Detective Sergeant Tim Grogan described killer Michael Sams as a 'shambling, one-legged trainspotter' when they came face to face in Nottinghamshire
Britain's most wanted man greeted police with "Oh, hello there" when he was finally arrested. Michael Sams, had been hiding in plain sight when Detective Sergeant Tim Grogan walked into the killer’s workshop.
"The blood drained through his face," Tim said. "He was a broken man. And that was the time to get him with an interview. That was the time we could have really got into his head and seen what he had to say for himself." He made Julie write a haunting letter to her boyfriend begging for help. The letter read: "Hello Dominic. Help me please, I’ve been kidnapped and I’m being held as a personal security until next Monday night. Please go and tell my mum straightaway. Love you so much."
"You think of somebody locked up, they’re not drinking or eating, they’re terrified to death. When I wake up in the early hours of the morning, I still think about her life being snuffed out. The fiend abducted her and brought her to his workshop in Newark, where he raped her and locked her inside a filthy wheelie bin. Led by West Mids CID head John Plimmer, police were able to intercept a ransom letter Sams wrote to her firm demanding £175,000.
Astonishingly, the killer had kept his promise and delivered Stephanie back to her distraught parents’ home that same day. More than 1,000 officers were involved in the case , and Tim’s job was to hunt down every clue Sams had left along the way.
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