Gracie Spink Murder: How Police Missed Every Stalking Warning | Michael Sellers

From Crime Uncovered · 20:12

Show by Daniel Reuben

On the morning of June 18th, 2021, two passers-by walking past a horse paddock at Blue Lodge Farm in Derbyshire spotted a young woman lying unconscious on the grass. At first, they assumed she had been kicked by a horse. Then they saw a man hurrying away up a country lane. Gracie Spink, 23, a lifeguard and swimming instructor who had taken a warehouse job during lockdown, had been killed in a brutal, carefully planned attack.The man responsible, her former supervisor Michael Sellers, was found dead a short distance away. But the real shock came afterward. Eight women had reportedly complained about Sellers’s stalking at his workplace, and he was only fired after Gracie reported him. She then called police and warned them his obsession could escalate. Her case was closed as low risk within two weeks. Weeks later, a bag of weapons and a threatening note was found near the farm and treated like lost property.In this episode, we trace the timeline from the warehouse to the farm, and look at each warning that was missed, the coroner’s ruling of unlawful killing, the police misconduct investigation, and the family’s campaign for “Gracie’s Law.”If you recognize any of this in your own life, the National Stalking Helpline in the UK is 0808 802 0300. Subscribe for a new true crime case every week.

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