Episode 688: Crime World Book Club - The Troubles podcast host Oisin Feeney on 'Killing Thatcher' by Rory Carroll

High flying big spending John Coone and his wife Pamela lorded it up in their small community splashing their cash on holidays, fast cars and flash jewellery. But the couple who were also claiming soc...

29 Jan 202433min

Sixty eight year old William Finlay was sentenced this week for a minimum of 20 years for murdering his former partner at her County Antrim home in the first case using new domestic abuse legislation....

27 Jan 202423min

Corrupt cop John ‘Spud’ Murphy intervened in a property dispute between a financier and a suspected criminal and allegedly asked for £5,000 for himself and £5,000 for a serving officer, police investi...

27 Jan 202428min

The death of Ian Bailey brings to an end his role as a celebrity suspect in the tragic murder of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier.Convicted in a French court of her brutal killing yet still an innocent man u...

26 Jan 202455min

Fears are growing of a bloody revenge attack after the funeral of Christmas Eve gun victim Jason Hennessy.The father of six was buried last weekend in an ‘Incredible Hulk’ themed funeral which was att...

25 Jan 202419min

A fascinating study of the Bugsy Malones, the gang of children led by a young Gerry The Monk Hutch in Dublin in the 1970s has found that the State let down the north inner city youngsters over and ove...

24 Jan 202440min

***ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN APRIL 2021***It reads like a script from an Agatha Christie murder mystery – a beautiful young French woman bludgeoned to death at her idyllic holiday home, a shocked commun...

22 Jan 202440min

Veteran criminal Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley has spent countless hours in courtrooms over the course of his 73 year career.He has appeared both as an accused, during the numerous criminal cases against h...

22 Jan 202416min