Caroline Fraser: Murderland

In the mid-1980s Stella Nickell was suspected of murdering her husband using headache pills laced with poison. Author Gregg Olsen describes the panic that ensued when someone else also died from takin...

19 Jun 202343min

Kate Winkler Dawson's true crime talk show Tenfold More Wicked Presents: Wicked Words is back for its third season. On each new episode of Wicked Words, Kate interviews journalists, podcasters and aut...

19 Jun 20232min

On our final episode, John Tawell is facing the noose for murder. His wife, Sarah Appleby, seems to be standing by his side. Will he die on the gallows? And what will happen to Sarah Hart’s children? ...

5 Jun 202340min

John Tawell, dressed as a Quaker, rushed to the train station in London after leaving Sarah Hart, dying, on the floor of her cottage. As he sits on the train heading to Paddington Station, he doesn’t ...

29 Mai 202340min

In 1845, John Tawell is frantic because the mother of two of his children is demanding more child support. He leaves London on New Year’s Day with a choice in his pockets: in one was money, in the oth...

22 Mai 202340min

A lot has happened to John Tawell over the past twenty years. His wife has died and her nurse is now his mistress. Sarah Hart wants more from John Tawell, the father of her two kids. When Tawell marri...

15 Mai 202337min

John Tawell is caught as a forger, but the Quakers convince the Crown to send him to a penal colony in Australia. He seems like a dedicated family man—he sent for them in England. And Tawell became a ...

8 Mai 202340min

In 1814, John Tawell seems to have a wonderful life. He’s a husband, a businessman and a devout Quaker in England. But Tawell can’t seem to stay out of trouble…and he’s been caught in a crime that cou...

1 Mai 202340min