Aug. 4, 2026
Chapter 149: The Body in the Garden-The Murder of John Sabine
For nearly two decades, John Sabine was simply gone. His wife, Leigh, had spent years telling elaborate stories about their lives, convincing friends and family that John had left and started over somewhere else. She was a gifted storyteller whose...
Key Takeaways
- John Sabine was murdered and concealed in a shallow grave in the garden of his former home in Beddau, Wales, by his wife, Leigh Sabine.
- Despite Leigh telling elaborate stories that John had abandoned her and started over elsewhere, her wild lies caused friends and family to dismiss her eventual confessions as mere tall tales.
- The chilling truth was finally uncovered in November 2015 when neighbors playing a prank on a suspected medical skeleton in the garden instead discovered a human body wrapped in multiple layers of plastic.
- Forensic testing and evidence such as discontinued Marks and Spencer pajamas and a Tesco shopping bag dated to 1992 revealed that John Sabine had actually been dead for nearly two decades.
- Leigh Sabine managed to conceal the heinous crime for almost twenty years until her own death from cancer, leaving behind a legacy of compulsive deception and abandoned children.
For nearly two decades, John Sabine was simply gone.
His wife, Leigh, had spent years telling elaborate stories about their lives, convincing friends and family that John had left and started over somewhere else. She was a gifted storyteller whose lies became more outrageous with time, and few people questioned them. But when Leigh died of cancer in 2015, those stories began to unravel.
After two friends made a horrifying discovery in the garden of the couple's former home in Beddau, Wales, investigators were confronted by a body wrapped in plastic. After 18 years the remains of John Sabine, had been found. As they worked to find out what happened, police revealed years of manipulation, compulsive deception, and the couple's infamous decision to abandon their five young children before John's disappearance. Today, we'll trace the lies that concealed a murder for nearly two decades, examine the evidence that finally exposed the truth behind one woman's carefully constructed fiction.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is John Sabine?
John Sabine was a man whose body was discovered wrapped in plastic in a garden in Beddau, Wales, in 2015, nearly 20 years after he was murdered by his wife, Leigh Sabine.
How was John Sabine's body found?
Neighbors in Beddau were attempting to play a practical joke by moving what they thought was a medical skeleton stored in the garden shed when they cut through the plastic and discovered a decomposed body.
Who killed John Sabine?
John Sabine was killed by his wife, Leigh Sabine, who bludgeoned him to death and meticulously wrapped his body in dozens of layers of plastic, tinfoil, and roofing material before hiding it.
Why didn't anyone look for John Sabine for nearly 20 years?
Leigh Sabine was a compulsive storyteller who convinced friends and family that John had left her for someone else, and when she occasionally hinted at the truth, people brushed it off as another one of her tall tales.
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the voices of the missing, the murdered, and the forgotten,
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Network in Deep Podcasts with the Twist. Hello, Hello, Welcome
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to the next chapter in the Book of the Dead.
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Anyone who knows me, whether you've picked up the svibe
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for me as a longtime listener or you know me
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in real life, knows that I have a thing for
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anything spooky, including the more twisted children's tales and poems.
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I have a small collection of books with this theme,
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and the thing that really started this love of strange
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stories was a book my grandmother had when I was
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a little girl. The book was called Matilda who told
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dreadful lies. And it was a children's poem written by
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Hilari ba Locke, which first appeared in his nineteen oh
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seven book Cautionary Tales for Children. As you can gather,
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this is a cautionary tale about a little girl named
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Matilda who lied about her house being on fire so
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often that when it finally did catch fire, she perished
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in the blaze because no one believed her when she
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called for help. This is reminiscent of the more popular
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story of the Boy who Cried Wolf. The reason I
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tell you about this particular story is because the case
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I have for you today involves someone with a pension
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for telling tall tales. In fact, they embellished their life
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and their accomplishments so much that when they confess to
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something truly terrible, the people in their lives simply brushed
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off the confession as just another fairy tale. Because of this,
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a missing man was never looked for, and by the
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time anyone realized what happened, the chance for justice had
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been dashed. This is the murder of John Sebeine. Before
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we jump into the case at hand, to preface this
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by saying two things. One, the bulk of this case
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happens in South Wales, so there will be places that
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I'll have to pronounce that I may not do the
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best job of. But you know, I try very hard
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to say things correctly. If I get anything incorrect. For
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any Welsh speakers out there, I apologize in advance and
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feel free to correct me in my Instagram DMS. The
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second thing is that the last name for this family
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is commonly pronounced as Sabine. However, the family pronounces it
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as Saybine, so I am going to go with that pronunciation.
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This case begins in a quiet village in Betha, which
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is in South Wales. The word Beta means graves in Welsh,
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and according to RC tour Heritage dot com, which is
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all about the Welsh country borough where Beta is called
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Ronta Kunantaff, there's two possibilities as to how Beta got
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its name. Say the village got its name for how
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important it was during the tribal wars, or it could
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be that on the eighteen thirty three Ordnance Survey map,
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four tracks met at what was called krois Heula Betha,
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which translates to Crossroads of the Graves. This was where
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felons were hanged and then buried. While having quite a
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morbid name, the tiny coal village had a slow start
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in development after eighteen sixty, with very few inhabitants outside
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of coal miners making their home there until after nineteen
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o nine. Nowadays, while still small, having a population of
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under seven thousand, Beta is considered a pleasant though rural
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place to live, with a strong sense of community and
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everyone knows everyone. That's not to say it's not without
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its hardships. According to Mary West, a pastor in Beta,
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after the mining factories closed, countless people were left without jobs,
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and many of them turned to drug use. On November
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twenty fourth, twenty fifteen, community officer Gareth Bishop received a
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strange phone call that a dead body had been found
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in the shared garden of Tremacoon Flats. Beda is one
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of those towns where things like this don't happen, So
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when the caller, according to the docuseries about this case,
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called the body next door, said that it was likely
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just some strange garbage, Gareth agreed and said he would
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come by to check it out some time later in
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the day. Now, Police Constable Joy Nichols did not agree.
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In fact, according to her interview, for this series. She said, quote, no,
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we can't just leave this until you have dinner. We
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might have a crime scene. We have to go now.
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It's a good thing they did, because this wasn't just
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a strange looking pile of rubbish. Tucked next to the
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wall of the flats was a roll of plastic and
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what was inside had horrified the women who had found it.
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You see, these two women who had made the discovery,
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Rhean Lee and Michelle James, were sitting in the garden
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over a cup of tea when they decided they would
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play a little prank on their neighbor. They knew that
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a friend of theirs who had recently passed, Leanne Sabine,
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had a medical skeleton that she spoke of all the time,
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and it was currently laying in a shed near a
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plotting table in the garden, wrapped up in plastic. According
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to the Guardian, the plan was to take the skeleton
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and place it on the settee. They would then knock
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to get the neighbor to come down and when they
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saw the skeleton they would be spooked. It was supposed
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to be a silly, little prank. Rhean and Michelle lifted
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the skeleton out of the shed and started to cut
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away the layers around it. Surprisingly, this prop wasn't just
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wrapped in plastic though, according to the Washington Post, it
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was also wrapped in layers of tinfoil, plastic bags, and
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roofing material. As more layers were removed, to their horror,
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a foul smelling liquid began to leak out of the wrapping. Nunciated,
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they pulled back the covering a bit more and revealed
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not a medical skeleton, but a partially decomposed body. Michelle
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told the BBC quote, all this sledge came out over
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my hands and I was screaming. I was shouting, it's
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a dead body. It's a dead body. When investigators arrive
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at the scene, they take stements from both women, and
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while Michelle is adamant that what they found was really
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a body, Rheon wasn't totally convinced, So Anne and Gareth
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weren't entirely sure what to make of the situation. So
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Gareth started cutting away the plastic to expose more of
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what this could be, and unbelievably, Michelle was right. There
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was in fact a dead body hidden in plain sight
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in the garden. But now they needed to figure out
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the identity of the decedent as well as what happened
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to them. Prime scene technicians as well as the coroner
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were called to the apartments to begin processing the scene. Now,
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as I said earlier, Beta is a small town and
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it's a safe one case in point, people rarely locked
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their doors. There was no need to. According to Detective
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Chief Inspector of the Major Crime Unit, Gareth Morgan, there
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hadn't up until this point been a murderer in Beta
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in twenty years. This was a huge deal and the
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community was immediately buzzing with rumors as to who the
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decedent was and what had happened to them. Besides identifying
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the victim, the police were trying to figure out how
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the body ended up in the garden. This was a
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communal area belonging to four of the flats and the
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only way to access it was through the communal entrance
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or via a pad bocked gate that you needed a
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key for. Whoever had left the body there likely lived
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in one of the apartments, but in going door to
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door none of the residents can provide any information. The
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body is transported to to the coroner's office and there
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really astounded as to the links someone had gone to
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in an attempt to conceal the body. According to DCI Morgan,
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the body had been wrapped in layers at least forty
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one times and the coroner had to cut through all
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of them to reach the body. Upon revealing him fully,
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the decedent was described as a white male, middle aged
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and around five foot six, with a receding hairline. On
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his hand was a signet ring, and he was wearing
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a pair of marks and spencer's pajamas. Surprisingly, the body
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was in remarkably good condition. The extensive care used to
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conceal the body had triggered a chemical mummification process and
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it had been fairly well preserved. There was no bug activity,
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and the coroner was even able to determine that the
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decedent had consumed a bit of alcohol before his death.
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According to an article for The Herald, it was estimated
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that the man had died a few weeks to a
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few months prior to being discovered, and the cause of
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death was blown forced trauma to the head, as fractures
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to the skull and i were discovered. The body in
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the garden was a homicide victim, as they're attempting to
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make an identification. Investigators take a look again at the
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residence in the four flats connected to this garden. In
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one flat lived a ninety three year old woman who
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rarely left the apartment due to mobility issues, so she
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was not suspected of any involvement. There was a man
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that lived in the second apartment that had moved in
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recently and had some impairments, so he was also quickly cleared.
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The third apartment had up until that October, been occupied
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by a woman in her eighties who had just passed
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of cancer. Since she had been so ill the last
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few months of her life, police had no reason to
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look more closely at her. Finally, the last flat belonged
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to Michelle James, the woman who had found the body.
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Of course, now that this was a homicide investigation, Major
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Crimes wanted to speak with her more formally. During the
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recorded interview which you can see in the Body next Door,
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Michelle is asked if she knew who placed the body
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in the garden and how she knew it was there.
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She says, Lee said that there was told me and
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Rheon that there was a medical skeleton at the back
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at the side Michelle went on to say that she
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had heard Lie speak about needing the skeleton moved up
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to the attic, and in fact, she was adamant about this,
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and she mentioned it several times before she had died.
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The Lie she was referring to was the woman who
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had lived in the flat above her, Lee Sabine, who
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had died in October after a battle with brain cancer.
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Now police needed to figure out who Lee was and
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if she had anything to do with her homicide. Victim
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investigators went around the town to try and get a
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sense of her, and everyone had stories to tell about
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Lee Sabine. She had shown up in Bethough when she
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was in her sixties, and she loved to be noticed.
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In fact, at her age, she was wearing shorts and
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fishnets with bright red lips that gone, and she loved
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to have her hair done, her makeup done, and her
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nails painted. The residents in the village described her as eccentric,
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larger than life, and very hippyish. Those that knew her
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said of how she'd go on and on about how
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she had been a cabaret singer and she thrived being
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on stage. Most people recalled her waving a cigarette about
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and referring to everyone as darling. She was like a caricature.
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As they asked around, they learned more about Lee's illness.
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She had been diagnosed with the brain cancer and had
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been very sick for about a year prior to her death,
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so investigators had some misgivings about Michelle's statement. Lee, especially
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being in her eighties with terminal cancer, certainly could not
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have been capable of bludgeoning someone to death, let alone
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disposing of the body. There were also parts of Michelle's
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statements that really hadn't made sense either, with her mentioning
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an ex of hers that investigators really didn't know what
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to make of. Because Michelle had made conflicting statements to
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police about when she had allegedly learned of the body,
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as well as making an ill perceived joke about cooking
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her ex and a stew they ultimately decided to arrest
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her on suspicion of murder. However, two days after her arrest,
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after completely searching her flat, going over a week's worth
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of CCTV, and tracking down her ex, who was alive
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and well, Michelle was released from police custody after nothing
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at all was found to connect her to the body.
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With Michelle being released, police really had nothing to go on.
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So these circles back to lie Saybine, as she was
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the one who had really taken charge of revitalizing the
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communal garden that had been so neglected when she had
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moved in almost twenty years prior. The only thing investigators
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could find out for sure about her was that, according
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to what she had said in a feature about the garden,
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she had moved to Betha from New Zealand. As investigators
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asked about Lee more and more, they kept getting different stories.
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Lee was a singer, she was a dancer, a nurse,
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a dog breeder. She had apparently been a substance abuse counselor.
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No one knew for sure what she had really done,
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and no one knew for sure where she was from.
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Her accent, according to neighbors, was so strange, like she
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was trying to speak very poorly with an accent that
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she didn't actually have. Then, in speaking with Rian and
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Lee's caretaker, Lynn Williams, they both told how Lee would
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constantly talk about this medical skeleton. She was always asking
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Lynn to move it and had even asked Rian's son
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to put it in the attic but no one ever did.
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were sitting around the table having a cup of tea
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and she mentioned the skeleton again and I said, well,
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I hope it's not a bleeding real one, and she went,
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