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Serial Killer Documentary - Adam Whelehan · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: On the third of October twenty twelve, Natalie Jarvis left
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Speaker 1: her family home in Kent for a late night rendezvous
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Speaker 1: with Adam Wheelerhan.
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Speaker 2: It was a casual relationship. If anyone asked whether Adam
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Speaker 2: was her boyfriend.
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Speaker 3: She would say no.
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Speaker 1: That cold autumn night, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
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Speaker 4: Schlaiters she used to say, which meant to see you later,
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Speaker 4: love you by, And that was the last.
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Speaker 3: Thing she said.
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Speaker 1: Just thirteen minutes later, Natalie Jarvis was dead.
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Speaker 5: A member of the public driving down the road saw
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Speaker 5: her body face down on the pavement.
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Speaker 1: Natalie's violent death made no sense to her loved ones.
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Speaker 6: Why would it be Natally she loved everybody and everybody
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Speaker 6: you knew her loved.
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Speaker 1: When the devastating facts of Natalie's final moments were revealed,
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Speaker 1: her so called friend, Adam Wheelerhan, would be exposed as
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Speaker 1: one of the world's most evil kings. In October twenty twelve,
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Speaker 1: twenty two year old Adam Wheelerhan walked into Bexley Heath
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Speaker 1: Police station in southeast London with blood on his face
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Speaker 1: and hands and a well rehearsed story ready to tell.
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Speaker 2: Adam Wheelerhan turned himself in at Bexley Heath Police station
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Speaker 2: at about three am on October the fourth. He said
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Speaker 2: that he thought he had killed someone.
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Speaker 1: Wheelerhun insisted he had not been the aggressor.
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Speaker 5: He said, she brought the weapon, and she produced it,
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Speaker 5: and she'd attacked him, and whatever happened.
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Speaker 7: To her was self defense on his part.
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Speaker 1: It was a story full of holes, told by a
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Speaker 1: man who seemed completely unmoved by the part he played
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Speaker 1: in his friend's violent and lonely death.
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Speaker 8: This is a man of pears to have no concept
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Speaker 8: of a conscience, no concept that he might be doing
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Speaker 8: something that is utterly wrong. It makes him a very
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Speaker 8: remarkable killer.
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Speaker 1: Though he believed he could get away with murder, a
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Speaker 1: jury of Adam Wheelerhn's peers would see through his facade.
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Speaker 1: This killer's story begins in February nineteen nineteen. Adam John
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Speaker 1: Wheelerhan was born in the borough of Bexley in southeast London,
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Speaker 1: living in the area through his childhood and youth. By
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Speaker 1: his early twenties, he seemed to be an ordinary young
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Speaker 1: man with a normal suburban lifestyle.
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Speaker 8: Adam Wheelerhan had worked in a supermarket but was now
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Speaker 8: training as a BT engineer. For the telecom company.
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Speaker 5: He'd always been in employment. He'd never been in trouble
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Speaker 5: in all of his adult life. He'd been in work.
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Speaker 1: Nothing about Adam Wheelerhan and his closest friends raised eyebrows
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Speaker 1: or course concern for the people who knew them.
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Speaker 2: Adam Wheelerhan had a very close group of male friends.
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Speaker 2: His best friend Tom he had known since he was
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Speaker 2: five years old. Rather than friends, they saw each other
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Speaker 2: as brothers. They had a very close bond. He and
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Speaker 2: his other male friends all spent time together regularly. He
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Speaker 2: messaged them on social media and in text messages very regularly.
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Speaker 5: These were normal people in their early twenties. They go
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Speaker 5: and meet down the pub, chat to each other, and
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Speaker 5: they do what youngsters with jobs who got money do
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Speaker 5: in the pub, they'd drink in.
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Speaker 1: This atmosphere of revelry is where a young woman called
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Speaker 1: Natalie Jarvis first cross pus with Adam Wheelerhan.
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Speaker 8: She'd first met Adam Wheelhern in two thousand and eight
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Speaker 8: in a local pub, but they were both in other
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Speaker 8: relationships and so there was no connection.
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Speaker 2: They didn't begin their relationship until four years later, in
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Speaker 2: the summer of twenty twelve, after she noticed on Facebook
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Speaker 2: that he had become single. After that, they began communicating.
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Speaker 1: In June twenty twelve, twenty three year old Natalie was
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Speaker 1: living with her parents in Swanley, Kent, just four miles
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Speaker 1: from Wheelerham's home in sidcub She was born on the
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Speaker 1: twenty eighth of April nineteen eighty nine to mum Adele.
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Speaker 3: Natalie is my youngest daughter.
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Speaker 4: Jemma was four when or nearly four when Natalie was born.
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Speaker 4: There's only four years between them, and she loved having
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Speaker 4: a little sister.
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Speaker 9: They grew up very close, even though there was four
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Speaker 9: years between us. We were just always together. Whenever I
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Speaker 9: came out, me and my sister came as a pair.
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Speaker 9: She was just fun, outgoing, bubbly, loving and whenever Natalie
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Speaker 9: was around, you would hear her before you saw her.
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Speaker 1: When Natalie and Gemma were still small, their family was
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Speaker 1: completed by Adele's new partner Mark.
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Speaker 6: I come into Natalie's life when she was four years old,
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Speaker 6: and she was one of those children that you just
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Speaker 6: looked at and fell in love with straight away. She
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Speaker 6: was larger than life character and more friends than you
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Speaker 6: could shake a stick up.
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Speaker 1: She headed towards adulthood Natalie's zest for life showed no
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Speaker 1: sign of abating.
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Speaker 9: Natalie was all about makeup and modern clothes and looking
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Speaker 9: good and dressing good. When that was old enough to
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Speaker 9: come out with me, we'd go to bars and stuff.
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Speaker 9: She'd spend a lot of time on the gay scene
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Speaker 9: with me, So we go like in and out of
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Speaker 9: clubs Brighton, London. When we were out, we'd be dancing,
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Speaker 9: we'd be chatting, just be enjoying ourselves and like everything
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Speaker 9: was fun.
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Speaker 3: It was always fun. It was loud. We get up
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Speaker 3: to mischief.
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Speaker 1: In twenty eleven, Natalie suffered a heartbreak that challenged her
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Speaker 1: usually sunny, optimistic outlook.
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Speaker 4: Natalie was a relationship, a serious relationship with a guy,
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Speaker 4: and he got her pregnant, but he didn't want her
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Speaker 4: to have the baby, so we obviously spoke to her
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Speaker 4: about it, and she made the decision she didn't want
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Speaker 4: to be a single mom, and she chose have an abortion.
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Speaker 6: They split up, they got back together, they split up again.
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Speaker 4: He broke her heart, the relationship broke up. After that,
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Speaker 4: we supported her as much.
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Speaker 3: As we could.
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Speaker 4: She appeared to be going out and enjoying herself, but
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Speaker 4: she wasn't the same person that she was.
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Speaker 6: We said, come on that, you've got to move on
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Speaker 6: from this, and she did, or she appeared to move on.
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Speaker 6: She started meeting other people. We thought she'd eventually got
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Speaker 6: over this guy.
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Speaker 1: It was around this time that Betalie reconnected with twenty
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Speaker 1: two year old Adam Wheeler, who she'd first met back
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Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight.
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Speaker 3: I think she was.
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Speaker 4: Very vulnerable when she met Adam, and I think she
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Speaker 4: saw him with someone to help her through the pain
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Speaker 4: that she was going through.
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Speaker 8: In the early summer of twenty twelve, they were both unattached.
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Speaker 7: And a relationship began.
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Speaker 4: His name was being mentioned quite regularly, and he was
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Speaker 4: picking her up from the house, taking her out, going
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Speaker 4: to the cinema, eating out, doing those type of things.
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Speaker 4: I'd ask her numerous times, is he your boyfriend?
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Speaker 3: Nat?
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Speaker 4: And she goes, no, Mum, he's just a friend. We're
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Speaker 4: just friends. But I know there was more to it.
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Speaker 4: I know there were being intimate.
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Speaker 1: Though Natalie said she was happy with the status quote,
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Speaker 1: there were somethings she may have wanted more from the relationship.
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Speaker 4: I don't think he was as serious about her as
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Speaker 4: she might have been about him.
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Speaker 1: There appeared to be an imbalance in Natalie and Wheelerhan's
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Speaker 1: ongoing relationship.
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Speaker 10: What's called a situationship suggests that this is an agreement
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Speaker 10: between two people that they're only going to hook up
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Speaker 10: now and again, probably for sex, and then just go
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Speaker 10: about their lives and not be in any kind of
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Speaker 10: committed relationship.
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Speaker 3: That's all very well and good.
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Speaker 10: But in a lot of cases, one party wants the
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Speaker 10: situationship and the other party wants something more committed.
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Speaker 1: Natalie's family had little opportunity to get to know the
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Speaker 1: young man she was spending time with.
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Speaker 4: To be honest with you, I don't really know a
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Speaker 4: lot about Adam at all. I would love Natalie to
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Speaker 4: have bought Adam home so that we could meet him properly.
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Speaker 3: But because she said there wasn't a.
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Speaker 4: Label on their relationship, perhaps he was reluctant.
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Speaker 3: To meet us.
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Speaker 4: I know he came to our house when we weren't here,
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Speaker 4: but we never actually met him.
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Speaker 6: We didn't come to the door when he came to collect.
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Speaker 6: So I'm off out and off she'd go.
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Speaker 4: There was nothing that Natalie ever said about Adam that
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Speaker 4: made me think there was anything wrong with him, dodgy
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Speaker 4: about him. She was very confident woman and trustworthy.
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Speaker 3: And I trusted what she said.
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Speaker 9: I think one of my biggest regrets is that I
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Speaker 9: didn't know anything about him, because if I had known
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Speaker 9: a bit more about him, I may have been a
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Speaker 9: bit more like that, you know, a bit more hesatant,
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Speaker 9: like watch what you're doing, be careful.
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Speaker 1: Natalie Jarvis's family had no reason to worry about her
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Speaker 1: safety when she spent time with Adam Wheelerhan. They had
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Speaker 1: no way of knowing that the man Natalie was seeing
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Speaker 1: had another personality, a dark and dangerous side that would
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Speaker 1: eventually be revealed with devastating consequences. In the summer of
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Speaker 1: twenty twelve, twenty three year old Natalie Jarvis was a happy,
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Speaker 1: go lucky young woman living with her parents in the
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Speaker 1: town of Swanley in Kent.
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Speaker 4: Natalie got a job at McDonald's and seemed very happy
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Speaker 4: there that for her was like a social life as
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Speaker 4: well as their job.
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Speaker 3: I don't think she really aspired to be anything. She
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Speaker 3: just wanted to have fun.
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Speaker 9: To be honest, I think she probably would still be
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Speaker 9: working on McDonald's now if she was still alive.
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Speaker 3: I would imagine.
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Speaker 9: She'd be a manager of some sort, but she I
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Speaker 9: think she would have stayed where she was because people
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Speaker 9: liked her.
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Speaker 6: When she walked into a room, it was like a
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Speaker 6: social angrenade. Everything stopped because Natalie had walked in, and
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Speaker 6: the noise levels went up, and the population went up
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Speaker 6: as well when she was around, because people just flopped her.
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Speaker 1: Well. Natalie was popular with customers, her family, and her
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Speaker 1: many friends. The one person who seemed not to appreciate
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Speaker 1: her was the man she was in a casual relationship with,
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Speaker 1: twenty two year old Adam Wheeler.
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Speaker 2: Adam Wielerhan did not seem to think very highly of Natalie.
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Speaker 2: He and his friends would refer to her as JC,
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Speaker 2: which was a cruel reference to the actor James Corden,
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Speaker 2: who they seemed to think that she resembled.
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Speaker 1: Wheelerhan's friend Tom first came up with the jibe.
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Speaker 5: It was something like, Yeah, she looks like JC, and
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Speaker 5: I'd rather shag James Corden than her. And that set
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Speaker 5: the tone for what were a grotesque series of boys
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Speaker 5: saying dreadful things about girls that they never imagined would
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Speaker 5: be seen.
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Speaker 10: Natalie was spoken about and treated as if she was
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Speaker 10: of no importance to anyone.
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Speaker 5: I imagine that many of those Texas sent and she
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Speaker 5: was just sitting over there waving at them. It was
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Speaker 5: just callous, laddish, uncaring offensiveness.
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Speaker 1: Natalie had no inkling of the way Adam Wheeler and
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Speaker 1: his friends talked about her in their private messages, but
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Speaker 1: in July twenty twelve, she got her first taste of
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Speaker 1: how unpleasant he could be.
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Speaker 2: Just a few days after they first slept together, Natalie
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Speaker 2: texted Adam Wheeler hun to say that she was pregnant.
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Speaker 2: He did not react well.
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Speaker 1: Despite the revelation via text, no one is sure whether
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Speaker 1: or not Natalie really had been pregnant in July twenty twelve.
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Speaker 10: When Natalie told him that she thought she was pregnant,
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Speaker 10: I think we have to consider one that maybe she
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Speaker 10: thought she was two. That she was testing to see
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Speaker 10: if the things that he was saying to her are
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Speaker 10: they true or not. Well, one person wants something different
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Speaker 10: from the relationship to the other person always creates an imbalance.
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Speaker 10: The person who doesn't want the relationship always has far
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Speaker 10: more power, and they could be quite manipulative. He may
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Speaker 10: have been giving her messaging that he liked her a
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Speaker 10: lot more than he actually did.
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Speaker 1: If Natalie was hoping to discover wheel Earn's true feelings
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Speaker 1: for her. She may have been disappointed by his response.
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Speaker 7: He wasn't happy about the idea.
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Speaker 5: I think that was the first point at which a
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Speaker 5: sour note came into his text messages. He sent the
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Speaker 5: sort of ugly messages that young men in that situation
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Speaker 5: can send, namely words nothing to do with me, You'll
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Speaker 5: have to prove it, and I don't want it, etc.
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Speaker 1: Though it was perhaps not the response she was hoping for,
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Speaker 1: Natalie pursued her relationship with Adam Wheelerhan.
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Speaker 5: They were the best part of a thousand texts sent
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Speaker 5: by Natalie to Adam, and he either ignored them or
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Speaker 5: center rebuff.
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Speaker 1: Instead, wheeler Hans sent frantic messages to female friends asking
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Speaker 1: how he could find out if Natalie was telling the
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Speaker 1: truth about the pregnancy, and text to his male friends
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Speaker 1: complaining about the bind he was in.
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Speaker 5: It started, and this is not uncommon with the bloke
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Speaker 5: complaining to his friends that she's just battering him and
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Speaker 5: she's light on his life, it's getting him down. And
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Speaker 5: then he starts and claiming that it's getting him so
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Speaker 5: down that he's idiating suicidal thoughts.
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Speaker 10: For people like Wilhelm who believe that they are in
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Speaker 10: charge of the relationship. He is the type of person
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Speaker 10: who's going to respond really badly when that control is
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Speaker 10: taken away from him.
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Speaker 1: For Professor Jane Munkton, Smith's an expert on violence and
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Speaker 1: control within relationships, Willan's reactions and that on is news,
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Speaker 1: though extreme, was not uncommon.
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Speaker 10: If she's saying she's pregnant, that's a massive challenge to
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Speaker 10: his control over his own life, over that relationship, over everything.
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Speaker 10: Very often, actually, in those circumstances, somebody like Willetton's thoughts
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Speaker 10: are going to go straight to death.
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Speaker 3: Quite often.
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Speaker 10: This does start with well, I'm going to kill myself
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Speaker 10: for and that can move to I'm going to kill
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Speaker 10: you for me.
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Speaker 3: Wilahan is showing.
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Speaker 10: Me exactly who he is, and he is the type
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Speaker 10: of person that in his relationships he's going to become dangerous.
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Speaker 1: And while Adam Wheeler had never got a firm answer
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Speaker 1: on whether or not Natalie really was pregnant, it's clear
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Speaker 1: that his thoughts about her began to take a dark
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Speaker 1: and violent direction.
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Speaker 8: On the twenty third of July, about ten days after
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Speaker 8: Natalie had told Adam she was pregnant. Adam tweeted, it's
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Speaker 8: all right to kill someone these days, isn't it. Think
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Speaker 8: I might just do that. It is an extraordinary reaction
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Speaker 8: and one which is indicative of a lack of any
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Speaker 8: kind of empathy.
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Speaker 2: Just about a week later, he tweeted again, I think
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Speaker 2: I might do it hashtag murderous mind.
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Speaker 1: As the summer of twenty twelve went on, Wheelerhan's dark
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Speaker 1: musings about killing Natalie Jabis continued, and before long his friends,
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Speaker 1: the ones who exchanged misogynistic messages about Natalie, were also
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Speaker 1: drawn into the fantasy.
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Speaker 8: On the sixth of September, Adam's friend Tom texted him saying,
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Speaker 8: why don't you just get on a killer?
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Speaker 3: So they'd obviously been talking about it.
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Speaker 8: Throughout the summer. On the seventeenth of September, Tom sent
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Speaker 8: another message to Adam on Twitter saying the end is
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Speaker 8: nigh for JC. The end is nigh.
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Speaker 2: His friends seemed to gold him and encourage him. Some
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Speaker 2: of them would ask him whether he had killed anyone,
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Speaker 2: and he would respond saying only in his mind.
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Speaker 8: On the nineteenth of September, Adam texted another friend saying,
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Speaker 8: I'm going to do jac tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: Whatever Wheeler had meant by that nothing happened, but the
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Speaker 1: exchange of messages fantasizing about wheeler harming. Natalie continued, I.
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Speaker 5: Don't recall any stage any of the male friends putting
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Speaker 5: in a dissenting text saying hold on, Adam, what are
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Speaker 5: you talking about?
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Speaker 7: Idiots?
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Speaker 2: If anything, they seemed to encourage him.
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Speaker 10: Quite probably they didn't believe that he would actually do it.
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Speaker 10: This was just more misogynistic banter that they were all
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Speaker 10: getting involved in together, and they probably really believed that
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Speaker 10: he wouldn't take it to the next step.
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Speaker 1: As summer turned to autumn, Wheelerhan and his friends continued
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Speaker 1: to exchange sinister messages about Natalie Jarvis's fate. She, in
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Speaker 1: the meantime, was oblivious to Wheeler Hun's true intentions, intentions
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Speaker 1: that were coming closer and closer to being realized.
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Speaker 2: On the first of October, Adam wheeler Hun had driven
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Speaker 2: Natalie and a friend to go to visit a burger king. Afterwards,
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Speaker 2: the friend was dropped off, and Wheeler Hun and Natalie
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Speaker 2: drove around for a few hours in the car.
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Speaker 1: Whatever the two of them talked about. Something seemed to
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Speaker 1: have happened during that drive to spook Natalie.
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Speaker 4: Natalie posted something on Facebook saying that she was being kidnapped.
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Speaker 4: But I didn't really used Facebook a lot back then
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Speaker 4: and I hadn't seen it. I think he took her
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Speaker 4: somewhere that she may have not known where she was,
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Speaker 4: and she may well have said to him, I want
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Speaker 4: to go home.
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Speaker 2: When her sister messaged her about it, she made light
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Speaker 2: of the situation and said it was just a joke.
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Speaker 1: Whether Natalie's post was in jest or in earnest, it
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Speaker 1: seems to have saved her life for that day.
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Speaker 2: At least, Natalie didn't seem to know how close she
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Speaker 2: had come to death.
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Speaker 3: That evening.
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Speaker 2: Adam Wheler hadn't messaged a friend that he had been
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Speaker 2: close to doing it, but what stopped him was Natalie's
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Speaker 2: Facebook post. He said that he had his knife ready
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Speaker 2: and everything.
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Speaker 1: Once again. Wheelerhan's friends might have taken his words as
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Speaker 1: a joke, but in fact he was deadly serious and
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Speaker 1: next time there would be no backing down. On the
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Speaker 1: third of October twenty twelve, Adam Wheelerhan suggested another late
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Speaker 1: night liaison with Natalie Jarvis in Swanlea, Kent. Around six
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Speaker 1: thirty pm on that Wednesday, evening, Adam Wheelerhan met friends
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Speaker 1: for after work drinks in Sidcup, Southeast London.
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Speaker 8: Adam and his friend Tom are drinking in a local
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Speaker 8: golf club. They leave the golf club go to another pub.
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Speaker 1: At a third pub. By this time several drinks in,
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Speaker 1: Wheelerhan set the wheels in motion for what was to come.
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Speaker 1: At nine forty pm, he sent a message to Natalie Jarvis.
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Speaker 2: Asked if she wanted to meet up and talk and
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Speaker 2: have sex.
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Speaker 5: There was an exchange between him and Natalie where she expressed, well,
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Speaker 5: how am I to believe you? You've been mugging me
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Speaker 5: off all this time? And he went no, No, We'll
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Speaker 5: go and talk and we'll have fun.
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Speaker 1: At the same time, as Natalie was agreeing to Wheelerhan's plan,
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Speaker 1: his friends were exchanging cryptic messages about what might happen next.
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Speaker 5: The spiral of text exchanges where no one's throwing a
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Speaker 5: spanner in the works.
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Speaker 7: I genuinely don't think they thought he was telling the truth.
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Speaker 1: As Adam Wheelerhan and his friend Tom left the pub
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Speaker 1: on Sidcup High Street, Natalie Jarvis was coming to the
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Speaker 1: end of her shift at work.
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Speaker 6: Natalie was working at the local McDonald's. About halfway through
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Speaker 6: the evening, she rank Adel and said I'm finishing earlier,
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Speaker 6: Mon and Mark come.
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Speaker 7: And get me.
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Speaker 4: And she came home from work, had a shower, and
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Speaker 4: she didn't bother to put clothes on again because it
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Speaker 4: was like half ten at night, so she put pajamas
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Speaker 4: on in a pink dressing ann and her slippers. Ad
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Speaker 4: a Caardo want to chat with me and said I'm
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Speaker 4: going out of ad.
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Speaker 3: For a bit.
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Speaker 1: At ten thirty two pm, Wheeleran messaged Natalie outside and
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Speaker 1: she texts Adam Wheeler two means.
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Speaker 4: And basically she said bye schlaters. She used to say,
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Speaker 4: which meant to see you later, love you by and
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Speaker 4: that was the last thing she said.
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Speaker 6: She shouted up the stairs to me love you and
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Speaker 6: that was it. And obviously I shouted down and thank
23:42
Speaker 6: christ I did.
23:49
Speaker 1: Carrying just her phone and keys, Natalie got into the
23:53
Speaker 1: passenger seat of Adam Wheeler's car.
23:56
Speaker 8: What Natalie doesn't know and what Adam hasn't told her
24:00
Speaker 8: that his friend Tom is concealed in the boot.
24:05
Speaker 10: I think it's really frightening that Willehan manipulated Natalie to
24:10
Speaker 10: get in the car with him and there's a second
24:13
Speaker 10: male in the boot. That to me is a terrifying situation.
24:20
Speaker 10: Why was that person in the boot? There's no reasonable explanation.
24:25
Speaker 5: He was in the boot of the car sending messages
24:28
Speaker 5: to a girl who knew everyone from the pub, saying,
24:33
Speaker 5: oh my goodness, I'm in the boot of the car.
24:36
Speaker 7: He can't be about to do it, but he might
24:38
Speaker 7: be about to.
24:39
Speaker 5: Do it words to that effect, and he tried to
24:42
Speaker 5: send her a photograph of his hand in the black,
24:46
Speaker 5: the darkness of the boot of a car.
24:49
Speaker 4: Natalie just sat in the car with him and they
24:51
Speaker 4: drove to Swallowly Village. I believe they've been there before
24:54
Speaker 4: where they parked up, and they may actually might have
24:57
Speaker 4: just thought that they're just going for a chat.
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Speaker 3: I was on and everything was just normal.
25:03
Speaker 2: During the drive, she seemed to be aware that a
25:07
Speaker 2: warning light was on indicating that the boot was open.
25:10
Speaker 6: And by the time they got to Button Street in
25:13
Speaker 6: Swanley Village, Natalie insisted he stopped the car and she
25:17
Speaker 6: got out of the car and she goes to the
25:19
Speaker 6: boot of the car to check it shut.
25:27
Speaker 1: This was the moment the sick joke between friends became
25:30
Speaker 1: a reality. In a secluded country lane, Adam Wheeler carried
25:35
Speaker 1: out the horrific act he'd been boasting about for weeks.
25:40
Speaker 7: He just started stabbing her in throt.
25:43
Speaker 8: In the end, he fixed twenty stab wounds on her neck,
25:46
Speaker 8: one of them four in a bit inches deep, almost
25:49
Speaker 8: severing her carrotid artery.
25:51
Speaker 3: She fought back.
25:53
Speaker 2: The evidence shows that she had defensive wounds on her
25:56
Speaker 2: hands and on her arms.
25:58
Speaker 1: Natalie staggered towards a window in the village, but fell
26:01
Speaker 1: to the ground before she made it there. Adam Wheelerhan
26:05
Speaker 1: pursued her and carried out one final devastating act against her.
26:14
Speaker 4: Natali said to him, I'm dying, Please ring mum, and
26:18
Speaker 4: he threw her phone away.
26:21
Speaker 5: He simply took it out and threw it over a hedge.
26:25
Speaker 10: So that she had no way of contacting anyone, of
26:30
Speaker 10: getting herself to safety or saving her own life.
26:35
Speaker 9: She just died on the road and he got back
26:38
Speaker 9: in the car and drive off with his friend.
26:45
Speaker 2: Adam Wheelhan returned to the car covered in blood. Tom
26:50
Speaker 2: at this point was in the driver's seat of the car.
26:53
Speaker 1: Together, they drove in the opposite direction from where Natalie
26:56
Speaker 1: lay alone. As they headed back towards Wheelerhan's hometown. He
27:01
Speaker 1: messaged his friends done not lying covered in blood, So
27:06
Speaker 1: sorry I let you boys down. Just a few minutes later,
27:10
Speaker 1: a driver spotted Natalie Jarvis lying at the side of
27:13
Speaker 1: the road in swan Lea village.
27:16
Speaker 8: Realizes that she's been brutally attacked, calls the paramedics.
27:21
Speaker 2: The passerby gave her CPR and tried his best to
27:25
Speaker 2: keep her alive until paramedics arrived.
27:30
Speaker 8: They get there quite quickly at about twenty five past eleven,
27:34
Speaker 8: but sadly they cannot revive her and she's declared dead
27:38
Speaker 8: at eleven.
27:38
Speaker 1: Thirty seven minutes later, Wheelerhan and his friends were eight
27:46
Speaker 1: miles away in Eltham buying beer and cigars.
27:51
Speaker 2: They went and picked up a friend of theirs. Together
27:55
Speaker 2: they drove to a Tesco Express. Adam Wheelhern's stay in
28:00
Speaker 2: the car. He was covered in blood, but he gave
28:02
Speaker 2: his credit card to his friend. They bought alcohol, cigarettes, cigars,
28:10
Speaker 2: lottery scratch cards.
28:11
Speaker 1: While Natalie Jarvis's family slept, oblivious to the fact their
28:16
Speaker 1: lives were about to be forever changed. Wheelerhan told his
28:19
Speaker 1: friends he really had done what the four of them
28:22
Speaker 1: had been discussing for weeks.
28:25
Speaker 10: After the murder, Willihan joined up with his friend, smoking cigars, drinking,
28:32
Speaker 10: bragging about what he's done.
28:35
Speaker 8: It absolutely defies Phliff. You're sitting around in a house
28:40
Speaker 8: with a man who is covered in blood, who's just
28:42
Speaker 8: admitted that he's killed his girlfriend, and you will just
28:45
Speaker 8: have another drink.
28:47
Speaker 1: But before long the camaraderie turned to horror for Wheelerhan's friends.
28:53
Speaker 1: They urged him to go to the police and admit
28:56
Speaker 1: what he'd done.
28:57
Speaker 2: Adam Wheelerhan turned himself in at Bexley the police station
29:00
Speaker 2: at about three am on October the fourth. He said
29:05
Speaker 2: that he thought he had killed someone in the Swanda area.
29:09
Speaker 2: At the time, he did not know if Natalie was dead,
29:12
Speaker 2: but he told officers that he had slashed her neck
29:15
Speaker 2: and left her.
29:22
Speaker 10: That was definitely an act of self preservation. It was
29:26
Speaker 10: going to take the police five minutes to link Natalie
29:30
Speaker 10: to him. Loads and loads of people knew anyway, So
29:35
Speaker 10: the best thing for him really is to say, yes,
29:38
Speaker 10: it was me, but I was defending myself.
29:45
Speaker 5: He was interviewed under caution and he set out what
29:49
Speaker 5: was his defense, namely that she'd attacked.
29:52
Speaker 7: Him with a weapon, that she'd brought.
29:55
Speaker 5: And he disarmed her and that was how she come
30:01
Speaker 5: to be stabbed twenty odd times in the throat.
30:05
Speaker 8: When the forensic team searched Adam's car, they found the
30:10
Speaker 8: multitool sheath with his fingerprints on it, and they also
30:14
Speaker 8: found his bloody tracksuit bottoms.
30:18
Speaker 1: Natalie's phone was recovered from a field close to where
30:22
Speaker 1: her body lay. As Adam Wheelerhan sat in the police
30:25
Speaker 1: selling Bexley Heath, just seven miles away in Swanley, Natalie
30:30
Speaker 1: Jarvis's family were waking up to discover their daughter.
30:35
Speaker 7: Was nowhere to be found.
30:46
Speaker 9: The third of October is where Natalie died, but the
30:49
Speaker 9: day my world come crashing down was actually the fourth
30:52
Speaker 9: of October.
30:54
Speaker 3: It was waking up on that morning and she wasn't
30:56
Speaker 3: in her bed.
30:58
Speaker 4: The worst thing going through my head was that she
31:00
Speaker 4: might have been involved in an accident and she'd gone
31:03
Speaker 4: out with her phone and keys in her pajamas dressing gown,
31:07
Speaker 4: so no idea on her.
31:10
Speaker 6: I was getting ready for workers as well at the time.
31:13
Speaker 6: I said I'll try ringing her. I left her a
31:14
Speaker 6: message nothing.
31:17
Speaker 4: I phoned nine nine nine and I said, I wonder
31:19
Speaker 4: know if there'd been any reports of a woman being
31:21
Speaker 4: involved in an accident, and she asked me how taught
31:25
Speaker 4: was she and what color was her hair, and no
31:29
Speaker 4: alarm bells were going off in my head at all.
31:32
Speaker 4: And then she said someone would be around to see
31:34
Speaker 4: us in about an hour, and still no alarm bells
31:37
Speaker 4: were going off.
31:40
Speaker 1: Just minutes later, a detective was knocking on the door
31:43
Speaker 1: of Adele and Mark Jarvis's.
31:45
Speaker 3: Home and this man came in.
31:49
Speaker 4: It was just so normal, and he was telling us
31:51
Speaker 4: to sit down and I'm like, oh no, it's a right,
31:53
Speaker 4: I don't need to sit down, and he said.
31:56
Speaker 6: I need to tell you something. We found a body
31:59
Speaker 6: and we believe if it's your daughter. The impact was
32:05
Speaker 6: just like being punched by Mike Tyson.
32:08
Speaker 7: You just what?
32:11
Speaker 4: And I remember screaming at him, how dare you come
32:14
Speaker 4: into my house and tell me my daughter's dead. You
32:17
Speaker 4: don't know her, you don't even know what she looks like.
32:20
Speaker 1: Natalie's sister, Jemma, at work that morning, had been making
32:24
Speaker 1: phone calls to try to find out where Natalie.
32:27
Speaker 10: It might be.
32:29
Speaker 9: The next thing I know, I got a phone call
32:32
Speaker 9: from Mark and he was crying and he was like, Jemmy,
32:36
Speaker 9: you need to come home, and I went downstairs and
32:39
Speaker 9: spoke to the manager that was in charge, and I
32:41
Speaker 9: said to her, I need to go home.
32:42
Speaker 3: My sister's dead.
32:46
Speaker 9: I didn't know how, why your body something horrible what happened,
32:50
Speaker 9: and I was never going to sear her.
33:01
Speaker 4: We weren't allowed to see her till the friday. So
33:04
Speaker 4: between Wednesday and the Friday, it felt like I was
33:08
Speaker 4: just not believe in it.
33:10
Speaker 9: It's not Natalie, it's not Natalie. Can't be Natalie wringing
33:14
Speaker 9: her phone and obviously she did not so, but you
33:17
Speaker 9: still didn't believe it it was her until we were
33:20
Speaker 9: taking to the mortuary.
33:23
Speaker 6: When they pull the curtains back. That's when reality hit her.
33:26
Speaker 6: And you know that you've been praying and the following
33:31
Speaker 6: hope because you boss.
33:36
Speaker 9: She had a towel brought up to her chin that
33:39
Speaker 9: was hiding injuries that he inflicted on her all around
33:43
Speaker 9: her neck, and we really did touch her.
33:47
Speaker 4: They let us in. We could only touch her face
33:50
Speaker 4: and her hair, and we were kissing her and crying.
33:53
Speaker 3: But it's the worst image.
33:55
Speaker 4: You just don't want to see that little child laying
34:00
Speaker 4: there stone cold hard.
34:06
Speaker 3: I can't tell you about it is. It's just something
34:08
Speaker 3: that will never get over.
34:17
Speaker 1: The next days and weeks passed in a blur and
34:20
Speaker 1: Natalie's shocked and breathing family. By this time, both Wheelerhan
34:24
Speaker 1: and one of his friends had been charged with murder.
34:28
Speaker 1: Both defendants could request their own separate post mortem, so
34:32
Speaker 1: it was some time before Natalie's body could be released.
34:36
Speaker 4: Natalie's funeral was on the nineteenth of November. Natalie's funeral
34:43
Speaker 4: was amazing.
34:45
Speaker 3: It was so big.
34:47
Speaker 9: She was in this beautiful white coffin. We wanted a
34:50
Speaker 9: rainbow on it. Because Natalie's life was very colorful.
34:57
Speaker 4: She would have seen it as one big party, and
34:59
Speaker 4: it was. It was very emotional. We all wrote little
35:03
Speaker 4: notes and we were able to put them in a
35:07
Speaker 4: jar and they were going to get put in her coffin.
35:11
Speaker 4: It was very sad, as you can imagine, but it
35:13
Speaker 4: was big and that would have left it.
35:17
Speaker 6: There must have been upwards of three hundred people, the
35:20
Speaker 6: people from all walks of life, and we'd never seen
35:23
Speaker 6: that Natalie had had an impact on. It's just phenomenal.
35:30
Speaker 1: Five months after Natalie Jarvis's funeral, her family attended the
35:35
Speaker 1: trial of the men charged with her murder. The trial
35:39
Speaker 1: of Maidstone Crown Court began on the third of April
35:43
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen.
35:45
Speaker 9: I was there every single day of the trial.
35:47
Speaker 3: We had a lot of people.
35:48
Speaker 9: I think most days there was about thirty thirty or
35:51
Speaker 9: forty people on our side in terms of family and
35:54
Speaker 9: friends that wanted to be there to support us during it.
35:56
Speaker 3: It was about justice finale.
35:58
Speaker 2: Adam Willehan and Tom, who were both charged with Natalie's murder,
36:02
Speaker 2: both pleaded not guilty.
36:05
Speaker 8: Tom, who was after all in the car hiding in
36:07
Speaker 8: the boot and then drove Adam away.
36:11
Speaker 5: Tom was properly tried and properly acquitted.
36:15
Speaker 7: In my view, he was acquitted.
36:17
Speaker 5: Because even at the very last minute, I don't genuinely
36:22
Speaker 5: think he thought anything other than all this really can't
36:26
Speaker 5: be happening.
36:31
Speaker 1: Mark and Adele Jarvis had never before they dies on
36:34
Speaker 1: Adam Wheeler and the men their daughter had liked and
36:37
Speaker 1: who's still accused of taking her life.
36:42
Speaker 9: The first day of the court we got a proper
36:44
Speaker 9: look at him.
36:45
Speaker 4: To me, he looked like a little boy. He didn't
36:49
Speaker 4: look like he was sorry.
36:52
Speaker 9: We were filled with rage. It was just so surreal.
36:58
Speaker 9: All we wanted to know was.
36:59
Speaker 1: Why accused of murdering Natalie Jarvis in cold blood. Wheeler
37:04
Speaker 1: Han stuck to his claim that he'd killed her in
37:07
Speaker 1: self defense after she'd lunged at him with a knife.
37:10
Speaker 1: For Natalie's loved ones, it was an outlandish claim.
37:15
Speaker 9: The idea that she would go out to attack someone
37:17
Speaker 9: was shock him. We were just like, you're you having
37:20
Speaker 9: a laugh light. My sister was just she would cure
37:24
Speaker 9: you with kindness like.
37:25
Speaker 3: That was it.
37:27
Speaker 1: Prosecutor Ian Atchison presented forensic evidence that demolished Wheelerhan's claims,
37:33
Speaker 1: starting with the pathologist description of the injuries to Natalie's neck.
37:39
Speaker 7: Hole where her larynx might be.
37:43
Speaker 5: That injury was the combination of so many knife wounds
37:47
Speaker 5: that the forensic pathologist was unable to quantify how many
37:52
Speaker 5: separate blows had.
37:53
Speaker 7: Caused that injury.
37:55
Speaker 5: All he could say about it was that the depth
37:59
Speaker 5: of the blow to that injury was eleven and a
38:02
Speaker 5: half centimeters.
38:04
Speaker 7: That sort of furious stabbing to the most vulnerable part
38:09
Speaker 7: of the body. That's not self defense.
38:12
Speaker 10: He stabbed her more than twenty times in the neck
38:16
Speaker 10: and the chest. It takes quite a long time to
38:20
Speaker 10: stab somebody that number of times. He didn't stab her
38:25
Speaker 10: and then suddenly think, oh my god, what have I done?
38:29
Speaker 10: He kept going and kept going because he was rage fueled.
38:36
Speaker 8: There was about one hundred and fifty meters of blood
38:38
Speaker 8: spatter from the car to where her body was eventually found.
38:44
Speaker 5: She managed to walk thirty five meters after the first
38:49
Speaker 5: plainly fatal spurt of blood, and then as each pulse
38:55
Speaker 5: came it was less blood and it went a shorter
38:59
Speaker 5: day distance as the life literally ed out of her.
39:05
Speaker 1: The prosecution contended that the attack was of a savagery
39:09
Speaker 1: that couldn't be explained by Willim's claim of defending himself.
39:13
Speaker 1: They also drew on hundreds of text messages to prove
39:17
Speaker 1: it had been premeditated.
39:20
Speaker 5: We had incontroversible text message evidence of him expressing the
39:26
Speaker 5: desire to kill her. We have a month where he
39:31
Speaker 5: demonstrates absolutely no interest in seeing her again, and then
39:37
Speaker 5: when he tells his mates, right, tonight's the night. For
39:40
Speaker 5: the first time in a thousand text message, she said,
39:43
Speaker 5: all right, Natalie, why don't we go out together. I'll
39:46
Speaker 5: come and pick you up and then lo and behold.
39:49
Speaker 5: Within seconds and getting out of the car, she is
39:52
Speaker 5: faced down on the pavement with horrendous fatal interests.
40:01
Speaker 1: If Wieland's premeditated rage Field attack had been in response
40:05
Speaker 1: to believing Natalie was expecting his child. The post mortem
40:09
Speaker 1: findings were especially poignant. Natalie had not been pregnant at
40:14
Speaker 1: the time that she was killed.
40:17
Speaker 8: On the twenty fourth of April twenty thirteen, the jury
40:21
Speaker 8: retire to consider their verdict. It takes some less than
40:26
Speaker 8: four hours to come back and convict Adam Wi Lan
40:31
Speaker 8: of Natalie Jervis's murder.
40:34
Speaker 6: The whole family were yes, nothing else, no gloating, nothing,
40:40
Speaker 6: Whilst we're satisfied that he was found Gilly. There's no
40:44
Speaker 6: elation in it. It's just the system that we believe
40:48
Speaker 6: in has proven that you were Gilly.
40:54
Speaker 8: That same day. The judge sentences Adam of course to
40:58
Speaker 8: life imprisonment with a minimum term of twenty six years.
41:04
Speaker 6: The judge said in court Willian could have got rid
41:06
Speaker 6: of his phone, could have changed his number if all
41:09
Speaker 6: this talk of harassment was true. He didn't have to
41:12
Speaker 6: come and pick her up. He didn't have to do anything.
41:15
Speaker 6: You know, he wasn't forced into this. He could have
41:18
Speaker 6: walked away. The senselessness is just the loss of life,
41:22
Speaker 6: and such a life of such a vibrant person. It
41:26
Speaker 6: just beggars belief.
41:27
Speaker 3: He just doesn't add up.
41:30
Speaker 7: He didn't have a soul.
41:33
Speaker 5: I recall clearly asking him, did you feel anything for
41:37
Speaker 5: her before this happened?
41:39
Speaker 7: No? And once it had happened, she'd been your friend.
41:44
Speaker 5: Did you feel anything about her lying on a slab
41:49
Speaker 5: in a morgue?
41:51
Speaker 2: Now?
41:52
Speaker 7: Do you feel anything about her now? Her mother's sitting
41:57
Speaker 7: over there? Do you have any feelings for that?
42:00
Speaker 6: No?
42:01
Speaker 7: And it was as if he wasn't the same species
42:04
Speaker 7: as us.
42:07
Speaker 1: With her killer behind bars, Natalie Jarvis's family had been
42:11
Speaker 1: left to pick up the pieces of their lives as
42:13
Speaker 1: best they can and to remember the twenty three years
42:17
Speaker 1: they enjoyed were a beloved daughter and sister.
42:22
Speaker 9: When I think of Natalie, I just think, fun boom,
42:26
Speaker 9: there she is.
42:27
Speaker 3: She was just amazing.
42:29
Speaker 9: I am so thankful and I'm so lucky that I
42:32
Speaker 9: had such a perfect sister.
42:36
Speaker 4: She was special, She was beautiful, happy. I was had
42:41
Speaker 4: to smile on her face. She lit up the room.
42:45
Speaker 3: She was my world.
42:46
Speaker 9: Her and her sister Jimma are everything and more to me.
42:51
Speaker 9: I'm born to be their mom and privileged and honored
42:56
Speaker 9: to be their mom.
43:00
Speaker 1: Started as A simple story of two young people enjoying
43:03
Speaker 1: each other's company descended within months to a callous murder
43:08
Speaker 1: plot hatched by a man whose friends did nothing to
43:11
Speaker 1: change his course of action. Natalie Jarvis was a loving
43:17
Speaker 1: young woman who brought only joy to the people who
43:20
Speaker 1: knew her. In taking her life, Adam Wheelerhan has proved
43:24
Speaker 1: to be one of the world's most evil killers.