About This Episode
A double murder in the small English market town of Tetbury, in the Cotswolds, sent shockwaves through the region in 1991. Now, the acclaimed British true crime podcast They Walk Among Us is revisiting the case in a new episode written by investigative journalist Eileen Macfarlane — bringing a nearly forgotten crime back into public consciousness.
A Picturesque Town With a Dark Secret
Tetbury is best known today as the home of the British royal family's Highgrove estate and as an idyllic tourist destination in the Cotswolds. But behind its honey-coloured stone buildings, a case unfolded in the early 1990s that illustrated how domestic violence and mental illness can escalate to the irreversible. This is precisely the kind of story that They Walk Among Us has made its focus — cases that have slipped from public memory but raise important questions about systemic failure, neglect, and human tragedy.
The episode centres on a crime that, according to the podcast, involved close family members and ended with a confession — an element that both simplified the investigation and raised profound questions about the perpetrator's mental state and the responsibilities of those around them.