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-Lies...

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-..secrets...

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-..deceit...

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-..violence.

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-Every criminal case is a distinct

-challenge for the detective.

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-To discover the truth,

-they need patience and curiosity.

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-Tonight, I hear about the body found

-in a back garden in South Wales.

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-It had been encased in plastic

-for eighteen years.

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-The body was mummified.

-It had been wrapped up so well.

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-For the first time, detectives are

-opening the case files...

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-..to show how the murderer

-had hidden the body.

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-I assure you, I never ever thought

-of this as a possibility.

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-This was an unique case.

-An incredible case to work on.

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-Beddau.

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-An old mining village

-in the South Wales valleys.

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-It's now a cluster

-of commuter homes.

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-In November 2015, the eyes of

-the world turned to this village...

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-..when an astounding discovery

-was made.

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-Near the high street in Beddau, are

-a block of flats called Trem-Y-Cwm.

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-It was here that two tenants

-found a suspicious package...

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-..in the back garden

-and phoned the police.

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-The neighbours thought they'd found

-a medical skeleton in the bag.

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-When they opened it up,

-there was a strong smell...

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-..and they thought

-it was something more.

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-A police forensic team was sent

-to the scene.

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-When they opened the package, they

-realized it wasn't a skeleton...

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-..but a human body.

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-The police sealed off the area.

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-They erected a tent

-above the package...

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-..to secure the forensic evidence.

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-It was obvious that the body

-had been there a long time.

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-It had been covered in plastic.

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-It had been wrapped

-in grey plastic...

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-..about six feet in length.

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-The body was in this area

-up against the wall.

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-It's changed quite a bit since then.

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-There were a lot of bags and rubbish

-on top of the body.

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-The pathologist arrived to make

-an initial examination.

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-Before carrying out a post-mortem.

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-The pathologist said that the person

-had suffered a trauma to the head.

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-We knew that

-it was a suspicious death.

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-So we had to find out who was

-responsible for the death.

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-That night, the police questioned

-people door to door.

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-But the news had already spread

-around the village.

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-I went to meet someone who lives

-200 metres from the flats...

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-..and who remembers the police

-racing through the village.

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-Naturally, it sent chills

-down our spines.

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-The rumour was that the police

-had found body parts...

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-..or parts of bodies.

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-Then word got around that

-there was more than one body.

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-Fears grew and grew.

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-People were worried...

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-..that there was a dangerous killer

-walking among us.

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-At Bridgend Police Station...

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-..detectives were gathering

-evidence...

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-..to confirm the identity

-of the body.

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-They knew now that it was a man.

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-The body wore a gold ring and a hip

-joint was found in the remains.

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-But, although it bore

-an unique serial number...

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-..they were told that the medical

-records had been disposed of...

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-..when the old hospital in

-Llantrisant closed.

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-They got no results from the

-National DNA Database either...

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-..nor from any dental records.

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-They needed more evidence.

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-Forensic experts began to search

-for clues from the packaging...

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-..that could give them an idea

-how long the body had been there.

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-We didn't have a clue at that time

-who the person was...

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-..let alone who was responsible

-and who had deposited the body.

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-The forensic work was vital

-at the start.

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-There was conflicting evidence

-in dating the body.

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-It looked recent, but it had been

-preserved because of the wrapping.

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-There were several layers of

-wrapping. It was like a mummy.

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-Fourteen pieces of grey plastic

-were wrapped around the body...

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-..to create 41 layers.

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-The body was secured with tape

-and rope.

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-These pictures show how many times

-the body had been wrapped...

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-..in these huge plastic sheets.

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-This is one of the sheets

-from the body...

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-..that was sent

-to the forensic team.

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-It shows in detail...

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-..how much work there was

-for the forensic team.

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-They searched for fingerprints

-and DNA on all the layers.

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-There were clues that the body

-had been there for far longer...

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-..than its condition suggested.

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-We had evidence, such as a plastic

-bag which was made in 1992.

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-Also, some St Michael

-or Marks and Spencer pyjamas...

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-..that had been made in the 1990s.

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-At the time, it was difficult to

-prove when the killing took place.

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-Detectives were confident that the

-answer lay within the community.

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-After questioning the tenants

-who discovered the package...

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-..one of them was arrested

-and interviewed by the police.

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-She denied having anything to do

-with the body in the package.

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-According to her,

-her former neighbour had said...

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-..that the package contained

-a medical skeleton.

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-The neighbour's name

-was Leigh Sabine.

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-She used to live in Flat 57,

-Trem-Y-Cwm.

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-She was a very colourful character.

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-She and her husband had moved

-to Britain from New Zealand.

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-She'd lived in Beddau

-for eighteen years.

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-But the 74-year-old woman had died

-a month earlier from cancer.

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-But, as detectives asked

-around locally...

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-..it became clear that no-one had

-seen her husband, John Sabine...

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-..for many years.

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-We had no CCTV

-or modern technology...

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-..so we had to do

-some old-fashioned policing.

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-Knocking doors, speaking to people,

-gathering information...

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-..meticulous review of records.

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-They discovered that John Sabine

-had been in the army...

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-..and had worked as an accountant

-in England.

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-The couple had signed a joint

-tenancy agreement in February 1997.

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-Records show that John Sabine

-had registered with a local GP.

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-In April 1997,

-two months after moving here...

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-..he ordered a prescription from

-the chemist, but never collected it.

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-No-one remembers seeing John Sabine

-after April 1997...

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-..and there was no record

-of his death.

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-Over the years, his wife gave

-a variety of explanations.

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-She either said that he was ill

-or that he'd left her.

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-She was still receiving

-his army pension...

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-..and he was still on

-the voters' register.

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-In 2005,

-when he would have turned 75...

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-..she wrote to TV Licensing

-in order to get the discount.

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-In some ways she was purporting that

-he was alive and living there...

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-..but in other ways, she was giving

-a story that he'd gone and left her.

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-Further investigation revealed...

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-..that the couple had five children

-in New Zealand.

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-There was light at the end of the

-tunnel for the team closer to home.

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-We found out that John Sabine had

-children from a previous marriage...

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-..who lived in Britain -

-a son and daughter.

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-After taking a DNA sample

-from the son...

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-..it was confirmed that the body

-was that of John Sabine.

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-The team now suspected the his wife

-was responsible for his death.

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-You can't just label someone

-a murderer.

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-You've still got to prove the facts

-of the case.

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-You've got to prove it beyond doubt.

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-The inquiry was still a full-on

-homicide investigation.

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-Leigh Sabine was the prime suspect

-in this murder.

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-But she was dead.

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-Proving the case seemed impossible

-for the detectives.

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-After finding the body of a man

-wrapped in plastic packaging...

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-..in the village of Beddau, South

-Wales Police now knew who he was.

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-They suspected that John Sabine

-had been murdered by his wife.

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-But the big question was,

-who exactly was Leigh Sabine?

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-In October 2015, Leigh Sabine died

-after suffering from brain cancer.

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-A group of her friends paid tribute

-to her here at Glyntaff Crematorium.

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-But Leigh Sabine's history

-and background...

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-..had always been a mystery

-to her friends.

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-Witnesses described Leigh as an

-eccentric and colourful character.

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-She'd been a cabaret singer

-in her younger days...

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-..using the stage name Leigh Martin.

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-The difficulty with Leigh Sabine

-was her name.

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-Was it Leigh Sabine?

-How did she spell it?

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-We found aliases,

-such as Leigh Martin.

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-But the truth was her name was Ann

-Evans who'd grown up in the Rhondda.

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-Originally from the valleys...

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-..Leigh Sabine probably met her

-husband in London in the 1950s...

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-..where she was working as a nurse.

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-After getting married in Pontypridd,

-the couple emigrated to New Zealand.

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-They had five children there.

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-But, one day in 1969...

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-..they left the children with

-childminders in Auckland...

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-..and disappeared.

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-The children were between

-the ages of 2 and 11 years old.

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-They fled to Perth, Australia...

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-..and changed their names

-to Leigh and John Martin.

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-They moved back to New Zealand

-some years later.

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-In 1984, with the family still

-separated...

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-..a TV crew turned up on their

-doorstep with two of the girls.

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-The girls wanted to know why

-their parents had abandoned them.

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-The police are on the way.

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-You owe us an explanation.

-Can't you understand?

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-Get out of the house!

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-Will you please get out of the

-house! I'll tell the police.

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-Why did you say...?

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-Mr Sabine,

-we're only trying to get...

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-Following all the attention,

-the couple fled once again.

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-This time, to England.

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-The family's history

-in New Zealand is sad.

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-In 2000, Martin, one of their sons,

-killed himself.

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-When Jane, one of the daughters

-wrote to her mother...

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-..a year before she died, this is

-part of the answer she received.

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-"I have served my life sentence

-of shame and blame."

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-"Now it is your turn

-to suffer the same."

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-"Your nemesis, Ann Lee Sabine."

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-When the discovery in Beddau

-hit the headlines...

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-..police received a call

-from another witness...

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-..offering key information.

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-In the 1990s, Valerie Chalkley

-lived in Reading...

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-..and worked in a clothes shop

-with a woman she knew as Ann Sabine.

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-Then, in 1997, after the Sabines

-moved to Beddau...

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-..she remembers receiving

-a phone call from her.

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-It was a very strange call.

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-She said, "I've killed him."

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-I said, "What?"

-She said, "Yes, I've killed him."

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-"I've battered him

-with a stone frog."

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-"Because he was getting

-on my nerves."

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-Then she goes on to talk about

-other things.

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-She changed the subject completely.

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-I thought she was having me on.

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-You know when you feel

-a bit of a fool...

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-..and you think you'd feel a fool,

-if you said, "Is that true?"

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-Because she'd say,

-"Of course, it isn't!"

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-So I never asked her about it.

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-The next time they spoke, she told

-Valerie that her husband was fine.

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-Although Valerie knew that the

-couple had a stormy relationship...

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-..she never believed

-her friend's tall tales.

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-She could come out with statements

-that were totally ridiculous.

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-You'd find out they were.

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-She was a strange, strange person.

-She really was.

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-In Bridgend, the witness's call...

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-..was another turning point

-in the investigation.

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-It was incredible to get the call

-from Valerie Chalkley...

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-..telling us that Leigh Sabine

-had murdered her husband.

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-But also, telling us about

-the frog.

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-It was an amazing phone call.

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-We thought, "Would this have

-happened? Is this real?"

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-"Has she given another story

-to someone which is false?"

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-But the investigation team went back

-to the scene to visit...

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-..some of the friends

-and associates..

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-..who had received property

-from Leigh Sabine's flat.

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-And in an amazing twist,

-we recovered a stone frog.

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-It appeared that the stone

-in the shape of a frog...

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-..had sat by the Sabines' bed

-for many years.

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-One of the neighbours kept it

-after the flat was cleared.

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-It's quite a heavy frog.

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-On the frog in the picture...

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-..you can see an eye

-on the back leg.

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-They sent the new evidence

-to the pathologist.

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-He placed the shape of the frog

-on top of pictures...

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-..of the injuries to the skull.

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-It was a perfect match

-to John Sabine's head trauma.

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-Now, they had a theory

-about how he died.

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-It's likely that Leigh Sabine

-picked up the frog...

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-..from the side of the bed...

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-..and hit John Sabine as he was

-lying in bed in his pyjamas...

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-..killing him instantly.

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-Although it was too late

-to bring a case of murder...

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-..they had to prepare the evidence

-to put before the coroner.

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-At the inquest in May, the police

-presented their conclusions.

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-According to the coroner,

-Andrew Barkley...

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-..it was clear that John Sabine had

-died after a severe head trauma.

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-After hearing all the evidence,

-he came to the decision...

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-..that this was an unlawful killing.

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-It was very important to get

-a result in this case.

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-For the sake of the family

-and the investigation team.

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-They didn't want an open verdict

-on the murder.

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-We knew who was responsible

-and it was up to us to prove it.

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-It's certainly unique for me.

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-Twenty years in the police service

-and I had never come across...

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-..anything like this.

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-If you find a body disposed of

-in a garden all wrapped up...

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-..you're thinking all sorts

-of hypotheses in your mind.

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-I never ever thought of this

-as a possibility.

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-The coroner's verdict was

-a shock for the family...

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-..and for the community in Beddau.

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-I think people feel that her actions

-were very strange...

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-..and cannot understand

-or relate to what she did.

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-It's hard for people

-to come to terms with it.

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-Some of the people who live

-in the same building...

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-..have either moved out

-or intend to move out...

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-..because of the effect the

-traumatic events have had on them.

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-Friends of Leigh or Ann Sabine

-are still looking for answers.

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-Why and how did she keep

-the whole thing a secret?

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-She was a show-woman,

-she really was.

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-If she could have written

-her life story...

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-..this is what she would have done.

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-This is how she would have

-wanted it.

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-People talking about her.

-Leaving an impression.

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-That was the way

-she would have wanted it.

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-In January 2016...

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-..John Sabine's funeral took place

-at Llantrisant cemetery.

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-The last time he was seen,

-he was 67 years old.

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-This is where John Sabine is buried.

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-In this area here.

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-There's no headstone.

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-No. There's no headstone.

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-It was only me and two

-others from the investigation...

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-..his son, Chris Sabine and his wife

-and the minister at the graveside.

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-The ceremony was over

-in a couple of minutes.

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-What was the feeling here,

-on the day?

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-It was quite sad, because

-it was such a simple ceremony.

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-It was over in a couple of minutes.

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-But it marked the conclusion

-for the investigation team.

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-The body that we'd found

-had been named and buried.

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-That was it.

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-It was a fascinating case.

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-To think that Leigh Ann Sabine...

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-..had kept the whole thing

-a secret for so long.

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-It's hard to believe.

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-Although she avoided being caught

-and punished...

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-..at least there were finally

-some answers for John's family...

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-..regarding his death.

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