What Lies Beneath: A Son's Burden / Debbie & Andrew Griggs
6/17/20261 hr 8 min
For more than two decades, Debbie Griggs' disappearance haunted her family and baffled investigators. The devoted mother-of-three, who was pregnant with her fourth child, vanished from her home in Kent in 1999. As suspicion increasingly focused on her husband, Andrew, detectives painstakingly assembled a case without a body. Years later, shocking revelations would finally expose the truth and uncover the lengths one man was prepared to go to in order to protect his secrets…
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This episode was researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton.
Audio editing by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.
Narration, additional audio editing and mixing, and script editing by Benjamin Fitton.
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First 90 secondsBenjamin Fitton0:00
[suspenseful music] This episode contains distressing themes, profanity, and descriptions of violence. This podcast is intended for a mature audience. Listener caution is advised. Kent and Essex police officers arrived at a property in St Leonard's, Dorset with an arrest warrant in hand. Andrew Griggs had long been suspected of being involved in his wife's disappearance. For two decades, investigators had been unable to definitively say that she had been murdered, until now.
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:45
I think this is probably the worst instance of perverting the course of justice that, that you can do to try and embroil your, you know, your son into offenses such as this, and also to perpetuate a crime that has been going for more than 20 years.
Benjamin Fitton1:01
Welcome to season 11, episode 24 of They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK true crime. Seven months after his arrest, Andrew Griggs was brought to trial at Canterbury Crown Court on October 2nd, 2019 on a charge of murder. Opening