
Dreams of a Life
Some days you would get good
stories, others not so good.
When the story of Joyce
was brought back to the office,
a stunned silence for a minute.
I don't think anyone had really heard
a story like that before.
Reporters always get asked,
"What's the best story you've done?"
Or the strongest story
or the worst story or whatever.
And this is my like clutch of ones
that you would remember
through a lifetime.
and tell other people.
'That's that's the power of it, really.
'Ali said to me, "You go down
to the inquest and cover it."'
'We knew pretty quickly
that it was out of the ordinary.
'I worked at the paper for ten years
and there wasn't a story like it.
'There was such a remarkable lack
of information about Joyce Vincent.
'It was so hard
Miss Vincent?
Miss Vincent,
we've a repossession order!
'It always struck me as strange
'how there's just swarms of thousands
of people going around their business,
'getting their shopping,
meeting their friends
'and all this time
there was a woman in the ats above
and nobody knew that she was there.
Trying to let her know
there's somebody at the door.
We've a repossession order!
'You really wanted
to find out more about this woman.'
It was a story that everyone wanted
but no one could get.
# Watch me fall from grace
# Disappear with no trace
# As I try to erase you
# Feel the pain and watch me bleed
# Surely this is not what I need #
Hello, it's Carol here, Carol Morley,
phoning about Joyce.
I'll try your mobile.
I'll try you again. Bye.
I'm looking for any infomation,
no matter how minor,
about Joyce Vincent.
'I was sitting at home one day
and I don't know if you do this,
'you just put someone's name
into Google.
'And I don't know what made me do it.
I just put Joyce's name in.
There was loads of links
to all these news stories.
I thought, "Ooh, that's a coincidence.
Someone else with Joyce's name."
'Then I scrolled down
and I saw your advert
'and I thought, "Oh, crikey.
It must be the same person."'
I got your email on Friends Reunited
asking, "Did I know Joyce Vincent?"
And straight away it was just
hairs up on the back of my neck, arms
and it was quite a shock, actually.
When you called I was at work
and I'd had a couple of missed calls,
anonymous calls,
and I thought they were my mum,
so I was just ignoring them.
Then I thought, "That's the fourth call.
I'd better take this one."
And the line broke a little bit,
so I was thinking,
"Did she just say Joyce is dead?"
Lots of people I've met
that knew her read the story
and didn't realise it was Joyce.
Really?
- They couldn't...
They didn't identify the victim - dead,
lonely, sad - with the Joyce they knew?
No.
- Isn't that interesting?
'It's even more interesting then.'
I was just amazed that
we'd not heard this from anybody
or nobody had realised.
How did they not know
from the electricity bills?
'I wrote to the utilities because I thought,
'normally if you don't pay your bill,
you get cut-off.
'I wrote to the local authority
because I thought,
"'Well, she must have had
council tax to pay."
'They sort of didn't want to know.
'They washed their hands of it.
"Nothing to do with us."'
- 'I found friends...'
- 'How did you find them?'
Because the police couldn't
and the authorities couldn't?
So how did you? Clever girl.
I mean, you'd like to think
that everyone's got someone
who would kind of look out for them.
'And it just seemed remarkable,
'given all the information
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