The Coffin Kidnapper: Michael Sams and the Women He Put in a Box
In July 1991, 18-year-old Julie Dart disappeared from the streets of Leeds. Six months later, estate agent Stephanie Slater was abducted during a house viewing in Birmingham. Both women were taken to the same workshop in Newark by a one-legged toolmaker named Michael Sams — a man who had built a coffin-like box, wired it with an alarm, and planned every detail of their captivity before he even chose them.
Julie never came home. Stephanie survived eight days inside a box locked inside a wheelie bin. This episode of A True Crime Podcast with Alexander Lawson tells the story of the calculated…
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