FROM THE ARCHIVES | Donald Neilson: The Murders of Lesley Whittle and Three Subpostmasters
Fifty-two years have passed since Donald Neilson committed his first known murder - that of 54-year-old Donald Skepper on 15 February 1974. What followed was a violent campaign that would stretch acro...
15 Feb 52min
A Marriage Built on Lies: The Murder of Jessica Patel | Ep. 231
On a quiet Monday evening in May 2018, emergency services were called to a large Victorian house on a busy street in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough. At first, it was reported as a burglary gone wrong. A fro...
12 Feb 32min
Steve Wright Sentenced to 40 Years for the 1999 Murder of Victoria Hall
More than 25 years after the crime was committed, a man already serving a whole life order for five murders has pleaded guilty to killing again. This admission dates back to 1999, years before Ipswich...
6 Feb 26min
Annie Walsh and the Wrongful Conviction of Robert Brown | Ep. 230
In January 1977, a quiet Manchester neighbourhood was shaken by an act of sudden and brutal violence. Annie Walsh, a woman described by those who knew her as kind and unassuming, was found murdered in...
5 Feb 37min
The Disappearance of British Backpacker Peter Falconio in the Australian Outback | Ep. 229
In July 2001, the disappearance of British backpacker Peter Falconio on a remote stretch of Australia’s Stuart Highway became one of the most high-profile missing person cases in modern criminal histo...
29 Jan 46min
Danielle Reid and the Safeguarding Failures That Led to Her Death | Ep. 228
In the early 2000s, the death of five-year-old Danielle Reid became one of the most disturbing child murder cases in Scottish criminal history. What began as concerns around neglect in Inverness would...
22 Jan 35min
Scotland’s Forgotten School Shooting: The Murder of Nanette Hanson | Ep. 227
In November 1967, a gunman walked into a classroom at St John’s RC High School in Dundee. What unfolded that afternoon left a young teacher fatally wounded, a school traumatised, and a case that would...
15 Jan 42min
FROM THE ARCHIVES | Harold Shipman and the Patients He Killed
Twenty-two years after Harold Shipman’s death, the consequences of his crimes still loom large over British medicine and public trust in GPs. In this remastered episode, I revisit a two-part series fr...
13 Jan 1h 8min
