Britain's Forgotten Serial Killer / John Straffen

"If you apply that amount of force, significant force, resulting in severe injuries, for at least ten seconds, what else could you have intended than at very least a really serious injury" — Richard S...

9 Des 202045min

It was a typical room for a teenage boy in the 1980s: football programmes on his desk with his homework, a well-used Amstrad HI-FI system with a tape cassette and radio, used to record the top chart h...

2 Des 202049min

PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 5 - EPISODE 21’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. Throughout Spring 1993 five men were murdered in London at the hands of the same killer. He had met them all in The Coleher...

25 Nov 202043min

A dead body was found in Harrow, Greater London, at the end of May 1993. The officers at the scene quickly came to the conclusion that it was death by misadventure. The man, 37-year-old Christopher Du...

18 Nov 202056min

A text alert bleeped on the mobile phone; another strange and uncharacteristic message from her best friend flashed up on the screen. Over the last couple of days, a number of messages had left the ph...

11 Nov 202054min

"He obviously overreacted and assaulted her. He has no recollection of doing what he did next. This was a frenzied night terror” — Peter Rouch QC, Swansea Crown Court, June 2020*** LISTENER CAUTION IS...

7 Nov 202026min

When Sheila Stroud fled the scene with her two accomplices, she thought her problems were over. She could pay off her mortgage, keep her horses that she loved so dearly, and not have to worry about he...

4 Nov 202054min

Halloween is supposed to be the creepiest time of the year; the nights draw in early, and scary stories are told. When it’s a true story, and the murder is unsolved, it's even more unsettling. The kil...

28 Okt 202036min