SOLVED: A Serial Killer Obsession lead to the TWISTED murder of a Teenage Girl: Bobbi-Anne McLeod

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What led to the tragic disappearance of Bobbi-Anne McLeod?

Rachel Shannon 0:00
There are many people out there who watch horror movies, they love serial killer documentaries, and consume true crime content on a daily basis. Anyone watching this video is a part of those people. However, some people take it way too far. They develop an unhealthy fascination for the disturbing dark and twisted minds that commit some of the world's most heinous crimes. And sometimes these people act out on these disgusting fantasies and take their violence out on unsuspecting innocent lives. That is what happened to Bobbie Ann McLeod. What happened to her is unfathomable, but her story needs to be told. Bobbie Ann McLeod was born to her parents, Adrian and Donna, and she had a brother named Lee, and her family lived in the Layham area of Plymouth in England.
Rachel Shannon 0:49
she was described by her family as being beautiful kind and loyal she lit up the lives of everybody who knew her she was a best friend to so many people she was popular and loved by everyone who knew her she had a very close-knit supportive family who did what they could to show each family member how loved they were Bobbi Ann's favorite music was alternative rock and she was known to be artistic and creative. She was motivated and she knew what she wanted out of life. She was in college at the time with hopes of someday becoming an interior designer. By Saturday, November 20th, 2021, 18-year-old Bobbi Ann left the home that she shared with her family at around 5.45 p.m. after telling her father, Adrian, that she loved him.
Rachel Shannon 1:37
She was heading out to catch a bus so that she could visit with her boyfriend, Louie. She went to the bus stop on Bampton Road, right down the street from her house, about a four-minute walk away. The plan was to take the bus to the city center, where she would meet her boyfriend. While standing at the bus stop at around 6.05 to 6.15 p.m., she was noticed by witnesses just standing there at the bus stop, looking up and down the street, waiting for the bus to come. She stood there, she took a Snapchat selfie of herself and posted it to her story with the caption that she was freezing cold at the time. However, Bobbi Ann never made it to her destination. She never arrived to the city center and she never saw her boyfriend that evening.
Rachel Shannon 2:21
And by the time she was supposed to return back home, She didn't show. Literally an hour after Bobby left home, her parents were a bit suspicious because she literally was always in communication with them while she was out. Then by 9 p.m., Bobby's boyfriend called her family, asking them if she was still at home. Of course, that really panicked the family because she was supposed to have been with her boyfriend that evening. So they started calling around to different friends who could have also been with Bobby that day, but literally nobody had seen or heard from her after the bus stop that day. Bobby's brother, Lee, also tried calling her cell phone multiple times to see if she would answer his calls.
Rachel Shannon 3:03
but all of his calls were just going straight to voicemail. So, her family reported her as a missing person, and from there, the searches, as well as the pleas for her safe return, began. They searched all across different areas of Plymouth, on ground and by helicopter. A Facebook group was started to spread information about her disappearance, attracting more than 13,000 members, all with the common goal of finding Bobby. For the three days that followed, they searched all around the bus stop, the wooded areas, and anywhere else they could think to look. At the time, there were witnesses who saw her at the bus stop like I said. Nobody thought that anything seemed out of the ordinary. She was just waiting for the bus.
Rachel Shannon 3:48
She wasn't acting bizarre or seemed to be freaking out or anything like that. There was no reason to think that she would have left the bus stop and just ran off on her own. She literally looked just like any other ordinary person waiting for the bus. Something that was concerning, however, was that I believe only about an hour after Bobby was last seen, a witness who actually saw Bobby at the bus stop found that she had left her cell phone and her AirPods at the bus stop.

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