Suzy Lamplugh Paul and Diana Lamplugh in 2000 John Cannan In July 1986, 25-year-old estate agent Suzy Lamplugh left her office in Fulham, South West London to meet a prospective
On July 4th, 1862, Jess McPherson became Glasgow’s second Square Mile Murder victim. The story of her murder and the trial that followed rocked the city and the country and pitted Glasgow neighbours and newspapers against each other.
Lizzie Borden took an axe… This week we take a look behind the legend of Lizzie Borden and try to find out the facts in this extra long episode!
This week we talk about the most likely suspect in Moira Anderson’s disappearance, the forces that kept him out of prison, and Sandra Brown’s efforts to expose a killer in her own family.
Trayvon Martin Eric Garner John Crawford III Michael Brown Ezell Ford Dante Parker Michelle Cusseaux Laquan McDonald George Mann Tanisha Anderson Akai Gurley Tamir Rice Rumain Brisbon Jerame Reid Mya
11-year-old Moira Anderson mysteriously disappeared during a snowstorm from Coatbridge on February 23 1957. She was never seen again, and her case has gone unsolved for decades.
Ray and Faye Copeland in 1980 New York Times article about the Copeland Killings The Copeland’s victims: Paul Jason Cowart, John Wayne Freeman, Jimmy Dale Harvey, Dennis K. Murphy, Wayne
This week Kat and Taylor dive into the life and crimes of Mary Bell, also known as the Tyneside Strangler.
In February 1974, American media Heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped by a radical political group called the Symbionese Liberation Army. What happened next was a series of crazy events that captivated the world. But many of this story’s details have faded away in public memory.
Across the USA, hundreds of men in their late teens and early 20s have gone missing following nights out with friends, starting in 1997. Their bodies were found weeks or months later in bodies of water and smiley face graffiti has been found near supposed crime scenes.
HMP Wakefield in West Yorkshire is frequently referred to as the “Monster Mansion” and houses some of the UK’s most dangerous murderers and sex offenders.
In a perspex box in the basement of the Monster Mansion is the man officially recognised as Britain’s Most Dangerous Prisoner.
This week Taylor and Kat take a look at the show’s namesake, Glasgow’s Square Mile of Murder, and delve into a tale of forbidden Victorian love, oodles of arsenic, and Scotland’s trial of the (19th) century.
In the late 1990s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was one of the most popular television shows in the UK, with up to one third of the population regularly tuning in to the hit quiz show. But in 2001, the show was hit by a scandal when it was revealed that the show’s third millionaire had cheated his way to the £1,000,000 top prize.
In December 2007, 57 year old John Darwin walked into a police station in London, claiming to have no memory of who he was or where he’d been for the past five years. But as the police began to investigate Darwin’s story everything began to fall apart.
On November 14th 2014 paedophile and murderer Angus Sinclair was convicted of the 1977 World’s End murders– the oldest conviction in Scottish legal history, and the last in a long list of Sinclair’s “official” victims.
In the early hours of Christmas Day 1945, Jennie Sodder awoke to find her home on fire, and following a series of unfortunate events five of her ten children would be declared dead from the fire. But no trace of them has ever been found.
In the 1980s Michael and Suzan Bear Carson were arrested in California following a high speed car chase along Highway 101. In the rambling press conference that followed, the pair claimed to be on a mission from God to kill sinners and witnesses.
On July 10th 1981 in the small farming town of Skidmore, Missouri, 47-year-old Ken McElroy was gunned down in the middle of the street, in broad daylight, in front of 60 witnesses — but no one saw a thing.
In the late 2000s police in Glasgow launched Operation Anagram: A UK-wide investigation into the life and crimes of serial killer Peter Tobin.
Robert Napper eluded police for years while committing a series of heinous crimes. In this week’s episode, Kat and Taylor look at the conclusion to the Rachel Nickell case, and talk about how her killer was brought to justice.
On the morning of July 15th 1992, 23 year old Rachel Nickell was brutally murdered in broad daylight as she walked on Wimbledon Common, London with her two year old son Alex.
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