Episode 41 - How Not to Fake Your Death: John Darwin - Canoe Man

With fractured knees and savage bruises – weighing just thirty kilos – 23-year-old Anneliese Michel died in 1976 under some of the strangest circumstances imaginable. But despite looking like she’d be...

5 Okt 202353min

In summer 1977, in Alexander City, Alabama, a man stood up in front of 300 mourners at the funeral of a 16-year-old girl – and shot a reverend three times in the head.When the shooter’s murder trial b...

28 Sep 202357min

This week, Richard Allen’s defence team dropped a 136-page document challenging the warrant that police used to search his house.But it’s not as boring as it sounds – because the bulk of this filing c...

22 Sep 202340min

If Seth Rich had had any other job – or if it had been any other year – his tragic death would likely have joined the 65 other unsolved murders in his part of Washington DC that year. But Seth worked ...

21 Sep 20231h 8min

In 1994, in the back garden of a house on Lorain Road, San Marino, California – workers accidentally unearthed a shallow grave containing dismembered human remains. Investigators were convinced that t...

14 Sep 202358min

On 13 July 2023 - after decades of corruption and inaction - police arrested 59-year-old New York architect Rex Heuermann, on suspicion of being the LISK.In this episode, we’ll look at Heuermann’s fam...

7 Sep 202356min

In 2010, Shannan Gilbert made a series of frantic 911 calls as she ran through the streets of Oak Beach, Long Island, screaming: “They’re trying to kill me”.Then she vanished. A few months later a bod...

31 Aug 20231h 11min

On 21 August 2023, 33-year-old nurse Lucy Letby was handed a whole-of-life order for the murder of seven babies, and the attempted murder of six more. She is only the fourth woman in British history t...

24 Aug 20231h 23min