The Betting Syndicate Fraud: How a Former Police Officer Stole £44 Million / Layezy Racing
A former Kent Police sergeant. A grandfather. A man who spent years telling over 6,000 people their money was safe in his hands. Michael Stanley ran the Layezy Racing Syndicate, a horse racing betting...
12 Apr 23min
The Stately Home Raiders & The £80 Million Heist / The Johnson Gang
A gang of masked men used stolen 4x4s fitted with scaffolding poles to ram-raid some of the most historic stately homes across the country, then vanished into the night. Antiques worth tens of million...
8 Apr 44min
Elkin & Bell / The Gosport Funeral Home Scandal
In England, anyone can become a funeral director. No licence, no qualifications required. This is the story of how that gap was exploited. On December 10th, 2023, bailiffs entered a repossessed funera...
1 Apr 45min
I Am Too Frightened to Tell Him / Lois & Francis Martin / Wernher Jordi
In December 1962, an inquest jury at Ilford heard how a 20-year-old woman had tried to leave a relationship. Her brother-in-law gave evidence that she had told him, more than once, "I am too frightene...
29 Mar 14min
The Men Next Door / Drugs, Coercive Control & Cases Mirroring the Pelicot Trial / Rodney Johnston
When Gisèle Pelicot waived her anonymity in 2024 and exposed her husband's crimes to the world, many assumed what happened in Mazan was an isolated case. It wasn’t. A 66-year-old carer from Norfolk su...
25 Mar 31min
The Murder of Vicky Hall / Steve Wright: The Suffolk Strangler
In February 2026, Steve Wright pleaded guilty to the murder of 17-year-old Vicky Hall, a crime he committed seven years before he became known as the Suffolk Strangler. But the night before he killed ...
18 Mar 1h 1min
Unexplained Death In Glasgow: The Suspicious Case of Mikhail Ackrim
In August 2024, Mikhail Ackrim was found dead and undressed in a Glasgow flat. Street valium and alcohol were in his system, along with suspicious bruising and four stab wounds to his body, inflicted ...
15 Mar 18min
Close Your Eyes / The Murder of Dawn Rhodes and The Killer Who Walked Free
In June 2016, Dawn Rhodes was killed at the family home in Redhill, Surrey. Her husband, carpenter Robert Rhodes, who cut Dawn’s throat and claimed self-defence, told the police that she had attacked ...
11 Mar 1h
