A Secret Under The Soil / Barbara & Kenneth Coombes
In 2018, one week after the New Year's celebrations, a middle-aged woman enters Cheadle Heath police station in Stockport. She had travelled almost 5 miles on foot from her home in Reddish, Greater Ma...
23 Dec 202043min
Accidental Strangulation? / Claire Parry / Timothy Brehmer - Part 2
PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 5 - EPISODE 24’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. An off-duty police officer is arrested and charged with murder in May 2020. He claims it was an accident. The victim, a mot...
16 Dec 202051min
Accidental Strangulation? / Claire Parry / Timothy Brehmer - Part 1
"If you apply that amount of force, significant force, resulting in severe injuries, for at least ten seconds, what else could you have intended than at very least a really serious injury" — Richard S...
9 Dec 202045min
Unsolved / Lee Boxell
It was a typical room for a teenage boy in the 1980s: football programmes on his desk with his homework, a well-used Amstrad HI-FI system with a tape cassette and radio, used to record the top chart h...
2 Dec 202049min
Serial Killer / Colin Ireland - Part 2
PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 5 - EPISODE 21’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE. Throughout Spring 1993 five men were murdered in London at the hands of the same killer. He had met them all in The Coleher...
25 Nov 202043min
Serial Killer / Colin Ireland - Part 1
A dead body was found in Harrow, Greater London, at the end of May 1993. The officers at the scene quickly came to the conclusion that it was death by misadventure. The man, 37-year-old Christopher Du...
18 Nov 202056min
Emotional Waterboarding & Murder / Laureline Garcia-Bertaux / Kirill Belorusov
A text alert bleeped on the mobile phone; another strange and uncharacteristic message from her best friend flashed up on the screen. Over the last couple of days, a number of messages had left the ph...
11 Nov 202054min
Protracted And Fear-Inducing / Sarah Hassall / Brian Manship
"He obviously overreacted and assaulted her. He has no recollection of doing what he did next. This was a frenzied night terror” — Peter Rouch QC, Swansea Crown Court, June 2020*** LISTENER CAUTION IS...
7 Nov 202026min
