True Crime Episodes

The body of keen cyclist David Alderson was found by a dog walker on January 18, 2014, in the grounds of the old Wheal Maid mine in Cornwall, and given the spot's popularity with riders, his death was initially put down as a ...

On September 17, 2016, 50-year-old Elizabeth Bowe was strangled to death in her own home. The perpetrator was none other than her brother, whose outlandish testimony regarding what happened that night will shock you to your c...

In the early hours of January 22, 2008, 41-year-old Bernard Evans was stabbed by the 21-year-old daughter of his partner. Despite emergency services being swiftly summoned, Bernard was pronounced dead at the scene shortly aft...

In the early evening of December 12, 2014, 70-year-old self-made businessman David West was stabbed to death outside his home in the Greater London district of St James's. The perpetrator was David's eldest son (also named Da...

On the morning of October 9, 2006, the fire service was called to a property at Barnagh Park in Donaghadee, where 77-year-old widow Matilda "Tilly" Campbell lived. Tilly was pronounced dead at the scene, but none of her injur...

I welcome my friend and fellow podcaster Kacey to the show in this interview episode. Kacey is the creator and host of the award-nominated podcast 'The Cult Vault', and since the show's launch in May 2020, she has put a great...

In the early hours of January 1, 1999, 44-year-old Linda Anderson was subjected to a brutal assault in an Edinburgh tenement block which led to her subsequent death the following day. Two trials followed, with the same perpet...

On April 30, 1989, a 22-year-old man left his parent's home with his dad's double-barrelled shotgun and headed for a quiet Monkseaton area of Whitley Bay. Over the next twenty minutes, he walked the streets opening fire on al...

I welcome Colin "The Real Manhunter" Sutton to the show in this interview episode. Colin spent the last nine years of his three-decade-long police career as a Senior Investigating Officer for the Met Police’s Murder Squad. Du...

74-year-old Linda Maggs was in bed when her 70-year-old husband entered the room on the morning of February 6, 2021, holding a knife in his hand. With an acrimonious divorce about to finalise, Linda was stabbed to death by he...

I welcome podcaster Wendy Cee to the show in this interview episode. In December 2007, Graham Birchwood orchestrated the murder of his wife, Sharon - Wendy's beloved aunt - by hiring a hitman named Paul Cryne. In this episode...

74-year-old Anne James had just returned from a quick shopping trip and was making soup at her home when a familiar face turned up at her door. Letting the man inside, Anne had no idea that within just a few minutes, her life...

35-year-old Claudia Lawrence last spoke to her mum on her mobile phone at around half 8 in the evening of March 18, 2009, shortly after phoning her dad. The following morning, she didn't turn up for her shift at the Universit...

23-year-old Megan Newborough was captured on her family's Ring Video Doorbell getting into her car at 7.32 pm on Friday, August 6, 2021. Within an hour of that haunting footage, Megan was murdered by the very person she'd gon...

When 29-year-old librarian Susan Min bumped into her ex-boyfriend around a year after they split up, she invited him to her house for a catch-up. She had no idea that doing so would lead to her death at the hands of her forme...

I welcome freelance writer and author Chris Wood to the show in this interview episode. As a student of criminology and psychology, Chris writes about true crime and non-fiction. He also writes regularly for the UK True Crime...

When 33-year-old nurse Cheryl Moss popped outside for a smoke break during one of her shifts, she had no idea that a teenager with murderous intentions was lurking in the grounds outside the hospital. What followed was a deva...

When 30-year-old Lyndsey Vaux was rushed to hospital on the morning of May 22, 2016, she sadly died just an hour later. As the investigation into her death unfolded, detectives soon realised that Lyndsey had been subjected to...

When 73-year-old subpostmaster William Williams closed his Post Office store slash home one evening in November 1957, he anticipated no further visitors. An unexpected knock on his door by someone he vaguely recognised soon l...

After 26-year-old Nicki Collingbourne evicted her half-sister, 52-year-old Yvonne Caylor, from her flat, the pair's already tumultuous relationship worsened. Just seven months later, Nicki was found dead in her home. Caylor w...

I welcome domestic abuse consultant Lucy Wade to the show in this interview episode. Specialising in post-separation abuse, Lucy works with various organisations to develop their knowledge and understanding of domestic abuse,...

After 65-year-old Attracta Harron attended morning Mass on December 11, 2003, as part of a 30-day Novena prayer sequence, she headed home on foot, in line with her fitness regime, but never arrived. A sighting of her by a loc...

When 18-year-old Barry Wallace attended his work's Christmas party in December 1999, he planned on letting his hair down after booking the full weekend off. As the party drew to a close, Barry planned on heading to another pa...

When 26-year-old Karena Bigg-Wither offered 19-year-old Ian Haywood a place to stay one evening at her parents' luxury 17th-century cottage when they were out of the country, she did so out of the kindness of her heart. Confr...