth, and much to his owner’s annoyance, he pulled relentlessly against the lead. Curiosity got the better of his handler. What was his pet so interested in? As he entered the copse, the officer almost stumbled over the partially naked body of a young woman…

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0:00.0	This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of sexual violence.
0:10.9	This podcast is intended for a mature audience.
0:15.3	Listener caution is advised.
0:21.9	Rays of light were shining through the trees overhead, but there was still a bitter chill
0:27.5	in the air.
0:29.2	The weather was typically cold for a November morning, and a non-commissioned officer from
0:34.5	R.A.F. Holton reluctantly took his dog for a stroll.
0:39.1	They set off along a dirt track 150 yards from the main road leading from the camp entrance,
0:46.1	passing the coal yard and into rope were a copse. The dog seemed determined to get to something
0:52.5	in the undergrowth, and much to his owner's annoyance, he pulled relentlessly against the lead.
1:00.0	Curiosity got the better off his handler. What was his pet so interested in?
1:06.0	As he entered the cops, the officer almost stumbled over the partially naked body of a young woman.
1:15.6	Unfortunately, nobody saw Rita with her assailant.
1:19.6	It was Saturday night, so there were lots of people on camp.
1:23.6	We've got no indication potentially of who the assailant is.
1:29.3	And I just remember screams, cries, howling, but wonder what was going on.
1:39.4	Welcome to Season 9, episode 46 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK True Crime.
1:55.4	Sundays were usually quiet at RAF Holton, one of the UK's largest Royal Air Force training camps.
2:03.7	The land had formerly belonged to the Rothschild family before being turned into an Air Force base.
2:10.4	The morning of November 12, 1967 was not a typical Sunday.
2:17.1	After the NCO, who found a body in the woods close to the camp,
2:21.6	alerted the RAF police at around 10.30 a.m.
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