11. Plant Pot Killer: How do our biases blind us?
Bad People12 Nov 2020

11. Plant Pot Killer: How do our biases blind us?

People have been going missing from Toronto’s Gay Village since the 70s.

The gay community claims that the police are not taking the disappearances seriously enough.

The pieces start to fall into place when one man goes missing and leaves a diary entry for that day saying “Bruce”. Police survey a Bruce McArther, a gardener and mall Santa. When they see him enter his flat with another man, they break the door down only to find a man handcuffed to his bed. On this episode of Bad People, presenters Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen uncover why there are very few serial killers over the age of 40, and why people from vulnerable populations are less likely to be reported missing.

Warning: This episode contains strong language and references to sexual violence, and murder.

Archive credits: This episode includes audio from CBC, Global News and W5.

Presenters: Dr. Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen Producer: Caroline Steel Assistant Producer: Simona Rata Music: Matt Chandler Series Editor: Rami Tzabar

Commissioning Producer: Hannah Rose Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Editor: Jason Phipps

Bad People is a BBC Audio Science Production for BBC Sounds

#BadPeople_BBC

Episoder(140)

103. Bad People x People Who Knew Me

103. Bad People x People Who Knew Me

Daniella Isaacs, the creator of the new BBC Sounds audio drama, People Who Knew Me, joins Dr Julia Shaw in a conversation about faking one’s own death and using the terrorist attacks in America on Sep...

15 Jun 202333min

102. Paedophile Hunters: Do vigilantes help or harm justice?

102. Paedophile Hunters: Do vigilantes help or harm justice?

Convicted child sex offender Mark Sutherland has arranged to meet a 13 year-old boy at a bus station, but when he arrives a team of adult “paedophile hunters” greet him with a video camera. In this ep...

25 Mai 202339min

101. Thalaikoothal: What is extreme elder abuse?

101. Thalaikoothal: What is extreme elder abuse?

In 2010 Pramila Krishnan, a journalist for the Deccan Chronicle, filed a story about a little-known practice called Thalaikoothal. The story was huge in India and lead to the filming of the 2020 Tamil...

18 Mai 202344min

100. Tough Love: How should we help troubled teens?

100. Tough Love: How should we help troubled teens?

It’s 2001 and 14-year-old Anthony Haynes has died. He was one of some 50 kids who participated in a military-style, wilderness programme that was supposed to give troubled teens a new start. Hailed at...

11 Mai 202337min

99. Central Park Jogger 2: How should we interview children?

99. Central Park Jogger 2: How should we interview children?

The Central Park Five confess on video to police and appear on every front page in America. But why did they confess if it’s not true? In this second episode of this two parter, Bad People hosts Juli...

4 Mai 202344min

98. Central Park Jogger 1: Do you know your right to silence?

98. Central Park Jogger 1: Do you know your right to silence?

It’s 9pm in New York City. More than thirty young men have gathered on the corner of 110th Street and 5th Avenue. They are attacking innocent people in Central Park. What they don’t know is that a wom...

27 Apr 202337min

97. Belt Selfie: Why don’t people kill their friends?

97. Belt Selfie: Why don’t people kill their friends?

In 2015 a woman in Saskatoon was strangled by a belt. Did her friend do it? She has been strangled by a belt that lies next to her body - the same belt her best friend was wearing in a photograph of t...

20 Apr 202339min

96. Personification of Evil: Who becomes a prison pen pal?

96. Personification of Evil: Who becomes a prison pen pal?

For her role in the Moors Murders, Myra Hindley was for many years described as ‘‘the most hated woman in Britain’’. So when her escape plot from HMP Holloway in late 1973 is part-aided by then prison...

6 Apr 202342min

Populært innen True crime

krimpodden-vg
podme-krim
insiders
avhort
krimarkivet-2
rss-avhort-aktuelt
rss-svarttrost
rss-henlagt-andy-larsgaard
rss-pa-innsiden-av-psychohoder
rss-domt-2
verdens-verste
forsvinningsfredag-podkast
kriminalkrniken
rss-espen-lee-usensurert
rss-domt-3
truecrimepodden-2
hold-pusten
rss-overste-etasje
dodens-gard
truecrimepodden-dokumentar