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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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