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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 18min
The Heatwave Killing: When a Husband Snapped | 1976 / Gary Toms / Harold Evans
In the summer of 1976, one of the hottest on record, a young man's body was found in a ditch on a lonely Leicestershire road. At first, it looked like a hit-and-run. It wasn’t. 25-year-old plumber Gar...
4 Mars 40min
He Called Home From a Phone Box, Then Vanished / Michael Bell
In 1983, Michael Bell left a Scottish camping trip to head home to Birmingham. He called his parents twice. Then nothing. Over four decades later, he's still missing…*** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED **...
1 Mars 20min
