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<v Speaker 1>Hi, and welcome back to The Unseen Podcast, a podcast

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<v Speaker 1>dedicated to missing people, unresolved cases, and UK true crime.

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<v Speaker 1>Today's day nine of twelve days of missing person cases

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<v Speaker 1>throughout December. Thirty four year old Angela Bradley disappeared from

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<v Speaker 1>Gloucester in January nineteen ninety five and has not been

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<v Speaker 1>seen since. This episode is about a missing person and

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<v Speaker 1>so does not contain any descriptions of violence. However, there

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<v Speaker 1>is some mention of an eating disorder and suicide, so

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<v Speaker 1>listener discretion is advised. Mythe Bridge spans the River seven

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<v Speaker 1>at Tewkesbury. Tewksbury is a market town in Gloucestershire which

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<v Speaker 1>is famous for their abbey. Mythe Bridge is an arch

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<v Speaker 1>bridge and is a Grade two listed structure. In January

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<v Speaker 1>nineteen ninety five, a white citron Ax car was parked

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<v Speaker 1>next to Myyth Bridge. The car itself stood out to

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<v Speaker 1>passers by because there were keys still in the ignition.

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<v Speaker 1>This in itself was unusual and so this car was

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<v Speaker 1>reported to the police. When police looked into the registered

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<v Speaker 1>owner of the car, they found it to be thirty

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<v Speaker 1>four year old Angela Bradley. Angela worked as a librarian

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<v Speaker 1>and lived in Gloucester with some housemates. Her brother later

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<v Speaker 1>described her as a very intelligent woman. They discovered that

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<v Speaker 1>around seven pm on the sixteenth of January nineteen ninety five,

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<v Speaker 1>Angela left her home. She had not returned and hadn't

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<v Speaker 1>contacted her housemates or her family. The discovery of her

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<v Speaker 1>car next to Myyth Bridge with the keys in the

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<v Speaker 1>ignition now added even more concern to this missing person case.

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<v Speaker 1>Gloucestershire police began to try and delve into Angela's life

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<v Speaker 1>to establish her movements before she disappeared. Angela's housemates told

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<v Speaker 1>police that when she left the home at around seven

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<v Speaker 1>pm that night, she told them that she was late

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<v Speaker 1>and that she had to go. The housemates didn't know

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<v Speaker 1>at what exactly she was late for, and clearly this

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<v Speaker 1>only took on more significance when Angela didn't return. Her

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<v Speaker 1>family were also able to provide some background on Angela

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<v Speaker 1>at the time that she went missing. Her brother Philip

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<v Speaker 1>told the press that Angela had been suffering from anorexia

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<v Speaker 1>and depression for a while before she disappeared, and had

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<v Speaker 1>spent time in Coney Hill Mental Hospital as a result

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<v Speaker 1>of her eating disorder. Coney Hill closed in nineteen ninety four,

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<v Speaker 1>and it was at this point that she was placed

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<v Speaker 1>in the home in Gloucester where she was living in

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<v Speaker 1>January nineteen ninety five. Philip also explain that Angela had

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<v Speaker 1>been visiting her parents on the weekend that she disappeared.

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<v Speaker 1>It's unclear if Angela had been with her parents and

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<v Speaker 1>then gone back to her home in Gloucester before leaving

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<v Speaker 1>again at around seven pm. It was clear, though, that

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<v Speaker 1>Angela was a vulnerable person at the time that she

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<v Speaker 1>went missing, and there were many reasons why her family

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<v Speaker 1>and friends wanted her to be found as quickly as possible.

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<v Speaker 1>Angela left her car keys in the ignition and must

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<v Speaker 1>have gone wherever she was going on foot or perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>in another person's car. Angela's brother, Philip, later explained that

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<v Speaker 1>the prevailing theory of the case since it happened was

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<v Speaker 1>that Angela must have taken her own life and she

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<v Speaker 1>must have been in the river due to her background

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<v Speaker 1>as a vulnerable person. He said quote there was never

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<v Speaker 1>any other theory put forward. Philip explained that his family,

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<v Speaker 1>including his parents, never believed that this was the case, saying,

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<v Speaker 1>my parents never believed it. My mother thought she was

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<v Speaker 1>still out there alive somewhere, but my father thought other

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<v Speaker 1>things had happened. He didn't know what, but he didn't

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<v Speaker 1>think she'd committed suicide. We had a lot of conversations

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<v Speaker 1>about what might have happened. It's a total mystery. There

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<v Speaker 1>did seem to be little to go on, with not

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of evidence being presented about what could have

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<v Speaker 1>happened and their fare, the case began to stall quite

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<v Speaker 1>early on. In twenty sixteen, the case was reopened by

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<v Speaker 1>Gloucestershire Police and they once again appealed for anyone with

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<v Speaker 1>information to come forward. Inspector Andy Matheson said, we don't

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<v Speaker 1>know if Angela has been murdered. We don't know if

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<v Speaker 1>Angela took her own life. We don't know if she's

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<v Speaker 1>decided to disappear and reinvent herself and is still alive

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<v Speaker 1>and well somewhere else. Obviously the outcome we're hoping for.

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<v Speaker 1>He stated that the National Crime Agency were involved in

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<v Speaker 1>the reopening of the case. Philip explained in twenty sixteen

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<v Speaker 1>that his parents had died without knowing what happened to Angela,

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<v Speaker 1>and that their family would very much like to know

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<v Speaker 1>that they'd lived in Limbo without knowing all these years.

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<v Speaker 1>Despite the reopening of the case in twenty sixteen, there

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<v Speaker 1>hasn't been much progress documented about Angela and the investigation

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<v Speaker 1>which has been conducted by Gloucestershire Police. They have been

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<v Speaker 1>quite clear that there's little to go on and that

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<v Speaker 1>they would be relying on people to come forward with

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<v Speaker 1>information and that they do want to build up a

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<v Speaker 1>clearer picture of Angela and her life before she vanished.

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<v Speaker 1>Her family have never given up on finding her and

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<v Speaker 1>so if you do know anything about the disappearance of

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<v Speaker 1>Angela Bradley in Gloucester in January nineteen ninety five, then

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<v Speaker 1>please do contact police on one oh one or the

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<v Speaker 1>Missing People Charity via the link in the show notes.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you for listening to day nine of twelve Days

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<v Speaker 1>of Missing Person episodes in December. Stay tuned for Day

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