True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SOLVED: A Serial Killer Obsession lead to the TWISTED murder of a Teenage Girl: Bobbi-Anne McLeod
03 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What led to the tragic disappearance of Bobbi-Anne McLeod?
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.
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. 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. 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.
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.
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Chapter 2: What details surround the night of Bobbi-Anne's last sighting?
So, when he gave them this information, they immediately sent officers to the location that Cody described to not only see if she was actually there, but to see if there was any way that they could possibly save her. So, they were led to a wooded area near a beach in Bavasand. The area was full of dense shrubbery, but they combed through and they searched until they found her.
And there, exactly where Cody said she would be, officers discovered the naked, badly beaten body of 18-year-old Bobby. She was lying face down in the dirt and her injuries were described as catastrophic. Officers reported that she had over 14 lacerations to her head and face. She was clearly deceased at that point, so there would be absolutely no way of saving her.
She was actually beaten so badly that she was unrecognizable, and it took dental records to actually identify her. It was pretty obvious at that point that Cody was the one who murdered her. I mean, he told police exactly where her body was and what happened to her. So after finding her body, the interview with officers continued.
Cody ended up telling the detectives that he tends to overthink a lot and that on the evening of November 20th, he was wound up and needed to get out of the home. He said that he was driving around the area in Plymouth looking for trouble, but not looking for anybody in particular. And that is when he randomly happened upon Bobby Ann at the bus stop at around 6.15 PM that night.
He said that he noticed Bobby because she reminded him a little bit of one of his past girlfriends. He said that he parked his car at the bottom of a grass bank behind the bus stop. He grabbed a claw hammer, which he claimed he always kept in his car to fix dents.
Then he walked along the path behind the bus stop before just striking her on the back of the head with that claw hammer, suddenly and without warning. After hitting the tiny petite 4 foot 11 inch Bobby, he said that their eyes met, but he hit her over the head once again. As she was lying there, he said that this was supposed to be the end of the attack. He didn't want it to continue after that.
So he decided to walk away and leave her at the bus stop and started to walk back to his car, a red Ford Fiesta. However, as he was leaving, he saw her starting to move again. For a moment, he thought about bringing her to a hospital, but he was afraid of getting caught. So when he came back, he shoved Bobby into the front seat of the car, into the footwell.
He sort of shoved her in the area of the front seat where you would put her feet and It was reported as the front seat but now that I'm saying it out loud it makes more sense that he would put her in the back seat so I'm not exactly sure which is the case but Reports say that it was the front seat of the car.
With Bobby's body in the car, he said that he drove around for about 19 miles before arriving to a parking lot at the Bellevue Forest at around 7.45 p.m. There, she told him that she was scared, and to that, he responded that he was scared too, that he had never done something like this before.
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Chapter 3: How did the community react to Bobbi-Anne's disappearance?
Everyone in Cody's life is shocked at what he did. They did also ask that members of the public come forward if they know of any other incidents that Cody may have been involved with when it comes to assaults to other women. He could have committed other crimes and nobody has connected him to it and obviously he hasn't confessed to those ones.
But otherwise, as far as police know, he went from 0 to 100 real quick. So, after making his confession to the police, he did actually plead guilty. Because of that, there was no trial. However, they did have a sentencing hearing where the prosecution and defense made their arguments regarding Cody's motive and
the brutality of his crime, what led to it, and his background that could have contributed to the crimes. Obviously, the prosecution talked about this sick, disturbing obsession with serial killers, the fact that he chose Bobby so randomly with no warning, and how brutal the entire attack was. It was a prolonged, torturous attack. They wanted the maximum sentence for this sick, twisted monster.
But his defense came in with a little bit of insight into Cody's past and what could have contributed to his disturbing mindset. Like I mentioned earlier, investigators said that Cody never gave a real explanation for why he did what he did. He refused to give any details about his motivations and avoided answering any questions about why he chose Bobby Ann,
Again, except for saying that she reminded him of an ex-girlfriend. However, he did mention that he had a bad childhood and suffered from trauma. His defense attorney claimed that he was diagnosed with ADHD, dyslexia, depression, and anxiety. And by the age of 19, he had seven years of a depressive history. By the age of seven, he was deemed as being special needs.
and by the age of nine, he was contemplating suicide. His defense attorney continued that he had not received much comfort from either his home or school life growing up. Neither his father nor any of his other male role models provided anything that could give Cody a good foundation for how to live his life. They said that he led a sad and isolated life from a young age.
He was someone who is self-absorbed, but not in a narcissistic way. He doesn't love himself, he loathes himself. He grew up to absolutely hate himself. He was angry with the world, angry with everything. They said that he did seek help at some point, but he wasn't the best at speaking with counselors because he didn't feel comfortable talking about the details of his life.
He continued that Bobby Ann's murder was, quote, the culmination of everything that has gone on in his life stemming from childhood. Ah yes, the old childhood trauma excuse for grown adults committing disgusting, gruesome murders. It was because of what happened in his childhood, as if he does not have free will and does not have any decision-making skills as a 24-year-old adult.
The defense argued that his obsession with murder and serial killers was because of his mental health struggles. They said, quote, Psychiatrists characterize it as a kind of self-harm, someone who has developed an addiction to seeking out material, going back to it again and again. Cody describes it as self-medicating.
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