Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - The Tragic Case of Sarah Everard Abduction and Murder by a London Police Officer PART3 #48

Episode Date: November 22, 2025

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All right, let's dive right back into it. At this point in the investigation, Sarah's face was everywhere. The police had shared CCTV clips across the entire country, grainy stills of her walking home, snapshots from cameras that caught her just hours before she vanished. The hope was simple, someone, somewhere, would recognize something. And the calls did pour in. Tip after tip, people eager to help. But heartbreakingly, none of those calls gave investigators the breakthrough they needed.

Even that hat they'd found earlier, the one that looked so much like Saras, was eventually ruled out by the lab. It didn't belong to her. But the search didn't stop. In fact, it only intensified. Detectives and officers went door-to-door, knocking on more than 750 homes in the area. Think about that, hundreds of doors, hundreds of conversations, neighbors being asked to relive the night Sarah vanished, to check their cameras, their memories. Friends and family joined in, walking the very same route Sarah had taken that night, retracing her steps again and again, hoping to stumble upon something the police might have missed. Dogs were brought in, sniffing through streets, gardens, and parks. Specialized dive teams searched the ponds and waterways near Claffam, fearing the worst, that if someone had hurt Sarah, they might have tried to hide her body in the water.

It was a search that stretched across both land and water, an entire community turning upside down in hopes of finding her. Days went by. Leeds fizzled out. And then, finally, something happened that changed everything. A new CCTV video surfaced. This time, it wasn't from a house camera or a shop, but from a bus. Public transport in London is covered with cameras, inside and out, and on March 9th, investigators got their hands on some footage that made their stomachs drop.

In the clip, Sarah was visible, but she wasn't alone. She was talking to someone, a man, standing near a vehicle with its hazard lights blinking. The car was a white Vauxhall Astra, parked on the side of the road. The timestamp? Around 9.35 p.m., right along Poinders Road. For the first time since Sarah vanished, police had something concrete. Not just Sarah walking alone, but Sarah interacting with someone. A second camera angle from the same bus gave them even more, the car's license plate.

Clear as day. That detail cracked the case wide open. They traced the plate and learned that the Astra wasn't privately owned, it was a rental. The car belonged to Enterprise, a rental company about two hours away from London. Enterprise handed over everything they had, the paperwork, the rental contract, the contact information for the person who'd signed it out. Phone numbers, dates, everything. And when detectives ran those numbers through their system, their jaws must have hit the floor.

Because one of the phone numbers linked back to none other than a police officer. His name was Wayne Cousins. Yeah. You read that right. The man connected to the car Sarah had last been seen and wasn't some random stranger, not a nameless figure lurking in the dark. He was a serving metropolitan police officer. married, a dad, 48 years old, and he'd rented that car a whole week before Sarah vanished. This wasn't a spur-of-the-moment thing. It looked planned.

On March 9, the investigation zeroed in on his house in Kent, about an hour's drive from London. Teams of officers arrived, body cameras switched on, ready to confront him. The hope, despite the grim possibilities, was that Sarah might be able to. still be alive, and maybe Wayne could lead them to her. When they questioned him, they showed him a picture of Sarah, asking if he knew her. At first, Wayne denied it. Flat out said no. But under pressure, he shifted his story. Yes, he admitted he had seen her that night. But then he spun a wild, almost cinematic tale. According to Wayne, he had been forced into a bizarre situation.

He claimed he'd been threatened by a gang, specifically a group of Eastern European men, who had pressured him into delivering a woman to them. If he didn't, they'd hurt him and his family. And Sarah, he said, had been that woman. According to his story, he had picked her up, driven her, and then been intercepted by another car. Three men, in a vehicle with Romanian plates, supposedly rammed into him. They then took Sarah away. Wayne even gave descriptions of these supposed men, painting himself as just the middleman in some twisted exchange.

The more he talked, the more absurd it sounded. Investigators listening to him knew something was off. His story had holes big enough to drive a truck through. It felt like a desperate attempt to explain away the fact that Sarah had last been seen with him, in his car. And the motive he gave? He claimed the gang targeted him because of unpaid, debts to a sex worker he'd been seeing in Kent. Apparently, he'd visited cheap hotels, met with this woman multiple times, but hadn't paid her the full amount. So, in his words,

her, boss had given him two options, settle the debt, or kidnap another woman as a replacement. To protect his family, he'd chosen the second option. It was a story straight out of a bad crime thriller. And the detectives knew it. didn't add up. But one thing was clear, Wayne Cousins wasn't just some bystander. He was directly involved in Sarah's disappearance. That night, officers arrested him at his home. His wife, Elena, was taken in two, under suspicion of possible complicity. They were the first two arrests in Sarah's case. The police didn't know yet if Elena had any knowledge of what her husband had done, but they weren't taking chances.

Wayne and Elena's story stretched back years. They'd met in Switzerland in 2005, got married a year later, and had two kids together. 16 years of marriage, a whole life built around what looked, from the outside, like a stable family unit. But appearances, as it turned out, meant nothing here. Elena was released not long after her arrest, her behavior and testimony suggested. she had no clue about Wayne's actions. She seemed blindsided by it all.

So who was this man, really? Who was Wayne Cousins? His background made the discovery even more disturbing. Wayne had volunteered for the army when he was younger. After that, he joined Kent Police as a volunteer officer in 2005, climbing to the rank of Special Sergeant by 2009. In 2011, after going through the full selection process and background checks, he became a sworn police officer. That meant he'd passed through rigorous vetting, the kind of checks designed to weed out

anyone with criminal tendencies or red flags. He was even trained to carry a firearm, which not every officer in the UK gets. For eight months, he served in armed roles before moving into other assignments. Eventually, he landed in the parliamentary and diplomatic protection unit, a job that involved guarding high-profile government buildings and diplomats. This wasn't some rookie cop. This was someone who'd been entrusted with serious responsibilities, given access to sensitive areas, handed a gun by the state. And now, he was the prime suspect in the disappearance of Sarah Everard. The sheer betrayal of trust hit hard. People expect a lot of things in life, but one of the basics is that the police are there to protect you, not harm you.

The idea that a serving officer, someone with a badge, with authority, could be the very person behind such a crime, it was almost unthinkable. Almost. Because here it was, staring everyone in the face. Wayne's arrest marked a turning point in the case. The investigation was no longer just about a missing woman. it had become a nightmare scenario a woman last seen alive with a police officer a man spinning wild lies to cover his tracks and the clock was still ticking because at that point the most pressing question remained where was sarah to be continued