ShortHand: Nellie Bly – The Woman Who Changed Journalism

This week the girls head to Ireland to cover the "nearly perfect murder" of Elaine O'Hara. So called, because it was only a year after Elaine mysteriously vanished that police made a series of chance ...

31 Jan 201952min

To the outside world they looked like a normal couple, but they were anything but “normal”. Steven Pladl was not only his wife’s lover, but also her biological father - and needless to say this story ...

24 Jan 201956min

Between 2002 and 2004 Ariel Castro abducted three young women and chained them up in his basement at 2207 Seymour Avenue. Over the course of the next decade he systematically broke them down, tortured...

17 Jan 201944min

In August 2018 Shannan Watts’ body was found buried on a remote oil field in rural Weld County.In a oil tank nearby were the bodies of her two young daughters; Bella and Celeste.With only one real sus...

10 Jan 201958min

At just 14 Sandy Charles started hearing voices. He thought the voices were ghosts, and they were telling him to kill. On July 8 1995 Sandy obliged by luring 7 year old Johnathan Thimpsen out into the...

3 Jan 201945min

Celia Blay knew that William Melchert-Dinkel was a dangerous predator.He had been lurking in internet forums for years, manipulating vulnerable people into disingenuous suicide pacts . This week Hanna...

20 Dec 201844min

On Dec 1 1996, Tracie Andrews and her fiancé Lee Harvey were driving home from an evening at the pub when they got caught up in a cat and mouse game with a couple of maniacs in another car. The road r...

13 Dec 201840min

Mary was just 15 and desperately looking for a way to get home to her family when she accepted a ride from a kindly old looking man. What transpired that night however is the stuff of nightmares. The ...

6 Dec 201853min