S32 E5: Life on The Lam | Sea of Lies
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What shocking discovery did Tabitha Pope make in 2021?
In the summer of 2021, Tabitha Pope was living out of a cheap motel. So when she stumbled onto an affordable apartment, she thought her luck was finally turning around. She was wrong.
And as she's cleaning, she comes across a few Rubbermaid buckets. And they look to be filled with blood.
I'm Kathleen Goltar, and this week on Crime Story, the most horrific rental story you've ever heard. Find Crime Story wherever you get your podcasts.
This is a CBC Podcast.
Who was David Davis and why was he arrested in 1996?
It was Halloween, 1996. While everyone was putting on their costumes, pretending to be Tickle Me Elmo or Baby Spice, or whatever the fine folks of 1996 dressed up as, there was a man in the back of a police cruiser in Essex, apprehended for pretending to be someone he was not. David Davis was arrested under suspicion of murdering Ronald Platt. They had proof he'd been stealing Platt's identity, and that he'd been in Devon that July, the same month that Ron's body was pulled up from the seabed. But if Davis really was the one who put him there, the police needed evidence. So with Davis taken off in the cruiser, all attention turned to his home. the quaintly named Little London Farmhouse on Little London Lane.
Out in the world, Davis had been acting in the theatrical role of Ronald Platt for months. So now the police were anxious to peer into the backstage area and see who else was participating in this production.
was sent up to Chelmsford, not to assist with the arrest, but to assist with the searching of Little London Farmhouse post his arrest.
Joining the investigative team that day was a young officer called Brian Slade. The neighbors had told police that the man they knew as Ronald Platt had been living in the house with his young wife. So they mobilized in the driveway and prepared to take her in for questioning, and then bring in scores of officers to search every square inch of Little London Farmhouse.
What did police find at Little London Farmhouse?
Peter Redman, the man whose original door knock had started all of this, was the one who knocked on this door too. The woman who opened the door was shocked to see the officers. The feeling was mutual. I was surprised how young she was. To Redmond, she looked like she was 20 at the oldest. Redmond asked her name. She said, I'm Noelle. Redmond said, I'm arresting you under suspicion of murdering Ronald Platt. And she said, what about my children? Children? Children?
She got a young baby with her and a toddler. About three, I think the little one was. And she was much more, oh gosh, what am I going to do with the babies?
The baby was still breastfeeding, but the three-year-old, the police explained, would need to either stay with a friend or the police would arrange for social services to take her. They were going to take Noelle all the way to Devon for an interview. As the officers began moving through the house, they noted how sparse it was. It hardly looked like the warm home of a young family. Outside, there were flowers and a well-manicured lawn and a bountiful vegetable garden. But on the inside, there was hardly any signs of a life being lived within its walls. Upstairs in the toddler's bedroom, there was scant a single toy. It looked like they had been squatting in a foreclosure home. Was this woman and children held against their will? Were they prisoners in their own home?
The wife disappeared from sight for a moment.
And Noel packed a bag for the children, nappies, etc. When she was arrested, a neighbor said that they'd look after the children.
When the officer chaperoning Noel stepped closer, suspicious at what was taking so long, the young wife sheepishly held the bag and the officer gestured for her to hand it over.
And the police officer searched that bag before it was handed over to the neighbor and found cash and a number of gold bars in that bag.
Because what child doesn't need their gold bars for an overnight? As the neighbor arrived to pick up the toddler, downstairs Brian Slade was unprepared for what he was about to find.
I just remember it being really hot. We were in the house and in order to make sure the video came out, we had lights on me so that I had the heat from the lights.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What shocking discovery did Tabitha Pope make in 2021?
0:01–0:38
2
Who was David Davis and why was he arrested in 1996?
0:38–2:22
3
What did police find at Little London Farmhouse?
2:22–8:35
4
How did the police handle the interrogation of David Davis?
8:35–13:32
5
What revelation led to the release of David Davis?
13:32–18:41
6
How did a fax machine change the case against David Davis?
18:41–50:36