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Serial Killer Documentary - The Hitch Hiker Killer · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: 22nd of December, 1984, Roehampton, southwest London, England. 29-year-old Deirdre
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Speaker 1: Sainsbury had left her parents' home in Sussex and was
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Speaker 1: heading to Berkshire and the Greenham Common Peace Camp she
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Speaker 1: called home.
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Speaker 2: She was described by the family as a free spirit.
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Speaker 2: If she needed to get from A to B, she
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Speaker 2: would inevitably do that by hitchhiking.
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Speaker 1: A car soon pulled over to offer Deirdre a ride.
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Speaker 1: The driver was a man called Colin Campbell.
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Speaker 3: There was nothing frightening about Campbell. He just looked like
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Speaker 3: your dad or your brother.
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Speaker 1: Looking like Mr Ordinary was what Campbell relied on. He
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Speaker 1: was a predator hunting for victims.
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Speaker 4: When he sees a woman out on her own, he
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Speaker 4: sees that as an opportunity, an opportunity to go and
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Speaker 4: take what he feels entitled to.
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Speaker 1: Campbell was friendly and soon made it clear what he
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Speaker 1: really wanted, but Deirdre resisted his sexual advances.
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Speaker 2: And he lost his temper, strangled her.
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Speaker 4: This is somebody who didn't just want to kill her,
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Speaker 4: but wanted to completely obliterate her.
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Speaker 2: His response to that was, to make it look like
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Speaker 2: the work of a madman so nobody would suspect it
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Speaker 2: was me.
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Speaker 3: It's the satisfaction of someone who has got the most
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Speaker 3: incredible thrill out of killing.
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Speaker 1: Colin Campbell was ruthless and manipulative. Killing Deirdre wasn't enough
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Speaker 1: for him. He wanted to destroy her because she was
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Speaker 1: a woman. He didn't fear being caught. He'd gone away
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Speaker 1: with it before. No one suspected this ordinary-looking man was
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Speaker 1: one of the world's most evil killers. In August 1981,
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Speaker 1: Colin Campbell was on the prowl. 17-year-old Clare Walterton was
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Speaker 1: walking home in West London when Campbell drove past and
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Speaker 1: offered her a ride. He was 20 years older than Clare, married,
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Speaker 1: and worked as a traveling salesman with a company car.
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Speaker 1: He looked like a safe bet for a young woman
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Speaker 1: to accept his kind offer.
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Speaker 5: She was wrong. Campbell was anything but.
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Speaker 3: There was nothing remarkable about him, but there must have
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Speaker 3: been something, because as you look at his crimes, you
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Speaker 3: realize that there was a rage, particularly against women, built
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Speaker 3: into his character somewhere.
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Speaker 1: The following morning, 18 miles from where she'd met Campbell,
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Speaker 1: Claire's mutilated body was found naked on a riverbank in
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Speaker 1: the town of Windsor.
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Speaker 4: When we look at how Claire was killed, she had
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Speaker 4: a very deep wound to her throat, so her throat
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Speaker 4: had been cut by her killer. And this was a
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Speaker 4: very significant injury. It was very clear what the killer's
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Speaker 4: intention was, and that was to end her life. This
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Speaker 4: was no accident.
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Speaker 1: Despite exhaustive efforts by the police, there was nothing to
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Speaker 1: connect Campbell to Claire's murder. It was 1981, and DNA
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Speaker 1: profiling was in its infancy. The forensic evidence recovered from
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Speaker 1: the crime scene and Claire's body revealed nothing. The case
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Speaker 1: went cold, and the files were put in storage. Campbell
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Speaker 1: had got away with murder.
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Speaker 4: After he'd killed Claire and he thought he'd got away
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Speaker 4: with it, Campbell just returned back to his normal life,
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Speaker 4: and we see this happening in quite a few cases
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Speaker 4: of people who commit multiple murder. They commit the most
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Speaker 4: horrendous crimes, and then the next day, they're back to
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Speaker 4: their mundane reality, their routine.
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Speaker 1: Claire's family were left in a painful limbo, knowing her
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Speaker 1: killer was still out there.
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Speaker 5: It would be.
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Speaker 1: 32 years before they'd get any closure. This killer story
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Speaker 1: begins on the 16th of September, 1947. Colin Frederick Campbell
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Speaker 1: was born in India.
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Speaker 4: We don't seem to know very much about Colin Campbell's background.
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Speaker 4: We know that he lived in India until he was
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Speaker 4: nine because his father was in the British Army over there.
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Speaker 4: But aside from that, there doesn't seem to be very
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Speaker 4: much information about his childhood, his upbringing, anything that might
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Speaker 4: have had an impact on him.
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Speaker 3: So this is not a boy who's been furious with
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Speaker 3: the world, who is desperate to make his mark, who
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Speaker 3: is in and out of juvenile court. in and out
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Speaker 3: of prison as a young man finds it.
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Speaker 5: No, none of that.
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Speaker 4: Looking at Campbell's relationship with his mother, she seems to
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Speaker 4: see him as a little angel who can do no wrong.
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Speaker 4: She seems to be somebody who protects him from the
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Speaker 4: outside world, who kind of makes him immune to any
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Speaker 4: consequences for his actions. And I think that does go
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Speaker 4: quite some way to making sense of the person that
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Speaker 4: he is and the way that he behaves. I think
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Speaker 4: that did have an impact on his relationship with women,
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Speaker 4: how he saw women. He saw women as there for him,
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Speaker 4: to protect him, to do things for him.
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Speaker 1: When his father's tour of duty was over, the family
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Speaker 1: returned from India to the UK. By the age of 34,
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Speaker 1: Campbell was married, working for an engineering company and living
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Speaker 1: with his wife in Hanwell, West London.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he had any previous convictions. I don't
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Speaker 2: think he'd come to the notice of the police at all.
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Speaker 2: He was working as a salesman. On the face of it,
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Speaker 2: a respectable person. His next-door neighbour, I recall, was a
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Speaker 2: serving police officer, and they did socialise, albeit only to
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Speaker 2: a limited extent, but he was a respectable citizen.
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Speaker 3: Campbell, to an ordinary person, Campbell would be the neighbour
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Speaker 3: that you... Went about his business, was a traveling salesman,
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Speaker 3: came in and out, dropped the car, walked around. As
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Speaker 3: far as anyone would know, Campbell was a perfectly ordinary guy.
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Speaker 1: Campbell suffered from epilepsy, though not severely enough to prevent
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Speaker 1: him from driving. He enjoyed sport and regularly played hockey.
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Speaker 1: He had no children, but appeared to be a happily
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Speaker 1: married man.
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Speaker 4: Having a place within a family means you've got a
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Speaker 4: roof over your head, you get looked after, you get
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Speaker 4: your meals cooked for you, you get some of your
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Speaker 4: needs met. So it's not surprising to me that we
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Speaker 4: do see many murderers living relatively normal lives because it
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Speaker 4: provides that veneer of respectability.
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Speaker 3: I would love to have talked to his wife to
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Speaker 3: find out what he was like in the privacy of
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Speaker 3: their house.
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Speaker 5: It would have been fascinating, I think.
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Speaker 2: Because he was a salesman and he had a company car,
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Speaker 2: he was, to some extent, free to roam. He obviously
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Speaker 2: had an area that he had to cover, but he
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Speaker 2: would set off each day or whatever and could be
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Speaker 2: doing almost anything and going almost anywhere.
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Speaker 1: On 27th August 1981, Campbell's life changed forever when he
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Speaker 1: killed for the first time. He was driving in southwest
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Speaker 1: London when he saw 17-year-old Claire Wolterton walking along the
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Speaker 1: Uxbridge Road alone.
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Speaker 6: She was described as a hard-working, precious girl in the
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Speaker 6: prime of her life. She was also described as having
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Speaker 6: a great sense of humor and sort of had the
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Speaker 6: whole world in front of her. She's also described as
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Speaker 6: sort of helping anyone who'd ask for help and was
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Speaker 6: popular with a lot of her friends.
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Speaker 1: Claire was in a relationship with a married man and
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Speaker 1: she planned to see him that evening.
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Speaker 3: Claire makes it seem to her mother and brother that
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Speaker 3: she isn't going out that night. She's going to stay
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Speaker 3: at home, she's done some ironing, nothing untoward. But later
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Speaker 3: she slips out of the house to go and visit
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Speaker 3: the older married lover.
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Speaker 5: But at some point in that.
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Speaker 3: The couple have a row.
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Speaker 5: He says, I'll drive you home. She says, no. He says, yes,
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Speaker 5: I will.
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Speaker 6: And obviously, Claire had been brought to the destination by
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Speaker 6: this man, but following that argument, she decided to head
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Speaker 6: back home on her own.
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Speaker 3: So she starts to walk back home to her home
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Speaker 3: in Northhold.
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Speaker 5: Not all that far.
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Speaker 3: In other words, she's not hiking across London. She's a
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Speaker 3: comparatively small part of West London. And then she has
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Speaker 3: the misfortune, and it is simply misfortune, to encounter Colin Campbell.
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Speaker 1: Campbell offered her a lift, and the next day, Claire
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Speaker 1: would be found dead by a commuter heading to Windsor
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Speaker 1: and Eton railway station.
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Speaker 6: He was walking along Barry Avenue adjacent with the River
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Speaker 6: Thames when he discovered a young girl lying in the road.
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Speaker 6: She was naked, had her.
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Speaker 4: Throat cut, Claire was out on her own, and society,
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Speaker 4: especially at this time, judged women for those things, putting
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Speaker 4: themselves in these situations. He knew about that, and that
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Speaker 4: is something he would seize on.
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Speaker 6: Her mother woke the next day to find Claire wasn't home.
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Speaker 6: She turned the television, watched the news and saw that
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Speaker 6: a body had been discovered in Windsor in Berkshire. She
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Speaker 6: sort of had a feeling that something wasn't quite right
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Speaker 6: and just thought instantly that could be Claire.
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Speaker 5: Well, yes, unfortunately it was.
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Speaker 3: She just had a dreadful misfortune to be in the
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Speaker 3: wrong place at the wrong time and it's a tragedy.
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Speaker 3: She couldn't have known. She could not have known. And
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Speaker 3: what's more, it was an entirely random attack. Campbell did
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Speaker 3: not know her, did not know Claire at all, because
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Speaker 3: without this cheerful young 17-year-old knowing it, she falls into
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Speaker 3: the hands of a man who could only be called
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Speaker 3: a predator.
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Speaker 1: Colin Campbell was Mr. Ordinary, a respectable, hardworking man, the
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Speaker 1: perfect disguise. the police would be faced with a worst-case scenario,
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Speaker 1: a random victim murdered by a stranger. Just after six
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Speaker 1: in the morning on the 28th of August, 1981, the
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Speaker 1: body of 17-year-old Claire Wolterton was found.
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Speaker 4: After Campbell had killed Claire and mutilated her body, he
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Speaker 4: left it out in public to be discovered. She was
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Speaker 4: on display, in a way. And this was an incredibly
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Speaker 4: deliberate part of the murder. He wants the body to
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Speaker 4: be discovered. He doesn't want to be caught, but he
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Speaker 4: wants it to be acknowledged that this killing has taken place,
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Speaker 4: and he knows that he's responsible for it. So this
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Speaker 4: is his way of displaying what he's done.
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Speaker 3: This is rage at women, and in particular, their sexuality.
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Speaker 5: It's truly terrifying.
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Speaker 4: Colin Campbell didn't just kill Claire. He spent time with
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Speaker 4: her body afterwards. He mutilated her body. He slashed and
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Speaker 4: stabbed at her private parts, her vagina. He went for
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Speaker 4: the parts of her that were distinctly female, distinctly feminine.
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Speaker 4: So this tells us that Campbell has an underlying hatred
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Speaker 4: of women. He is a misogynist. It's also a way
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Speaker 4: of saying that this victim is mine. I possess them.
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Speaker 4: I own them. I can do what I want with them.
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Speaker 1: Forensic analysis determined that Claire had not been killed at
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Speaker 1: the crime scene. Police had a lot of questions and
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Speaker 1: no answers. Only her killer, Colin Campbell, knew the truth.
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Speaker 3: How long did he keep her in the car? Where
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Speaker 3: exactly did he commit the crime? We're not sure. Was
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Speaker 3: it committed in the car? I doubt it, because her
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Speaker 3: throat was cut from behind, and that would be difficult
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Speaker 3: to do if he was in the driving seat and
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Speaker 3: she was in the passenger seat. So, A, where did
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Speaker 3: he kill her? And, B, where did he mutilate her?
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Speaker 3: Where did he strip her naked?
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Speaker 1: Claire's married boyfriend was questioned and released when he was
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Speaker 1: found to have a solid alibi. The police had few
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Speaker 1: leads and very little forensic evidence.
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Speaker 3: A couple of ladies come forward and say they might
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Speaker 3: have seen a girl dragged into a car, but there's
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Speaker 3: no description of the car, there's no description of the
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Speaker 3: number plate, there's no description of who might have been
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Speaker 3: in it.
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Speaker 5: Nothing.
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Speaker 1: Clare's horrific murder was a high-profile case that attracted national
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Speaker 1: media attention, yet the police had no other suspects.
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Speaker 7: In the early 80s, there wouldn't have been DNA profiling
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Speaker 7: as we know it today. Their sort of biological analysis
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Speaker 7: would be limited mostly to sort of hair examinations or
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Speaker 7: blood grouping type tests.
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Speaker 6: As part of this investigation, strips of tape was placed
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Speaker 6: on the body to remove any potential debris or evidence
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Speaker 6: which might link her killer with the murder.
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Speaker 7: Effectively, it's just sections of adhesive tape just applied systematically
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Speaker 7: over the body or items of clothing. So there were
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Speaker 7: a series of tapings taken at the scene and then
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Speaker 7: subsequently at the post-mortem.
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Speaker 8: Tapings have been common practice for many years, doing fiber tapings,
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Speaker 8: particularly in crimes like this, where you suspect a close
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Speaker 8: connection between victim and suspects.
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Speaker 1: Analysis of the samples taken from Claire's body at the
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Speaker 1: time of her discovery revealed nothing, and the forensic exhibits
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Speaker 1: were placed in storage.
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Speaker 6: Despite all the investigations that had gone on into Claire's murder,
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Speaker 6: there had been no evidence to link anyone with the murder.
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Speaker 6: A lot of work had gone into sort of, like,
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Speaker 6: speaking to witnesses, people who discovered the body in Windsor.
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Speaker 6: There was nothing to link any individual, and the case
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Speaker 6: had to be put on ice for the time being.
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Speaker 3: You're looking at one of the worst kind of cases,
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Speaker 3: no connection to the victim, an entirely random attack, and
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Speaker 3: the police, not surprisingly, run out of leads. Doesn't mean
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Speaker 3: they don't care about the case. I think they cared
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Speaker 3: about the case a lot. She was brutally attacked, savagely.
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Speaker 5: But where do they go? They can do house-to-house. They
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Speaker 5: can make appeals.
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Speaker 3: But who's going to point the finger at Colin Campbell,
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Speaker 3: a man who lives with his wife and is a
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Speaker 3: traveling salesman?
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Speaker 5: Nobody.
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Speaker 1: The police feared that Claire's sadistic killer may never be caught.
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Speaker 4: The fact that Campbell was not caught for this murder
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Speaker 4: really would have increased his confidence. It would have given
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Speaker 4: him a significant kind of sense of, oh, I got
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Speaker 4: away with this. I could potentially get away with it again.
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Speaker 4: There are no consequences for his actions. And this seems
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Speaker 4: to be a bit of a continuity with Campbell in
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Speaker 4: terms of actions and consequences. So when he doesn't get
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Speaker 4: caught for something, when he gets away with it, that
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Speaker 4: just emboldens him all the more.
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Speaker 3: And he goes back to conducting his life exactly as
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Speaker 3: he conducted it before. He's still a travelling salesman, still
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Speaker 3: out and about, does what he wants, comes and.
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Speaker 5: Goes, back to his wife.
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Speaker 3: Nothing, nothing to suggest that he's committed a crime or
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Speaker 3: that he's suffering any kind of guilt or remorse.
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Speaker 4: Nothing.
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Speaker 1: For almost three years, Colin Campbell continued to hide in
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Speaker 1: plain sight, going about his daily routine.
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Speaker 4: From the outside, Colin Campbell appeared to have a relatively
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Speaker 4: normal life. He has this veneer of respectability. He has
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Speaker 4: a job. He's married. It looks like he's just your regular,
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Speaker 4: average guy. But this is something we see very often
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Speaker 4: in cases of people who go on to commit horrendous
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Speaker 4: violence and murder. They don't stand out. They're chameleons. They
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Speaker 4: blend in to the background.
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Speaker 1: In 1984, there was a heated ban-the-bomb debate over the
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Speaker 1: arrival of American missiles.
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Speaker 5: In the UK.
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Speaker 1: 29-year-old Deirdre Sainsbury was a passionate anti-nuclear weapons campaigner.
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Speaker 3: The daughter of a very well-known British psychiatrist. She was idealistic.
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Speaker 3: She believed that the world could change, and for the better.
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Speaker 3: And indeed, was so convinced that she joined what was
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Speaker 3: then a burgeoning movement at Greenham Common of women committed
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Speaker 3: to saving the world from cruise missiles. It had been
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Speaker 3: decided that this airfield, not far from Newbury in Berkshire,
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Speaker 3: would be the site for 96 cruise intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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Speaker 3: And the women of Greenham, and they were all women,
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Speaker 3: camped there In protest. Indeed, the protest lasted for almost
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Speaker 3: 20 years.
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Speaker 2: She was described by the family as a free spirit.
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Speaker 2: If she needed to get from A to B, she
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Speaker 2: would inevitably do that by hitchhiking. She was a really
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Speaker 2: experienced hitchhiker, didn't really seem to have any fear of that,
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Speaker 2: and had not ever in the past had any problems,
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Speaker 2: as far as I'm aware. So, you know, she was
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Speaker 2: her own woman and did what she thought was right.
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Speaker 1: On Saturday, December 22nd, 1984, Colin Campbell had been playing hockey,
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Speaker 1: one of his favorite sports. After the game, he was
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Speaker 1: driving on the South Circular Road in London near Roehampton.
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Speaker 4: Campbell is a killer who is predatory. He is quite
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Speaker 4: good at sniffing out vulnerabilities in other people. So when
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Speaker 4: he sees a woman hitchhiking, when he sees a woman
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Speaker 4: out on her own, he sees that as an opportunity,
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Speaker 4: an opportunity to go and take what he feels entitled to.
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Speaker 1: Deirdre Sainsbury had been visiting her parents in Sussex and
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Speaker 1: was hitchhiking back to Greenham Common via London. a car
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Speaker 1: stopped to pick her up. It was being driven by
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Speaker 1: Colin Campbell. He saw an opportunity, and before long, he'd
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Speaker 1: killed again. Deirdre, his unfortunate victim.
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Speaker 2: He'd picked her up and had made advances towards her,
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Speaker 2: and she objected, so he lost his temper and thought
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Speaker 2: he'd strangled her. He wasn't sure that she was dead,
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Speaker 2: so he got her out of the car and hit
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Speaker 2: her with his hockey stick.
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Speaker 1: Realising that he was running late and that his wife
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Speaker 1: would wonder where he was, Campbell drove home with Deirdre's
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Speaker 1: dead body in the boot of his car.
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Speaker 3: He goes home and then he makes up the most
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Speaker 3: bizarre excuse. He's got blood everywhere. He's got Deirdre Sainsbury's
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Speaker 3: blood on his jacket, and he makes the most ridiculous
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Speaker 3: excuse about, oh, he's broken his nose while he's playing hockey,
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Speaker 3: and it's his blood on his jacket, and he's going
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Speaker 3: to go and get an X-ray to make sure he's
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Speaker 3: all right.
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Speaker 4: Campbell is a pathological liar. He's able to lie very
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Speaker 4: easily because his main concern is protecting himself, is preserving
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Speaker 4: his freedom. preserving his ability to potentially do this again.
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Speaker 4: So lying is something that he doesn't struggle with because
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Speaker 4: he doesn't feel bad about it. He doesn't feel guilty
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Speaker 4: when he misleads somebody or he says something that isn't
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Speaker 4: really true.
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Speaker 3: We do know that she wasn't sexually assaulted, but we
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Speaker 3: also know that she was, again, mutilated, just as Claire
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Speaker 3: had been mutilated. That same rage that came out in
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Speaker 3: the killing of Clare Walterton, comes out in the killing
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Speaker 3: of Deirdre Sainsbury. She is something to be defiled, made to,
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Speaker 3: subjected to the worst indignities imaginable to a woman. And
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Speaker 3: all to satisfy Campbell's urges. But this time, there is
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Speaker 3: a slight difference, because this time, he cuts off her
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Speaker 3: left breast.
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Speaker 5: And takes it away.
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Speaker 1: In the early morning on 23rd December 1984, a woman
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Speaker 1: out walking her dog in Denham, Buckinghamshire, saw what she
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Speaker 1: thought was a tailor's dummy lying by the side of
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Speaker 1: the golf course. On closer inspection, she realised it was
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Speaker 1: the naked body of a young woman.
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Speaker 2: It was my duty weekend, the weekend running up to
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Speaker 2: Christmas 1984. I think it was.
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Speaker 3: Obviously.
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Speaker 2: Apparent to the initial officers who attended that this was
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Speaker 2: a murder. The woman had quite significant head injuries. So
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Speaker 2: there were a number of other police personnel at the
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Speaker 2: scene when I got there. I think we very quickly
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Speaker 2: came to the conclusion that she'd been murdered elsewhere and
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Speaker 2: the body had been dumped there. And bearing in mind,
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Speaker 2: you know, Denham Golf Course is one of the first
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Speaker 2: areas of green you come to when you leave London.
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Speaker 2: The body was there. naked other than a pair of socks,
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Speaker 2: but the scene search didn't reveal anything of evidential value
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Speaker 2: at all.
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Speaker 5: Well, the police, not surprisingly, are struggling.
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Speaker 3: For Leeds, there is no obvious, there's no boyfriend to
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Speaker 3: be interviewed, there's no angry lover, there's no one.
22:59
Speaker 5: I mean, what you literally have is a body.
23:01
Speaker 2: There were significant injuries to her head including one what
23:10
Speaker 2: at the time we thought that's a strange looking injury
23:13
Speaker 2: it was sort of a curved shape on the side
23:16
Speaker 2: of her head what we didn't realize initially until the
23:21
Speaker 2: pathologist arrived and we were able to look at the
23:25
Speaker 2: body more closely where there were quite horrendous mutilation injuries
23:32
Speaker 2: that had been caused after death.
23:34
Speaker 1: There was no indication that she had been raped, but
23:37
Speaker 1: the sadistic killer had sliced off her left breast. Officers
23:41
Speaker 1: searched the area, but there was no trace of it
23:44
Speaker 1: at the crime scene.
23:46
Speaker 4: It doesn't need to be sexual contact or rape for
23:49
Speaker 4: a murder to be sexually motivated, because this is about possession.
23:53
Speaker 4: It's about control. Sometimes killers will achieve that through sexual assault,
23:57
Speaker 4: through the rape of their victims. Other times they will
24:00
Speaker 4: achieve it in alternative ways, and I think Here is
24:03
Speaker 4: an example of a case like this.
24:08
Speaker 1: The police had no idea who the woman found dead
24:11
Speaker 1: on the golf course was. In 1984, they had limited
24:15
Speaker 1: technology to work with. Identifying the victim could have been difficult.
24:22
Speaker 1: Luckily for the investigation, many of the women peacefully protesting
24:27
Speaker 1: at Greenham Common were on police files.
24:31
Speaker 3: And so she's had her fingerprints taken, so it does
24:33
Speaker 3: not take the police any time at all to identify
24:37
Speaker 3: her as Deirdre Sainsbury.
24:39
Speaker 5: Not that that helps them very much.
24:41
Speaker 3: Because there isn't a great string of suspects around her.
24:46
Speaker 5: It simply says, well, unfortunately, this is the victim.
24:51
Speaker 1: Once Deirdre had been identified, the police needed to trace
24:54
Speaker 1: her last movements, but first, her family were informed.
24:59
Speaker 2: When we traced Deirdre's parents living at an address in Sussex,
25:04
Speaker 2: they're both medical consultants and they were absolutely horrified that
25:09
Speaker 2: anything like this could happen to their daughter.
25:12
Speaker 3: Imagine the impact that must have had on her family.
25:16
Speaker 3: This extraordinary, unmotiveless crime against an entirely innocent and indeed bright,
25:25
Speaker 3: caring young woman.
25:27
Speaker 2: She'd been to visit her parents and she'd left Sussex
25:31
Speaker 2: intending to hitchhike her way back to Greenham Common. She
25:36
Speaker 2: was an experienced hitchhiker and had been doing it for
25:40
Speaker 2: some years, and we thought that her route would have
25:44
Speaker 2: taken her initially towards London.
25:48
Speaker 1: An extensive investigation to find Deirdre's killer was launched. It
25:54
Speaker 1: began in the roads around the golf course where she'd
25:57
Speaker 1: been found.
25:59
Speaker 2: A social event for Christmas was being held at some premises.
26:04
Speaker 2: Traffic on Saturday night had been far heavier than one
26:09
Speaker 2: would normally expect. So very quickly, when we started to
26:13
Speaker 2: trace people who'd been at the social event, we were
26:18
Speaker 2: able to find several different witnesses who'd seen cars parked
26:22
Speaker 2: in the pull-in where the body had been found. The
26:26
Speaker 2: people passing... the point where the body was discovered. I
26:30
Speaker 2: can remember there was a headmaster of a school, there
26:33
Speaker 2: was a dustman, and a range of people in between.
26:37
Speaker 2: And I can't remember the exact number. There might have
26:39
Speaker 2: been somewhere between, I don't know, half a dozen and
26:42
Speaker 2: a dozen different people who described seeing a car. The
26:46
Speaker 2: descriptions of the car were so vague that we couldn't
26:50
Speaker 2: say we're looking for a Ford.
26:52
Speaker 5: Or a Volvo or whatever.
26:54
Speaker 2: It was just a dark-colored car. We blitzed the area
26:59
Speaker 2: as best we could with a description of Deirdre, her photograph,
27:04
Speaker 2: and where she was making for. We did the usual
27:07
Speaker 2: house-to-house inquiries, not that there were many houses in the vicinity.
27:11
Speaker 2: We spoke to those people who we could trace who'd
27:14
Speaker 2: used the lane at the time with the results that
27:17
Speaker 2: I've just mentioned. But things were looking quite grim, to
27:22
Speaker 2: be honest.
27:24
Speaker 1: During the 1980s, hitchhiking was a common way to get around.
27:29
Speaker 1: After several high-profile incidents, the media were warning young women
27:33
Speaker 1: of the dangers. This was about to give the police
27:37
Speaker 1: the break they needed.
27:39
Speaker 2: And then the phone rang, and it was a man
27:42
Speaker 2: who was aware of the publicity and called to say
27:47
Speaker 2: that he'd read an article in the Reader's Digest about
27:51
Speaker 2: the dangers of hitchhiking. I had actually read the same article.
27:55
Speaker 2: But he read the article and he saw this lady
27:58
Speaker 2: getting into a car on the South Circular Road and
28:02
Speaker 2: he thought, well, I don't know, that might be dangerous.
28:04
Speaker 2: So he noted the registration number of the car.
28:08
Speaker 5: The police could barely believe their luck.
28:10
Speaker 3: It's an extraordinary, literally out.
28:13
Speaker 5: Of the blue.
28:14
Speaker 3: This is not the marvellous police work.
28:17
Speaker 5: It's not CCTV footage being done. It's simply a bolt
28:22
Speaker 5: from the blue.
28:24
Speaker 1: The number plate given to the police was registered to
28:28
Speaker 1: an engineering firm in West London.
28:31
Speaker 2: An inquiry there showed that it was used by Colin Campbell,
28:36
Speaker 2: one of their salesmen. We discovered that he was attending
28:39
Speaker 2: a sales conference at Newbury, so a team went immediately
28:44
Speaker 2: to Newbury to the hotel where this conference was taking place,
28:48
Speaker 2: interviewed him. Most dissatisfied with the explanations that he gave,
28:55
Speaker 2: they found what they thought could have been a blood-stained
28:58
Speaker 2: penknife in his car, so he was arrested on suspicion
29:03
Speaker 2: of murder.
29:05
Speaker 1: Hopeful that they had Deirdre's depraved killer in custody, a
29:09
Speaker 1: team of investigators were sent to search Campbell's home.
29:13
Speaker 2: And in the shed in the garden of his house,
29:17
Speaker 2: they found some of Deirdre's belongings, most important one of
29:22
Speaker 2: which was her passport. So there was no doubt that
29:26
Speaker 2: this was Deirdre. And the other thing was, when they
29:29
Speaker 2: interviewed his wife, she said that he'd come home on
29:34
Speaker 2: the Saturday, having been out to play hockey, and claim...
29:41
Speaker 2: because his clothing was extensively bloodstained that he'd been injured
29:45
Speaker 2: whilst playing hockey we had the car we had Deirdre's
29:49
Speaker 2: passport so he really had little room to wriggle with
29:54
Speaker 2: it all you know the evidence was there and it
29:56
Speaker 2: was overwhelming.
29:58
Speaker 4: But the fact that Campbell uses his own car, a
30:02
Speaker 4: car that can be traced back to him through his work,
30:05
Speaker 4: just shows how brazen he is, and it shows how
30:07
Speaker 4: confident he is that he'll be able to get away
30:10
Speaker 4: with it.
30:11
Speaker 1: Campbell knew the evidence was stacked against him. He couldn't
30:15
Speaker 1: deny he was the killer, but he did have a
30:18
Speaker 1: plan to defend himself.
30:22
Speaker 2: I spoke briefly to Campbell. He was obviously interviewed in
30:26
Speaker 2: detail by members of the team, But when I asked
30:30
Speaker 2: him why he'd mutilated the body, his response to that
30:34
Speaker 2: was to make it look like the work of a
30:36
Speaker 2: madman so nobody would suspect.
30:39
Speaker 5: It was me.
30:40
Speaker 4: Deidre was beaten. She was strangled. She was hit with
30:44
Speaker 4: a hockey stick. There was much more violence than necessary
30:48
Speaker 4: to end her life. This speaks to a real rage,
30:52
Speaker 4: a real anger in her killer. This is somebody who
30:55
Speaker 4: didn't just want to kill her but wanted to completely
30:58
Speaker 4: obliterate her. And I think this does tell us about
31:02
Speaker 4: Colin Campbell. This tells us about his state of mind
31:05
Speaker 4: at the time. He knew exactly what he was doing,
31:08
Speaker 4: but he was incredibly disproportionate in terms of what he
31:12
Speaker 4: was doing in her murder.
31:15
Speaker 2: His only excuse was he was an epileptic. And he
31:19
Speaker 2: was tending to rely on the fact that that's what
31:23
Speaker 2: caused it to happen without really being able to explain
31:26
Speaker 2: it in any way at all. And when his mother
31:30
Speaker 2: came to see him, she clearly saw him as the victim,
31:35
Speaker 2: I think. No real thought about Deirdre or a family
31:39
Speaker 2: or anything. Colin was in a situation that he didn't deserve,
31:45
Speaker 2: that he shouldn't have been in, and the world was
31:47
Speaker 2: against him.
31:50
Speaker 1: On the 24th July, 1985, at Reading Crown Court, Colin
31:56
Speaker 1: Campbell was facing trial for the brutal murder of 29-year-old
32:00
Speaker 1: peace campaigner Deirdre Sainsbury. Campbell was convinced he'd found a
32:06
Speaker 1: legal loophole to get away with murder.
32:12
Speaker 2: He never really denied it at any stage because he
32:15
Speaker 2: didn't really have the opportunity to. You know, it was
32:17
Speaker 2: his car. Deirdre's passport was in his shed. The bloodstained clothing,
32:24
Speaker 2: which his wife was able to tell us about.
32:28
Speaker 1: Campbell was willing to plead guilty to manslaughter on the
32:32
Speaker 1: grounds of diminished responsibility, claiming that the savage murder of
32:37
Speaker 1: Deirdre was the result of an epileptic episode.
32:41
Speaker 3: He's managed to hold down a perfectly good job for
32:44
Speaker 3: many years, conduct a perfectly ordinary life with a wife
32:48
Speaker 3: in spite of his epilepsy. Why does his epilepsy suddenly
32:52
Speaker 3: drive him to kill Deirdre Sainsbury? It doesn't make any sense.
32:57
Speaker 3: It's a pathetic excuse, utterly pathetic.
33:01
Speaker 2: He would like to have pleaded to manslaughter. The prosecution
33:06
Speaker 2: wouldn't accept a plea to manslaughter and insisted that he
33:09
Speaker 2: should be tried for murder.
33:12
Speaker 1: The trial lasted just three days and Campbell was found
33:16
Speaker 1: guilty of the murder of Deirdre Sainsbury.
33:19
Speaker 2: I don't recall the jury being out very long and
33:23
Speaker 2: he was sentenced to life imprisonment and I think we
33:26
Speaker 2: all thought that was the right result.
33:29
Speaker 4: Campbell's behaviour in court was like something out of a
33:33
Speaker 4: made-for-television movie. When he was convicted, he appeared unsteady on
33:37
Speaker 4: his feet and then he appeared to faint, so incredibly dramatic.
33:42
Speaker 4: And what he's trying to achieve here is a kind
33:45
Speaker 4: of poor-me narrative. Feel sorry for me. Isn't this terrible?
33:50
Speaker 4: Look at my suffering.
33:52
Speaker 3: When the jury convict, his mother shouts,'' You' re cruel and
33:55
Speaker 3: ignorant at the jury.'' This is a man who's been
33:58
Speaker 3: presenting his entire life as though he's nothing but ordinary,
34:04
Speaker 3: nothing but butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.
34:08
Speaker 2: The attitude of Campbell's mother, it was very much that
34:13
Speaker 2: Colin was the victim. He had a medical condition that
34:19
Speaker 2: put him where he was. It wasn't his fault and
34:22
Speaker 2: nobody seemed to care for him. There was no remorse
34:26
Speaker 2: shown as far as Deirdre is concerned.
34:29
Speaker 4: And I think if that was the tone that was
34:31
Speaker 4: set when he was really young, if that was what
34:34
Speaker 4: he was used to, just being able to get away
34:36
Speaker 4: with doing whatever he wanted, then actually that's something that's
34:40
Speaker 4: been quite damaging in this case.
34:43
Speaker 1: While serving his sentence, Campbell continued to fight for a retrial,
34:48
Speaker 1: still blaming his actions on his epilepsy. He was medically
34:53
Speaker 1: assessed at Broadmoor Hospital, and in 1999, he was granted
34:57
Speaker 1: the right to take his case to the Court of Appeal,
35:00
Speaker 1: 15 years after the murder of Deirdre Sainsbury.
35:05
Speaker 4: Campbell appeals it, and he says that his epilepsy is
35:09
Speaker 4: a factor here, and this lessened his culpability for the crime.
35:14
Speaker 4: And he agreed to plead guilty to manslaughter on the
35:18
Speaker 4: grounds of diminished responsibility. and this was something that was
35:22
Speaker 4: accepted by the prosecution. But this is a play on
35:26
Speaker 4: his skills, essentially, his manipulation, his ability to grasp at
35:31
Speaker 4: anything to save his own skin, and it's just a
35:34
Speaker 4: shame that the system fell for it.
35:37
Speaker 1: Campbell's sentence remained unchanged, but the lesser manslaughter charge meant
35:42
Speaker 1: he was a step closer to being eligible for parole.
35:47
Speaker 6: Following the downgrade in his conviction to manslaughter, Campbell remained
35:51
Speaker 6: in prison. He'd been downgraded to a Category D prisoner,
35:54
Speaker 6: which meant he was able to leave prison for five
35:57
Speaker 6: days a month and spend time in the community before
36:00
Speaker 6: going back to custody. But, yeah, obviously he was out
36:04
Speaker 6: and about with the public and compared to the life
36:06
Speaker 6: he had been living for decades, he had some kind
36:08
Speaker 6: of freedom back in his life.
36:10
Speaker 3: And that might well have been the way in which
36:14
Speaker 3: Campbell returned to society.
36:18
Speaker 5: He's now a man in his 50s.
36:20
Speaker 3: He's clearly working his way towards freedom, at least freedom
36:25
Speaker 3: on licence.
36:27
Speaker 1: There was a genuine possibility Campbell could be granted parole.
36:32
Speaker 1: The detectives who'd brought Campbell to justice, however, were determined
36:36
Speaker 1: he shouldn't be released.
36:39
Speaker 2: I was aware of an outstanding murder in Thames Valley.
36:42
Speaker 2: I'd not been involved in it, but I knew about it.
36:45
Speaker 2: of a young girl by the name of Claire Wolterton,
36:48
Speaker 2: who again was from West London, whose mutilated body was
36:54
Speaker 2: found by the side of the River Thames in Windsor.
36:57
Speaker 2: It seemed to be quite close to the circumstances of
37:01
Speaker 2: Deirdre's death. We spoke to him about it and any
37:06
Speaker 2: other offences, and he didn't want to know, just not
37:09
Speaker 2: interested at all. Officers from the Claire Wolterton inquiry interviewed
37:14
Speaker 2: him as well, but didn't get anywhere with him, and
37:17
Speaker 2: we were unable to find any evidence at all to
37:19
Speaker 2: relate him to Claire Walterton or the area where she
37:23
Speaker 2: was last seen, or indeed to Windsor.
37:27
Speaker 1: With no evidence to connect him to Claire's murder, there
37:31
Speaker 1: was nothing further police could charge him with. Campbell believed
37:35
Speaker 1: he was on the home straight. What he didn't know
37:38
Speaker 1: was that a cold case review had begun into the
37:41
Speaker 1: murder of Claire Walterton.
37:44
Speaker 3: To their eternal credit, the detectives who originally investigated the
37:50
Speaker 3: murder of Claire Walterton all those years ago in 1981
37:56
Speaker 3: reopened the case. And they reopened the case in a
37:59
Speaker 3: very distinct way. They re-examine taping from the body of Claire.
38:06
Speaker 3: They'd taken little DNA swabs on sellotape.
38:10
Speaker 5: Almost lifted them. And even more remarkably, they've kept.
38:14
Speaker 6: Them By that time, the technology in DNA evidence and
38:20
Speaker 6: forensics had sort of progressed. As a result of that,
38:24
Speaker 6: police forces from across the UK were looking into cases
38:28
Speaker 6: which had been unsolved and looking at the DNA evidence.
38:31
Speaker 8: When a suspect is arrested for a recordable offence, their
38:34
Speaker 8: DNA is stored on the natural DNA database. If at
38:39
Speaker 8: that time a sample is not there to match against,
38:44
Speaker 8: so if we don't have a victim sample, then, of course,
38:46
Speaker 8: that individual will not match against that case.
38:50
Speaker 6: In particular, they looked at Claire Wilterton's case and looked
38:52
Speaker 6: at the strips of tape which had been taken from
38:55
Speaker 6: her body in 1981.
38:58
Speaker 3: Now, there are many cases in which the police lose evidence.
39:03
Speaker 5: It's discarded. It's just not there anymore.
39:06
Speaker 3: But someone was very, very careful about Claire Wilterton. Perhaps
39:13
Speaker 3: it was the police involved specifically. but they were very
39:16
Speaker 3: careful because they wanted to know.
39:20
Speaker 1: The cold case review found two DNA profiles on the
39:25
Speaker 1: 30-year-old tapings, one linked to Claire.
39:28
Speaker 6: The other profile found online. on that piece of tape
39:30
Speaker 6: was from an unknown male. When police ran that DNA
39:35
Speaker 6: profile through their database, they discovered that it matched a
39:38
Speaker 6: profile for that of Colin Campbell, who was already serving
39:41
Speaker 6: time in prison for the murder of Deirdre Sainsbury.
39:44
Speaker 7: We subsequently received a reference sample from Colin Campbell to
39:48
Speaker 7: do a more complete comparison of his reference DNA profile
39:53
Speaker 7: and the profile we'd obtained from the tape. And that's
39:56
Speaker 7: what established the initial link.
39:59
Speaker 1: Further analysis of the DNA profile found it to be
40:02
Speaker 1: a one in a billion times likely a match to Campbell.
40:07
Speaker 4: I think Campbell did believe that he had gotten away
40:10
Speaker 4: with it and he was quite surprised to see this
40:12
Speaker 4: come up again. Because at this point in time, he'd
40:15
Speaker 4: been inside for a while. He'd made his way through
40:19
Speaker 4: the prison category system. He was in an open prison.
40:22
Speaker 4: He was tantalisingly close to being released again. So I
40:26
Speaker 4: think he was incredibly angry to discover that actually there
40:30
Speaker 4: was a spanner in the works.
40:33
Speaker 1: On 14th November 2013 at Reading Crown Court, Campbell finally
40:38
Speaker 1: stood trial for the murder of Claire Walterton. He didn't
40:42
Speaker 1: take the stand in his defence. In an attempt to
40:45
Speaker 1: explain his DNA being found on Claire, a video of
40:49
Speaker 1: an interview with the cold case review team was shown
40:53
Speaker 1: in court.
40:55
Speaker 9: My lifestyle meant that the way I was, I wasn't
41:01
Speaker 9: averse to being friendly with the lady.
41:05
Speaker 5: Yeah.
41:07
Speaker 9: I may well have known a series of ladies.
41:10
Speaker 3: OK.
41:12
Speaker 9: I may have been more active, you know. She looks
41:16
Speaker 9: like any girl I may have played hockey with. She
41:19
Speaker 9: looks like any girl I may have met through work.
41:23
Speaker 8: Good.
41:27
Speaker 9: Actually, she looks like a happy person and I'm glad
41:31
Speaker 9: about that. No, I don't think so.
41:35
Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
41:38
Speaker 9: That's not to say I never ever knew her.
41:46
Speaker 4: And all of this is going to be incredibly grating
41:50
Speaker 4: when Claire's family eventually get to hear about it. He
41:53
Speaker 4: knows that he has that knowledge about her. He knows
41:56
Speaker 4: how she died. And he is essentially just playing with
41:59
Speaker 4: people at this point in time.
42:05
Speaker 1: On the 3rd of December 2013, Colin Campbell was found
42:10
Speaker 1: guilty of the murder of Clare Walterton.
42:14
Speaker 5: He's now in his 60s, in his mid-60s.
42:16
Speaker 3: The judge makes it abundantly clear he has to serve
42:19
Speaker 3: a minimum of 24 years in jail for Clare's murder,
42:25
Speaker 3: this brutal attack, and says it's very unlikely that you
42:31
Speaker 3: will ever be released.
42:33
Speaker 5: It's the equivalent of a whole life term.
42:35
Speaker 3: He knows perfectly well that by the time Campbell is 90,
42:39
Speaker 3: he's very unlikely to be released from the prison system.
42:43
Speaker 6: Campbell had spent all this time in prison for the
42:45
Speaker 6: manslaughter of Deirdre Sainsbury. While having this secret, knowing that
42:50
Speaker 6: he had done this to another girl, that was quite exceptional,
42:56
Speaker 6: the fact that he had got away with it for
42:57
Speaker 6: so long and knew about it.
43:00
Speaker 4: I have no doubt that Campbell is a very dangerous man,
43:04
Speaker 4: and I do believe he would have gone on to
43:06
Speaker 4: kill more women had he been released from prison, had
43:09
Speaker 4: he never been apprehended for Claire's murder. Because he'd gotten
43:13
Speaker 4: away with Claire's murder, he'd learned from Deirdre's murder, and
43:17
Speaker 4: I think he was in quite a strong position to
43:19
Speaker 4: do something else again.
43:20
Speaker 3: 32 years after Claire's murder, Campbell is convicted.
43:27
Speaker 5: It's a remarkable piece of police work.
43:31
Speaker 3: One of the most remarkable in British legal history and
43:35
Speaker 3: for which the police deserve every possible commendation.
43:39
Speaker 1: Colin Campbell was a vicious, callous killer hiding behind a
43:43
Speaker 1: mask of respectability. He killed and maimed two young women
43:47
Speaker 1: to satisfy his own perversions. When caught, he refused to
43:52
Speaker 1: face his guilt, instead attempting to blame epilepsy for his actions.
43:57
Speaker 1: Since 1981, Claire Walterton's family had waited desperately for answers
44:02
Speaker 1: only one man could give. That man chose not to
44:06
Speaker 1: relieve their pain, making Colin Campbell one of the world's
44:11
Speaker 1: most evil killers.