Britain's Darkest Taboos: Stephanie Slater Abduction

• published: 16 Jan 2015
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Thank you for watching & please subscribe us Stephanie was a 25-year-old estate agent going about her work in the Birmingham suburb of Great Barr when she was viciously attacked by a man she was showing around a house. She was held at knife point, bound, gagged, blindfolded, and bundled into the reclined passenger’s seat of his car, before being tied down and driven to Newark in Nottinghamshire where she was held prisoner for eight days in the most appalling circumstances. The prospective house buyer gave his name as Bob Southall, but in fact it was Michael Sams, a monster who six months earlier kidnapped and murdered Leeds teenager Julie Dart, an offence he initially denied, but later confessed to in prison. After eight days of sheer hell, Stephanie’s employers agreed to meet Sams’ £175,000 ransom demands. Police set a trap to catch Sams at the pick-up point, with the money being delivered by estate agent boss Kevin Watts. But it all went horribly wrong. Police lost contact with the radio they had given Mr Watts, and Sams escaped through the fog. That same night, fearing Sams had picked up the ransom and left her to die, Stephanie was eventually freed from inside her hell-hole prison, driven back to Birmingham by Sams and dumped in the road close to her home. But by then police had already assumed she would never ever be seen alive again. Several attempts to find her had failed; surveillance on her home had ended just 20 minutes before she walked up to her front door, and officers had even asked her parents which one of them would be prepared to identify her body. Britain's Darkest Taboos: Stephanie Slater Abduction Britain's Darkest Taboos: Stephanie Slater Abduction Britain's Darkest Taboos: Stephanie Slater Abduction Britain's Darkest Taboos: Stephanie Slater Abduction Stephanie Slater Abduction, Stephanie Slater Abduction Stephanie Slater Abduction, Stephanie Slater Abduction Stephanie Slater, Stephanie Slater, Stephanie Slater Stephanie Slater, Stephanie Slater