Close Your Eyes / The Murder of Dawn Rhodes and The Killer Who Walked Free
3/11/20261 hr 1 min
In June 2016, Dawn Rhodes was killed at the family home in Redhill, Surrey. Her husband, carpenter Robert Rhodes, who cut Dawn’s throat and claimed self-defence, told the police that she had attacked him. In 2017, a jury at the Old Bailey believed him. He walked free. But in 2021, one of the couple's children disclosed the truth to a therapist…
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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.
Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton
Narration, additional audio editing and mixing, and script editing by Benjamin Fitton.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Benjamin Fitton· Host0:30
[gentle music] This episode contains distressing themes, profanity, and descriptions of violence. This podcast is intended for a mature audience. Listener caution is advised. "Are you kidding?" That was Robert Rhodes' response when police officers arrived at his cottage in Devon on the morning of July 4th, two thousand and twenty-four. He shouldn't have been surprised. He knew what he'd done, but he convinced himself that he'd been cunning enough to get away with it. But what shocked Rhodes was that someone had finally told the truth, and that someone was the person he'd cruelly manipulated into keeping his secret for nearly a decade.
Speaker 2· Soundbite1:26
There was a great deal of concern twenty years ago. People were getting away with