Britain was a really grey, grim place in the 80s. We were going through the process of deindustrialisation and there were a lot of derelict old buildings and wasteland about. The cities could feel pretty desolate and quite unpleasant. There was also a huge boom in violent crime - many say the mass unemployment there was In the 80s was a huge factor in it.
just wanted to say thank you for uploading this episode. 46:58 is my grandad who we lost a few years back. was lovely to see his face and hear him talk again. miss you pops 🤍
he was a detective inspector i believe, all the way from the early 70’s until retirement in 2002, the year i was born. he helped solve cases like this, and his most famous was the yorkshire ripper :)
I think the Kathy Walsh murder is worse. Poor woman, can't put the heating on, had no phone, had to go to the daughters for a bath, had to ask for credit in the shop, then is murdered in her house. What a sad story.
Been a few murders that happen on here when someone knocks on the door in the middle of the night. I don't know about anyone else, but if someone knocked on my door in the middle of the night and I had no idea who it was, there is no way I'm opening the door. I'm shouting out the window "who's there" and I'm doing it as loud as possible
@BarriSmith-jp9zs so in the 80s it was common to knock on people's doors in the middle of the night ? Absolute nonsense, and yes I grew up in the 80s. Don't remember people coming round to ask for sugar at 2am
@@jimmorrison3756 Yeah, I just looked it up. Parsons claimed all along that the Police planted evidence, such as fibres from the gloves to fit him up for the murder. He was jailed in 1988 and released in 2004.
How would she call the police on a train in the 1980s? And if she left her compartment to get help and bumped into the killer, wouldn’t she be at risk too?
@@jamespm1994 you couldn't phone the police from a train back then but the person who heard screams should have told the police at the earliest opportunity. OR pulled the emergency cord on the train.
The Detective in the Ivy Batten case was also one of the detectives who interviewed killer Robert Black about the disappearance of papergirl Genette Tate in 1978.
My god. That girl heard those awful prolonged screams and did nothing ! If she had just pulled that chord. Her murderer was trapped on that train and could have been easily caught. Shocking.
It's sadly how a lot of people react in stressful situations - they freeze. There's a lot of evidence from disasters about how some people just totally seize up.
Reminds me of that case in New York where a girl was murdered outside an apartment block in a prolonged attack and many residents just stood and watched from their windows because they all assumed someone else would do something, and nobody did. It's called the bystander effect I believe
@@barbarasmith7663I would always call the police if I heard screams , especially prolonged ones - that girl should have pulled the cord and the guard would have instantly appeared , at least the guy would have been trapped on the train .
I remember that Kilroy show, I often watched it in the morning and I remember the interview with Linda, it seems like yesterday in many ways, how time flies. I think Kilroy mentioned in one of his later show that Linda had died and paid tribute to her on the show. Very sad and tragic and may she RIP !!!!
Florence pennell was my grandma I never got to meet her because of this evil killer never got to meet my cousin or my step-grandad our family isn’t a whole family and I don’t like to think this but if this had not happened we would be closer to this day with much more joy in our lives I cried catching this and reading articles about my families murder I just want justice for them so bad it’s sickly to think people are still roaming free living happy lives while our families lives have been taken. I do want to add although I am much younger we do have conspiracies as to who we think it is in the family and there is compelling reasons as to why I won’t disrespect them by mentioning it but I don’t think my grandma and relatives can rest in peace until justice is served and till the perpetrator is found. I wish I knew but for now I can only push the police into looking further into this case I love you nanny and you truly didn’t deserve this I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy god bless your souls🙏🙏
It's so sad that a well known and much respected elderly lady should have died in such a fashion and then to lay dead for 2 days until her niece discovered her dead how sad that those trains passed by the bungalow and honked their horns for her she stopped waving to them because she was dead the poor lady was murdered
Situations such as the Kathy W case puzzle me; enough money for pubs, bingo, vodka and cigarettes, but no gas supply in her house, in the habit of not paying her bus fare and asking a local garage to use their phone for free?🤔
I hope the French girl can live with herself. Too shocked to move and help whilst someone's being murdered. I'd suspect she didn't follow him off the train. First thing is do is check the carriage
The strange thing about her is she was apparently too shocked to move and only pull a bloody communication cord which meant she wouldn't have been in danger herself. Yet she DID follow a man who got out of the same carriage that Deborah was in when the train terminated at Victoria, possibly placing herself in danger. Wonderful logic from her! 🙄🤬
I think she's an accomplice in the case. How can you go from not pulling the cord even after the trains had stopped to following the suspect and not checking on the victim? Theres clearly a change in attitude here and it doesn freaking add up. She's got something to do with it I tell you
@@AngelDelight69 Very unlikely. She was frightened, and she was following the man from a distance with crowds of people around so probably felt 'safer'.
Who would allow their elderly mother to live in such poverty? If my parents were living with no gas etc or struggling in any way I would be handing over my entire bank balance. I'm astounded at this xx❤🙏❤xx
@@MosesDeLaRoses Seen with attractive ladies in bar and car...but it was actually someone who had an attraction to his wife who put the killer up to it.
If I'm correct Ms Walsh was murdered by a tenant named Christopher OReilly aged 21 but I could not find any other source of information... UA-cam link was no longer available
I hope that French girl can live with herself. She could have prevented that murder. Doesn't matter if she was scared or too shocked to move! It doesn't take much to pull some bloody cord and hopefully alert a man to the incident. If she'd done that one tiny thing, perhaps the man who would have gone to the attack would have been able to stop it 🤬
I'm sure she's lived with the guilt over these years, she doesn't need anyone's judgement. We can sit around saying what we would do in that type of situation but unless we actually find ourselves in such a scary situation you really wouldn't know Fear can affect people in all kinds of ways.
I did some research and I have reason to believe she was in fact an accomplice in the murder case. Her attitude from not doing anything during the screaming and even after the screams to following Debra's killer is completely contradictory. Theres no way you can go from doing nothing to following the freakin killer There's also no evidence to suggest that man she mentioned even exists. There's also no evidence to suggest she was in the train carriage next to Debra's. I do think she was in fact in the carriage next to Debras but her actions just do not add up at all. And the only possibility is she's covering up for her boyfriend maybe I think the French girl and the killer got on at the exact time as notice their is no alibi for the killer neither the French girl yet everyone else like the ladies have a clear alibi
So many unsolved cases here. There doesn't appear to be anything online about the Michael Williams or David Short cases (despite the latter having many clues).
It's been good watching these. I can remember some of these cases at the tine of their broadcast. That David Short one seems to be the strangest of the lot. From what I've read, he was one very peculiar character.
It's so sad that people who have been murdered were sometimes left undiscovered for days and reported missing and then sometimes the people who reported them missing are the ones that committed the crimes themselves make appeals on TV when they know that they are the ones that did it it's the same for any kind of crime try to deceive and lie about the crimes and cry crocodile tears just faking it for national TV it's really terrible but most do tell the truth nobody gets away with a crime
How different the times were...sleazy men wolf whistle at a woman. The woman ignores them, the men have an audacity to think she was “snooty”. The host mentions it like Susanne should have responded. 👀
Hi all. This is a long comment but please take the time to read it. Im looking for an episode of crimewatch that shows the murder of a beautiful blonde haired Australian girl backpacker. I travelled with her as far as Nottingham from Leeds. Back in the late 80s early 90s, I was in my mid 20s. We sat at the Leeds main coach station for over an hour talking. Our conversation started after she sat next to me on the bench and she asked me to look after her backpack as she needed to get a ticket. I thought it was strange as it was the time of the bombings. I was apprehensive but she assured me there wasn't a bomb in her bag. She then disappeared. After 10 minutes, it got the better of me so I went to look for her. I saw her in the queue. I returned to our seats. We then travelled as far as Nottingham together where I left her. She told me she was going to go to the Glastonbury festival then travelling back to Nottingham to see THE SHERWOOD FOREST as she put it & see the Major Oak. I told her there wasn't much left of the forest & would need to go further towards Mansfield to see it. She was a lovely girl very pretty. I remember the clothes she wore on that day, Silver baseball boots & purple leopard skin leggings, white top with lace frills. But don't remember her face as time has gone by. I don't even rember her name. All I remember is seeing her picture on this programme & I remember the clothes they showed when she was sadly taken & killed. I rang the number on the program & told them I had seen her but never heard anything back. For some reason every few years this comes back to haunt me, I look every year to see if I can find her but I can't. There's nothing i can find on the Internet about her. I don't know why I look but I have too. I just need & feel I need to see her face again as I feel I've forgotten her. Please help if you've seen her on here or recognise something on one of the crimewatch videos. Thankyou.
with the ivy batten murder i can not fathom why she would live in the middle of nowhere, no homes surrounding her no neighbours to make sure she is ok she was so isolated and she was elderly she was a sitting target that is why the murder is unsolved no witness no cameras, police have nothing to go on poor girl
Joan McCann was even worse! Imagine that massive house, down an isolated path, surrounded by trees, in the middle of nowhere. Then driving 60 miles, there and back, and coming home after midnight. Fatal.
Ivy wasnt a sitting target, she was safe in her own home until somebody chose to attack her. In the 70's at 6/7yrs old, I often wandered around the whole village and surrounding areas with my dog, walking places I won't as a physically unfit 50yr old walk alone, without a guard dog. You knew everyone in the community, who could and couldnt be trusted. They were definitely safer times if/when you chose to be isolated (as you call it) I can't fathom out why somebody would kill another in such a way, I don't question why the victim lived where they did! Esp when it was safer where she lived in those days.
I would rather live in a nice cottage or bungalow in the middle of nowhere than in a flat in the downtown concrete jungle where your nextdoor neighbor can be lying death for five months before anyone notices. The first lady was surrounded by family walking in and around her bungalow and even traindrivers could attest to her closing her curtains or lights at specific hours. The second lady had her housekeeper living at the end of her pathway. I live in a city and I only know my nextdoor neighbors since they and my small family are the only non-expats living here. I couldn’t even tell you if the neighbors across the road have children let alone how many. Every six months it’s another family.
Hi Retro Pixels - do you have a link for the Joan Macan murder being solved or any additional information? I've tried to scour the internet for details on this, but all I found was someone being charged with her murder some years later nothing about any conviction. Grateful for any light you can shed.
The HeraldScotland states that a ‘John Parker’ from Chipping appeared before magistrates regarding the murder of Joan Macan, but I couldn’t find anything else.
Now there's cctv all over and police are more hard working and professional that's probably why criminals think twice about crime.. 80s there was many many bank robberies
Why oh WHY did the French girl not pull the cord when she heard poor Debbie's screams?? Ladies - we must always have one another's backs at all times, yes I know it was different times then but even so 😢
I did some research and I have reason to believe she was in fact an accomplice in the murder case. Her attitude from not doing anything during the screaming and even after the screams to following Debra's killer is completely contradictory. Theres no way you can go from doing nothing to following the freakin killer There's also no evidence to suggest that man she mentioned even exists. There's also no evidence to suggest she was in the train carriage next to Debra's. I do think she was in fact in the carriage next to Debras but her actions just do not add up at all. And the only possibility is she's covering up for her boyfriend maybe I think the French girl and the killer got on at the exact time as notice their is no alibi for the killer neither the French girl yet everyone else like the ladies have a clear alibi
You need to research some more. They have the DNA of the killer on file. As of yet, it hasn't matched anyone. It's a matter of time before a relative or descendent ends up on the national DNA records.
She wasn’t an accomplice, there’s a huge difference between confronting a murderer in a confined space and in the open surround by people and she probably didn’t want to get involved and upend her own life.
She thought it was rape Yet she didn't help the victim. She followed a man that was not spotted by anyone else nor picked up by CCTV even after extensive searching. It's suspicious you can't deny
I did some research and I have reason to believe she was in fact an accomplice in the murder case. Her attitude from not doing anything during the screaming and even after the screams to following Debra's killer is completely contradictory. Theres no way you can go from doing nothing to following the freakin killer There's also no evidence to suggest that man she mentioned even exists. There's also no evidence to suggest she was in the train carriage next to Debra's. I do think she was in fact in the carriage next to Debras but her actions just do not add up at all. And the only possibility is she's covering up for her boyfriend maybe I think the French girl and the killer got on at the exact time as notice their is no alibi for the killer neither the French girl yet everyone else like the ladies have a clear alibi
Was the Lynette case the one were the police stitched those 4 black men up and put them in jail for years until they got let out after serving years for a crime they didn’t commit..?
If Det Supt Brendan Gibb-Gray can't find the bus driver of a London bus on a st route on a particular day , he hasn't got a snowballs chance in Hell of finding the killer !
@MulberryEllie How the hell in god's name was she a landlady when she couldn't even pay her busfare or put her gas back on when it got cut off??? Very strange case this one.
Any ideas why there is such little information re. the Northampton arson murders? On a local rag, there was a brief comment regarding an argument in the property just before. Maybe the son was targeted?
@@shhhplease1050 my brother Christopher had a row earlier in the day with my sister and boyfriend who lived next door . The police where 99% shaw it was him but he never admitted to the crime. It spit the whole family up xxx 32 year last November 2
@@lizzieshine6785 That is terrible. I know it is easier today with the ascent of dna, but the police in these days were questionable. Truly awful, thanks for the update. Obviously, nothing to do with anyone else, but it was seriously disturbing to watch.
@@shhhplease1050 thats half the story . The little girls father my other brother Steven and another sister went to visited the murder with a masste jump though the glass window and tried to kill him . My brother got 5 years for attempted murder and sister got 3 years
5:14 That story of the fire is full of stupid behavior and sounds like a lie. why did nt he get them out of bed as soon as realized there was a fire. my first thought would be to get young out asap. something wrong with that guy or he's lying.
Very disrespectful comment you weren’t there imagine how horrifying this would have been how hard it would have been to breathe amongst the toxic fumes never mind shout
Bizarre how someone can sit and listen to 2 minutes of screaming without letting someone else know. I don’t think that would happen now. Londoners are pretty good at stepping in when something is off ever since all these terrorist stacks
If the cops ever say that the crime might be an accident and you should come forward , I’ll tell you right now that they DONT think it’s an accident . Just like if a murder happens and they say there was a man near there that we think might be a witness , you should call . They don’t think you’re a witness : they are trying to get you to identify yourself . Don’t do it
The reconstructions are so creepy in the 80's
Britain was a really grey, grim place in the 80s. We were going through the process of deindustrialisation and there were a lot of derelict old buildings and wasteland about. The cities could feel pretty desolate and quite unpleasant. There was also a huge boom in violent crime - many say the mass unemployment there was In the 80s was a huge factor in it.
@@zeddeka Cant argue with that except there was real growth in the late 80s especially in London where i lived and worked in the city.
just wanted to say thank you for uploading this episode. 46:58 is my grandad who we lost a few years back. was lovely to see his face and hear him talk again. miss you pops 🤍
Oh wow was your grandad a police officer then , that's cool!
Or an actor?!😂
he was a detective inspector i believe, all the way from the early 70’s until retirement in 2002, the year i was born. he helped solve cases like this, and his most famous was the yorkshire ripper :)
It breaks my heart how the train drivers would honk for Ivy, but she quit waving because she was murdered. Just horrible!
she was isolated there was no other houses around she was a sitting target poor woman
I think it’s great that she waved at the trains, she reminds me of my nana happy days
I think the Kathy Walsh murder is worse. Poor woman, can't put the heating on, had no phone, had to go to the daughters for a bath, had to ask for credit in the shop, then is murdered in her house. What a sad story.
A regular on the train may have also noticed her waving and took advantage of the fact she was always seen on her own in the middle of nowhere
@@Harry-fk5of They got the person who did it. I don't know if he was connected to the trains.
Been a few murders that happen on here when someone knocks on the door in the middle of the night. I don't know about anyone else, but if someone knocked on my door in the middle of the night and I had no idea who it was, there is no way I'm opening the door. I'm shouting out the window "who's there" and I'm doing it as loud as possible
@BarriSmith-jp9zs so in the 80s it was common to knock on people's doors in the middle of the night ? Absolute nonsense, and yes I grew up in the 80s. Don't remember people coming round to ask for sugar at 2am
So sad and tragic that so many of these cases remain unsolved 32 years later 😔
especially the families
Breaking into ivy's home and murdering a vulnerable old woman whose isolated is evil.
The scary thing the person was never caught
He was caught, Brian Parsons is his name.
@@jimmorrison3756 Yeah, I just looked it up. Parsons claimed all along that the Police planted evidence, such as fibres from the gloves to fit him up for the murder. He was jailed in 1988 and released in 2004.
@@jimmorrison3756 He didn't do it, watch the Trial and Error Channel 4 episode on this case
@@katewolfspirit6722Of course he would deny it.
If I heard screams, no matter what time it was, I'd be calling the police. Poor Kathy. RIP.
I know! What causes a person to NOT call the police??
How would she call the police on a train in the 1980s? And if she left her compartment to get help and bumped into the killer, wouldn’t she be at risk too?
@@jamespm1994 you couldn't phone the police from a train back then but the person who heard screams should have told the police at the earliest opportunity. OR pulled the emergency cord on the train.
The Detective in the Ivy Batten case was also one of the detectives who interviewed killer Robert Black about the disappearance of papergirl Genette Tate in 1978.
My god. That girl heard those awful prolonged screams and did nothing ! If she had just pulled that chord. Her murderer was trapped on that train and could have been easily caught. Shocking.
I'm sure she's lived with the guilt since and she no doubt wishes that she could have done things differently.
It’s easy to say that with hindsight, in the moment she was probably paralysed with fear
It's sadly how a lot of people react in stressful situations - they freeze. There's a lot of evidence from disasters about how some people just totally seize up.
Reminds me of that case in New York where a girl was murdered outside an apartment block in a prolonged attack and many residents just stood and watched from their windows because they all assumed someone else would do something, and nobody did. It's called the bystander effect I believe
@@barbarasmith7663I would always call the police if I heard screams , especially prolonged ones - that girl should have pulled the cord and the guard would have instantly appeared , at least the guy would have been trapped on the train .
I remember that Kilroy show, I often watched it in the morning and I remember the interview with Linda, it seems like yesterday in many ways, how time flies. I think Kilroy mentioned in one of his later show that Linda had died and paid tribute to her on the show. Very sad and tragic and may she RIP !!!!
Florence pennell was my grandma I never got to meet her because of this evil killer never got to meet my cousin or my step-grandad our family isn’t a whole family and I don’t like to think this but if this had not happened we would be closer to this day with much more joy in our lives I cried catching this and reading articles about my families murder I just want justice for them so bad it’s sickly to think people are still roaming free living happy lives while our families lives have been taken. I do want to add although I am much younger we do have conspiracies as to who we think it is in the family and there is compelling reasons as to why I won’t disrespect them by mentioning it but I don’t think my grandma and relatives can rest in peace until justice is served and till the perpetrator is found. I wish I knew but for now I can only push the police into looking further into this case I love you nanny and you truly didn’t deserve this I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy god bless your souls🙏🙏
@ Retro Pixels & ( redcard 74)
good stuff, made past hours fly by
and i like that you show if case is solved / unsolved
in this first case im sure chris is played here by george armstrong (alan humphries) from grange hill in the 70s
definatelty tuckers buddy.
8:58, this has always been a case that has bothered me! why would someone kill a dear old respected old lady like Ivy?
They did get the killer. Read up on it.
It's so sad that a well known and much respected elderly lady should have died in such a fashion and then to lay dead for 2 days until her niece discovered her dead how sad that those trains passed by the bungalow and honked their horns for her she stopped waving to them because she was dead the poor lady was murdered
Situations such as the Kathy W case puzzle me; enough money for pubs, bingo, vodka and cigarettes, but no gas supply in her house, in the habit of not paying her bus fare and asking a local garage to use their phone for free?🤔
That’s what I thought.
Would seem to be the behaviour of either an alcoholic or a gambler.
Empathy obviously Kathy had issues. Very sad
i think its safe to say she had untreated mental health issues you idiots.
mental health problems you idiot.@@Lushgirl81
Kilroy !! Bloody hell I remember him ,grey haired chatshow bloke ,that's going back some years I must of been 11 then
I like how they do disclose the address of the women's refuge, but let you know what road it's off, and a distinctive architectural feature LOL.
Yes, not very smart of them.
Thank you for Crimewatch shows!!! Please, continue to upload them
I'm uploading some Crimewatch programmes on my channel.
Having a lazy weekend watching these
I knew Stacey, I lived across the road and played with her as a kid. I still have a picture of me and her. Xxx
So sad what happened to that little girl & she had died so young. Did they ever find out who had done it?
@@BelindaJon41 unfortunately they haven't, it's still unsolved.
Thanks for these uploads
I'm surprised ivy baton murder was never solved the gloves and hammer where so distinctive.
It was solved a bloke called Brian Parsons was convicted and sentenced although not without controversy
Brian Parsons was convicted in 1988 and sentenced to life, he was released in 2004.
there is no witness and no cameras like we have now sadly
poor Inga....she loved us but killed by some scumbag
I hope the French girl can live with herself. Too shocked to move and help whilst someone's being murdered. I'd suspect she didn't follow him off the train. First thing is do is check the carriage
She was probably terrified of being killed herself. Plus she was she was out of her element.
The strange thing about her is she was apparently too shocked to move and only pull a bloody communication cord which meant she wouldn't have been in danger herself. Yet she DID follow a man who got out of the same carriage that Deborah was in when the train terminated at Victoria, possibly placing herself in danger. Wonderful logic from her! 🙄🤬
I think she's an accomplice in the case. How can you go from not pulling the cord even after the trains had stopped to following the suspect and not checking on the victim?
Theres clearly a change in attitude here and it doesn freaking add up. She's got something to do with it I tell you
@@AngelDelight69 Very unlikely. She was frightened, and she was following the man from a distance with crowds of people around so probably felt 'safer'.
Who would allow their elderly mother to live in such poverty? If my parents were living with no gas etc or struggling in any way I would be handing over my entire bank balance. I'm astounded at this xx❤🙏❤xx
Poor Keith's reputation was dragged through the gutter in the police's attempt to get a lead on his killer.
In what way?
@@MosesDeLaRoses Seen with attractive ladies in bar and car...but it was actually someone who had an attraction to his wife who put the killer up to it.
I wonder how many bodies are still undiscovered in Epping Forest?
What a sad end to a woman who had been so heroic in WW2. Such a shame. 😢
Timothy Robson also deaf found guilty of the Susanne Greenhill murder
If I'm correct Ms Walsh was murdered by a tenant named Christopher OReilly aged 21 but I could not find any other source of information... UA-cam link was no longer available
Why can't the driver of the Number 42 Bus be found?
Miss Marple would have found him - Lol !!!!
Mr Payne laughs at his own jokes as he walks Baker Street in a cheap deerstalker
He could, he’d have been on a rota.
I wondered that also
I hope that French girl can live with herself. She could have prevented that murder. Doesn't matter if she was scared or too shocked to move! It doesn't take much to pull some bloody cord and hopefully alert a man to the incident. If she'd done that one tiny thing, perhaps the man who would have gone to the attack would have been able to stop it 🤬
yes i would have pulled that cord straight away
I'm sure she's lived with the guilt over these years, she doesn't need anyone's judgement.
We can sit around saying what we would do in that type of situation but unless we actually find ourselves in such a scary situation you really wouldn't know
Fear can affect people in all kinds of ways.
I did some research and I have reason to believe she was in fact an accomplice in the murder case.
Her attitude from not doing anything during the screaming and even after the screams to following Debra's killer is completely contradictory. Theres no way you can go from doing nothing to following the freakin killer
There's also no evidence to suggest that man she mentioned even exists. There's also no evidence to suggest she was in the train carriage next to Debra's.
I do think she was in fact in the carriage next to Debras but her actions just do not add up at all. And the only possibility is she's covering up for her boyfriend maybe
I think the French girl and the killer got on at the exact time as notice their is no alibi for the killer neither the French girl yet everyone else like the ladies have a clear alibi
So many unsolved cases here. There doesn't appear to be anything online about the Michael Williams or David Short cases (despite the latter having many clues).
The David Short murder is an odd one. He seemed to upset a few people.
I know his ex girlfriend
It's been good watching these. I can remember some of these cases at the tine of their broadcast.
That David Short one seems to be the strangest of the lot. From what I've read, he was one very peculiar character.
It's so sad that people who have been murdered were sometimes left undiscovered for days and reported missing and then sometimes the people who reported them missing are the ones that committed the crimes themselves make appeals on TV when they know that they are the ones that did it it's the same for any kind of crime try to deceive and lie about the crimes and cry crocodile tears just faking it for national TV it's really terrible but most do tell the truth nobody gets away with a crime
So the old lady heard screaming but didn't bother calling the cops? Okay.
Kathy Walsh didn't have a phone so it's possible she didn't either....
lots of brits didn't have phones at home in those days.
How different the times were...sleazy men wolf whistle at a woman. The woman ignores them, the men have an audacity to think she was “snooty”. The host mentions it like Susanne should have responded. 👀
Le Val - if i was to wolf whistle at you then I’d at least expect a steak dinner and your number? 😊
Better times.
@@Muttey2024 Lol :-)
Andy JS You could live, and still see your breadth!
@@Muttey2024 lol
18:00, Kathy Walsh always had to ask people for little favors because of her financial situation!
Man who killed her was her lodger, got mad when she kept on asking for the money he owed her.
Hi all. This is a long comment but please take the time to read it. Im looking for an episode of crimewatch that shows the murder of a beautiful blonde haired Australian girl backpacker. I travelled with her as far as Nottingham from Leeds. Back in the late 80s early 90s, I was in my mid 20s. We sat at the Leeds main coach station for over an hour talking. Our conversation started after she sat next to me on the bench and she asked me to look after her backpack as she needed to get a ticket. I thought it was strange as it was the time of the bombings. I was apprehensive but she assured me there wasn't a bomb in her bag. She then disappeared. After 10 minutes, it got the better of me so I went to look for her. I saw her in the queue. I returned to our seats. We then travelled as far as Nottingham together where I left her. She told me she was going to go to the Glastonbury festival then travelling back to Nottingham to see THE SHERWOOD FOREST as she put it & see the Major Oak. I told her there wasn't much left of the forest & would need to go further towards Mansfield to see it. She was a lovely girl very pretty. I remember the clothes she wore on that day, Silver baseball boots & purple leopard skin leggings, white top with lace frills. But don't remember her face as time has gone by. I don't even rember her name. All I remember is seeing her picture on this programme & I remember the clothes they showed when she was sadly taken & killed. I rang the number on the program & told them I had seen her but never heard anything back. For some reason every few years this comes back to haunt me, I look every year to see if I can find her but I can't. There's nothing i can find on the Internet about her. I don't know why I look but I have too. I just need & feel I need to see her face again as I feel I've forgotten her. Please help if you've seen her on here or recognise something on one of the crimewatch videos. Thankyou.
Have you watched all of the Crimewatch uploads? Pretty much every episode has been uploaded from the 80's and 90's so you should be able to find it
So many unsolved murders
with the ivy batten murder i can not fathom why she would live in the middle of nowhere, no homes surrounding her no neighbours to make sure she is ok she was so isolated and she was elderly she was a sitting target that is why the murder is unsolved no witness no cameras, police have nothing to go on poor girl
Joan McCann was even worse! Imagine that massive house, down an isolated path, surrounded by trees, in the middle of nowhere. Then driving 60 miles, there and back, and coming home after midnight. Fatal.
Ivy wasnt a sitting target, she was safe in her own home until somebody chose to attack her. In the 70's at 6/7yrs old, I often wandered around the whole village and surrounding areas with my dog, walking places I won't as a physically unfit 50yr old walk alone, without a guard dog. You knew everyone in the community, who could and couldnt be trusted. They were definitely safer times if/when you chose to be isolated (as you call it)
I can't fathom out why somebody would kill another in such a way, I don't question why the victim lived where they did! Esp when it was safer where she lived in those days.
@@becca8225 i maintain she was a sitting target we are going to have to agree to disagree
@@treasurehunteruk9718 poor girl her murder still is unsolved
I would rather live in a nice cottage or bungalow in the middle of nowhere than in a flat in the downtown concrete jungle where your nextdoor neighbor can be lying death for five months before anyone notices. The first lady was surrounded by family walking in and around her bungalow and even traindrivers could attest to her closing her curtains or lights at specific hours. The second lady had her housekeeper living at the end of her pathway. I live in a city and I only know my nextdoor neighbors since they and my small family are the only non-expats living here. I couldn’t even tell you if the neighbors across the road have children let alone how many. Every six months it’s another family.
God so sad that most of these have been left unsolved and barely any news coverage on them since :( so sad
Hammers were very in vogue in 1988.
You're not likely to get up after being hammered in the head. And if stopped, you're off to do a bit of DIY.
I believe the Yorkshire Ripper started the trend in the 70’s.
Hi Retro Pixels - do you have a link for the Joan Macan murder being solved or any additional information? I've tried to scour the internet for details on this, but all I found was someone being charged with her murder some years later nothing about any conviction. Grateful for any light you can shed.
all i've managed to find is a freedom of information request which says its unsolved. so will get that amended, sorry for the confusion
Ah, OK - no worries!
The HeraldScotland states that a ‘John Parker’ from Chipping appeared before magistrates regarding the murder of Joan Macan, but I couldn’t find anything else.
me too
@@msgrime1981 I think they had to let him go, cos there was not enough evidence to say he did it.
Any more crimewatch episodes please
the 80s was a very bad decade for heionus crime maybe because of the depraved conditions some lived in
Now there's cctv all over and police are more hard working and professional that's probably why criminals think twice about crime..
80s there was many many bank robberies
Partially the world was a different place. No social media. Limited CCTV. Not sure if that's a good thing. All I know is society was better then.
@@Kill--alllll---IDF depends what areas your from. Off subject, the immigration experiment Blair brought in severely failed.
@@Kill--alllll---IDF I meant In relation to immigration. The 80s wasn't as bad as now. It was a different era.
@@Kill--alllll---IDF clearly they don’t as crime is rife now
Tiger bay in Cardiff looked like a rough place. I don't suppose it is still as bad today though.
Tiger Bay is amazing... 🐅🐅🤗
It could be worse.
Didn't it give us Shirley Bassey?
@@treasurehunteruk9718no.
Why oh WHY did the French girl not pull the cord when she heard poor Debbie's screams?? Ladies - we must always have one another's backs at all times, yes I know it was different times then but even so 😢
Do you have the original crimewatch programmes?
The gloves could be for a roofer garden fencing any job that you need to grab screws.
Cracking episode.
I know the younger people wouldn't know about Ivy, but it would be nice if trains still honked at her cottage to honor her!
I did some research and I have reason to believe she was in fact an accomplice in the murder case.
Her attitude from not doing anything during the screaming and even after the screams to following Debra's killer is completely contradictory. Theres no way you can go from doing nothing to following the freakin killer
There's also no evidence to suggest that man she mentioned even exists. There's also no evidence to suggest she was in the train carriage next to Debra's.
I do think she was in fact in the carriage next to Debras but her actions just do not add up at all. And the only possibility is she's covering up for her boyfriend maybe
I think the French girl and the killer got on at the exact time as notice their is no alibi for the killer neither the French girl yet everyone else like the ladies have a clear alibi
You need to research some more. They have the DNA of the killer on file. As of yet, it hasn't matched anyone. It's a matter of time before a relative or descendent ends up on the national DNA records.
She wasn’t an accomplice, there’s a huge difference between confronting a murderer in a confined space and in the open surround by people and she probably didn’t want to get involved and upend her own life.
She thought it was rape
Yet she didn't help the victim. She followed a man that was not spotted by anyone else nor picked up by CCTV even after extensive searching.
It's suspicious you can't deny
Did he just say he, she or they? A man before his time! Lol
38:50 Too shocked to move?
I know! 🤬
Well, she’s French.
I did some research and I have reason to believe she was in fact an accomplice in the murder case.
Her attitude from not doing anything during the screaming and even after the screams to following Debra's killer is completely contradictory. Theres no way you can go from doing nothing to following the freakin killer
There's also no evidence to suggest that man she mentioned even exists. There's also no evidence to suggest she was in the train carriage next to Debra's.
I do think she was in fact in the carriage next to Debras but her actions just do not add up at all. And the only possibility is she's covering up for her boyfriend maybe
I think the French girl and the killer got on at the exact time as notice their is no alibi for the killer neither the French girl yet everyone else like the ladies have a clear alibi
Seems Ivy Battens murder was solved. Sadly the killer served about 16 years in jail before being paroled. You can Google this
Not much justice in that.
Serious
Whats wrong with people hearing distressing screaming & don't phone the Police very non caring people.
80’s was full of killers, far worse than now.
No CCTV no DNA evidence it was easier to kill
No it's not worse than now!
What a ridiculous statement.
murder was easy to get away
@@shhhplease1050 not really considering so many murders are unsloved
2:03:04 Ex Liverpool footballer Phil Thompson
Bingo is called quite differently in the UK, isn’t it. 🤔
Was the Lynette case the one were the police stitched those 4 black men up and put them in jail for years until they got let out after serving years for a crime they didn’t commit..?
Yep
Who was the woman who introduced the Debbie Linsley murder?
Her name was Pattie Coldwell . She died in Oct 2002
Did John Parker end up getting send down for the Joan Macan murder?
If Det Supt Brendan Gibb-Gray can't find the bus driver of a London bus on a st route on a particular day , he hasn't got a snowballs chance in Hell of finding the killer !
With poor Kathy... they should have looked for local loan sharks. I have a feeling she owed.
Chilling
Did they ever identify the severed limbs woman?
I don’t think they did.
Yes they did. Her name was Susannah Reddan. A mother of 3. Conor Downey murdered her.
You’ve listed Kathy Walsh as solved but I can’t find any information on it?
Sorry ignore me her name was Edwina Kathleen Walsh.
Any pictures of him?
@MulberryEllie There was another Christopher O Reilly who raped a woman on this before was it the same fella i wonder
@MulberryEllie So many unsolved and some of the most horrific. I hope and pray that they will be solved someday soon.
@MulberryEllie How the hell in god's name was she a landlady when she couldn't even pay her busfare or put her gas back on when it got cut off??? Very strange case this one.
Any ideas why there is such little information re. the Northampton arson murders? On a local rag, there was a brief comment regarding an argument in the property just before. Maybe the son was targeted?
This was my mother and family 👪
@@lizzieshine6785 My deepest condolences. Awful.
@@shhhplease1050 my brother Christopher had a row earlier in the day with my sister and boyfriend who lived next door . The police where 99% shaw it was him but he never admitted to the crime. It spit the whole family up xxx 32 year last November 2
@@lizzieshine6785 That is terrible. I know it is easier today with the ascent of dna, but the police in these days were questionable. Truly awful, thanks for the update. Obviously, nothing to do with anyone else, but it was seriously disturbing to watch.
@@shhhplease1050 thats half the story . The little girls father my other brother Steven and another sister went to visited the murder with a masste jump though the glass window and tried to kill him . My brother got 5 years for attempted murder and sister got 3 years
did they get anyone for the triple arson murder in nottingham.
Have you got any reconstructions from 1996/97 please
look up Andy JS on YT, he's just started uploading the 1996 episodes
I've uploaded four 1996 shows so far.
Does anyone know did they ever find the killers of first case
I hope so as it’s my family I have called hopefully they reopen the case so justice can be brought for my family
I think the Bangladeshi fella was In only fools and horses the one with the statue
5:14 That story of the fire is full of stupid behavior and sounds like a lie. why did nt he get them out of bed as soon as realized there was a fire. my first thought would be to get young out asap. something wrong with that guy or he's lying.
Very disrespectful comment you weren’t there imagine how horrifying this would have been how hard it would have been to breathe amongst the toxic fumes never mind shout
Did they catch the person that killed the girl on the train??
As far as we are aware its still unsolved
@@RetroPixels tragic
They have a DNA profile taken from the killers blood in the train carriage, but so far haven't found a match.
Bizarre how someone can sit and listen to 2 minutes of screaming without letting someone else know. I don’t think that would happen now. Londoners are pretty good at stepping in when something is off ever since all these terrorist stacks
It was you, wasn't it?
If the cops ever say that the crime might be an accident and you should come forward , I’ll tell you right now that they DONT think it’s an accident .
Just like if a murder happens and they say there was a man near there that we think might be a witness , you should call . They don’t think you’re a witness : they are trying to get you to identify yourself . Don’t do it
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