# 6: The Snuff Film Murder (Georgia Williams)

An episode of [Outlore with Eleanor Neale](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1682504024), 4 May 2023, 17 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/105f723ac/podcast/play/103880308/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-5-9%2F401851608-44100-2-09eeff655c053368.mp3

Today's episode is on 17 year old Georgia Williams from Shropshire, England, UK. Trigger Warning: murder, necrophilia Resources: https://linktr.ee/usualdisclaimer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

## Transcript

[0:05] Hello everyone, and welcome to Usual Disclaimer with Eleanor
[0:09] Neil, a True Crime Podcast. Where we crack.
[0:11] Open some of the most notorious cases in history.
[0:15] Given the topics that we'll be investigating, it goes without
[0:18] saying that this show comes with a content warning.
[0:21] The details can get a bit heavy and you might find some of the
[0:24] themes we discuss triggering. Listener discretion is strongly
[0:28] advised and check the description for some resources
[0:31] and further information. So today's video is going to be
[0:40] another solved true crime case. Today we're going to be talking
[0:43] about the case of Georgia Williams.
[0:45] I just want to give my usual disclaimer that I mean
[0:48] absolutely no disrespect to anyone that I talk about in this
[0:50] video. This is all just information
[0:52] that I have found on the Internet and I'm compiling into
[0:55] one video. South Georgia Williams was a 17
[0:58] year old girl born on the 7th of September 1995 in Telford in
[1:02] Shropshire in England. She was born the younger of two
[1:05] siblings. Her older sister was named
[1:07] Scarlett. Her mother was named Lynette and
[1:09] her father was named Steve. Georgia was a very lively,
[1:12] outgoing girl. She made friends with everyone.
[1:15] She was very kind of cheeky and charming.
[1:17] She always played pranks on her sister.
[1:19] She was very family orientated. She was very loving, very
[1:22] caring, very empathetic. She always felt that other
[1:25] people around her. She always wanted to try and
[1:28] make other people happy if they were sad and you'll see that
[1:30] very soon in this case. She always wanted to make
[1:34] everyone around her feel comfortable and happy.
[1:36] Georgia was bullied throughout primary school and her mother
[1:39] offered to call in the school and get Georgia moved classes
[1:42] away from her bully. But Georgia, she was very strong
[1:45] and she said no mum, I can handle this myself.
[1:47] But when Georgia went up to high school, that dynamic completely
[1:50] flipped on its head. She became very popular, she had
[1:53] a lot of friends, she was very well liked and she actually
[1:55] became head girl of that high school.
[1:57] She began training as an air cadet on the side and actually
[2:00] had dreams of becoming an RAF paramedic when she left school.
[2:03] When Georgia turned 17 she got a part time job working at her
[2:06] local petrol station and she quickly made friends with all of
[2:09] the Co workers. However there was this one boy
[2:12] that always seemed to be left out of everything and Georgia,
[2:16] like I said she was very empathetic, she always wanted
[2:18] people to be happy and so when she joined the petrol station
[2:22] she involved him in everything and he quickly became friends
[2:24] with the group. This boy was 22 year old Jamie
[2:27] Reynolds and he quickly developed a liking for Georgia.
[2:31] He always used to ask her out on dates, ask her to be his
[2:33] girlfriend and Georgia in the politest way possible, used to
[2:37] reject him every time. Georgia would just basically
[2:40] friend zone him. She said that she wasn't looking
[2:41] for her boyfriend right now, she preferred how they were as
[2:44] friends. She was just very polite, very
[2:47] considerate and although Jamie was upset that she didn't feel
[2:51] the same way about him, he respected her wishes and the two
[2:54] of them just carried on being friends, good friends actually.
[2:57] When Jamie turned 23 years old, he expressed to Georgia that he
[3:01] wasn't happy in his job at the petrol station.
[3:03] That was his full time job and he didn't feel like he wanted to
[3:07] do that for the rest of his life.
[3:08] So Jamie and George just sat down and they kind of talked
[3:11] about like his hobbies, what he was passionate about.
[3:13] And then Jamie said that he was really into photography and so
[3:17] Georgia urged him to maybe take that up as a career.
[3:19] And so Jamie took George's advice and asked her if she
[3:22] would be a model for him so that he could take some photos to
[3:25] create like a professional portfolio of his work.
[3:28] And Georgia said yes, she wanted to help him.
[3:30] And so they arranged for Sunday 26th of May 2000, 13, she was
[3:35] going to come over a bunch of Jamies, other friends were going
[3:37] to come over to his parents house and they were just going
[3:39] to have this massive photo shoot together.
[3:41] Georgia actually almost didn't go last minute because her
[3:44] family were having a BBQ round at the house.
[3:47] All her grandparents were other aunties, uncles.
[3:49] However Jamie only lived 5 minutes down the road and so she
[3:52] just decided to go anyway hoping it would be quite quick.
[3:55] So Georgia went upstairs, she did her hair, she did a makeup,
[3:58] she had her hair and a ponytail, she wore a leather jacket and
[4:01] some jeans. And the last thing her father
[4:03] Steve said to her when she came downstairs in this outfit ready
[4:06] to go to the photo shoot was that she looked beautiful and
[4:09] she even looked like Sandy from Greece.
[4:11] So then she left her house at around 7:30 and started the five
[4:15] minute walk to Jamie Reynolds house.
[4:17] Then at around 10:30 that night, so 3 hours later, Georgia still
[4:21] wasn't home. So Lynette, her mother texted
[4:23] her just asking when the photo shoot was going to end, how long
[4:26] she planned on being out. She then received a text back
[4:28] from Georgia, who said that the photo shoot actually ended a
[4:31] while ago and she's just been out with some.
[4:33] Friends ever since. And it had her usual three
[4:36] kisses on the end. As for what time she was coming
[4:38] home, Georgia just said she didn't know.
[4:40] She was probably going to be out till late.
[4:42] So she told her parents not to bother waiting up for her.
[4:44] And Georgia was very sensible. She'd never kind of rebelled.
[4:47] She was always very well behaved.
[4:49] She never got herself into trouble.
[4:51] And so her parents trusted her. So they went to bed.
[4:54] But then when they woke up the next morning, Georgia still
[4:56] wasn't home. So Lynette texted her again that
[4:59] morning at around 6:00 AM, just asking where she'd been, what
[5:02] time she plans on coming home, And she didn't receive a text
[5:05] back until like 7:38 AM. Georgia just basically said that
[5:08] she'd ended up staying over at a friend's house and forgot to
[5:11] text her mom letting her know. And her phone was actually
[5:14] running out of battery. So if she stopped replying to
[5:16] text, that be why the exact wording of that text was
[5:19] actually my phone battery is dying too, which is very
[5:23] significant when you find out that it wasn't actually Georgia
[5:26] that was sending these texts. It was someone pretending to be
[5:29] Georgia. So that day, it was a Monday,
[5:31] the day after she left the house, it was May 27th and she
[5:34] was actually due to be going to a music festival.
[5:37] And so her parents, when she didn't return home all day, just
[5:40] kind of assumed that she'd gone straight there after being at
[5:43] this friend's house. But they were sure that she'd be
[5:45] back by Tuesday morning because she actually actually had her
[5:47] first ever driving lesson that morning and she was very excited
[5:50] to start driving. Georges dad Steve theorized that
[5:53] maybe she was just rebelling. Like I said, she'd been very
[5:56] sensible all her life, very kind of trust where they always
[6:00] behaved very well. She was never she was never a
[6:02] rebellious teenager. And so he thought maybe she's
[6:06] going through that right now, ignoring her parents for a few
[6:08] days, going off, doing whatever she wanted, not coming home.
[6:11] Like, obviously he wasn't happy about it.
[6:13] He was worried about her, but that's what he thought could
[6:16] have been happening. On the Monday evening, they
[6:18] waited up really late for her to come home, but still there was
[6:20] number sign of Georgia. They were ringing her phone, but
[6:23] at this point it was going straight to voicemail.
[6:25] So either her phone had run out of battery like that text said,
[6:28] or it had been switched off. Georgia's parents asked around
[6:31] all the friends if she was with any of them, if any of them knew
[6:34] anything, but none of them had seen or heard from Georgia in
[6:37] days. And so the next morning when she
[6:39] didn't show up for her Tuesday morning driving lesson, her
[6:42] parents reported a missing to the police.
[6:44] So George's parents told police everything they could, but all
[6:48] they really knew was that she was going to a photo shoot at
[6:51] Jamie Reynolds's house. They didn't know any of the
[6:53] other friends names. They didn't know where she'd
[6:56] been at all. And so all police could really
[6:58] do was look into Jamie Reynolds because he was the only name
[7:01] they had. So police ran a background check
[7:03] on Jamie Reynolds and what they found was very concerning.
[7:07] In 2008, Jamie Reynolds was caught by police attempting to
[7:11] strangle a teenage girl, and he was unbelievably, only given a
[7:15] warning for that. He wasn't arrested for assault.
[7:18] He wasn't charged with anything. He wasn't even just taken into
[7:21] custody for a little while. He was literally just warned at
[7:25] the scene and let away. So immediately Jamie Reynolds
[7:28] was a person of interest, if not a suspect, and so they went to
[7:32] his house to go and speak to him.
[7:33] However, when they got to his house, there were no lights on,
[7:36] there was no car in the driveway, no one was answering
[7:39] the door and so they knocked the door in.
[7:41] Police had a quick look around the house but there was
[7:43] absolutely no sign of Jamie or Georgia and so a manhunt began
[7:47] to find this boy. They checked the petrol station
[7:50] where both of them worked but none of their Co workers had
[7:52] heard from either of them. None of them had been in for
[7:55] their shifts. Police called Jamie's parents
[7:57] who he lived with but they were actually on holiday at the time
[8:01] and they gave police the registration of the van that was
[8:04] now missing that he was probably driving.
[8:07] And so the search for this van started.
[8:09] Police in Shropshire informed police all over the UK of this
[8:13] registration plate and this model of van because because by
[8:15] now this was two days after Georgia went missing.
[8:18] He could be anywhere at this point and he was.
[8:22] He was 280 miles away in a different country in Glasgow in
[8:26] Scotland. Jamie was found in a cheap hotel
[8:29] in Glasgow and so Glasgow police arrested him.
[8:32] Yet there was no sign of Georgia with him.
[8:34] All Glasgow police could ask him since it wasn't their case to
[8:37] deal with, it was Shropshire Police's case to be dealing
[8:40] with. All they could ask him was where
[8:43] is Georgia and he just said I don't know.
[8:45] So as Jamie was being transported back down to
[8:48] Shropshire for questioning, police went and told Georgia's
[8:51] family that it probably wasn't looking good.
[8:53] Her mother Lynette was screaming, crying, collapsed on
[8:57] the floor. Her father Steve threw up.
[8:59] Her sister Scarlett cancelled all of her plans for the next
[9:02] week. Everyone was just in bits.
[9:05] Meanwhile, police did a proper search of Jamie Reynolds house
[9:08] now that he was a suspect, and they actually found a camera
[9:11] with an SD card inside, but all of the files had been deleted.
[9:15] So police took the SD card back to the police station and
[9:19] recovered all of these files. And what they found were
[9:22] pictures of Georgia Williams before, during, and after her
[9:25] murder. There were normal photos of
[9:28] Georgia just like a photo shoot like Jamie had laid her there
[9:31] for, and then there were photos of Georgia naked and she was
[9:34] clearly distressed at this point.
[9:36] Then there were pictures of Georgia with a rope around her
[9:39] neck and then there were pictures of her hanging.
[9:41] Jamie then took Georgia's body down and took pictures of her in
[9:45] every single position imaginable.
[9:47] There were hundreds and he was moving the body around to
[9:50] different rooms while taking these pictures.
[9:52] Jamie then had sex with her dead body several times and
[9:56] photographed that too. Police continued to search
[9:58] Jamie's home and his computer history, and they actually found
[10:02] 16,800 images and 72 videos of extreme pornography.
[10:07] And when I say extreme, I mean fetishes of rape, snuff films
[10:11] where people are murdered, tortured, just very violent
[10:15] things. At this point, Jamie's parents
[10:17] had flown back over to England early so that they could be
[10:20] questioned by police too. And they actually told police
[10:23] that Jamie had been watching these things, these very extreme
[10:26] pornographic films, since he was 14 years old.
[10:29] Or at least that's when they caught him.
[10:31] He could have been watching them way before that.
[10:33] And Jamie's parents did what they could to stop him from
[10:35] accessing these websites. He needed his laptop and things
[10:38] for school so they couldn't confiscate them.
[10:41] Instead, they rang up their Wi-Fi provider and got blocks
[10:44] put on all of these websites so he couldn't access these things
[10:47] anymore. But Jamie Reynolds, at the age
[10:49] of 14, called up and paid for his own private Wi-Fi provider
[10:54] that his parents had no idea about South that he could use
[10:57] that one without the blocks on it.
[10:59] So Jamie was paying for his own Wi-Fi every month and his
[11:02] parents had no idea. And he'd been doing this for
[11:04] nearly ten years at this point. Meanwhile, Jamies parents were
[11:07] thinking that he'd stopped watching all these things nearly
[11:10] a decade ago because they blocked them all, but he'd
[11:13] actually been watching them the whole time.
[11:14] His parents actually informed police and social services at
[11:18] the time that they found out that he was watching them
[11:20] because they were concerned. However, because it wasn't
[11:23] really illegal for him to view those things, no action was
[11:27] taken. Even though it was a very kind
[11:29] of worrying hobby of his, they couldn't really do anything.
[11:33] On a further search of the house, police found notepads
[11:35] with 40 stories that Jamie had written, all about torturing and
[11:41] killing women. There was even one story named
[11:44] Georgia Williams in Surprise, which is the exact story of what
[11:48] he did to Georgia, and it's believed that he actually wrote
[11:51] this story before he did these things to Georgia, almost like a
[11:56] plan. He'd also drawn pictures of
[11:58] women being strangled, hung, asphyxiated.
[12:01] He'd even printed out pictures of real women that he knew in
[12:04] his life and defaced those with the same things.
[12:07] Meanwhile, Germany is questioning Jamie was
[12:09] maintaining his innocence, although police knew he was
[12:12] guilty. And so they charged him with
[12:14] Georgia's murder. So now police had to actually
[12:16] locate Georgia's body. However, like I said, Jamie was
[12:19] maintaining his innocence, so he wasn't giving anything up.
[12:23] He was so cold and emotionless all the way throughout this.
[12:26] He really did not care what he'd done to Georgia.
[12:29] He didn't care what he was doing to a family, the pin that he was
[12:32] putting them through. And so because he wouldn't give
[12:35] anything up, police began tracing Jamie's steps on the
[12:38] Monday morning after he'd killed Georgia.
[12:40] He was caught on CCTV at the local petrol station filling up
[12:44] his van and George's body was actually in the back of that
[12:47] van. He then drove 60 miles to
[12:49] Wrexham where he parked in a cinema car park, left George's
[12:53] body in the van in the car park and went inside and watched a
[12:56] movie. And like I said earlier, Jamie
[12:58] always used to be asking Georgia to be his girlfriend to go out
[13:01] on dates, specifically dates to the cinema.
[13:04] And one of his last attempts at asking her on a date was
[13:07] actually to go and see the new Fast and Furious film that had
[13:10] come out at the time. And as she did with all of his
[13:13] advances, she politely declined it.
[13:15] And so after killing her, Jamie made sure that he got that date,
[13:19] even if it meant taking her dead body and leaving her in the car
[13:22] park while he went and watched the film.
[13:24] After the trip to the cinema, police lost Jamie's van on CCTV
[13:28] footage and so public appeal was put out for anyone to come
[13:31] forward if they'd seen that van anywhere between Wrexham and
[13:35] Scotland. And unbelievably, it actually
[13:37] worked. Several people came forward to
[13:39] see that they'd seen Jamie and this van on a mountain pass in
[13:43] North Wales. And this mountain path had like
[13:45] woods around it and things. It was very muddy.
[13:48] And Jamie's van had actually gotten stuck.
[13:50] And several people came out to help him.
[13:52] And that's how they all recognized him because they
[13:53] spent quite a bit of face to FaceTime with him.
[13:56] And so police kind of put two and two together.
[13:58] Jamie had a dead body in the back of his van.
[14:01] What use would he have been at a woods other than to dump this
[14:04] body? And so a full search was carried
[14:06] out on this mountain pass, all the wooded areas around it and
[14:10] showing off police on the naked body of Georgia Williams.
[14:13] So George's body was recovered. It was brought back to
[14:15] Shropshire. And Steve, her father,
[14:17] physically would not let any other member of the family other
[14:20] than Lynette, Georgia's mother, to look at George's body.
[14:24] He said that it was way too painful for him.
[14:26] You can tell in interviews how scarred he was from seeing his
[14:30] daughter like that. And he said that he didn't want
[14:32] that for any of his other family members.
[14:34] Georgia wouldn't want that for any of her family members.
[14:37] He said that he wanted them to remember Georgia as she was in
[14:41] her her life, not as she was in death.
[14:43] So Jamie Reynolds, like I said, maintained his innocence this
[14:46] whole time. He had nothing to do with
[14:48] Georgio's murder. That was until the first day of
[14:51] his trial when he stood up and pled guilty.
[14:54] So there was no need for a trial or anything.
[14:56] Jamie Reynolds had just stood up there and confessed to killing
[14:59] and taking all those pictures of George Williams.
[15:02] The judge described Jamie Reynolds as a potential serial
[15:06] killer. And so he gave him a whole life
[15:07] tariff because he was a clear dangerous person.
[15:10] If he was ever let out of prison again, he would do this again.
[15:13] At the time, Jamie Reynolds was the youngest person to have ever
[15:17] been given a full life tariff. He was 23 years old and he is
[15:21] never going to be released from prison again.
[15:23] He doesn't have a minimum sentence, absolutely no
[15:25] possibility of parole. George's family have since set
[15:28] up the Georgia Williams Trust, which helps to fund outdoor
[15:31] activities for children. Because that was something that
[15:34] Georgia very much was into as a child.
[15:36] Something she really believed in was expanding your horizons
[15:40] through outdoor activities. Getting active and the Georgia
[15:43] Williams Trust, as well as helping all these children has
[15:46] really helped her family as well to kind of get out of the house
[15:49] and get talking to people and carry on their lives.
[15:56] Thank you so much for listening to usual disclaimer.
[15:59] At this point, I just want to say that if you've been affected
[16:01] by any of the topics we discussed today, please check
[16:04] the description where we've left some helpful resources.
[16:07] If you want to hear more cases like this one, make sure to
[16:10] follow usual disclaimer on your podcast.
[16:12] App so that. You get notifications when we
[16:14] post new episodes and if you really enjoyed, I'd love it if
[16:18] you could leave a rating and a review too.
[16:21] Usual disclaimer with Eleanor Neil is an Audio Boom Studios
[16:24] production. See you next time.

Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them.