Sue Cook and Nick Ross present. Cases include the murders of Tom Griffiths in Cricklewood, London and Vera Anderson in Widnes. There is also the case of the disappearance of Andrew Elphick.
I'm getting Crimewatch binge watch burnout (I never thought I'd say that because I've been hoping for years to see these old episodes!) and might have to stagger my viewing. Especially with the late 90s (my era!) episodes from Andy JS now, too! Hugs, gang!
Interstat why not break up the burnout with a crimewatch file or realcrime uk? Andy and Redcard have really spoiled us, haven't they? Like you i thought I'd never get to see the 90s episodes.
@@reevespeterson I would have thought the 90s episodes would be more likely to appear than the 80s episodes given that a lot more people had video machines in the 90s.
That was a pretty fine piece of acting for the first reconstruction. The actor played the part of the first victim really well, I almost believed he wasn't acting and was really drunk
19:44 absolutely hilarious how Andrews 'friend' emphasises that although they were on his bed, and they were kissing and cuddling, they were 'FULLY CLOTHED' 😂😂
Please upload some new episodes tonight, i am having very bad withdrawals, I can't wait to watch Feb and March and April 1992, I've already watched may and june of 1992. Thanking you.
Ah yes! This was the case I mentioned before. The disappearance of the wannabe drug baron. Odd case but seems like he had some sort of double life. Sounds like he got out of his depth, but an interesting reconstruction with lots of appeal points. I can't help thinking some of them are red herrings and that it may be a bit of BS. Phonecall at 3am for example, the mysterious £5k. Intriging case.
If he was even more obnoxious than the way the actor portrayed him then you can see why he got killed. Probably ripped off some dealers or skimmed some of the product for himself & thought he was too much of a big shot for them to do anything about it. Similar to the first case in a different way-the old guy was another unsympathetic character who made a nuisance of himself & tried picking fights in the street with guys who could tear him apart. Probably meant less people were inclined to help.
@@nickimontford Nick Davies is great-have his 1997 book Dark Heart which I haven't got round to reading yet. Elphick comes across like con-men do-everything is an illusion, money that is borrowed or stolen, everything on hire purchase, flaunting his imaginary wealth in others faces to belittle them & make him look & feel important. He was an insecure & sad individual motivated purely by ego & money. Either these two bumped him off or he screwed up a deal for them, or he took himself off somewhere & killed himself-knowing he had screwed up badly with all the debt & trouble he had caused.
@@Starlord80s You could certainly see that happening as he was totally lost/naive in that world, sounds like they took him for a ride before he went missing.
I'm impressed how they were able to license well known pop songs to use in the backgrounds of the recreations. A lot of modern true crime shows just use generic music for scenes like that. Shows like this and Unsolved Mysteries or Forensic Files from the 1990s have a level of production value that's rare in true crime shows today
@@dickiegreenleaf750 I remember those shoes being very popular in 1990 and 1991, and kids at school all wanting something similar. I suppose the early 90s were pretty much a continuation of the 80s.
in the first story where the old guy with parkinson's was murdered man that had to be the ugliest shoe i've ever laid eyes on. can't even imagine why somebody would wear one let alone a pair.
Agreed, drove to the location to buy drugs, deal went wrong and he was probably killed, maybe by accident, maybe on purpose. I would have assumed the dealers/ people who killed would have disposed of the body. Not been found, many people involved are probably still alive today ..
@@ZeroNiteLite yep cant argue with that. you rip off other drug dealers. one day soon they will come looking for you. dog eat dog business by the sound of it.
That was a heartbreaking episode of crimewatch uk for someone to kill a old man with Alzheimer's is just indescribable and the killing of that young mother in her car and I hope justice caught up in them two shocking crimes and also thank Redcard74 for your time in downloading the crimewatch uk episodes past and present
Terrible feet, though. Looks as though she bought them from a joke shop. www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/portrait-of-television-presenter-and-author-sue-cook-news-photo/1061786990 No wonder she kept them out of sight under the desk.
Was the Tom Griffiths case ever solved? He looked like he possibly owed someone money or a deal gone bad? Hate to say it but it did look like he lived a double life. Andrew Elphick sadly looks like he was done in by the drugs' underworld.
@@SuperTed19021 Tom Griffiths seemed like a drunken old pest who pissed someone off and Andrew Elphick was a silly little boy who got taught a lesson by the big boys.
19:09 - Andrew Elphick's friend in the reconstruction, is that the same actor who took part in Crimewatch's fake robbery experiment in their April 1991 episode? Looks like the same guy.
Crimewatch is such excellent social history. In the 80s, particularly 80-87, much of the UK was going through deindustrialisation and as a result things were pretty grim. Lots of grey derelict buildings and unemployment going through the roof, fueling crime and riots. 87-89 saw the economy perk up and we became much more of a consumer society. But by 1991 (when this episode was made) the economy had plunged into deep recession again, and unemployment and crime started to surge yet again. The early 90s was the time when many people had their homes repossessed and by 1993, unemployment had rocketed to 3 million again. In 1991 there was also a number of riots again. Crime reached a peak in the UK c. 1992 and then started to decline for a variety of reasons. As of 2023, crime reached its lowest ever level.
People are rude in the US and U.K if they heard they neighbors shouting in the middle of the night they don't call the police to ensure that person's safety.
That's because it's pretty common in a city or large town to hear neighbours shouting in the middle of the night. They're usually just drunk or having a domestic.
I agree with KS. In larger cities there is usually more noise (including shouting and arguing etc) and sometimes it can occur at all hours (especially in the heart of the city and inner city areas) I think a lot of people these days don't want to get involved and think it's best to stay out of things (mostly for safety concerns real or imagined) regardless of what country they live in. Personally if I knew for sure someone was getting seriously hurt then I would definitely call up and I have in the past...
@@Marzi29 Agree entirely, it’s the same with car alarms. They go off all the time but would you call the police? Probably not unless you saw someone trying to break into it.
Vera’s doing night calls and moonlighting’ …She’s obviously backed out last minute and sorry, ended up with cold feet? The guy has taken offence and his other glove with his dna on it!
i was the girl he was going to go on date night he went missing i was way younger he never showed i went to ballet school with sashas sister alex wescourt sasha arranged the date
@@carolinefinnweston212 Its a very sad case i hope one day someone gets charged over his murder .. poor lad .. someone did it and some one knows who. glad you doing OK though.
The Andrew Elphick case still unsolved. The "Loadsa Money" culture of the 1980s seems to have gone to his head and he became delusional about his own success. He appears to have got in way too deep with drugs dealers, who took full advantage of his naivety.
It’s officially unsolved but he was my mums cousin and our family are pretty sure on what happened. People we know say he was beat to death with a bat, just never found the body.
The sketch artist seems to be color blind. He/she makes all the sketches look that of black males when they clearly state the race white. Even the ones with blonde hair they make the face look black.Truly funny.
Helen Phelps was ALWAYS better suited to the role in terms of being a listenable voice, compared with the more highly strung sounded voice of Jacqui. I could listen to it all day and never feel that it was grating.
@@letsdiscussitoversometea8479 A voice that could melt wrought iron. But, was there a slight lisp? I recall one occasion when it definitely sounded as if she described a gay man as being ‘homothexual’. Nevertheless, a great asset to the programme and who was retained as part of the production team. 🤵♂️
@@LANCSKID yes, you're right about that lisp (or "lithp", as we jokingly used to refer to it as). She also on one or two occasions pronounced "Pound", as opposed to "Pounds" in terms of currency. Given the choice between Helen and Jacqui, I think I'd still go with Helen - just easier to tolerate when discussing something very difficult.
She was obviously a goer. My theory is a local man who she had an affair with behind the wife’s back and he’s done it to shut her up. Maybe would have lost everything if the affair came out.
