On 1st April 1992, ten court summonses for crimes including multiple murder, abduction, prevention of a proper and lawful burial and kidnap were served on a 43 year old prisoner serving life at HMP Peterhead in Aberdeenshire - a prisoner serving life for the abduction and sexual assault of a six year old girl in July 1990.

His name? Robert Black.

Continuing with The Lost Girls multi episode tale then this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, was the individual heading to trial for these, Robert Black, indeed the man responsible for the deaths of Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg and Sarah Harper - and almost Theresa Thornhill?

But - what was Black's story? Well, I'll tell you within.

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Remembering all of the Lost Girls. The episode is dedicated to them.

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'That's our man. I'd bet my life on it'

These are the words of Assistant Chief Constable Hector Clark back in July 1990, moments after the initial, briefest of meetings with the man he was describing here, who just over a month later, was serving a sentence of life imprisonment for an almost carbon copy crime to the series he and his team had been investigating for eight years by then.

Continuing with The Lost Girls multi episode tale then this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, was this indeed the same man? And could evidence be found to prove these suspicions?

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It was a simple, quick detour to avoid prying eyes - and it was fortunate that it was just that too, a quick detour, for if it wasn't, then perhaps Teresa Thornhill wouldn't be here today.

That evening in Nottingham in April 1988, she very certainly only narrowly escaped the clutches of death, thanks in part to the survivor she was. Because she was the survivor, her evidence would later be crucial in bringing to a very definite end the reign of arguably, Britain's most prolific child killer.

This is Teresa's story.

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• The Beta Band - Dry The Rain
• Panic Shack - Gok Wan

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The corner shop was just 150 yards away from her home, and the journey was one that ten year old Sarah Harper had made countless times before - just two minutes walk away. Yet, on a cold and wet evening in March 1986, on that two minute walk back, Sarah was to disappear.....

This is Sarah's story.

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• Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Stitches

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Continuing with The Lost Girls series arc, and in the summer of 1983, almost a year to the day, the fear that Susan Maxwell's at large killer could strike again was suddenly realised, when on a warm Friday evening in July, a five year old girl didn't come back in from the final five minutes play she had been allowed before bedtime.

This is Caroline's story.

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Continuing The Lost Girls Arc on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we now go back to Northumbria in 1982, and a chance walk home for a young girl after a game of tennis...

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Remembering Susan. The episode is dedicated to her.

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The 9th Series multi episode arc begins this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, through which we shall timejump over a long period, and in which I bring you the full, in depth tale of who is/was very likely, Britain's most prolific child killer, one who if the cases he is suspected of are laid at his feet, will dwarf those of Brady and Hindley, perhaps even Cotton and Dyer.

This is a true monster here, who we will get to meet. But this time around, lets start with how he was captured....

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• Adult DVD - Doomsday Prepper
• The Horrors - More Than Life

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Completing the two part tale concerning the murder in September 1994 of 38 year old Carol Wardell - abducted from home by a gang of raiders, who, after beating and drugging her husband Gordon, forced her to open the building society in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, where she was deputy manager, emptied the safe, and then suffocated Carol, dumping her body in a layby.

At least, that was Gordon's account, anyway....

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The discovery of a woman's body in a rural Warwickshire layby in September 1994 was the start of what would become to detectives one of the most complex investigations in Warwickshire Police history, and would ultimately lead them to a cold and calculating killer.

This time and next on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, I shall bring you the story.

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"I have just murdered my wife in her bed. I have just stabbed them, and slit their throats. His name is Martin Griffiths. There is blood everywhere. This has just happened. My children are safe at my mother's house"

This was the context of a call to an emergency services operator in the early hours of New Year's Day, 2020, the implications of which were to rock the village of Duffield, in Derbyshire, to the core - and leave three families destroyed.

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• Fran Runs To France

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