She Was Walking Home From School. A Convicted Rapist Was Waiting.
Three days before her 18th birthday, 17-year-old Jeshma Raithatha left school and started the same walk home she always took. She never made it.
Hidden in the undergrowth, a man dragged her into a concealed den, strangled her, raped her, and stabbed her through the heart so she could never identify him. Her body wasn’t found for eight days. By then the killer had already fled the country.
His name was Viktors Dembovskis — a Latvian with prior rape convictions who had been living freely in London. He almost got away with it.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the…
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