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Serial Killer Documentary - Model Turned Killer： Unmasking Tracy Andrews · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: On December one, nineteen ninety six, Tracy Andrews and her
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Speaker 1: fiance Lee Harvey were driving home after a night out
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Speaker 1: when suddenly they began to be pursued by another car.
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Speaker 1: It was a chase that would end in Lee's murder.
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Speaker 2: He was stabbed in the throat, back front, repeatedly, viciously,
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Speaker 2: and continuously.
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Speaker 1: Just two days later, twenty seven year old Tracy gave
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Speaker 1: a heart wrenching press conference appealing for the public's help
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Speaker 1: to find her partner's killer. But all was not what
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Speaker 1: it seemed.
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Speaker 3: And get me on the way of the car sometimes
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Speaker 3: to change person.
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Speaker 4: Letter, and we all kind of looked at each other
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Speaker 4: and four this enormous story just got ten times bigger again.
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Speaker 4: If she is the killer, there.
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Speaker 1: Had been no car chase, there had been no random attack.
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Speaker 1: Tracy Andrews had stabbed her own fiance to death and
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Speaker 1: was trying to get away with murder.
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Speaker 5: This is a woman of cunning, of deceiege and with
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Speaker 5: a vicious temper.
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Speaker 1: Tracy Andrews had deceived a nation and become one of
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Speaker 1: the world's most evil killers. It was a press conference
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Speaker 1: that shocked Britain when twenty seven year old Tracy Andrews
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Speaker 1: defiantly appeared in front of the world's media on December
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six. She wept over the murder of her fiancee,
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Speaker 1: Lee Harvey. She claimed a stranger had stopped the couple
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Speaker 1: in their car before stabbing her twenty five year old
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Speaker 1: partner to death in a savage attack.
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Speaker 5: I just.
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Speaker 3: Tried to stop and could for him as much as
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Speaker 3: I could.
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Speaker 4: But it was all a lie.
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Speaker 1: In reality, Andrews had killed Lee in the most brutal
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Speaker 1: of manners. At her trial, Andrews continued to try and
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Speaker 1: sell her fabricated story. The media were fascinated by her
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Speaker 1: Daily Minner. Journalist Rod Chater managed to interview the wannabe
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Speaker 1: model at Birmingham Crown Court on the day of her conviction.
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Speaker 4: I'm sat next to Tracy. I didn't feel threatened. Obviously
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Speaker 4: she's a killer, but we're not in any kind of
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Speaker 4: environment in which she's likely to suddenly launch an attack
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Speaker 4: on me. So I said, well, you know, do you
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Speaker 4: stick to your story? Yes? I stick to my story.
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Speaker 4: Did you kill him?
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Speaker 6: No?
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Speaker 4: I didn't.
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Speaker 1: Just minutes later, Tracy Andrews was given a life sentence
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Speaker 1: for the murder of her own fiance.
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Speaker 4: I worked as a national newspaper journalist for many years.
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Speaker 4: I covered thousands of stories, dozens of murders. Some stories
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Speaker 4: just stay with you, and this is one of the
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Speaker 4: ones that stays with me.
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Speaker 1: It's a story that begins over forty five years ago.
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Speaker 1: Tracy Andrews was born on the ninth of April nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty nine in the West Midlands.
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Speaker 6: Well Tracy was brought up just outside Birmingham in Redditch
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Speaker 6: and our Church, and she was the middle child. She
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Speaker 6: had an older sibling and a younger sibling and several
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Speaker 6: half siblings. Parents broke up when she was around about
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Speaker 6: six years old because they'd had quite a volatile relationship.
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Speaker 1: The separation of her parents in nineteen seventy five had
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Speaker 1: a lasting effect on young Tracy.
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Speaker 6: Well Tracy's parents split up and her mother got married
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Speaker 6: to another man. And when we look at our parents' relationships,
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Speaker 6: they are quite important because they inform our expectations of
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Speaker 6: other people. Are expectations of the relationships that we go
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Speaker 6: on to have.
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Speaker 7: Kids need attention, you know, they need to be loved
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Speaker 7: and cut all and everything, and a lot of kids
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Speaker 7: that come from those kind of broken homes and the
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Speaker 7: case of Tracy, they want to be loved by mother, father,
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Speaker 7: or somebody. So that is definitely, in my opinion, one
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Speaker 7: of the things that pushed her into always wanting the
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Speaker 7: attention of other men.
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Speaker 3: There is a way to make an entrance my destiny.
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Speaker 8: It was now a conspiracy, of which.
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Speaker 4: Is download fever to.
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Speaker 1: Tracy left school in nineteen eighty six and age twenty one,
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Speaker 1: she had a baby daughter, but the relationship with her
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Speaker 1: partner lasted barely a year and they soon went their
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Speaker 1: separate ways.
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Speaker 6: What we've got here is a woman who doesn't like
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Speaker 6: her partners having a life that doesn't involve her. She
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Speaker 6: doesn't like her partners going out without her. She gets
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Speaker 6: very jealous. She's very possessive.
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Speaker 4: She certainly had a temper. Everybody who knew has said
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Speaker 4: she had a temper. And when she lost her temper,
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Speaker 4: everybody knew about it. She would shout at the top
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Speaker 4: of her voice. The whole street would hear.
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Speaker 1: By nineteen ninety four, twenty five year old Tracy was
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Speaker 1: living in a council flat in Alvechurch and working as
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Speaker 1: a barmaid. But her aspirations went far beyond pulling pips.
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Speaker 4: She had visions. She had dreams of becoming a model,
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Speaker 4: but and you know, she was very photogenic. She looked
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Speaker 4: good on camera and she knew it, and she had
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Speaker 4: some pictures taken on a photo album put together, but
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Speaker 4: that never really took off.
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Speaker 7: Finder she became a barmaid working in the pub, but
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Speaker 7: she still dressed her provocatively and she still loved talking
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Speaker 7: to men and chatting to men again seeking the attention
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Speaker 7: that she wanted to get as a model, because obviously,
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Speaker 7: when you were there pretty and you were a model,
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Speaker 7: you do get a lot of attention.
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Speaker 1: Living nearby to Tracy was twenty three year old Lee Harvey.
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Speaker 1: He also had a daughter from a previous relationship.
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Speaker 6: Lee Harvey was a young man from a very close
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Speaker 6: family and he worked as a bus driver for the
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Speaker 6: West Midlands Travel so this was a job that involved
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Speaker 6: meeting many people on a daily basis. He was very outgoing,
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Speaker 6: he was interested in cars and was always very well
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Speaker 6: turned down. So he was your typical young Birmingham lad,
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Speaker 6: essentially very close to his mum, very close to his sister.
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Speaker 1: The paths of the two young single parents would soon
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Speaker 1: cross well.
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Speaker 6: Lee and Tracy met in October nineteen ninety four in
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Speaker 6: Ritzy's nightclub in Birmingham, and this relationship really did develop
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Speaker 6: at a lightning pace. They had moved in with one
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Speaker 6: another only around three months into the relationships, so this
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Speaker 6: was going very very fast, and their relationship was quite
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Speaker 6: a volatile one. They were both quite quite possessive, quite
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Speaker 6: jealous when it came to the other's relationships with the
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Speaker 6: opposite sex. And you often find this in relationships that
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Speaker 6: develop very quickly. You haven't got that foundation of trust
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Speaker 6: that's been built. You're always a little bit kind of
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Speaker 6: suspicious as to what the other person's up to you
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Speaker 6: because you don't really know them.
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Speaker 4: And they would row and they would fight like cat
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Speaker 4: and dogg and neighbors would report how voices would be
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Speaker 4: raised at all hours of the day and night and
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Speaker 4: would go on and on for hours and then stop
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Speaker 4: and then start again.
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Speaker 1: The couple got engaged after just six months, but their
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Speaker 1: volatile relationship would often see them break up, only to
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Speaker 1: get back together again soon after.
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Speaker 7: It was maybe almost a carbon copy of what Tracy
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Speaker 7: grew up with in her house. She had a very
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Speaker 7: explosive temper, and Lee Harvey also in a way that
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Speaker 7: it wouldn't like just bow down to her excream, so
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Speaker 7: he would screen back.
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Speaker 2: She was forever throwing him out into the street, and
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Speaker 2: she would throw his clothes out of the window or
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Speaker 2: in a black bin bag and chuck him out the
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Speaker 2: front door, change the locks, and then they would have reconciliations.
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Speaker 2: Lee would go back, more violence. Lee would leave, Lee
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Speaker 2: would go back, more violence. This went on for a
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Speaker 2: period of about two years.
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Speaker 1: Very exclude relationship finally came to a head on December one,
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six.
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Speaker 4: So they'd been rowing all day. Lee tended to be
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Speaker 4: the peacemaker, and it was probably Lee's suggestion, why don't
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Speaker 4: we go for a drink. Why don't we just get
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Speaker 4: a change of scene, a breath of fresh air. Let's
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Speaker 4: get out of here. Let's just go and relax and
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Speaker 4: have a drink. And that's what they did.
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Speaker 1: But Lee Harvey would never make it home again. By
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Speaker 1: eleven PM, he would be dead. The only witness to
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Speaker 1: the fatal altercation was his fiance, Tracy Andrews, and her
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Speaker 1: version of events would soon make it one of the
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Speaker 1: most talked about murders of the decade. On December the first,
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, twenty seven year old Tracy Andrews at
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Speaker 1: her twenty five year old fiance Lee Harvey were at
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Speaker 1: a pub in Bromsgrove in the West Midlands. After arguing
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Speaker 1: all day, the couple were trying to patch things up,
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Speaker 1: but their night was about to turn deadly.
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Speaker 6: Tracy claimed that after they'd left the pub and Lee
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Speaker 6: was driving, that they've become involved in a road rage incident,
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Speaker 6: essentially that a man in a dark Ford Sierra the'd
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Speaker 6: been some kind of altercation and he'd started following them, and.
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Speaker 4: She's suddenly aware that this car is behind lights flashing
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Speaker 4: right on their tail. Lee starts to accelerate their snaking
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Speaker 4: together through the lanes. The other car then effectively draws
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Speaker 4: Lee to a halt.
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Speaker 1: Tracy later told detectives that the man following the couple
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Speaker 1: along rural Cooper's Hill got out of his car and
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Speaker 1: Lee did the same. A confrontation was inevitable.
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Speaker 4: The driver then has said what he wants to say.
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Speaker 4: Apparently he gets back in the car. Lee is still
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Speaker 4: outside of his car, and then the passenger gets out,
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Speaker 4: a fat man with staring eyes, and he goes up
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Speaker 4: to Lee and attacks Lee in a way that Tracy
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Speaker 4: doesn't quite see. Then she piles in. She says to
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Speaker 4: go to Lee's events, because she says she's not the
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Speaker 4: kind of girl to just sit there and see her
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Speaker 4: a man being attacked, at which point she gets smacked
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Speaker 4: by the fat man in the eyes and repeatedly gets
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Speaker 4: up and he's knocked down, and then she says, it
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Speaker 4: all gets a bit hazy from that point, and then
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Speaker 4: she kind of comes to almost and Lee's there, and
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Speaker 4: he's covered in blood and she's cradling him, and it
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Speaker 4: all goes very vague.
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Speaker 1: Lee's car had ended up right outside a house called
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Speaker 1: Keeper's Cottage. The commotion in the road had alerted one
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Speaker 1: of the residents.
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Speaker 4: The guy made his way down the little path to
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Speaker 4: the road and there sees in poor light, just shown
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Speaker 4: by the security light, but there's a woman standing there
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Speaker 4: with her back to the car. There's a body prone,
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Speaker 4: body on the on the on the floor. He instantly
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Speaker 4: runs back into the house, saying call the police. Called
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Speaker 4: the police, called the called the ambulance.
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Speaker 1: The case was immediately given to Detective Superintendent Ian Johnston.
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Speaker 9: I received a call from West Mercy Constaborary Operations Room
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Speaker 9: which directed me to the scene at Cooper's Hill where
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Speaker 9: I met with divisional representatives. President at that time was
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Speaker 9: Lee's car, Lee's body and Tracy Andrews was inside Keeper's cottage,
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Speaker 9: having been found in the road. Outside I could see
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Speaker 9: lee vehicle. It was pulled in on the near side
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Speaker 9: of the road, traveling towards Olf Church, and it didn't
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Speaker 9: appear to have been stopped in any great hurry. It
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Speaker 9: looked as though it had been fairly neatly parked to
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Speaker 9: the side.
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Speaker 1: Detectives after scene spoke to Tracy to find out exactly
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Speaker 1: what had happened.
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Speaker 9: The incident appeared to have started from the Marlborough Public House.
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Speaker 9: That had been a road situation down the A thirty
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Speaker 9: eight towards the M forty two motorway. Lee's car had
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Speaker 9: been stopped, and then an altercation had taken place between
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Speaker 9: a member of that chasing vehicle and Lee. Lee collapsed
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Speaker 9: and then the other vehicle made its made its escape.
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Speaker 1: Lee Harvey died at the scene. It was clear that
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Speaker 1: he'd been the victim of a savage and frenzied attack.
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Speaker 2: This is a severe, sustained brutal attack with a penknife.
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Speaker 2: Now the estimates of how many wounds Lee suffered very
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Speaker 2: Some local reports said forty two. What is clear he
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Speaker 2: was stabbed in the throat, back, front, repeatedly, viciously, and
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Speaker 2: continuously to.
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Speaker 10: Produce forty two stab wounds. It's a sustained assault. It's
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Speaker 10: forty two movements of your hand. This is not something
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Speaker 10: that you can do in a second or two seconds
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Speaker 10: in a moment of madness. You have to keep going
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Speaker 10: and it is not easy. In Lee Harvey's case, the
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Speaker 10: fatal stab wound was a stab wound to the crossed artery.
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Speaker 10: That is a large artery in the neck, and a
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Speaker 10: stab wound to an artery of that size is going
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Speaker 10: to cause very rapid, very heavy bleeding without prompt medical attention,
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Speaker 10: it's most likely to be a fatal injury.
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Speaker 1: With an initial statement taken a bruised and blooded Tracy
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Speaker 1: Andrews was wist in an ambulance and.
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Speaker 4: She's treated for those injuries and for shock in hospital
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Speaker 4: and cared for and tended for while police launch a
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Speaker 4: massive murder hunt for whoever has done this terrible thing
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Speaker 4: to lead.
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Speaker 9: Tracy had told us that the following vehicle which had
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Speaker 9: followed them from the Marlbrook was a dark colored Ford
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Speaker 9: Sierra f registered and obviously we started a vehicle inquiry
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Speaker 9: with the DVLA for the owner details of any vehicle
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Speaker 9: that might fit that description.
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Speaker 1: As reports of the apparent road rage murder reached newsdesks
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Speaker 1: across the country, journalists immediately headed to the West Midlands.
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Speaker 4: From the very first moment, it was clear that this
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Speaker 4: was going to be a huge story, an absolutely huge story.
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Speaker 4: Just the idea of a road rage murder made it
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Speaker 4: already a big story, and as the first morning progressed,
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Speaker 4: everything we discovered made it a bigger story. Photographs began
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Speaker 4: to emerge of Tracy. She looked an attractive young woman.
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Speaker 4: Photographs began to emerge over Lee, the victim, handsome young man,
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Speaker 4: and so more and more of the elements that make
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Speaker 4: a big story, young, attractive, bizarre, unimaginable circumstances all started
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Speaker 4: slotting into places.
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Speaker 1: Detectives knew that the best way to try and find
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Speaker 1: the killer was to make him appeal through the media.
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Speaker 1: A press conference was arranged for Tuesday, December II, two
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Speaker 1: days after the fatal attack.
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Speaker 9: I met Tracy in somewhere around about ten am, I believe,
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Speaker 9: just before we were going to do the press conference.
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Speaker 9: I asked her if she was content to do the
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Speaker 9: press conference, if it was something that she wanted to do.
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Speaker 9: She said that she was. She said she really wanted
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Speaker 9: to do it.
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Speaker 4: This hugely hiked up the media interest because we were
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Speaker 4: going to have put in front of us, it was
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Speaker 4: said the key witness, and someone we'd all seen the
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Speaker 4: pictures by this time, an attractive blonde and she was
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Speaker 4: going to sit there in front of us and answer
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Speaker 4: our questions. There was massive media interest in this.
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Speaker 1: As the press conference began, all the focus was on
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Speaker 1: twenty seven year old Tracy.
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Speaker 4: The noise of the cameras, the motor drives going off
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Speaker 4: as Tracy walked in the room was absolutely deafening. And
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Speaker 4: appearing in front of us. I don't think we'd all
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Speaker 4: thought what would appear, really, but we'd all seen these
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Speaker 4: glamorous shots. Here was a woman, red eyed, haggard, completely
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Speaker 4: unmade up, two black eyes, cut on her nose.
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Speaker 6: And Tracy did look like a victim, and she had
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Speaker 6: the injuries to her face. She looked incredibly distressed, incredibly upset.
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Speaker 1: But Tracy seemed very comfortable when faced with all the
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Speaker 1: camera flashes and questions from the journalists.
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Speaker 9: The press really wanted to hear from Tracy, and so
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Speaker 9: you know, I became a bit of a sideline really,
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Speaker 9: which was fine. You know, it was about it was
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Speaker 9: about the story, it was about the situation, and the
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Speaker 9: press were interested in Tracy, and she was quite happy
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Speaker 9: to deal with the press.
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Speaker 3: And the other person playing cap mostly into them for
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Speaker 3: a while.
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Speaker 11: They overtook us. I was shouted at later, you know,
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Speaker 11: slow down, just ignore them.
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Speaker 3: The copy. I don't know.
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Speaker 11: I don't know if a lot of men aniche and
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Speaker 11: a lot of anionich didn't get me on the wheel
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Speaker 11: of the car.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes you change personality.
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Speaker 4: During the press conference when talking about the alleged killer.
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Speaker 4: There was a moment when suddenly her eyes came up.
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Speaker 4: And she was mostly downcast throughout the press conference, but
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Speaker 4: her eyes came up and they flashed fiercely, and her
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Speaker 4: mouth dropped open a bit with that famous slightly jutting drawer,
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Speaker 4: and she looked really angry. And at that point again
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Speaker 4: all the motor drives went off. Every press photographer reacted to.
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Speaker 4: That was a crash of noise as every camera was hit.
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Speaker 11: It was just the way he looked, His eyes had stereoys.
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Speaker 3: Just didn't say normal. I saw the man hitler. I
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Speaker 3: don't know what with I didn't see anything.
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Speaker 9: Suddenly she started to peeling too, the driver of the car, saying,
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Speaker 9: you're not in any trouble, you know, come forward and
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Speaker 9: tell the police what it's all about.
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Speaker 11: Whoever this person is that was with you, you obviously
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Speaker 11: know him.
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Speaker 3: He's realined my life.
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Speaker 11: Please just tell us to this because she won't get
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Speaker 11: in any trouble at all, and it was not your fault.
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Speaker 9: And I'm thinking, well, that's not strictly true, is it.
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Speaker 9: You've driven your friend to emergency and he's killed someone
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Speaker 9: and you've driven him away, so you are you are
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Speaker 9: in trouble, but okay.
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Speaker 1: And as the questioning progressed, Tracy seemed to contradict her
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Speaker 1: original statement.
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Speaker 4: I said, Tracy, sorry, but I clearly understood the police
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Speaker 4: to say that it was about ten past ten when
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Speaker 4: you left the pub, and she kind of looked at me,
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Speaker 4: sort of head down under her lashes, and said, no,
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Speaker 4: it was ten to ten, And sat on her left
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Speaker 4: was Superintendent Johnston, and I just saw him react to
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Speaker 4: that answer from Tracy, and very slowly his head turned
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Speaker 4: to the right and he just looked at her in
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Speaker 4: a kind of assessing way, a kind of appraising way,
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Speaker 4: and at that moment I thought, Wow, there's something going
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Speaker 4: on here.
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Speaker 5: I just.
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Speaker 3: Tried to stop and con him as much as I could.
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Speaker 1: The inconsistency in Tracy's story surprised the majority of reporters
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Speaker 1: in the room.
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Speaker 4: The press conference finished and the national newspaper journalists gathered
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Speaker 4: outside in a bit of a pack, as we would
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Speaker 4: tend to do, or friends or know each other work
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Speaker 4: against each other, and somebody said, what do you think?
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Speaker 4: And I said, I think she did it, and we
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Speaker 4: all kind of looked at each other and for this
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Speaker 4: enormous story just got ten times bigger again. If she
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Speaker 4: is the killer?
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Speaker 1: Was it really conceivable that Tracy Andrews had been lying
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Speaker 1: all along? As the investigation continued, you evidence suggested that
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Speaker 1: maybe there was no road rage incident at all. Andrews
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Speaker 1: would go from the only witness to the number one
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Speaker 1: suspect in the murder of Lee Harvey. On December third,
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety six, twenty seven year old Tracy Andrews appeared
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Speaker 1: at an emotionally charged press conference in an appeal to
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Speaker 1: find the passenger of a Ford Sierra who she claimed
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Speaker 1: had stabbed her fiancee, Lee Harvey to death, but unbeknownst
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Speaker 1: to Andrews, the police were beginning to work out the
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Speaker 1: truth that she had been the one responsible for the
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Speaker 1: murder of five year old Lee.
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Speaker 6: It's self preservation, that'sort's driving her behavior at this point
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Speaker 6: in time. She's got absolutely no empathy whatsoever for Lee,
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Speaker 6: or for Lee's family, or indeed for her own family
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Speaker 6: who were also going to be really badly affected by this.
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Speaker 6: So she's thinking, how do I best preserve myself. I'm
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Speaker 6: going to take that role of the victim, and I'm
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Speaker 6: going to put myself in it.
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Speaker 1: Andrew's claim that she and Lee had been the victim
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Speaker 1: of a road rage incident didn't seem to add up.
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Speaker 1: A witness statement from a child staying in a house
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Speaker 1: on Cooper's Hill put her version of events in doubt.
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Speaker 4: It was December, the windows were closed, but she could
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Speaker 4: clearly hear a row going on. What she remembered was
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Speaker 4: that one was a distinctly male baritone voice. The other
23:54
Speaker 4: voice was much softer, and she said it was much
23:59
Speaker 4: more like a woman's voice.
24:01
Speaker 1: Forensic searches of the road had discovered more clues into
24:05
Speaker 1: what really happened.
24:07
Speaker 4: We couldn't get anywhere near the scene on the first morning,
24:11
Speaker 4: or indeed for a few days afterwards. The police completely
24:14
Speaker 4: sealed it after awhile they drafted in offices to carry
24:17
Speaker 4: out a fingertip search of the area. What they found,
24:21
Speaker 4: we later discovered, were a couple of bits and pieces,
24:24
Speaker 4: including a tiny spring and another element from a multifunction penknife.
24:31
Speaker 4: What police didn't find was any trace of a car
24:37
Speaker 4: overtaking another car on the soft December winter verges of
24:43
Speaker 4: this pretty narrow road.
24:45
Speaker 1: Police had also found a black beanie hat in the
24:49
Speaker 1: hedgerow next to where Lee's car had been parked.
24:53
Speaker 9: So air assumption was, well, this I've maybe fallen out
24:58
Speaker 9: of the assailant's pocket and he's not realized it. So
25:02
Speaker 9: of course that went to a lit laboratory fairly quickly
25:05
Speaker 9: with a view towards DNA and from hair samples that
25:09
Speaker 9: sort of thing. And we have the report back by
25:12
Speaker 9: the Wednesday that this was animal hair and it was
25:15
Speaker 9: kat here, black and white cat here. Well, there's a
25:18
Speaker 9: black and white cat at Tracy's and so we went
25:21
Speaker 9: down and took a sample of hair from the cat
25:24
Speaker 9: and it was the cat here and then, as I
25:27
Speaker 9: understand it, later on, it was accepted that this was
25:31
Speaker 9: Lee's hat, but had been in Tracy's pocket prior to
25:35
Speaker 9: the offense taking place.
25:39
Speaker 1: Andrews lie about the hat was just one of many
25:42
Speaker 1: inconsistencies in her story.
25:45
Speaker 6: In Lee's hand they found between eighty and one hundred
25:48
Speaker 6: strands of a Tracy's hair that have been pulled from
25:51
Speaker 6: Tracy's head as Lee has tried to defend himself. Now,
25:54
Speaker 6: if Lee had been murdered by this, this fat man
25:57
Speaker 6: with staring eyes, why would he have Tracy's hair in
26:00
Speaker 6: his hand.
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Speaker 9: Well, the pathologist's evidence was that this was more than
26:04
Speaker 9: just a death grasp stroke, in that it was a
26:09
Speaker 9: reasonable clump that did a good pull. But of course
26:13
Speaker 9: Tracey's view was, well, this must have been when he
26:17
Speaker 9: was he was going and the he got his hand
26:21
Speaker 9: and my hair, you know, So it came as a
26:23
Speaker 9: sort of as Lee was passing away, he pulled some
26:26
Speaker 9: hair from her head.
26:28
Speaker 1: It was beginning to look more and more likely that
26:31
Speaker 1: Andrews had killed Lee in a fit of rage.
26:36
Speaker 7: I mean, if you attack somebody there you're supposed to
26:38
Speaker 7: be in love with, and seven forty two times, and
26:42
Speaker 7: that's pretty out of control.
26:45
Speaker 2: She wasn't thinking to herself as she set off from
26:47
Speaker 2: the pub that evening, Oh, tonight's the night I think I'm.
26:50
Speaker 4: Going to kill Lee.
26:51
Speaker 2: She just exploded like a volcano over a matter of minutes. Literally,
26:58
Speaker 2: she went from mildly angry to obsessively angry and that
27:04
Speaker 2: therefore he had to die.
27:06
Speaker 6: When we talk about premeditated murder, we tend to assume
27:09
Speaker 6: that it's something that's days, weeks, or months in the planning,
27:12
Speaker 6: but actually pre meditation only needs to take seconds. You
27:16
Speaker 6: only need to have a few seconds to decide that
27:19
Speaker 6: you are going to end somebody's life. And she made
27:21
Speaker 6: that decision on this evening.
27:24
Speaker 1: And it seemed that Andrew's guilty conscience was beginning to
27:27
Speaker 1: get the better of her. On Wednesday, December fourth, the
27:31
Speaker 1: day after the Telltale press conference, she tried to kill herself.
27:36
Speaker 6: Tracy takes an overdose. And I think this is a
27:39
Speaker 6: very deliberate, very determined act on her part. I think
27:42
Speaker 6: she was absolutely set on ending her own life because
27:46
Speaker 6: over the past few days the situation has spiraled completely
27:50
Speaker 6: out of her control. She's trying to keep a story together,
27:53
Speaker 6: She's trying to present this face as the victim and
27:57
Speaker 6: it's all getting a bit too much because it's starting
27:59
Speaker 6: to un so I think this is an attempt to
28:02
Speaker 6: take back control, to say, actually, I'm going to decide
28:05
Speaker 6: to do something now that I'm fully in control of it.
28:08
Speaker 6: And that's what this was.
28:10
Speaker 1: On the same evening, detectives were given their biggest steer yet.
28:14
Speaker 1: Two people had seen Lee's distinctive white Ford Escort on
28:19
Speaker 1: the night of his murder.
28:21
Speaker 9: Two witnesses who said, we've seen it in the local paper,
28:26
Speaker 9: but I know I've seen this white car. We were
28:28
Speaker 9: driving from Alfchurch in the opposite direction. We came through
28:33
Speaker 9: Cooper's Hill, pass Keeper's cottage. We came down the hill
28:37
Speaker 9: and as we came to the junction at the bottom,
28:40
Speaker 9: I saw this car go past and he said, it's
28:43
Speaker 9: a white escort. Gredge spoked wheels everything that it was
28:49
Speaker 9: and he said that, you know, there is no doubt
28:51
Speaker 9: that was the car. He said, And from that point
28:54
Speaker 9: to when we got into Bromsgrove, we saw no car
28:57
Speaker 9: that fits any description of what you've told and there
29:01
Speaker 9: certainly wasn't any car chasing that car in the vicinity
29:05
Speaker 9: of Cooper's Hill. So we'd got the confirmation that we
29:08
Speaker 9: were looking for that the road rage incident had not occurred,
29:14
Speaker 9: and so that changed the way that we looked at
29:18
Speaker 9: the investigation.
29:19
Speaker 6: The story really while starting to crumble at that point
29:22
Speaker 6: in time, and combined with her suicide attempt, I think
29:25
Speaker 6: the police decided that's enough evidence we can now move
29:28
Speaker 6: in and arrest her.
29:30
Speaker 1: On Saturday, December the seventh, nineteen ninety six, six days
29:34
Speaker 1: after Lee's murder, Tracy Andrews was arrested in hospital and
29:39
Speaker 1: taken into custody.
29:41
Speaker 12: The twenty seven year old woman was arrested at eleven
29:43
Speaker 12: o'clock to day, but so far detectives have released no
29:47
Speaker 12: further details. Until this development, the police had been looking
29:51
Speaker 12: for two men who they believe may have escaped from
29:53
Speaker 12: the scene in a dark Ford Sierra.
29:56
Speaker 9: The evidence from the two witnesses who'd seen Leo Harvey's
30:00
Speaker 9: vehicle through the junction that night was extremely impactive and realistically,
30:09
Speaker 9: without a following vehicle, without a dark colored for Sierra
30:13
Speaker 9: chasing that car, then the whole being of that explanation
30:17
Speaker 9: from Tracy just didn't stand up.
30:20
Speaker 1: Further evidence pointed towards Andrew's being the killer. After the
30:24
Speaker 1: clothes she was wearing on the night of the murder
30:26
Speaker 1: were forensically tested.
30:28
Speaker 9: The forensic scientist who had examined one of Tracey's zip
30:33
Speaker 9: up boots, she had a pair of ankle boots on,
30:36
Speaker 9: and within that he'd found a mark in the leather
30:39
Speaker 9: which had a rounded top on it and seemed to
30:43
Speaker 9: bear all the impression of the outside shape of the knife.
30:47
Speaker 9: And that's the hypothesis that she carried the knife away
30:52
Speaker 9: from the scene in her boot, and that as soon
30:55
Speaker 9: as she got to the hospital she was able to
30:57
Speaker 9: dispose of it.
30:58
Speaker 7: She could have easily start throwing the knife into the
31:01
Speaker 7: grass or into the forest or whatever it was and
31:05
Speaker 7: hope the police wouldn't find But she even thought, no,
31:08
Speaker 7: these guys are going to bring dogs, are going to
31:10
Speaker 7: you know, search the whole area. That'll probably find something.
31:14
Speaker 1: Tracy Andrews was officially charged with the murder of Lee
31:18
Speaker 1: Harvey on December the nineteenth, nineteen ninety six. Her trial
31:23
Speaker 1: was set for July, and she was going to plead
31:26
Speaker 1: not guilty. Andrews was sticking to her story. The prosecution
31:31
Speaker 1: would have to prove that she was a liar, or
31:33
Speaker 1: she could walk away free on July the first, nineteen
31:42
Speaker 1: ninety seven, the trial of Tracy Andrews began at Birmingham
31:46
Speaker 1: Crown Court. The twenty eight year old was pleading not
31:50
Speaker 1: guilty to the murder of her fiancee Lee Harvey, exactly
31:54
Speaker 1: seven months earlier. The media attention surrounding Andrews and the
31:59
Speaker 1: trial was huge.
32:04
Speaker 4: I was at the trial every day at Bloomingham Crowncourt.
32:07
Speaker 4: It was compelling, unmissible and was being widely reported in
32:11
Speaker 4: all the media every day and every evening on the
32:14
Speaker 4: TV news bulletins.
32:17
Speaker 1: The prosecution team, led by David Krigman, were confident that
32:21
Speaker 1: they had a strong case against Andrews. As well as
32:25
Speaker 1: the two witness statements that contradicted her road rage story,
32:30
Speaker 1: the blood pattern analysis of her orange jumper was key.
32:35
Speaker 5: She was covered in blood which she claimed had come
32:38
Speaker 5: onto her clothing when she was comforting him as he
32:41
Speaker 5: died as she held him in the road. But a
32:44
Speaker 5: lot of this blood was sprayed blood. It was arterial
32:50
Speaker 5: blood that had come out of the carotid in a
32:53
Speaker 5: fountain and sprayed like a waterfall down the front of
32:57
Speaker 5: her clothing.
32:59
Speaker 10: In a lot of cases of stabbing, particularly to the
33:02
Speaker 10: chest or the abdomen. A lot of the bleeding is
33:04
Speaker 10: internal because the large organs and blood vessels are deep
33:08
Speaker 10: within the body. The carotid artery is very close to
33:12
Speaker 10: the surface, so if it's breached, it will spray blood
33:16
Speaker 10: under pressure from the heart out of that wound, out
33:21
Speaker 10: into the air, and it will land on things next
33:24
Speaker 10: to it. In particular, in this case, Tracy Andrew's the assailant.
33:29
Speaker 1: The evidence may have appeared to be compelling, but Andrews
33:32
Speaker 1: herself had already proved to be extremely convincing when under
33:37
Speaker 1: intense scrutiny.
33:39
Speaker 4: I thought she'd done it. I thought she was the killer.
33:42
Speaker 4: But bearing in mind how she'd handled the press conference
33:47
Speaker 4: a couple of days after the murder, I thought that
33:50
Speaker 4: she stood a good chance of getting away with it.
33:53
Speaker 4: But as ever, as he's always the case, everything would
33:57
Speaker 4: hinge on the cross examination of Tracy in the witness box,
34:03
Speaker 4: should she choose to give evidence. Once the defense began.
34:08
Speaker 1: On Monday, July the fourteenth, Tracy Andrews took the stand
34:12
Speaker 1: to give her testimony.
34:14
Speaker 5: There was genuine apprehension in the prosecution camp that a
34:18
Speaker 5: jury may be persuaded by not only the story but
34:23
Speaker 5: the skill I would say, the skill with which she
34:25
Speaker 5: was able to advance what.
34:27
Speaker 4: She had to say. Tracy stood in the witness box,
34:30
Speaker 4: now having moved from the dock, and gave her account,
34:34
Speaker 4: which largely followed the account that she'd been giving to
34:38
Speaker 4: the police all along through through her statements, the road
34:41
Speaker 4: rage story, the chase through the lanes, and the stabbing
34:46
Speaker 4: and the road rage attack. And she gave it calmly
34:51
Speaker 4: and in some senses convincingly.
34:55
Speaker 1: Prosecutors knew that the cross examination of Andrews would be
34:59
Speaker 1: there the best chance at cracking her veneer of lies.
35:04
Speaker 4: And it went on and on and on. It went
35:09
Speaker 4: on for hours. It not only took the whole of
35:11
Speaker 4: that afternoon, it took the whole of the next day
35:15
Speaker 4: and into a third day. And in that time, the
35:19
Speaker 4: highly intellectual David Kriegman just took her story apart. He
35:24
Speaker 4: just deconstructed it around her. She was left there effectively naked,
35:31
Speaker 4: in the middle of her story, in shreds on the floor.
35:36
Speaker 5: I came to the view that the only way you
35:39
Speaker 5: could dissect her story was piece by little, piece by little,
35:46
Speaker 5: peace detail by detail. It was the accumulation of a
35:51
Speaker 5: large number of details where she could show not to
35:54
Speaker 5: be telling the truth that could break her down. It
35:57
Speaker 5: was only within the finest of detail, as one mounted
36:02
Speaker 5: on top of the next, that you began to see
36:04
Speaker 5: the story as a pack of lies.
36:07
Speaker 4: And she was reduced to standing there saying I don't know,
36:12
Speaker 4: I can't remember, I don't know, I can't remember. And
36:16
Speaker 4: at every point her credibility diminished, And at that point
36:23
Speaker 4: I thought, Okay, I think she's going to get fun guilty.
36:27
Speaker 1: On July the twenty ninth, in an unprecedented move, Andrews
36:32
Speaker 1: agreed to be interviewed by a newspaper journalist as the
36:36
Speaker 1: jury retired to make a decision on her fate. She
36:40
Speaker 1: met with Rod Chater in a private room at the
36:43
Speaker 1: court and.
36:44
Speaker 4: There was Tracy sat there, made up, composed, sat at
36:49
Speaker 4: the table, her lawyers, and I sat down and interviewed her.
36:54
Speaker 4: It was absolutely bizarre. Never in thirty five years on
36:59
Speaker 4: Fleet's never did it before, never did it again, interview
37:03
Speaker 4: the accused while the jury's out extraordinary. So I started
37:07
Speaker 4: to ask a question.
37:09
Speaker 1: Rod had to work fast to get all the information
37:12
Speaker 1: that he could.
37:13
Speaker 4: The basic message that she was giving was I didn't
37:17
Speaker 4: do it, I'm innocent, and I'll love him till the
37:20
Speaker 4: day I die. And that was the message from the
37:23
Speaker 4: exclusive Mirror interview that I did. And I've been there
37:28
Speaker 4: about twenty minutes and was just beginning to come to
37:31
Speaker 4: the end of the story, just beginning to kind of think, Okay, well,
37:34
Speaker 4: what's the next question? And the tane Oi went, and
37:38
Speaker 4: the tannel he went. All parties to Court nine, All
37:42
Speaker 4: parties to Court nine. You just felt, wow, the jury
37:46
Speaker 4: about there's a verdict.
37:48
Speaker 1: Rod headed back to his seat in the press box.
37:51
Speaker 4: We kind of went out separate ways and ended up
37:54
Speaker 4: a few feet from each other in court, and the
37:58
Speaker 4: judge came in. Everyone stood up. The form of the
38:01
Speaker 4: jury weekly stand, do you have a verdict on which
38:04
Speaker 4: you are all agreed? Yes, we do. What is that verdict? Guilty?
38:12
Speaker 8: Despite the strain that Tracy Andrews must have felt during
38:14
Speaker 8: four weeks in the dock, she didn't even flinch as
38:17
Speaker 8: the jury foreman told her that she was guilty, even
38:20
Speaker 8: though she kept her head bowed. Her face remained impassive,
38:23
Speaker 8: even as the judge said to her, only you know
38:25
Speaker 8: precisely what happened that night, but we all saw the
38:27
Speaker 8: awful consequences. He said, he had no option but to
38:30
Speaker 8: send her a prison for life.
38:34
Speaker 4: She showed almost no emotion. She shook her head once
38:40
Speaker 4: like that just as in no, well, I don't agree whatever.
38:45
Speaker 4: But that was the only reaction and she was then
38:51
Speaker 4: led down the steps from the dock into the cell
38:55
Speaker 4: area below. She saw her family briefly before she was
39:01
Speaker 4: taken away. They were allowed brief access to her at
39:03
Speaker 4: that point. She did break down into its at that
39:05
Speaker 4: time she was completely tearful and terrified about what was
39:11
Speaker 4: going to happen to her and what awaited her in prison.
39:14
Speaker 4: From other inmates public, she had maintained her composure to
39:19
Speaker 4: the last really in private, she was terrified.
39:24
Speaker 1: On the twenty ninth of July nineteen ninety seven, Judge
39:28
Speaker 1: mister Justice Broccoli sentenced Tracy Andrews to life in prison
39:33
Speaker 1: for the murder of Lee Harvey. She was ordered to
39:36
Speaker 1: serve a minimum of fourteen years.
39:41
Speaker 6: Well, when we asked the question why do we think
39:43
Speaker 6: Tracy Andrews stabbed Lee Harvey, it was because she felt
39:47
Speaker 6: that Lee was hers, He was her possession. This wasn't
39:50
Speaker 6: a relationship that was about love. It was a relationship
39:53
Speaker 6: that was about control and ownership, and in ending somebody's life,
39:57
Speaker 6: you are completely possessing them, was what was going on
40:01
Speaker 6: on that evening when she chose to tait Lee's life.
40:04
Speaker 1: In April nineteen ninety nine, Andrews finally admitted that her
40:09
Speaker 1: story about a mysterious road rage killer had been completely
40:13
Speaker 1: made up.
40:14
Speaker 2: Twenty one months after her conviction, in a letter to
40:18
Speaker 2: her solicitor, Tracy Andrews confessed for the first time that
40:24
Speaker 2: she had indeed killed Lee Harvey, but that it was
40:29
Speaker 2: entirely in self defense. Now how she could maintain that,
40:35
Speaker 2: given that he had stab wounds in his back and
40:39
Speaker 2: he was bigger than she was. I find that very
40:42
Speaker 2: difficult to believe, but nevertheless that's what she insisted.
40:45
Speaker 1: Tracy Andrews had gone from a wannabe model to a
40:49
Speaker 1: model prisoner. In July twenty eleven, after serving her fourteen years,
40:54
Speaker 1: she was released back into society and ordered not to
40:58
Speaker 1: go within twenty five miles of Lee Harvey's family.
41:03
Speaker 6: I think it is absolutely possible for Tracy Andrews to
41:06
Speaker 6: live a normal life. I think if she's come to
41:09
Speaker 6: terms with her offense, if she's addressed those underlying behavioral
41:13
Speaker 6: traits and characteristics, if she's prepared to just keep her
41:16
Speaker 6: head down and get on with her life, then then yes,
41:19
Speaker 6: very much she can do that, and I think she
41:21
Speaker 6: should appreciate that, the fact that she's able to do that,
41:25
Speaker 6: because murder casts a long shadow, and that there are
41:28
Speaker 6: many people who have been affected by this crime, who
41:30
Speaker 6: continue to be affected by it. But she has the
41:33
Speaker 6: opportunity now to ensure that she doesn't cause any more
41:37
Speaker 6: harm to people, and that she can make a contribution
41:40
Speaker 6: to society.
41:42
Speaker 1: It's been over twenty years since Tracy Andrews took away
41:46
Speaker 1: the life of her fiance in a brutal and vicious attack.
41:50
Speaker 1: It remains one of the most infamous murders of the
41:54
Speaker 1: nineteen nineties.
41:56
Speaker 5: Violence on this occasion was not the first occasion she
42:00
Speaker 5: had used violence. This is a woman of cunning, of deceased,
42:09
Speaker 5: and with a vicious temper.
42:12
Speaker 6: It's often described as a crime of passion, and I
42:15
Speaker 6: tend not to use that term because I think what
42:18
Speaker 6: we're implying there is that she wasn't in control of
42:21
Speaker 6: her actions. She didn't know what she was doing this,
42:23
Speaker 6: this rage came over her and she couldn't help herself.
42:26
Speaker 6: I think she knew exactly what she was doing. When
42:28
Speaker 6: you stab somebody forty two times, you are deciding to
42:32
Speaker 6: continue doing this. Your arm is going to be tired.
42:35
Speaker 6: There are going to be opportunities for you to stop,
42:37
Speaker 6: and you decide to keep going.
42:39
Speaker 4: That is prolonged ferocity. That's going on and on and
42:45
Speaker 4: on and on. That's not a momentary flash of anger.
42:48
Speaker 4: That's uncontrollable rage lasting a significant period of time. It's
42:55
Speaker 4: a shocking, shocking thought, and the fact that a woman
42:59
Speaker 4: has done it makes it twice as shocking.
43:02
Speaker 1: Tracy Andrew's case will always remain in the public psyche
43:07
Speaker 1: due to her persistent lying, first to the police, then
43:11
Speaker 1: to the world's media, and finally in a court of law.
43:15
Speaker 1: But although she'll forever be remembered for her crocodile tears,
43:19
Speaker 1: it should never be forgotten that she killed Lee Harvey
43:22
Speaker 1: in a horrific and frenzied attack without a shred of remorse,
43:27
Speaker 1: which undoubtedly makes her one of the world's most evil killers.