Crime World Long Read: The twisted secrets of sadistic killer Graham Dwyer (Part 2)

Police in Northern Ireland assemble a list of twenty people under investigation for the murder of Robbie Lawlor. While some of the names are very familiar, others are not.This episode of Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in January 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

6 Aug 27min

How did the cocaine trade infiltrate Ireland and evolve into a billion-euro empire after the drug first washed ashore on Cork's rugged coast?From the country's first cocaine lord and his attempts to establish a direct route from Miami to Dublin to the modern-day violence that led to the brutal dismemberment of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods, this is an extract from my book, Cocaine Cowboys.Listen to the full story wherever you get your audiobooks or get your hands on a copy in all good bookstores. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

5 Aug 58min

Robbie Lawlor's time in Belfast is short. In the aftermath of his death, who is in the frame for his murder?This episode of Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in January 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

5 Aug 20min

Delroy Grant was one of Britain’s most wanted men – a shocking sex predator known as the Night Stalker.He had been at large for a seventeen-year reign of terror, visiting his victims after dark before committing despicable sexual assaults in their homes.In Manhunt: The Night Stalker, detective Colin Sutton reveals how the Metropolitan Police brought one one of London’s most feared monsters to justice.The following is an audio extract from the book, published by Bonnier. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

4 Aug 25min

After the murder of Keane Mulready-Woods, Robbie Lawlor heads to Belfast and a whole new world of trouble.This episode of Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in January 2025. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

4 Aug 20min

In April 1975, a young Irish-American from Long Island headed on a mission to enlist in an elite unit of the US Marine Corps. His goal: to receive the most intensive and rigorous military training possible, and then move to Ireland to join the IRA and fight to end British occupation of the north.John Crawley has lived an extraordinary life – working with notorious American mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger before working with the IRA in an attempt to knock out England’s power supply in a bomb plot gone wrong.Here’s an extract from his memoir The Yank: My Life as a Former US Marine in the IRA, published by Merrion Press. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1 Aug 42min

Robbie Lawlor's response to the taunting of the teenagers who stole his gym bag could not have been predicted — the murder of Keane Mulready-Woods shocked the world.This episode of Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in December 2024. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

1 Aug 21min

The Troubles’ most notorious and sinister figure Freddie Scappaticci was the ‘jewel in the crown’ of a British infiltration system designed to cause mayhem and chaos in the IRA’s military operations from the late 1970s through to his eventual exposure in 2003.Codenamed Stakeknife, he headed the IRA’s secretive Internal Security Unit – also known as the ‘Nutting Squad’.His former comrades reveal extraordinary details about Scappaticci, state-sanctioned murder, and the political scandal that brought him down in Stakeknife’s Dirty War.The following is an extract from the sensational book by Richard O’Rawe, published by Merrion Press. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

31 Juli 21min