Prash's Murder Map: True Crime Podcast: Recent Episodes
Prash
Pack your passport and jump on a plane, because we're going on a journey to investigate some of the most heinous, macabre and enigmatic murders across the globe and throughout history. We'll look at forensics, psychology and much more as we examine both solved and unsolved cases.
In June 1928, a newly married Chinese couple arrived in the Lake District to enjoy their honeymoon. Days later, 28-year-old Wai Sheung Siu was found strangled in woodland near Derwentwater. Suspicion fell on her husband as hidden jewellery, cryptic notes, and reports of mysterious men and secret societies became part of a sensational murder case.
📘 My latest book: Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-Clyde-Hulten/dp/1036129616
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Explore the mysteries, folklore, and forgotten stories of Britain. https://linktr.ee/curiousbritainpodcast
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"Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sources: Ancestry.co.uk Two Chinese Domestic Murders – H. J. Lethbridge UK, Calendar of Prisoners, 1868–1929 New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1928 The Scotsman – Thursday 4 August 1927 Edinburgh Evening News – 21 June 1928 Reynolds's Newspaper – Sunday 22 July 1928 Newcastle Daily Chronicle - Thursday 02 August 1928 Sheffield Daily Telegraph – 2 August 1928 Cumberland and Westmorland Herald – Saturday 4 August 1928 Gloucestershire Echo - Tuesday 23 October 1928 The Nottingham Journal – 24 October 1928 Barrow News – Saturday 27 October 1928 Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser – Saturday 27 October 1928 Evening News (London) – 20 November 1928 Shields Daily News – Tuesday 20 November 1928 Evening Standard – 20 November 1928 The Journal – 21 November 1928 Dundee Weekly News – Saturday 24 November 1928 The News – 1 December 1928 The Sunday People – Sunday 2 December 1928 Daily Express – Saturday 8 December 1928 Liverpool Echo – Saturday 8 December 1928 The Cincinnati Enquirer – 25 December 1928 The Sunday People – Sunday 6 January 1929 The Sunday Sun – 6 January 1929 Tuesday Express – Tuesday 26 March 1929
On 1 July 2026, we were interviewed by Giles Brown on Talk Radio Europe about our latest book, Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten, which examines the 1944 crime spree that culminated in the shooting of private car hire driver George Edward Heath, known as the 'Cleft Chin Murder'. This is the recording of the interview in which we briefly explore several aspects of the case, including crime and society in wartime London, American servicemen in Britain during the Second World War, and the lives of Elizabeth Jones and Karl Hulten who were aged 18 and 22 at the time of their crime spree.
Available as a hardback or e-book:
👉From the publisher (Pen & Sword):
https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-and-Clyde-The-Crime-Spree-of-Betty-Jones-and-Karl-Hulten-Hardback/p/57334
👉From Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1036129616
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https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/
www.youtube.com/@TRETalkRadioEurope
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Talk Radio Europe holds the copyright to the audio in this interview. Unauthorised reproduction, copying, downloading or redistribution of this content is strictly prohibited.
In June 1982, the murder of Police Constable David Haigh sparked the largest manhunt Britain had seen at that time. As fugitive Barry Prudom moved through the forests and villages of North Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, he left more victims in his wake, including Sergeant David Winter. Hundreds of police officers, helicopters, armed units and a specialist wilderness tracker joined the search, which culminated in the ‘Siege of Malton’. But how did a reserved former electrician and family man become one of the country’s most dangerous fugitives, known as the Phantom of the Forest?
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📘 Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-Clyde-Hulten/dp/1036129616
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Music:
"Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk
Murder Casebook Volume 4 by Prash Ganendran
Headline Crime: The Malton Manhunt
Manhunt The Phantom Cop Killer
Peter N. Walker's account as Liaison Officer for North Yorkshire Police
Aldershot News, 14 May 1982
Coventry Evening Telegraph, 17 May 1982
Reading Evening Post, 18 May 1982
Lincolnshire Echo, 23 June 1982
Lincolnshire Echo, 24 June 1982
Daily Mail, 28 June 1982
Daily News, 28 June 1982
Lincolnshire Echo, 28 June 1982
Daily Mirror, 29 June 1982
Daily Post, 29 June 1982
Liverpool Daily Post, 29 June 1982
Western Daily Press, 29 June 1982
Daily Post, 30 June 1982
Lincolnshire Echo, 30 June 1982
The Scotsman, 30 June 1982
The Sunday People, 4 July 1982 Daily Mirror, 5 July 1982 Daily News, 5 July 1982 Daily Post, 5 July 1982 Hull Daily Mail, 5 July 1982 Western Daily Press, 5 July 1982 Daily Mirror, 6 July 1982 Liverpool Daily Post, 8 July 1982 Liverpool Daily Post, 19 July 1982 Daily Post, 27 August 1982 Huddersfield, 8 October 1982 Lincolnshire Echo, 30 March 1983
On Christmas Day 1872, the body of 31-year-old Harriet Buswell was discovered in a Bloomsbury lodging house, her throat brutally cut inside a locked room. As detectives reconstructed her final hours, conflicting witness statements and rumours of a mysterious ‘German gentleman’ sent the investigation spiralling in the wrong direction. In this episode, we examine this baffling unsolved case that bears striking similarities to the later Jack the Ripper murders, and the tragic story of a young woman whose killer was never found.
📘 My latest book:
Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-and-Clyde-The-Crime-Spree-of-Betty-Jones-and-Karl-Hulten-Hardback/p/57334
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Music:
Epidemic Sound
"Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Long Note Two"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Unanswered Questions"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sources:
National Archives, Murder of Harriet Buswell at Great Coram Street MEPO 3/111 and 3/114 Birmingham Mail - Saturday 28 December 1872
Manchester Evening News - Wednesday 29 January 1873
Tromp, Marlene. “A Priori: Harriet Buswell and Unsolved Murder Before Jack the Ripper, 24-25 December 1872.” BRANCH: Britain, Representation and Nineteenth-Century History. Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. Web.
In October 1946, 48-year-old Dagmar Peters was found murdered on Wrotham Hill in Kent after a lorry driver spotted a blue shoe at the roadside. The investigation was led by Chief Inspector Robert Fabian, later immortalised in the TV series Fabian of the Yard. Suspicion fell on lorry driver Sidney Sinclair, a man with multiple aliases whose story soon unravelled under questioning.
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📘 My latest book:Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hultenhttps://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/
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"Promising Relationship" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Long Note Three"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Long Note Two"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Unanswered Questions"
Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sources:
National Archives: MEPO 3/2743; PCOM 9/740
Ancestry.co.uk
Murder at Wrotham Hill. Quercus, 2012
Daily Mirror – Friday 11 December 1908
Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) – Saturday 12 December 1908
Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser – Friday 25 December 1908
Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette – Friday 01 November 1946
Daily News (London) – Monday 04 November 1946
Evening News (London) – Saturday 23 November 1946
Derby Daily Telegraph – Friday 20 December 1946
Daily Mirror – Saturday 01 March 1947
Evening News (London) – Tuesday 18 March 1947
Western Morning News – Wednesday 19 March 1947
Maidstone Telegraph – Friday 21 March 1947
The People – Sunday 03 August 1947
In 1885, in the Fenland village of Walsoken near Wisbech, Bathsheba Goodale was last seen alive with her husband, Robert. That night, he returned home alone, his trousers soaked and his boots thick with mud. He showed little concern when his wife failed to come back from the fields, and his strange indifference quickly stirred suspicion among the villagers. The discovery of Bathsheba’s body at the bottom of a well was followed by a murder charge, a trial, and a guilty verdict. Robert Goodale was condemned to death. Yet it was not the crime that would secure his place in history, but its notorious aftermath. His execution became infamous as one of Britain’s worst botched hangings.
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Music:
Epidemic Sound
"Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Lightless Dawn" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk Census Records (1851, 1861, 1871, 1881) Lincolnshire Free Press, Tuesday 22 September 1885 Lynn News & County Press, Saturday 26 September 1885 Eastern Evening News - Saturday 14 November 1885 Eastern Evening News, Saturday 28 November 1885 Norfolk News, Saturday 5 December 1885 Norfolk Chronicle, Saturday 10 November 1888 The A-Z of Curious Norfolk, Sarah Doig Norfolk Murders, Neil R. Storey Trove, National Library of Australia, newspaper article: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/111013766
In 1960s Kraków, Poland, a string of random, brutal stabbings shocked the city and left police hunting a killer with no apparent motive. At first, nobody suspected Karol Kot; a polite, intelligent teenager hiding an obsession with knives and violence. The two murders and multiple attempted murders he committed would earn him the nickname ‘The Vampire of Kraków.’
📘 Learn more about my latest bookWartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hultenhttps://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-and-Clyde-The-Crime-Spree-of-Betty-Jones-and-Karl-Hulten-Hardback/p/57334
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Music:
Epidemic Sound
"Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sources:
Karol Kot – Wizja Lokalna, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-et-kqwcJwc
Seryjni mordercy – Był sobie chłopiec – Karol Kot (2008)
Karol Kot. Wampir z Krakowa. Przed maturą chodził… polować
M jak morderca. Karol Kot – wampir z Krakowa, Przemyslaw Semczuk
Murder Casebook Volume 2, Prash Ganendran
“Case 95: The Vampire of Kraków”, Casefile Podcast, 2019 Nucleus, “#0289, Vampire of Kraków Karol Kot”, November 2021, The True Crime Database
“The Vampire of Krakow, Karol Kot, Poland”, Evidence Locker Podcast, 2022
Harriet Williamson, “In cold blood: sex maniac teen serial killer dubbed ‘Vampire of Kraków’ went on stabbing spree so he could drink victims’ blood”, The Sun, October 2018, https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7626084/teen-serial-killer-vampire-of-krakow/
In Victorian London, 15-year-old Agnes Norman was working as a nursemaid when a 14-month-old girl in her care died suddenly and mysteriously. When suspicions were raised, police uncovered a disturbing pattern. Over the previous three years, Agnes had worked in several households, and each time, a string of sudden deaths – children and pets alike - followed in her wake. Was it cold-blooded murder, or a stunningly tragic coincidence?
📖 Read the full article:https://prashganendran.com/penny_dreadfuls/the-murderess-of-newington-butts-the-strange-case-of-agnes-norman/
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Music:
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"Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) - ending Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk, including Census Records for 1851, 1861, and 1871.
England, Manchester, Parish Registers, 1603-1954, FamilySearch.
Old Bailey Online.
Sun & Central Press, Saturday 6 May 1871.
Norwood News, Saturday 13 May 1871.
Public Opinion, Saturday 2 September 1871.
Essex Times, Wednesday 19 July 1871.
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Saturday 20 May 1871.
Simon Read, Scotland Yard: A Bloody History (Headline).
Paul Thomas Murphy, Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane.
In November 1884, 68-year-old Emma Ann Whitehead Keyse was brutally murdered in her home in Babbacombe, Devon. As investigators pieced together the crime, suspicion fell on a household member, leading to a trial that gripped the public. But the story didn’t end in the courtroom, as the fate of the accused would take an extraordinary turn that made headlines across Victorian England.
📖 Prefer to read? Full article:
https://prashganendran.com/penny_dreadfuls/john-babbacombe-lee/
📘 My latest book:
Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/
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Music:
"Lightless Dawn" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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“Long Note Two” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk
Home Office Records, HO 144/148//A38492: Criminal Cases: Lee, John
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams - Monday 19 September 1881
Express and Echo - Monday 17 November 1884
Wigan Observer and District Advertiser - Friday 21 November 1884
Herald of Wales - Saturday 06 December 1884
North London News - Saturday 07 February 1885
North Devon Journal - Thursday 28 January 1909
Rope, Knife and Chair by Guy Logan, 1928
The Man They Could Not Hang: The True Story of John Lee by Michael Holgate, 2005
Eugen Weidmann, a German-born criminal, carried out a spree of theft, kidnapping, and murder in Paris in the late 1930s, in a case that involved foreign victims, buried bodies, ransom notes, and multiple accomplices. His calm, deceptive charm helped him evade the police for two years before he was finally captured. In 1939, Weidmann became the last man to be publicly guillotined; a controversial method of execution that would remain in use in France until 1977.
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https://prashganendran.com/eugen-weidmann-last-public-execution-france/
📘 Learn more about my latest bookWartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hultenhttps://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/
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“Long Note Two” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk
Daily Herald – Thursday 30 December 1937
San Francisco Chronicle – Sunday 25 December 1938
Bradford Observer – Tuesday 14 March 1939
Bradford Observer – Wednesday 15 March 1939
Daily News (London) – Thursday 16 March 1939
Daily Express – Friday 17 March 1939
Daily Express – Thursday 30 March 1939
Birmingham Mail – Saturday 01 April 1939
Leicester Evening Mail – Tuesday 16 May 1939
Hull Daily Mail – Saturday 17 June 1939
Halifax Evening Courier – Saturday 17 June 1939
Sunday Post – Sunday 18 June 1939
https://www.guillotine.dk/pages/history.html
After a birthday celebration in Birkenhead in 1925, the Tam family’s life of respectability and success suddenly unravelled in a violent tragedy. This episode explores the life of Lock Ah Tam, his role as a respected figure in Liverpool’s Chinese community, and the fateful events that led to one of the most shocking family murders of the era, set against the backdrop of Liverpool’s Chinatown and surrounded by the eerie coincidences that haunted the case long afterwards.
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https://prashganendran.com/lock-ah-tam-and-the-chinatown-tragedy/
📘 Learn more about my latest bookWartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hultenhttps://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/
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Music:
"Long Note Three", "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk
National Library of Wales
Liverpool Echo – Wednesday 02 December 1925
Lancashire Evening Post – Wednesday 02 December 1925
Evening Express – Thursday 03 December 1925
Northampton Chronicle and Echo – Friday 22 January 1926
Liverpool Evening Express – Wednesday 27 January 1926
Liverpool Echo – Friday 05 February 1926
Westminster Gazette – Saturday 06 February 1926
Leeds Mercury – Saturday 06 February 1926
Daily Express – Monday 08 February 1926 Shields Daily Gazette - Wednesday 13 August 1924 Daily Express – Monday 08 February 1926 (duplicate entry)
Widnes & Runcorn Chronicle – Saturday 27 March 1926
Sunday Sun – Sunday 28 March 1926 Illustrated Police News - Thursday 10 December 1925 Witness History – “The Scandal of Liverpool’s Missing Chinese Sailors”, 2020
LiverpoolEcho.co.uk – January 2022 Liverpool Daily Post - Thursday 11 February 1926 Daily Express - Wednesday 24 March 1926 Pontypridd and Llantrisant Observer Sat, Nov 25 The Curious Disappearance of Mr Foo (Podcast), 2023
Murder Casebook 86 Friends of Flaybrick Memorial Gardens https://flaybrick.org/catherine-cecelia-and-doris-tam-1926/ Seal, L. & Neale, A., (2019) “Race, Racialisation and ‘Colonial Common Sense’ in Capital Cases of Men of Colour in England and Wales, 1919–1957”, Open Library of Humanities 5(1), 64. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.471
On the streets of Folkestone, Kent, amid World War II, 18-year-old Caroline Trayler disappeared after being seen drinking at the local pub one Sunday evening in June 1943. When Police Constable Lewis entered a bombed-out grocer’s shop several days later in the hunt for the missing woman, he discovered a tragic scene which confirmed that the missing person’s case had now become a murder enquiry.
📘 Learn more about my latest bookWartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hultenhttps://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/
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"Long Note Three", "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sources:
Ancestry https://www.ancestry.co.uk
Professor Keith Simpson: An Autobiography, 1978, Harrap Ltd
A Lance for Liberty, J.D. Casswell, George Harrap & Co Ltd
British Newspaper Archive, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
Daily News 22 June 1943
Folkestone Herald, 24 July 1943
Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald - Saturday 25 September 1943
Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 02 November 1943
Daily Mirror - Tuesday 02 November 1943
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 06 November 1943
Sunday Sun (Newcastle) - Sunday 07 November 1943
Daily Herald - Saturday 24 February 1945
Gloucester Citizen - Saturday 24 February 1945
Stockport Advertiser and Guardian - Friday 23 March 1945
Kensington News and West London Times - Friday 23 August 1946
Wells Journal - Friday 04 October 1946
https://madebyredrose.co.uk/abuser/dennis-leckey?category=19
https://www.iicsa.org.uk/reports-recommendations/publications/investigation/cambridge-house-knowl-view-rochdale/part-f-other-institutions/dennis-leckey.html
In this special author discussion episode, Prash and Melissa Ganendran share their experiences of writing their latest book, which examines the 1944 crime spree of Elizabeth Jones and Karl Hulten, culminating in the murder of private car hire driver George Edward Heath. The case became known as the 'Cleft Chin Murder', while some newspapers at the time described the pair as London's 'Bonnie and Clyde'.
In the episode, we talk about how we discovered and researched the case, the lives and fateful meeting of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten, and some of the new information we uncovered.
For further information about Wartime London’s Bonnie and Clyde: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten, please visit: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-and-Clyde-The-Crime-Spree-of-Betty-Jones-and-Karl-Hulten-Hardback/p/57334
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In Lincolnshire in 1934, 44-year-old Arthur Major died suddenly. He had previously been healthy, and his wife seemed unusually eager to arrange his funeral. The ensuing investigation revealed a troubled marriage, and the circumstantial evidence against Ethel Major began to mount, in this vintage true crime case that captured the attention of both the local community and the national press, with Ethel later being dubbed the “corned beef killer.”
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Sources:Ancestry.co.uk; National Archives; Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology; Hull History Centre. Newspaper coverage:
Lincolnshire Echo, 29 May 1934; Daily Mirror, 30 May 1934; Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian, 2 June 1934; Nottingham Journal, 1 August 1934; Daily Mirror, 3 August 1934; Nottingham Journal, 3 August 1934; Louth Standard, 4 August 1934; Boston Guardian, 4 August 1934; Lincolnshire Echo, 31 October 1934; Daily Express, 2 November 1934; Western Mail, 2 November 1934; Leicester Evening Mail, 19 December 1934, p.10; Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser, 26 December 1934; Taunton Courier, Bristol and Exeter Journal.
A routine patrol in northern France uncovered an abandoned car in May 1978, sparking a terrifying manhunt. Over months, shootings, bombings, and stolen vehicles terrorised the Oise region, while anonymous letters taunted law enforcement. When the pieces fell into place, it revealed a shocking truth: the Oise Killer had been hiding in plain sight all along.
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Intégrale l'Affaire Alain Lamare - Au bout de l'enquête, 2023
Alain Lamare - Les affaires criminelles qui ont marqué la Picardie
In 1886, shootings in London were rare - even more so in broad daylight. In this episode, we explore the murder and robbery committed in a quiet Kentish Town road by George Finch, a would-be performer whose stage ambitions had faltered. Finch would avoid execution and go on to live a long life after his release from Broadmoor.
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Popular Science Monthly (1875)
The People — Sunday 13 June 1886
Banbury Beacon — Saturday 19 June 1886
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette — Thursday 05 August 1886
St James's Gazette — Wednesday 04 August 1886
Jersey Express and Channel Islands Advertiser — Tuesday 10 August 1886
Kenilworth Advertiser — Saturday 25 November 1905
Old Bailey Online
Ancestry.co.uk
In 1895, 22-year-old Robert Hudson took his wife Kitty and their infant son on holiday to Helmsley, North Yorkshire. When they departed hurriedly under suspicious circumstances, the landlady at their boarding house was surprised. Soon, Kitty Hudson’s relatives grew concerned as to her whereabouts and the Yorkshire Police set out to track a killer who used multiple aliases and sent false letters to throw them off his trail. This episode revisits a little-known Victorian double murder case from North Yorkshire.
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Ancestry.co.uk
Manchester Courier – Tuesday 11 September 1894
Echo (London) – Monday 17 June 1895
Bingley Chronicle – Friday 21 June 1895
Loftus Advertiser – Friday 21 June 1895
Chard and Ilminster News – Saturday 22 June 1895
Bridlington Free Press – Saturday 22 June 1895
Wells Journal – Thursday 27 June 1895
Yorkshire Evening Post – Wednesday 19 June 1895
Huddersfield Daily Examiner – Monday 1 July 1895
Hull Daily Mail – Wednesday 3 July 1895
Stalybridge Reporter – Saturday 27 July 1895
Hull Daily Mail – Tuesday 13 August 1895
Bradford Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 13 August 1895
Weekly Dispatch (London) – Sunday 18 August 1895
Dr Crippen and the Hilldrop Crescent Murder revisits one of Britain’s most infamous true crime cases of 1910. When Cora Crippen, better known on the music-hall stage as Belle Elmorem vanished, her husband Hawley Harvey Crippen offered shifting explanations that soon aroused suspicion. A police search of their Hilldrop Crescent home uncovered human remains, pointing to a shocking murder. Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve attempted to flee Britain, but a transatlantic chase brought them into custody. The case became a sensation, cementing Dr Crippen as one of the most notorious figures in British criminal history.
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Sources:
Coniam, Matthew. Mr Crippen, Cora and the Body in the Basement.Pen & Sword True Crime. Rubenhold, Hallie. Story of a Murder. Transworld. Kindle Edition.
British Newspaper Archive
Ancestry.co.uk
In February 1920, 15-year-old Kathleen Mary Drury left her home in Waterloo, Liverpool, and never returned. The following morning, her body was found near the Brooke Road allotments, her throat cut and no sign of the killer. Days later, the mutilated body of a railway signalman was discovered on the tracks at Sandhills Station but what linked the two deaths? This episode revisits an obscure and long-forgotten case from post-war Liverpool.
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Daily Mirror - Thursday 05 February 1920
Liverpool Daily Post - Friday 06 February 1920
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 05 February 1920
Liverpool Evening Express - Wednesday 04 February 1920
Nottingham Journal - Thursday 05 February 1920, Saturday 21 February 1920
Portsmouth Evening News - Tuesday 10 February 1920
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In November 1925, police constable Herbert Burrows was found guilty of murdering publican Ernest Laight, his wife Doris, and their young son Robert at the Garibaldi Inn in Worcester. The discovery was made by the family’s charwoman, who raised the alarm after finding the doors unlocked and the till emptied. The case exposed the calculated betrayal of trust within a small community and led to Burrows becoming the last person from Worcester to be executed by hanging.
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Ancestry.co.uk
Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 03 February 1926
Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 20 February 1926
Evening News 21 January 1987
Evening News (London) - Tuesday 26 June 1917
Evesham Standard & West Midland Observer - Saturday 05 December 1925
Hendon & Finchley Times - Friday 29 June 1917
Illustrated Police News - Thursday 25 February 1926
Dundee Courier - Friday 18 December 1925
Kingston Times - Saturday 30 January 1926
Reynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 06 December 1925, Sunday 21 February 1926
Sunday Express - Sunday 29 November1925
Daily News (London) - Monday 30 November 1925
Thomson's Weekly News - Saturday 05 December 1925
Westminster Gazette - Thursday 18 February 1926
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When career criminal Henry Thomas Gaskin returned from serving with the Royal Engineers, tunnelling under the trenches of the Western Front during WWI, he was furious to discover his wife’s infidelity. He lured her to a meeting place under the pretence of discussing their marriage, and Lizzie Gaskin was never seen alive again. This true crime case remains one of the West Midlands’ most brutal, yet often forgotten, murders.
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Walsall Observer - Saturday 02 June 1906
Lichfield Mercury - Friday 27 July 1906
Oxford Journal - Wednesday 13 March 1912
Lichfield Mercury - Friday 15 March 1912
Loftus Advertiser - Friday 12 April 1912
In Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, a young Bosnian student named Gavrilo Princip fired a shot which would become the deadliest in history. With the help of co-conspirators from underground nationalist group Young Bosnia, he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie during their imperial visit to the capital. Their deaths set off a domino effect of ultimatums, alliances, and mobilisations across Europe, and within weeks, the continent was engulfed in World War I (The Great War), a conflict that ultimately claimed millions of lives. Was Princip a terrorist, a freedom fighter, or simply a desperate youth caught in history’s tide? This episode explores the life, motives, and legacy of the 19-year-old whose pistol transformed Bosnia’s struggle into a global war. Few individuals have altered the course of history so suddenly, or so tragically.
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Sources:
Dedijer, Vladimir. The Road to Sarajevo. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966.
Butcher, Tim. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War. London: Chatto & Windus, 2014.
Feuerlicht, Roberta Strauss. The Desperate Act: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo. London: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
Additional references:
Aichelburg, Wladimir. Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand und Artstetten. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 1986.
Woolf, Alex. Assassination in Sarajevo. Oxford: Heinemann, 2002.
Ullman, Harlan. A Handful of Bullets: How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace. New York: Potomac Books, 2014.
Liulevicius, Vejas Gabriel. World War I: The “Great War”
Culpin, Christopher. Making History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996
In 2025, two pocket watches were sold at an auction, prompting renewed interest in a 170 year old East Anglia murder case. They were made by skilled German craftsman Lorenz Beha, who came to England to set up his watchmaking business in Norfolk. On a cold November day in 1853, Beha was found murdered on a quiet country road by a local labourer who happened to be one of his customers. The timepieces are not the only reminders of this forgotten piece of history, as the killer’s death mask survives as a gruesome relic of this tragic case.
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Sources:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gmr362p53o
A Brief History of Tittleshall People Compiled by Robert Box
Morning Advertiser - Friday 25 November 1853
Norfolk News - Saturday 26 November 1853
Norfolk Chronicle - Saturday 26 November 1853
Worcester Journal - Saturday 26 November 1853
Norwich Mercury - Saturday 25 March 1854
Evening Mail - Monday 27 March 1854
London Evening Standard - Monday 10 April 1854
Lynn Museum, https://www.lynnmuseum.norfolk.gov.uk
Norwich Castle Museum, https://www.norwichcastle.norfolk.gov.uk
Just days before Christmas 1959, the Edencroft Hostel in Birmingham became the scene of a shocking murder. Stephanie Baird, 29, was brutally killed by 27-year-old Patrick Byrne, a man hiding a history of stalking and violent sexual fantasies. The case revealed the terrifying progression from secret obsession to murder, leaving investigators to confront one of Britain’s most disturbing true crimes.
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Ancestry
Belfast News-Letter - Thursday 25 February 1960
Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 11 February 1960
Birmingham Evening Mail Wed, 23 Mar 1960
Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 24 March 1960
Daily Mirror - Thursday 24 March 1960
Daily News (London) - Friday 25 March 1960
Newcastle Journal - Friday 25 March 1960
Sunday Express - Sunday 27 December 1959
Birmingham Weekly Mercury - Sunday 05 December 1999
Birmingham Murder Hunt, British Pathe
In January 1914, the industrial town of Wolverhampton became the backdrop to a baffling mystery when 24-year-old ship’s engineer Kent Reeks was found shot dead near a disused mine shaft — 90 miles from the Liverpool hotel where he had been staying. Just days earlier, he had arrived from Canada, carrying a large sum of money and travelling in the company of a mysterious man. This little-known true crime case follows Kent’s journey from Australia to England, the cryptic clues left in his wake, and the strange trail of money, ammunition, and unanswered questions that still surround his death.
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Sources:
Ancestry
UK and Ireland Incoming Passenger Lists 1914
The Birmingham Post Mon, 26 Jan 1914
Dundee Evening Telegraph - Monday 26 January 1914
Western Daily Press - Monday 02 February 1914
Evening Sentinel Tue, 10 Feb 1914
Lancashire Evening Post - Tuesday 10 February 1914
The Birmingham Post Wed, 11 Feb 1914
Liverpool Echo - Saturday 21 March 1914
Westerham Herald Sat, 28 Mar 1914
Manchester Courier - Wednesday 28 January 1914
Evening News (London) - Monday 16 February 1914
Detroit Free Press, 5 December 1916
Walter Reeks – Naval Architect, Yachtsman and Entrepreneur by Nicole Mays & David Payne
In 1913, the little known hamlet of Gussage St. Michael in Dorset, southwest England, became the scene of a shocking discovery when a young woman’s body was found buried in woodland. This obscure true crime case explores the lives of killer William Burton and his victim, Winifred Mitchell, and how she came to be buried in a shallow grave in one of England’s most rural counties.
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Ancestry
National Archives HO 144/1272/23900
Daily Mirror - Monday 05 May 1913
Daily News (London) - Wednesday 07 May 1913
London Evening Standard - Thursday 08 May 1913
Illustrated Police News - Thursday 15 May 1913
Daily Mirror - Friday 16 May 1913
Southern Times and Dorset County Herald - Saturday 21 June 1913
Daily Mirror - Tuesday 27 May 1913
Larne Times - Saturday 31 May 1913
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Wednesday 04 June 1913
Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 11 June 1913
Reynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 22 June 1913
Shields Daily News - Wednesday 25 June 1913
Grantham Journal - Saturday 28 June 1913
In the summer of 1920, Irene Munro chose a solo holiday in Eastbourne, on the south-east coast of England, over joining her mother in Edinburgh. Days later, her body was found buried on the remote Crumbles beach by a family on holiday. She had been violently murdered. As police investigated, newspapers suggested she had led a double life. With the help of witnesses, detectives began to piece together what happened and who was responsible.
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Ancestry
British Newspaper Archive
National Archives
Newspapers.com
Oates, Jonathan. Irene Munro and the Beach Murder of 1920
Seaside Murders by Jonathan Goodman
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In 1868, 19-year-old railway porter Thomas Wells shot and killed Dover Priory stationmaster Edward Walshe after a disciplinary dispute. Wells showed little remorse and offered no resistance during his arrest. He was tried, found guilty, and became the first person executed privately under the new Capital Punishment Act.
I originally created this episode in 2020, but have now enhanced it with additional information
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Deborah Gardner joined the Peace Corps in 1976, hoping to make a positive impact in Tonga.
She embraced the local culture and formed close bonds with the community.
But one volunteer, Dennis Priven, developed a disturbing fixation.
What followed would lead to tragedy and lasting controversy.
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Sources:
Weiss, Philip, ‘American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps’, 2004, HarperCollins
Crimelibrary.org
‘November Member Spotlight: Emile Robert Hons’, FriendsofTonga.org, https://www.friendsoftonga.org/cpages/emilehons
‘Remembering the murder of PCV Deborah Gardner (Tonga)’, March 2023, Peace Corps Worldwide, https://peacecorpsworldwide.org/remembering-the-murder-of-pcv-deborah-gardner-tonga-2/
In July 1938, a woman’s body was discovered on Somerset Road in Wimbledon, just yards from Centre Court. The investigation revealed she had been murdered, prompting a nationwide search for van driver George Brain. In this episode, we explore Brain’s background, how the police tracked him to his hideout, and the revelations that emerged during the investigation.
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Sources:
Ancestry
National Archives
Evening Mail 14 July 1938
Evening Sentinel 14 July 1938
Yorkshire Evening Post, 15 July 1938
Daily Herald 18 July 1938
Daily Mirror 18 July 1938
Daily News (London) - 18 July 1938
Daily Express 19 July 1938
Daily Herald 21 July 1938
Sunday Despatch 24 July 1938
Daily Express 26 July 1938
Daily Mirror 27 July 1938
Daily Herald 20 September 1938
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In the early hours of August 1933, Charles Fox was murdered during a violent break-in at his West Bromwich home. The crime triggered a large-scale police investigation that uncovered a trail of forensic evidence linking the attack to 21-year-old Stanley Eric Hobday. As the manhunt intensified, Hobday’s movements led officers across the country. This episode explores a shocking crime, its swift resolution, and the public reaction that followed.
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Sources:
Ancestry
National Archives
Birmingham Daily Gazette - Saturday 12 December 1931
Daily Herald - Tuesday 29 August 1933
Leeds Mercury - Friday 01 September 1933
Daily Herald - Friday 08 September 1933
Daily Herald - Wednesday 27 September 1933
Shields Daily Gazette - Thursday 28 December 1933
Black Country Bugle 1 April 1999
Music:
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Unusual Suspects
In 1973, the body of a teenage boy surfaced in Shoreham Harbour, weighted down with concrete and secrets. Clive Olive was 16, a dreamer turned drifter, seduced by a violent subculture.
This episode unravels the chilling story of biker gangs, betrayal, and revenge in 1970s Britain.
The motive was personal. The violence, unforgettable.
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The True Story of the Ollie Murder by Detective Chief Superintendent Jim Marshall
Angels of Death by Professor Hugh Johnson
Aberdeen Evening Express - 21 April 1973
Wolverhampton Express and Star 21 April 1973
Belfast News-Letter - 24 April 1973
Birmingham Daily Post -03 May 1973
The Scotsman - Wednesday 28 November 1973
Daily Mirror 30 November 1973 Wolverhampton Express and Star 3 Dec 1973
Daily Mirror 7 Dec 1973
Sidney Harry Fox and his mother Rosaline enjoyed staying at expensive hotels up and down the coast of southeast England, although they could rarely afford to pay. The staff at the Hotel Metropole in Paradise Street, Margate, were charmed by Sidney, who seemed so considerate and devoted to his mother. Little did they know that behind this performance, lay a history of fraud and deceit which would lead to the final act of murder.
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Sources:
Ancestry
Commonwealth War Graves
Gloucester Citizen 7 December 1929
Daily Herald - Friday 14 March 1930
Western Gazette - Friday 14 March 1930
London Daily Chronicle - Monday 17 March 1930
Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 27 March 1930
London Daily Chronicle - Tuesday 08 April 1930
Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 17 April 1930
Hampshire Telegraph - Friday 25 April 1930
Sunday Mirror 2 October 1949
Liverpool Echo 15 December 1959
Tonbridge Free Press 2 January 1959
The Sunday Express, 31 July 1960
Mostly Murder by Sir Sydney Smith
Seaside Murders J.Goodman
Mama’s Boy by Bill Waddell
Charlotte Bryant was at the centre of a rural murder case that shocked an English village in 1935. When her husband died after a series of unexplained illnesses in their Dorset cottage, suspicions turned to poison. This true crime episode explores the investigation, the role of arsenic, and the events that led to one of Britain’s most infamous murder trials.
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Unusual Suspects
Sources:
Daily Herald - Thursday 02 January 1936
Sheffield Independent - Friday 20 March 1936
Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 04 March 1936
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 28 May 1936
Dundee Courier - Friday 29 May 1936
Gloucestershire Echo - Thursday 28 May 1936
Weekly Dispatch (London) - Sunday 31 May 1936
J.D. Casswell - A Lance for Liberty
When Dawn Viens vanished in 2009, her husband David claimed she’d left after an argument.
Two years later, he confessed to killing her — and offered a chilling explanation.
Despite no body being found, he was convicted of second-degree murder.
This true crime episode investigates control, violence, and a shocking confession.
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Sources:
Altman, Larry, ‘Lomita restaurateur who killed wife, allegedly cooked her body denied parole’, June 2021, Daily Breeze, https://www.dailybreeze.com/2021/06/08/lomita-restaurateur-who-killed-wife-disposed-of-body-denied-parole/
Powers, Ashley, ‘Chef says he cooked wife’s body for four days’, September 2012, Los Angeles Times, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2012-sep-18-la-me-restaurateur-20120919-story.html
‘Yelp Users Review Thyme Cafe, Restaurant Owned By Chef Accused Of Killing And Cooking His Wife’, September 2012, Huffington Post, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-viens-lomita-chef-killed-cooked-wife-yelp-review-thyme-cafe_n_1900990
Music:
"Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In Victorian London, Henry Wainwright, a once-respected businessman, leads a double life of deception, infidelity, and mounting debt. When his mistress, Harriet Lane, becomes an inconvenient burden, he devises a gruesome solution.
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Epidemic Sound - Exile
Epidemic Sound - Terra Firma
Epidemic Sound - Eternal Moment
Sources:
The Penny Illustrated Paper 25 September 1875
Illustrated Police News - Saturday 23 October 1875
Illustrated Police News - Saturday 27 November 1875
Bondeson, Jan; “Victorian Murders”, 2017, Amberley Publishing
Rowland, David, “Executioners from 1850 to 1964”, 2014, https://www.oldpolicecellsmuseum.org.uk/content/history/local-historians-history/david-rowland/executioners/part_2
During the blackout nights of WWII London, under the haunting wail of air raid sirens and the devastation of the Blitz, one of the city’s most chilling true crimes was quietly buried beneath the rubble. In this episode, we uncover the twisted tale of Rachel Dobkin, whose dismembered and burned body was discovered in a bombed-out chapel in 1942. As Londoners struggled through nightly raids and rationing, someone used the chaos of war to commit murder—and almost got away with it.
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Unusual Suspects
Sources:
Ancestry
Murderous History London Blitz Killer, Channel 5
Evening Despatch - Thursday 27 August 1942
Daily Mirror - Saturday 12 September 1942
Daily Express - Wednesday 18 November 1942
Daily Herald - Friday 20 November 1942
Derby Daily Telegraph 23 November 1942
Daily Mirror - Tuesday 24 November 1942
Daily News 24 November 1942
Landlord Geoffrey Ferguson, enraged over a bounced rent cheque, drove from North Carolina to Connecticut and unlawfully evicted his tenants by force. The murders that followed shocked the community and were described as the worst mass killing in Connecticut’s modern history.
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Sources:
DeGregory, Lane, April 1995, “Five found shot dead in Conn. home of local man”, The Virginian Pilot, https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950421/04210495.htm
“Former Westporter convicted of mass murders found dead”, May 2003, WestportNow, https://www.westportnow.com/former_westporter_convicted_of_mass_murders_found_dead/
“State v. Ferguson (2002), May 28 2002, FindLaw, https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ct-supreme-court/1247323.html
On July 27, 2018, in Fagersta, Sweden, a cyclist discovered a semi-nude woman, Nella Olander, lying in a dark underpass, fatally stabbed. Soon after, 14-year-old Thomas confessed to his mother that he and a man twice his age Johan Fallqvist, had attacked her. What brought Thomas and Fallqvist together in this toxic partnership?
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Epidemic Sound – Maximum State "Echoes of Time v2" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sources:
I huvudet på en mördare, 2019
In the Mind of a Murderer, Swedish Documentary, S3 E6, December 2019
Wikström, Mattis, ‘Sexualmördaren vill våldta – tvingas bort’, June 2021, Expressen, https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/krim/sexualmordaren-vill-valdta-tvingas-bort/
Zabielski, Julia, ‘Så lever Johan Fallqvist idag – efter mordet i Fagersta: "Stolt", May 2022, Nyheter24, https://nyheter24.se/nyheter/inrikes/1030864-sa-lever-johan-fallqvist-idag-efter-mordet-i-fagersta-stolt
In 1890, a young machinist named Walter James Lyons committed a shocking act of violence on the streets of Plumstead, southeast London. What drove this 20-year-old to murder a decorated soldier in broad daylight? The answer lies in a moment of rage, a clash of Victorian morality, and a mother’s decision that scandalised an entire community. Leaving the Old Bailey to decide: was Walter truly a killer, or just a son pushed beyond his limits?
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Eternal moment by Farrell Wooten
Sources:
Ancestry
Gloucester Citizen - Tuesday 16 September 1890
Nottingham Evening Post -Tuesday 16 September 1890
Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 20 September 1890
Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser - Saturday 27 September 1890
London Evening Standard - Friday 24 October 1890
In 2009, 59-year-old Elena Tomova retreated to her countryside villa in Vlado Trichkov, Bulgaria, seeking peace—only to find evidence of an intruder. That evening, she unknowingly invited her own killer, Mihail Leshtarski, inside, offering him food and shelter. The transient drifter repaid her kindness with brutal murder, strangling Elena, mutilating her body, and defacing her home with crosses. Afterward, he lived in a cave until winter forced him into the home of an old cellmate, where he attacked the man and his wife. For four months, he hid in their attic, drilling holes in the walls and ceilings to spy on them, threatening to kill them if they went to the police. A DNA match from Elena’s fingernails finally linked him to the murder, exposing his long history of violence and crime.
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Sources:
No Man’s Land, interview with psychologist Todor Todorov
Sofia News Agency
Music: Eternal moment by Farrell Wooten, Maximum state by Ethan Sloan
In this episode of my Jack the Ripper suspect investigations, we explore Aaron Kosminski, a prominent suspect in the case. New DNA evidence, particularly from a shawl linked to Catherine Eddowes, allegedly connects Kosminski to the murders, with a 100% match to a descendant of his. However, doubts about the shawl’s authenticity and the limitations of mitochondrial DNA have raised scepticism. We also look at the role of Russell Edwards, who purchased the shawl, and examine the psychiatric records of Kosminski, along with other possible suspects like Nathan Kaminski. Could we finally uncover the true identity of Jack the Ripper?
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"Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Welcome to another episode of Prash's Murder Map. Today, I’m doing something a little different. Alongside hosting this podcast, I’m also an author, with several true crime books to my name, including the Murder Casebook series and a forthcoming book on wartime killers Karl Hulten and Betty Jones, due for release later this year.
In this special episode, I’m excited to share a chapter from Murder Casebook Volume 1, narrated by acclaimed British stage and screen actor Mark Rice-Oxley. Death at 36,000 Feet tells the little-known story of a man so desperate that he was willing to endanger countless lives to achieve his goal.
This free chapter is an excerpt from Murder Casebook Volume 1: 12 Shocking True Crime Cases, available on Audible in audiobook format, as well as in e-book and paperback. The book explores some of the most chilling true crime cases in history, from serial killers and violent gangs to poisonings and cannibalism, revealing the stories of the victims, the criminals, and the investigations that brought them to justice.
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I’ll be back soon with another case, but for now, let’s dive into this extraordinary true crime story.
Jack the Ripper’s identity remains one of true crime’s greatest mysteries. In this episode, we explore Whitechapel butcher Jacob Levy, a compelling suspect in the murders of the Canonical Five. Could he be a better suspect than the likes of Charles Lechmere, Montague Druitt, Kosminsky and others? Levy’s life was steeped in tragedy and turmoil. Living near key murder sites, his violent tendencies, mental instability, and descent into paranoia following a syphilis diagnosis raise chilling questions. Could his butchery skills and local knowledge tie him to the Ripper’s gruesome crimes? Was Levy the true face behind the world’s most notorious serial killer? Listen now for a fresh look at this dark chapter in history.
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Sources: Ancestry.com Old Bailey Court Record London Evening Standard, Wednesday 10 March 1886 Evening Mail, Friday 12 October 1888 https://forum.casebook.org/forum/ripper-discussions/suspects/levy-jacob/7873-jacob-levy-asylum-records Daily Telegraph, 12 October 1888 Reynolds News, 15 September 1946
In the summer of 1887, Victorian London’s East End, fraught with poverty and unrest, became the setting for a bizarre and senseless true crime. Miriam Angel, an impoverished Jewish immigrant who was six months pregnant, was found poisoned in a locked room, her body lying on the bed. Incredibly, a fellow tenant in the same lodging house, Israel Lipski, was discovered hiding beneath it. The case, with its puzzling lack of motive, divided the public. Lipski’s infamy lingered, with his name even becoming a racial slur—shouted just minutes before Elizabeth Stride’s murder during Jack the Ripper’s reign of terror a year later.
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Sources:
The Trials of Israel Lipski by Martin L Friedland
Old Bailey Court Transcript
The Salisbury Times - Saturday 27 August 1887
South Wales Daily News - Saturday 20 August 1887
The People - Sunday 28 August 1887
Swansea and Glamorgan Herald - Wednesday 14 August 1889
Music:
"Unanswered Questions" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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In 1892, the dismembered body of Annie Pritchard was discovered in a ditch in East Haddon, England, leading to an investigation that linked her death to Andrew MacRae, a man with whom she had an affair. MacRae, who had been living with his wife and children in Birmingham, had moved to Northampton with Annie, where they set up a home, and he eventually murdered her after she gave birth to their child. MacRae was convicted of murder and hanged in January 1893, while Annie was buried in East Haddon Cemetery, her grave marked by a headstone funded by public subscription.
But questions remain....was that really Annie Pritchard's body? and was Andrew MacRae the killer?
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Sources:
Northamptonshire Tales of Mystery and Murder by David Saint
Diss Express - Friday 23 September 1892
Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser - Friday 23 September 1892
Chicago Tribune Wed, 21 Dec 1892
Birmingham Daily Post Monday 26 Dec 1892
Cornish Echo and Falmouth & Penryn Times - Saturday 07 January 1893
Joseph Waller was born in St Mary Cray near Chislehurst, Kent, in 1857 and seemed by all accounts to be a perfectly ordinary child. He aspired to join the police force and went to London to become a constable with the Metropolitan Police, having no inkling that his dream profession would lead to his downfall.
This is the curious case of a killer who handed himself in more than 20 years after committing murder. What made him come forward after so long, when he could have continued to lay low, safe in the knowledge that he was unlikely to ever be found, in the days long before the advent of DNA?
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Sources
Bondeson Jan, ‘Victorian Murders’, 2017, Amberley Publishing
Chelmsford Chronicle - Friday 03 July 1857
Morning Advertiser - Thursday 16 July 1857
Leeds Times - Saturday 18 July 1857 https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/life?id=obpdef1-147-18551217 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/187716259 https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?name=18791020
In December 1938, Ernest Percival Key never made it home for Christmas. His body was discovered by his own son, with only one notable clue left behind—a lone bowler hat, possibly dropped by his killer. But would this single item be enough to unlock the mystery of this true crime case and uncover the person responsible for this brutal crime?
In 1803, Hammersmith was gripped by fear after multiple sightings of a supposed ghost. Amid the panic, a vigilante named Francis Smith took drastic action, believing he had shot the ghost—only to discover he had killed an innocent man, bricklayer Thomas Millwood. What followed was a trial at the Old Bailey, an unexpected twist, and a revelation about who was behind the ghostly scare. This true story became a landmark case in British legal history.
This little known true crime case is set in the rural village of Curry Mallet in Somerset. The year is 1933. The crime is murder. In a family which harbours a dark secret and incestuous relationships, a tragedy is about to take place.
Sources: Daily Mirror 25 March 1933 Daily Mirror 9 June 1933 Illustrated Police News - Thursday 09 March 1933
Music:
ES_Exile - Lo Mimieux "Long Note Two" and “Lightless Dawn” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
How do you go about finding someone who walks round a corner and disappears, seemingly without a trace? This is what happened in the curious case of Benjamin Bathurst…
In World War II London, most people came together to fight for victory, whether on the frontlines, in factories, or on farms. But there were some who took advantage of the chaos of war to indulge in their own depraved desires, hoping they would get away with their crimes by slipping away into the blackout, with fewer police on the streets to catch them. Most people wearing a military uniform automatically inspired trust and respect for the sacrifice they were making for their country. But as 21-year-old Iris Deeley tragically found out on Valentines Day 1944, not everyone wearing medals could be trusted…
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Sources:
Daily Mirror
UK Prison Commission Records
National Archives
Music: Unusual Suspects Eternal Moment by Farrell Wootten
Here's another collection of short but gruesome vintage true crime cases from the 1800s. Let’s go back in time for a whistle-stop tour of three Victorian crimes that are intriguing, shocking, and little known, including a spate of unidentified body parts which appeared all over Norwich, a sinister servant who bludgeoned his employer with a rolling pin, and the first murder case ever to be solved by a bloodhound.
Sources Blackburn Standard, April 1 & April 8 1876 Cheshire Observer - Saturday 01 August 1868 Daily News, April 8 1876 Essex Weekly News - Friday 23 April 1869 Famous Crimes Past & Present, 1903 IPN, April 15 & May 6 1876 Kentish Gazette - Tuesday 26 January 1869 Liverpool Daily Post - Tuesday 01 August 1876 & Friday 21 August 1868 Lloyds Weekly Newspaper, April 9 1876 Magnet (London) - Monday 14 August 1876 Old Bailey Trial Account 17 August 1868 Penny Illustrated Paper 22 April 1876 Reynolds Newspaper, April 16, 23, 30 1876, & 24 May 1868 Rochdale Times - Saturday 29 July 1876 Sheffield Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 15 August 1876
Music:
"Long Note Two" and “Long Note Three” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Eternal Moment by Farrell Wooten
It was inevitable that George Joseph Smith would end up in jail one day. The only question was, how long would it take for his cunning crimes to be uncovered? George was a master of deception who swindled a string of lovers out of their life savings and ensured he was named as the beneficiary in the wills of his many wives. He had a curious obsession with the sea, and it was only fitting that his method of murder would also feature water…
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Coma Visions, Martin Klem Eye For Detail, Miles Avida Even If I Go, Jay Varton
Sources:
British Newspaper Archive
‘Caroline Beatrice (Thornhill) Davies (abt. 1880 - 1969)’, Wikitree, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thornhill-700
Dorset History Centre, ‘Child criminals: young offenders in Victorian Dorset’, https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/documents/35024/285067/Learning+pack+-+Child+criminals+in+Dorset.pdf/5f965df6-c030-bf49-d506-2e7541c4c023#:~:text=At%20this%20time%2C%20children%20from,12%20years%20old%20being%20hanged
Goodman, Jonathan, ‘Seaside Murders: Thirteen Classic True Crime Stories’, 1985, Allison & Busby Honeycombe, Garden, ‘Murders of the Black Museum 1870 - 1970’, 1982, Hutchinson
When Shelly Walsh dropped her kids off at her dad’s on the evening of 30th June 2008, she had no idea it would be the last time she would ever see her son, daughter, and mother alive. What made an ordinary, loving grandfather in New South Wales, Australia, turn into a mass murderer overnight, killing his entire family without warning?
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Sources:
Alexander, H, Emerson, D, and Kennedy, L, ‘Man arrested after axe murders’, June 2008, The Sydney Morning Herald, https://www.smh.com.au/national/man-arrested-after-axe-murders-20080630-2zfj.html Flanagan, Padraic, ‘Viking fanatic kills lover then smothers son, 4’, January 2009, Express, https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/82051/Viking-fanatic-kills-lover-then-smothers-his-son-4 Hill, Ben, ‘Serial killer, 79, earns another life sentence for 'coldly' bashing his cellmate to death with a Sunbeam sandwich press - inside Long Bay's 'frail offenders' unit’, August 2018, Daily Mail Australia, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6089041/Man-jailed-killing-wife-two-grandchildren-admits-murdering-fellow-inmate.html Mitchell, Georgina, ‘I work in cold rage: Child killer John Walsh’s glib description of crimes’, August 2018, The Sydney Morning Herald, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-work-in-cold-rage-child-killer-john-walsh-s-glib-description-of-crimes-20180823-p4zzca.html Murderer John Walsh wanted cellmate 'gotten rid of', killed him with sandwich press, August 2018, 9 News, https://www.9news.com.au/national/john-walsh-frank-townsend-murder-bashed-inmate-sandwich-press-2017/d126fd1b-d6fa-40b7-a882-b222f3740901 O’Neill, Marnie, ‘John Walsh: From Cowra axe murderer to Sandwich Press Killer’, August 2018, News.com.au, https://www.news.com.au/national/crime/john-walsh-from-cowra-axe-murderer-to-sandwich-press-killer/news-story/b81566848f8afb02ed770527303006b6 ‘Townsend Cell Killing’, Justice Action, https://justiceaction.org.au/townsend-cell-killing Wells, Jamelle, ‘Sandwich press murderer John Walsh receives life sentence for cellmate’s death’, August 2018, ABC News, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-23/john-walsh-sandwich-press-murder-sentencing/10155464
What happened to 14-year-old Thora Chamberlain, who was abducted on the way to watch a school football game one Friday afternoon? The main suspect, who had a cunning ruse and a bold disguise, went on the run across America with the FBI hot on his trail. Even after he was captured, he continued to protest his innocence until the end.
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Sources:
Good, Meaghan, ‘1948: Thomas Henry McGonigle [sic], murder without a body’, February 2018, ExecutedToday.com, https://www.executedtoday.com/2018/02/20/1948-thomas-henry-mcgonigle-murder-without-a-body/ Herhold, Scott, ‘Eerie echoes of 1945 case in Sierra Lamar’s fate’, May 2017, Mercury News, http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/21/a-forerunner-to-sierra-lamar-case/ Kackley, Rod, ‘The Murder of Thora Chamberlain: A Shocking True Crime Story’, December 2021, Lyons Circle Publishing Inc
Santa Cruz Sentinel, Aug 18 1957, Newspapers.com
In 1984, a serial burglar and rapist was at large in England, his crimes spanning several Home Counties as well as the northeast of the country. He was armed, masked and dangerous, and he had an unusual calling card – in every house he broke into, he built himself a blanket fort in the living room and made himself at home, watching television and drinking cups of tea. His habit of den-building and the way he slunk off into the countryside after his assaults soon led to him being given the nickname ‘The Fox’. People were fearful, and the police had a tough job on their hands as his attacks crossed multiple jurisdictions. They were learning more about him each time he struck, but they needed to catch him fast before his violence escalated. Who was The Fox, and how would they find him?
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Sources: https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/nostalgia/crimelibrary/malcolmfairley/whowasmalcolmfairley/
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/crime/thirty-five-years-on-from-crime-spree-that-shook-tring-1995858
https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2017/08/03/islander-buys-sketches-by-uks-most-violent-inmate/
https://wearsideonline.com/malcolm-fairley-aka-the-fox/
Liverpool Echo, February 1985
Daily Mirror, July 1984 and February 1985
The Sunderland Echo and Shipping Gazette, December 1938
Evening Chronicle, February 1985
Sunday Mirror, March 1985 Luton/Dunstable on Sunday, November 1999
Leighton Buzzard on Sunday, October 1999
In this episode, I’m bringing you a collection of short but grisly cases from the 1800s, which on their own would be too short for an episode, but they’re too intriguing not to share so I’ve put three of them together. Let’s go back in time for a whistle-stop tour of three crimes ranging from the brutal to the mysterious. If you’re looking for murders involving deceptions, an unscrupulous businessman who exterminated an entire family, an execution by guillotine, a strange letter, the death of a living scarecrow and more, this ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ episode has you covered with these bitesize blood-soaked crimes.
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"Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Epidemic Sound Eternal Moment by Farrell, Wooten Trailing by Christian Andersen
Sources:
Bondeson Jan, ‘Victorian Murders’, 2017, Amberley Publishing
British Newspaper Archive
https://murderresearch.com/historic-serious-crime-and-victim-index/
https://historian416.rssing.com/chan-60133532/all_p3.html
https://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/Traupmannn.htm
https://thanatosarchive.com/2021/11/02/knick-family-murders-1869/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Traupmannn
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VKsOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://strangeco.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-murder-in-manchester.html
https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-murder-of-sarah-jane-roberts/
When a pair of legs washed up in Clifford Pier Harbour in Singapore, the police knew something was very wrong. That same week, a South African tourist who had travelled to the country to buy the latest electronics was reported missing. He would never make it home. Somehow, in a country with one of the lowest crime rates in the world and a draconian criminal justice system, he fell prey to British serial killer John Scripps, who travelled the world murdering unsuspecting tourists and butchering their bodies. Who was Scripps, and how did the police track him down?
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Awakening, An Agent Alone by https://www.purple-planet.com
"Constance" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sources:
Boon, Tan Ooi, ‘Body Parts: A British Serial Killer in Singapore, 1996’, April 2019, Straits Times Press
‘Guilty As Charged: John Martin Scripps befriended tourists, then butchered them’, May 2016, The Straits Times, https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/guilty-as-charged-john-martin-scripps-befriended-tourists-then-butchered-them ‘
John Martin Scripps: Body-parts murder’, Singapore Infopedia, https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_437_2005-01-17.html
‘Manslaughter and Murder’, February 2020, I.R.B. Law, https://irblaw.com.sg/learning-centre/manslaughter-murder/
‘Singapore Census of Population, 2000 – Literacy and Language’, December 2000, Singapore Department of Statistics, Web Archive, https://web.archive.org/web/20091113162718/http://www.singstat.gov.sg/pubn/papers/people/c2000adr-literacy.pdf
The Straits Times, 30 March 1995, Reel Number NL19806
The Straits Times, 12 November 1995, Reel Number NL20073
What kind of killer could chisel out the panel of a door and creep inside without waking a soul? How was he so light on his feet that nobody heard him coming on the dark, moonless nights on which he struck? That’s what the people of New Orleans were asking themselves when their city was terrorised by a mysterious Axeman who targeted Italian grocers, leaving nothing behind but blood, fear, and a discarded weapon - and taking nothing with him except the secret of his identity. He came and went like a phantom, spreading a wave of brutality through the City of Festivals that would not easily be forgotten. Who was the Axeman of New Orleans?
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Dead Jungle composed by Matthew C Morelli
Don’t Scare Me Papa
Mysterious Madeline by Lucas Pittman
Sources:
The Axe Man of New Orleans: The True Story by Miriam C Davis
A Treasury of XXth Century Murder Compendium 1 by Rick Geary
The Mysterious Axman's Jazz by Joseph John Davilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLDiNcNvCBw
Anjette Donovan Lyles ran a popular diner in downtown Macon, Georgia and she oozed Southern charm, wowing customers with her lemon pie and banana pudding. But behind the home-cooked meals and the bright red lipstick-smile, lurked a dangerous killer from whom none of her family members were safe…
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Sources:
13WMAZ, “Anjette Lyles Case: Murder on the menu”, YouTube, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HU8R_sDJFc
13WMAZ, “From the archives: Anjette Lyles case”, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWhGSEetvnY&t=105s
“Anjette Donovan Lyles”, Murderpedia, https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lyles-anjette.htm
Dan, Tee Jay, “The Difference Between Madness and Mental Illness”, LinkedIn, Nov 2020, The Difference between Madness and Mental Illness (linkedin.com)
GroovyAmericanTourist, “Anjette Lyles The Black Widow of Macon Georgia”, YouTube, Mar 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_6tMhfdBUo
Lyles v. State, Supreme Court of Georgia, Justia, 1959, https://law.justia.com/cases/georgia/supreme-court/1959/20465-1.html
Weldon White, Jaclyn, “Whisper to the Black Candle: Voodoo, Murder, and the case of Anjette Lyles”, Mercer University Press, 2006
Ronald Ruse was a happy, easy-going young man who enjoyed surfing and softball in his home state of sunny California. But when he met girlfriend Linda Ricchio, everything changed for the worse. This is a sad and alarming story of obsession and stalking that culminated in disaster and ruined more than one life.
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Music: Melancholia by https://www.purple-planet.com. Particle Emission by Silver Maple. Even If I Go by Miles Avida
Sources:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-06-me-1646-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-29-me-95-story.html https://gunmemorial.org/1987/12/01/ronald-lewis-ron-ruse-jr# https://thecinemaholic.com/where-is-linda-ricchio-now/ https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/deadly-women-linda-ricchio-stalked-and-killed-ronald-lewis-ruse-jr-because-he-broke-up-with-her-sentenced-to-27-years-to-life-in-prison/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3658502/?ref_=ttep_ep16
When a family man desperate for excitement in his mundane life created a fake online persona and swiped right on a beautiful young woman on Tinder, he intended to take advantage of her naivety and hook up with her for casual sex. But neither of them knew it would be a match made in hell...and it was only a matter of time before deception escalated to murder.
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Sources: Balakrishnan, Aravind, ‘Tinder Date Gone Wrong: A Shocking Story of How a Woman Murdered Her Date’, January 2022, Medium.com, https://medium.com/illumination/tinder-date-gone-wrong-a-shocking-story-of-how-a-woman-murdered-her-date-ba3d7fe9584e
Bhardwaj, Deepika Narayan, ‘The Tinder Murder - How Priya Seth murdered her Tinder Date and cheated thousands of men’, June 2018, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICYE358tA9Y
‘Chargesheet filed against Priya Seth, 2 others in Dushyant Sharma murder case’, July 2018, Pink City Post, https://www.pinkcitypost.com/chargesheet-filed-against-priya-seth-2-others-in-dushyant-sharma-murder-case/
Jaithlia, Akshat, and Maheshwari, Aayush, ‘The agonizing pace of the Indian Judiciary’, Jurist.com, https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2020/05/jaithlia-maheshwari-indian-judiciary-pace/
Poonam, Snigdha, ‘Bad Blood: Story of a doomed date’, September 2018, Hindustan Times, https://www.pressreader.com/india/hindustan-times-st-jaipur/20180923/282024738181221
Poonam, Snigdha, ‘Greed, deceit and lies: How a Tinder date ended in murder’, September 2018, Hindustan Times, https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/a-true-account-of-a-tinder-murder/story-NA4xQ19l42XNwjVb3BpZzK.html
Poonam, Snigdha, ‘Lady Killers’, December 2021, https://openthemagazine.com/cover-stories/lady-killers/
‘Priya and Kamra wanted to marry each other: Rajasthan police’, May 2018, Hindustan Times, https://www.hindustantimes.com/jaipur/priya-and-kamra-wanted-to-marry-each-other-rajasthan-police/story-mDq8ZD8GyxYtR1xUzhFOSO.html
When a WWII veteran was approached in Philadelphia by a man in a distinctive alpine hat, the two seemed to hit it off. But by the next morning, one of them would be dead and the other would become the object of a manhunt after a grisly discovery was made inside an abandoned footlocker. But was the case as clear cut as it seemed?
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"Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Epidemic Sound
Covert Affairs By Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen
Sources:
https://www.newspapers.com/image/54150188/?clipping_id=217203&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjU0MTUwMTg4LCJpYXQiOjE2NzYzMDU3OTIsImV4cCI6MTY3NjM5MjE5Mn0.t5OVxmvwaNSIHTg0mO2Yr4mGBMfKS-aNjBnMJfmU2Pc
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https://www.leagle.com/decision/19569415padampc2d79183
https://phillysoccerpage.net/2017/07/26/the-life-and-murder-of-a-u-s-soccer-president/
Why did it take so long for the killer of 16-year-old Lynn Siddons to be brought to justice? This case involved a man who was obsessed with Jack the Ripper and blamed his crimes on his stepson, and a police force who were woefully inefficient in tackling the case. Lynn’s tenacious grandmother was forced to fight for the truth, in an 18-year legal battle that no bereaved family should ever have to endure.
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"Lightless Dawn" and "Promising relationship" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sources:
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Hudson, Nick, ’40 years on, retired solicitor pays price for snaring killer of teenage girl’, July 2017, PoliceProfessional.com, https://www.policeprofessional.com/news/40-years-on-retired-solicitor-pays-price-for-snaring-killer-of-teenage-girl-2/
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It should have been obvious that for school cleaner Vincent Stanford, spying on girls in the bathroom was just the beginning. When he began stalking a 12-year-old pupil and amassed hundreds of photos of her, it was only a matter of time before he escalated to rape and murder. His victim was dedicated teacher Stephanie Scott, whose life he cut short just days before her wedding, in a case that shocked a small New South Wales community.
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Sources
Hanrahan, Josh, “Identical twin of man who killed teacher and bride-to-be Stephanie Scott finally reveals why he tried to destroy evidence by selling her jewellery – and says he never wants to see his brother again”, Daily Mail, Jul 2019, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7255227/Brother-Stephanie-Scotts-killer-Vincent-Stanford-haunted-crime.html ·
Hayter, Melinda, “Stephanie Scott: police say burned body found in Cocoparra National Park believed to be that of missing teacher”, ABC News, Apr 2015, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-11/stephanie-scott-police-searchers-find-burned-body-near-griffith/6385584 ·
Levy, Megan and Partridge, Emma, “Vincent Stanford charged with murdering Leeton teacher Stephanie Scott, underwent criminal checks, cleaning company says”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 2015, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/vincent-stanford-charged-with-murdering-leeton-teacher-stephanie-scott-underwent-criminal-checks-cleaning-company-says-20150409-1mh8zl.html
Partridge, Emma, “’I only have hatred’: Vincent Stanford, the man who killed Stephanie Scott”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 2016, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-only-have-hatred-vincent-stanford-the-man-who-killed-stephanie-scott-20161014-gs2jmc.html ·
Partridge, Emma, “Robert Scott, father of murdered teacher Stephanie Scott, killed in accident”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 2016, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/robert-scott-father-of-murdered-teacher-stephanie-scott-killed-in-accident-20161101-gsfl4e.html
In the Peak District in 1977, the ‘Year of the Knife’ continued with a robbery that shocked a quiet village, culminating in the murder of a bank clerk and the kidnap of his colleague. Could the police find her in time before the cold night drew in across the freezing Gunn Hill moorland?
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Sources Aberdeen Evening Express, British Newspaper Archives, Fri 22nd July 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19770722/025/0003 Aberdeen Press and Journal, British Newspaper Archives, Sat 26th Feb 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19770226/008/0001 “David Walsh: murder of Ian Nicholas Jebb and Susan Hockenhull on 25 February 1977”, DPP 2/6343, National Archives, https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14604117 Garrett, Dr Geoffrey, “Cause of Death: Memoirs of a Home Office Pathologist”, Robinson Publishing, 2001 “Grisly discovery as police find body in search for kidnapped bride-to-be”, Sunday Post, 1977, PressReader.com, https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-sunday-post-inverness/20220227/282437057571889 Liverpool Echo, British Newspaper Archives, Mon 17th Jan 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19770117/015/0001 Liverpool Echo, British Newspaper Archives, Sat 26 Feb 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19770226/008/0001 Liverpool Echo, British Newspaper Archives, Wed 2nd March 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19770302/009/0001 “Premises occupied by JR Bridgeford, estate agents, Williams and Glyn’s Bank and the library”, Historic England listing, https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1139578?section=comments-and-photos “Prestbury”, City Population.de, https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/northwestengland/wards/cheshire_east/E05008647__prestbury/ Reading Evening Post, British Newspaper Archives, Sat 26th Feb 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002471/19770226/003/0001
A birdwatching getaway in the Peak District that should have been uneventful was the inspiration for this episode, with my wife and I accidentally choosing to stay just a few hundred yards from the scene of a notorious set of murders, which we learned about by chance. It seems that true crime follows me everywhere… (my wife still doesn’t believe that I really didn’t know when we booked it!)
The lives of an escaped criminal and an unsuspecting family converge in a dramatic and bloody home invasion set against the cold, bleak, back-drop of Beeley Moor in 1977, a period which would become known as the ‘Year of the Knife’. This episode covers the Pottery Cottage murders and culminates in an explosive finale, while the next instalment will explore the Gunn Hill killings, which took place just a month later.
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Howse, Peter and Lee, Carol Ann, “Bloodbath in the Snow”, Scottish Daily Mail, Mar 2020, https://www.pressreader.com/uk/scottish-daily-mail/20200303/282080573881508
Howse, Peter and Lee, Carol Ann, “Final heartstopping extract of The Pottery Cottage Murders”, Read Sector, Mar 2020, https://readsector.com/final-heartstopping-extract-of-the-pottery-cottage-murders/
Howse, Peter and Lee, Carol Ann, “The Pottery Cottage Murders: The First-hand Account of a Family Held Hostage”, New York City, Little Brown Book Group, 2020
Hurndall, Alan R, “Pottery Cottage: The Peak District Killings That Shook Britain”, Sheffield, Northend Publishing Ltd, 2019
Lane, Bran, “Real-Life Crimes”, London, England, Eaglemoss Publications Ltd, 1993
Newcastle Evening Chronicle, British Newspaper Archive, Jan 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000726/19770117/001/0001
Osman, Arthur, “Police shot Hughes ‘to save woman hostage’”, The Times, The Times Digital Archive, Gale Primary Sources, Apr 1977, https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=TTDA&u=kccl&id=GALE%7CCS68386972&v=2.1=r&sid=TTDA&asid=21d25d15
Reading Evening Post, British Newspaper Archive, Jan 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002471/19770117/005/0001
Sunday Mirror, British Newspaper Archive, Aug 1983, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0002137/19830807/031/0004?browse=true
In this episode, we look at the tragic case of young mother Denise Amber Lee who was abducted from her own home in broad daylight, and the advanced forensics that led to the successful conviction of her captor. Could Denise have been saved if the police had responded more quickly to information provided by a witness?
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Sources:
Anderson, Zac, and Davis, John, ‘Did 911 call slip through the radar?’, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, https://eu.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2008/01/23/did-911-call-slip-through-cracks/28604861007/ ·
Hoffman, Susan E., ‘Murder charges added to kidnapping in death of mother of two’, Charlotte Sun-Herald, Jan 2008, https://archive.naplesnews.com/news/crime/murder-charges-added-to-kidnapping-in-death-of-mother-of-two-ep-402671914-344774622.html/
‘Michael King Florida Death Row’, MyCrimeLibrary.com, Apr 2021, https://mycrimelibrary.com/michael-king-florida-death-row/
When Laura Black landed her dream job in Silicon Valley, she had no idea that she would become the object of a co-worker’s obsessive desires. Everywhere she went, Richard Farley seemed to be there. Everything she did, Richard Farley was watching. Finally, the sustained stalking episode culminated in a violent showdown that became one of California’s most notorious mass murders.
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Sources · “An obsession with Laura”, WorkplaceViolence911.com, https://www.workplaceviolence911.com/docs/20010307-02.htm · Carpenter, Dave, “Suspect in Silicon Valley tragedy described as obsessed loner”, AP News, Feb 1988, https://apnews.com/article/c0b57ef46e8541ec8a4e0322e5150767 · “Stalking: Know It. Name It. Stop It.”, CDC, https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/prevent-stalking/index.html#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20National%20Intimate,experienced%20stalking%20in%20their%20lifetimes. · Thoennes, Nancy and Tjaden, Patricia, “Stalking in America: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey”, National Institute of Justice Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, Apr 1998, https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles/169592.pdf
It was Christmas of 1970, and Charles King and Christopher Lowery were watching a motorcycle race at Mack Park in Hamilton, Australia. Most 18-year-olds at the race that day were innocently chatting about bikes and beer. But Lowery and King were not most 18-year-olds, and they were talking about what it would be like to kill a girl. It was only a matter of time before they turned their thoughts into reality.
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Sources · Deery, Shannon, “Revealed: Thrill killer Charles Ian King’s secret past”, Herald Sun, Aug 2014, https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/true-crime-scene/revealed-thrill-killer-charles-ian-kings-secret-past/news-story/30d11cf31778a28697a796e262fcf58f ·
Wright, Tony, “A young life cut short by casual savagery”, The Age, May 2011, https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/a-young-life-cut-short-by-casual-savagery-20110513-1em6c.html
In this episode, we’ll be tackling a cross-border killer who sparked an investigation on both sides of the English Channel, involving both the British and French police. This case includes science experiments, missing bodies, bin bags, chickens and frogs…not to mention the clever forensics that put this quirky perpetrator behind bars.
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Sources Baker, Keiligh, “Daniel Rosenthal appears in British court charged with murdering his father in France more than three decades ago”, Daily Mail, Jun 2015, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3126831/Man-appears-court-charged-murdering-father-34-years-ago.html
Berry-Dee, Christopher, “Prime Suspect – The True Story of John Cannan”, John Blake, Jul 2007
“Daniel Rosenthal”, MurderUK.com, https://www.murderuk.com/daniel-rosenthal.html
Dixon, Hayley, “Convicted murderer missing from psychiatric hospital”, The Telegraph, Aug 2013, https://web.archive.org/web/20130814015222/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10235821/Convicted-murderer-missing-from-psychiatric-hospital.html
“Missing murderer Daniel Rosenthal ‘was allowed out’”, BBC News, Aug 2013, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-23670291
Smith, Vicky, “Daniel Rosenthal: How did one of Britain’s most brutal murderers walk free from hospital?”, Mirror, Aug 2013, https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/daniel-rosenthal-how-one-britains-2153069
“The mad scientist who cut up his parents with a hacksaw”, Daily Echo, Jan 2008, https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/1972979.the-mad-scientist-who-cut-up-his-parents-with-a-hacksaw/
We’ve made it to the end of a gruelling, terrifying, emotional journey through London’s East End in the Autumn of Terror of 1888. Thank you so much for joining me as we explored each of the Jack the Ripper murders and the historical context of the time. Now, we conclude by reviewing some of the key suspects in this mini-series wrap-up. Can we ever uncover who the perplexing, outrageous, shadowy figure really was – that killer whose nickname everyone knows, but whose real identity remains a mystery?
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Sources:
Ackroyd, P & other contributors, 2008, “Jack the Ripper and the East End”, Chatto & Windus, in association with the Museum in Docklands & Museum of London
Adam, David, March 2019, “Does a new genetic analysis finally reveal the identity of Jack the Ripper?”, Science Mag, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/does-new-genetic-analysis-finally-reveal-identity-jack-ripper
“A Victorian Mental Asylum”, June 2018, Science Museum London, https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/victorian-mental-asylum
Clack, Robert & Hutchinson, Philip, 2009, “The London of Jack the Ripper Then and Now”, The Breedon Books Publishing Company Limited, Derby
Daley, Jason, March 2019, “No, We Still Cannot Confirm the Identity of Jack the Ripper”, Smithsonian Mag, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jack-rippers-dna-collected-shawl-though-doubts-linger-180971726/
“Dr Francis Tumblety”, Jack The Ripper Tour, https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/francis-tumblety/
Evans, Stewart P., “Ex-Detective Inspector Edmund Reid and Jack the Ripper”, Casebook, https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/spe3.html
Evans, Stewart P., & Rumbelow, D, 2006, “Jack the Ripper – Scotland Yard Investigates”, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Gloucestershire
Evans, Stewart P., & Skinner, K, 2001, “The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook An Illustrated Encyclopedia”, Robinson London
Hannaford, Scott, “Anderson and the Swanson Marginalia”, Casebook, https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-andr.html
Jones, Richard, “Aaron Kosminski”, JacktheRipper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/kosminski.htm
Jones, Richard, “Donald Sutherland Swanson”, JacktheRipper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/swanson.htm
Jones, Richard, “Frances Coles – Murdered 13th February 1891”, JacktheRipper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/frances-coles.htm
Jones, Richard, “Montague John Druitt”, JacktheRipper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/druitt.htm
Jones, Richard, “The Pinchin Street Torso”, JacktheRipper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/pinchin-street-torso.htm
Jones, Richard, “The Suicide of Dr Thomas Bond”, Jack The Ripper Tour, https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-suicide-of-dr-thomas-bond/
“Melville Macnaghten”, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Macnaghten
Osborne, Derek F., “The Man Who Shielded Jack the Ripper – George Hutchinson and his Statement: An Analysis”, Casebook, https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/ripperoo-hutch.html
“Suspects”, Casebook, https://www.casebook.org/suspects/
Join me for the penultimate episode of this mini-series where we’ll examine the death of the final canonical victim, in a bloodbath so unimaginable that it has become one of the most memorable Ripper murders, symbolic of his spiralling descent closer and closer to hell. We’ll look at Mary Jane Kelly’s life and try to understand the strange testimony of the witnesses as we encounter a visitor dressed in astrakhan, a man with a sinister black bag bothering women in the area, a missing key and more.
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Voices:
Charlie (Crimelapse).........................Mrs Paumier
Eileen (Crimelapse).......................... Lizzie Albrook
Emily G. Thompson (Morbidology)............Mary Jane Kelly
Erik Rivenes (Most Notorious)......................American journalist
Jenny (It's Murder Up North).............................Sarah Lewis
Nick Denton.....................Inspector Beck
Philip Hutchinson...............Dr Thomas Bond and George Hutchinson
Prash..................................Thomas Bowyer, Joseph Barnett and the "Astrakhan Man"
Sophie Stanley...................Mary Jane Kelly singing
Philip Hutchinson’s theatre company: https://www.luckydogtheatreproductions.com/
Charlie & Eileen – Crimelapse podcast https://www.crimelapsepodcast.com/
Jenny – It’s Murder up North podcast https://www.spreaker.com/show/its-murder-up-north_1
Emily G. Thompson – Morbidology podcast https://morbidology.com/
Erik Rivenes – Most Notorious and Where Blood Runs Cold podcasts https://www.mostnotorious.com
Sources:
Ackroyd, P & other contributors, 2008, “Jack the Ripper and the East End”, Chatto & Windus, in association with the Museum in Docklands & Museum of London
Clack, Robert & Hutchinson, Philip, 2009, “The London of Jack the Ripper Then and Now”, The Breedon Books Publishing Company Limited, Derby
“Dr Bond’s Post Mortem on Mary Kelly”, Casebook, https://www.casebook.org/official_documents/pm-kelly.html
Evans, Stewart P., & Rumbelow, D, 2006, “Jack the Ripper – Scotland Yard Investigates”, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Gloucestershire
Evans, Stewart P., & Skinner, K, 2001, “The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook An Illustrated Encyclopedia”, Robinson London
Evening News, 12th November 1888, Casebook, https://www.casebook.org/press_reports/evening_news/18881112.html
Jones, Richard, “The East End Common Lodging Houses”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/common-lodging-houses.htm
Jones, Richard, “The Jewish East End”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/jewish-east-end.htm
Jones, Richard, July 2016, “The Suicide of Dr Thomas Bond”, Jack The Ripper Tour, https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-suicide-of-dr-thomas-bond/
Jones, Richard, “The View from Liverpool”, The High Rip Gangs and the Jack the Ripper Murders, Jack The Ripper Tour, https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-view-from-liverpool/
Jones, Richard, “The Whitechapel Murders and the Jewish Community”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/jewish-history.htm
Leisinger, Claudia, “The Last of the Billingsgate Fish Porters”, https://www.claudialeisinger.com/the-last-of-the-billigsgate-fish-porters
New York Herald resources, Casebook,
https://www.casebook.org/press_reports/new_york_herald/881111.html
Let’s look at the second part of the so-called Double Event that chilled the people of Whitechapel to the bone on 30th September 1888. Catherine Eddowes was arrested for her own safety after being found drunk in the street, and ironically met her demise just 400 yards from the police station minutes after her release, her corpse mutilated in the most vicious and disgusting way that had yet been seen.
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Special Thank you to Peter Bleksley for his role as DI Edmund Reid
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peter-Bleksley/e/B001JP0RFI%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
https://t.co/8aIpZRt5Eb?amp=1 Peter’s main website
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p082d0hb Manhunt: Finding Kevin Parle
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Sources:
Ackroyd, P & other contributors, 2008, “Jack the Ripper and the East End”, Chatto & Windus, in association with the Museum in Docklands & Museum of London
“Bright’s Disease”, Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright%27s_disease
Clack, Robert & Hutchinson, Philip, 2009, “The London of Jack the Ripper Then and Now”, The Breedon Books Publishing Company Limited, Derby
Evans, Stewart P., & Rumbelow, D, 2006, “Jack the Ripper – Scotland Yard Investigates”, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Gloucestershire
Evans, Stewart P., & Skinner, K, 2001, “The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook An Illustrated Encyclopedia”, Robinson London
“Hallie Rubenhold”, Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallie_Rubenhold
Jones, Richard, “The East End Common Lodging Houses”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/common-lodging-houses.htm
Jones, Richard, “The Goulston Street Graffito – The Juwes Are The Men”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/goulston-street-graffito.htm
Jones, Richard, “The Jewish East End”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/jewish-east-end.htm
Jones, Richard, “The View from Liverpool”, The High Rip Gangs and the Jack the Ripper Murders, Jack The Ripper Tour, https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-view-from-liverpool/
Jones, Richard, “The Whitechapel Murders and the Jewish Community”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/jewish-history.htm
London’s Royal Docks, “Forgotten Stories: Hop-Picking in the fields of Kent”, https://londonsroyaldocks.com/forgotten-stories-hop-picking-fields-kent/
Rippervision, “To Catch A Killer: The Hunt for the Ripper”, JackTheRipperTour.com, https://thejacktherippertour.com/blog/to-catch-a-killer-the-hunt-for-jack-the-ripper/
Slade, Paul, 2013, “Broadside Ballads Songs, Murder Ballads”, PlanetSlade.com, http://www.planetslade.com/broadside-ballads-mary-arnold.html
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In this fourth instalment of my Jack the Ripper miniseries, we’ll look at the murder of Liz Stride in Berner Street on 30th September 1888. What made her death different from the other victims, and can we really count her amongst the canonical 5?
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Special Thank you to Peter Bleksley for his role as DI Edmund Reid
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peter-Bleksley/e/B001JP0RFI%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
https://t.co/8aIpZRt5Eb?amp=1 Peter’s main website
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p082d0hb Manhunt: Finding Kevin Parle
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Sources:
Ackroyd, P & other contributors, 2008, “Jack the Ripper and the East End”, Chatto & Windus, in association with the Museum in Docklands & Museum of London
Barnardo’s, “Our History”, https://www.barnardos.org.uk/who-we-are/our-history
Clack, Robert & Hutchinson, Philip, 2009, “The London of Jack the Ripper Then and Now”, The Breedon Books Publishing Company Limited, Derby
Evans, Stewart P., & Rumbelow, D, 2006, “Jack the Ripper – Scotland Yard Investigates”, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Gloucestershire
Evans, Stewart P., & Skinner, K, 2001, “The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook An Illustrated Encyclopedia”, Robinson London
Jones, Richard, “The Dear Boss Letter”, Jack the Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/dear-boss.htm
Jones, Richard, “The East End Common Lodging Houses”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/common-lodging-houses.htm
Jones, Richard, “The Jewish East End”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/jewish-east-end.htm
Jones, Richard, “The View from Liverpool”, The High Rip Gangs and the Jack the Ripper Murders, Jack The Ripper Tour, https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-view-from-liverpool/
Jones, Richard, “The Whitechapel Murders and the Jewish Community”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/jewish-history.htm
Khazan, Olga, July 2017, “Nearly Half of All Murdered Women are Killed by Romantic Partners”, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/homicides-women/534306/
Pall Mall Gazette, 15th September 1888, “The Pensioner’s Statement – Another Futile Arrest – Funeral of the Latest Victim”, Casebook, https://www.casebook.org/press_reports/pall_mall_gazette/18880915.html
“The Ten Bells Pub”, Casebook,
https://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/tenbells.html
We’re back for part 3 of this miniseries, so buckle up for a hair-raising, spine-chilling ride as the most famous serial killer of all time claims his second canonical victim… and for the first time, claims his name – Jack The Ripper. We’ll learn about Annie Chapman and tell her story, as we try to piece together the events of the Autumn of Terror. It’s not for the faint-hearted.
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No part of this episode may be reproduced or copied in any form without the written permission of Prash’s Murder Map.
Sources:
Ackroyd, P & other contributors, 2008, “Jack the Ripper and the East End”, Chatto & Windus, in association with the Museum in Docklands & Museum of London
Clack, Robert & Hutchinson, Philip, 2009, “The London of Jack the Ripper Then and Now”, The Breedon Books Publishing Company Limited, Derby
Evans, Stewart P., & Rumbelow, D, 2006, “Jack the Ripper – Scotland Yard Investigates”, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Gloucestershire
Evans, Stewart P., & Skinner, K, 2001, “The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook An Illustrated Encyclopedia”, Robinson London
“Inquest: Annie Chapman”, Casebook, https://www.casebook.org/official_documents/inquests/inquest_chapman.html
“John Pizer”, Casebook, https://www.casebook.org/ripper_media/book_reviews/non-fiction/cjmorley/149.html
Jones, Richard, “The East End Common Lodging Houses”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/common-lodging-houses.htm
Jones, Richard, “The Jewish East End”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/jewish-east-end.htm
Jones, Richard, “The View from Liverpool”, The High Rip Gangs and the Jack the Ripper Murders, Jack The Ripper Tour, https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-view-from-liverpool/
Jones, Richard, “The Whitechapel Murders and the Jewish Community”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/jewish-history.htm
LSE, “Charles Booth’s London Poverty Maps and Police Notebooks”,
https://booth.lse.ac.uk/
Welcome back to foggy, lamplit London as we embark on the second episode of this miniseries on one of the most notorious serial killers of all time - Jack the Ripper. We’ll look at the first of the canonical murders; that of Mary Ann Nichols, known as Polly, who was found in Bucks Row with her throat slashed and her abdomen mutilated. Wrap up warm and keep looking over your shoulder, because the Autumn of Terror has just begun...
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Credits:Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash
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Sources:
Ackroyd, P & other contributors, 2008, “Jack the Ripper and the East End”, Chatto & Windus, in association with the Museum in Docklands & Museum of London
Author Interviews, 2015, “Dirty Old London”, NPR, https://www.npr.org/2015/03/12/392332431/dirty-old-london-a-history-of-the-victorians-infamous-filth?t=1594571339515&t=1594657184121
Blomer, Steve E, 2019, “Inside Bucks Row – Mary Ann Nichols: An Anatomy of Murder, The Whitechapel Murders Project Book 1”
“Bucks Row, Now Durward Street”, Jack The Ripper 1888, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/bucks-row-then-and-now.htm
“Bucks Row”, Casebook.org, https://www.casebook.org/victorian_london/sitepics.w-bucks.html
Clack, Robert & Hutchinson, Philip, 2009, “The London of Jack the Ripper Then and Now”, The Breedon Books Publishing Company Limited, Derby
Evans, Stewart P., & Rumbelow, D, 2006, “Jack the Ripper – Scotland Yard Investigates”, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Gloucestershire
Evans, Stewart P., & Skinner, K, 2001, “The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook An Illustrated Encyclopedia”, Robinson London
“Jack the Ripper Murder Sites Then and Now - Buck’s Row”, Jack the Ripper Tour, Feb 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQ_c1JlBZU
Johnson, Ben, “The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894”, History Magazine, https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-Horse-Manure-Crisis-of-1894/
Jones, Richard, January 2019, “Drinking in the East End”, Drinking and Drunkenness in the Victorian East End, Jack The Ripper Tour, https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/drinking-in-the-east-end/
Jones, Richard, “The East End Common Lodging Houses”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/common-lodging-houses.htm
Jones, Richard, July 2020, “The View from Liverpool”, The High Rip Gangs and the Jack the Ripper Murders, Jack The Ripper Tour, https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-view-from-liverpool/
“Walter Purkis”, July 2009, https://kpoulin1.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/walter-purkis/ from Lloyds Weekly Newspaper, 9th September 1888
Jump in a hansom cab and come with me to the foggy, lamplit streets of London’s East End as we embark on this 7 part mini-series on the gruesome murders of arguably the most infamous serial killer of all time… Jack the Ripper. Pack your doss money and a penny for the newsboy and let’s get started with two killings that occurred just before the Autumn of Terror. Could Emma Smith and Martha Tabram have been early Ripper victims?
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Special thanks to:
Peter Bleksley https://peterbleksley.com/
Karl Coppack’s podcast Sherlock: From Adler to Amberley http://www.casebook.org/podcast/listen.html?id=256
Philip Hutchinson’s theatre company: https://www.luckydogtheatreproductions.com/
Charlie & Eileen – Crimelapse podcast https://www.crimelapsepodcast.com/
Jenny – It’s Murder up North podcast https://www.spreaker.com/show/its-murder-up-north_1
Emily G. Thompson – Morbidology podcast https://morbidology.com/
Erik Rivenes – Most Notorious and Where Blood Runs Cold podcasts https://www.mostnotorious.com
Adam, host of UK True Crime podcast https://www.uktruecrime.com/
No part of this episode may be reproduced or copied in any form without the written permission of Prash’s Murder Map.
Sources:
Ackroyd, P & other contributors, 2008, “Jack the Ripper and the East End”, Chatto & Windus, in association with the Museum in Docklands & Museum of London
Author Interviews, 2015, “Dirty Old London”, NPR, https://www.npr.org/2015/03/12/392332431/dirty-old-london-a-history-of-the-victorians-infamous-filth?t=1594571339515&t=1594657184121
Clack, Robert & Hutchinson, Philip, 2009, “The London of Jack the Ripper Then and Now”, The Breedon Books Publishing Company Limited, Derby
Evans, Stewart P., & Rumbelow, D, 2006, “Jack the Ripper – Scotland Yard Investigates”, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Gloucestershire
Evans, Stewart P., & Skinner, K, 2001, “The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Sourcebook An Illustrated Encyclopedia”, Robinson London
Johnson, Ben, “The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894”, History Magazine, https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-Horse-Manure-Crisis-of-1894/
Jones, Richard, January 2019, “Drinking in the East End”, Drinking and Drunkenness in the Victorian East End, Jack The Ripper Tour, https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/drinking-in-the-east-end/
Jones, Richard, “The East End Common Lodging Houses”, Jack The Ripper.org, https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/common-lodging-houses.htm
Jones, Richard, July 2020, “The View from Liverpool”, The High Rip Gangs and the Jack the Ripper Murders, Jack The Ripper Tour, https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-view-from-liverpool/
Black versus white, North versus South, vigilantes and a deathbed confession. Join me for all this and more as we travel to Atlanta, Georgia in 1913 to learn about the tragic death of 13-year-old factory worker Mary Phagan – one of the most divisive cases in history. Was the right man found guilty, or was it impossible to hold a fair trial in a state riven by racial, religious and geographic tension that had been brewing ever since the end of the Civil War?
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Credits:Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash
Thanks to Ian and TG for the voice overs
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Sources:
Anonymous, “The Frank Case: Inside Story of Georgia’s Greatest Murder Mystery”, 1913, produced in 2015 by Margaret Huffstickler, https://archive.org/details/LeoFrankCaseAtlantaGeorgiaGreatestMurderMystery1913_201503
Digital Library of Georgia, “Tragedy in the New South: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank”, Exhibitions, Economic Transformation and Child Labour, Digital Public Library of America,https://dp.la/exhibitions/leo-frank/setting-atlanta-in-1913/economic-transformation-and-ch
ESRI, “Anti-black racism in Georgia history”, arcgis story maps, https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=b7673ba74e3b4d95828bc573f049c8a1
Leo Frank Case Archive, “Murder Trial Testimony”, https://www.leofrank.org/trial-and-evidence/murder-trial-testimony/
Leo Frank Trial, 1913, “Testimony of Leo Frank”, Famous Trials website by Professor Douglas O. Linder, https://www.famous-trials.com/leo-frank/14-excerpts/48-testimonyfrank
Little, Becky, August 2019, “In 1912, this Georgia county drove out every black resident”, History.com, https://www.history.com/news/georgia-racial-expulsion-stacey-abrams
“Machinist tells of hair found in factory lathe”, April 30th 1913, The Atlanta Georgian, Vol XI, No. 230, https://www.leofrank.org/library/atlanta-georgian/april-1913/atlanta-georgian-043013-april-30-1913.pdf
“Mary Anne Phagan”, Find A Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11655/mary-anne-phagan
Monroe, Heather, November 2019, “The Divisive Death of Mary Phagan”, https://medium.com/@hlemonroe/the-divisive-death-of-mary-phagan-1317c5e0c981
Phagan-Kean, Mary, “Little Mary Phagan”, https://littlemaryphagan.com/about/
Snyder, Franklyn Bliss, 1918, “The Ballad of Mary Phagan”, Famous Trials website by Professor Douglas O. Linder, https://www.famous-trials.com/leo-frank/38-ballad
Tennessean Staff, “An Innocent Man was Lynched: Reporting exonerated Leo Frank in the murder of Mary Phagan”, Tennessean, https://eu.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/02/20/alonzo-mann-says-jim-conley-murdered-mary-phagan/4819312002/
“The Night Witch Did It”, Famous Trials website by Professor Douglas O. Linder, https://www.famous-trials.com/leo-frank/36-notes
Worthy, Larry, “Little Secrets The murder of Mary Phagan and the death of Leo Frank”, About North Georgia, http://www.aboutnorthgeorgia.com/ang/Little_Secrets
A school should be a place of learning, somewhere you feel safe. But in 2006, a 13-year-old girl in Israel went to the bathroom and never came back. Is the right man behind bars, or is there a second victim in this tangled case?
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Credits:Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash
Thanks to JP and Simon for providing the voice overs
Sources:
Ashkenazi, Eli, 2006, “The writing was on the wall in Katzrin”, Haaretz, https://www.haaretz.com/1.4938395
Azizi, Marianne, 2016, “Murder, intrigue and cover up: The Twin Peaks of Israel”, Shoah.org, http://www.shoah.org.uk/2016/06/04/
Barkan, Noam, 2018, “New evidence in Tair Rada’s murder, 12 years later”, Y Net News, https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5371344,00.html
Evidence Locker Podcast, 2019, “Episode 51 – Israel – Murdered at School”, https://evidencelockerpodcast.com/tag/tair-rada/
Fraser, Giles, 2016, “Think love knows no boundaries? Try getting married in Israel”, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2016/feb/18/think-love-knows-no-boundaries-try-getting-married-in-israel
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I24NewsEnglish, “New DNA Evidence in Murder of Israeli Girl”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOWNwzTlyb0
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LordanArts, 2016, “BrainScratch: Making Another Murderer, Israel Edition about Tair Rada”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62N3kHjCiV8
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Staff, Toi, 2020, “Over 1,000 anti-corruption protesters rally outside PM’s residence”, The Times of Israel, https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-anti-corruption-protesters-rally-outside-pms-residence/
Staff, Toi, 2018, “State mulls reopening grisly murder case after DNA test raises fresh speculation”, The Times of Israel, https://www.timesofisrael.com/state-mulls-reopening-grisly-murder-case-after-dna-test-raises-fresh-speculation/
Staff, Toi, 2020, “State opposes retrial for convicted murderer who insists he was framed”, The Times of Israel, https://www.timesofisrael.com/state-opposes-retrial-for-convicted-murderer-who-insists-he-was-framed/
Sverdlov, Leon, 2020, “Former Deputy Shin Bet head: Police fabricated evidence in Tair Rada case”, The Jerusalem Post, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/former-deputy-shin-bet-head-police-fabricated-evidence-in-tair-rada-case-631951
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Yanovsky, Roi, 2016, “Another boyfriend tells Ynet: Tair Rada murder case should be reopened”, Y Net News, https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4786056,00.html
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http://inproperinla.blogspot.com/2015/11/2015-11-05-zadorov-affair-and-suspected.html
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We travel back to Minnesota in 1912 to discover the tragic case of a young woman slain just yards from home: so close to safety, yet so far from salvation. She was popular and hardworking, with a loving, happy family, and no enemies. So how was it possible that a man confessed multiple times to killing 21-year-old Alice Matthews, but nobody was ever taken to trial?
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Credits: Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash
Voice acting by Kathy Wheat, Steven and Emi Clark.
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Sources:
Alice E Matthews, Find a Grave.com https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/159907360/alice-e_-matthews
Caledonia Argus, “Horrible Murder”, 29th March 2012, Vol 33. No. 18, https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?doc_id=mnhi0031/1I7PLV5B/12032901&page_name=3
Henderson, John, “Demographics of the Titanic Passengers”, 2017, http://www.icyousee.org/titanic.html
Minneapolis Morning Tribune, “Developments in the Matthews Murder Case”, Tuesday March 26th 1912, Vol XLV, No. 198, https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?doc_id=mnhi0005/1DFC5G5B/12032601&page_name=2
Minneapolis Morning Tribune, “Driskell Arrested, Charged With Alice Matthews Murder”, Friday October 22nd, 1915, Forty-Eighth Year No. 309, https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?collection_filter=All&doc_id=addabf07-f848-43e3-a488-2782562f220d%2Fmnhi0005%2F1DFC5G5B%2F15102201&vwrSrch=matthews&objRsltIdx=-1&fitMode=1&scale=0.34&rotation=0&x=0&y=0&highlightColor=yellow&showThumbs=true
Minneapolis Morning Tribune, “Driskell Enacts Matthews Crime; main facts tally”, Saturday October 23rd 1915, Forty-Eighth Year No. 310, https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?doc_id=mnhi0005/1DFC5G5B/15102301&page_name=1
Minneapolis Morning Tribune, “Driskell Unbalanced, says Sheriff Langum”, Saturday June 5th 1915, Vol XLVIII, No. 170 https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?doc_id=mnhi0005/1DFC5G5B/15060501&page_name=21
Minneapolis Morning Tribune, “Girl Is Beaten to Death With Stone,” Thursday October 14th 1920, Fifty-Fourth Year No. 143, https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?doc_id=mnhi0005/1DFC5G5C/20101401&page_name=1
Minneapolis Morning Tribune, “Girl Loses Life in Brave Battle to Save Honor”, Monday March 25th 1912, Vol XLV, No. 197, https://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/lccn/sn83016772/1912-03-25/ed-1/seq-1
Minneapolis Morning Tribune, “Latest Developments,” Thursday March 28th 1912, Vol XLV, No. 200, https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?doc_id=mnhi0005/1DFC5G5B/12032801&page_name=1
Minneapolis Morning Tribune, “Ogre Sought by Detectives as Girl’s Slayer”, Saturday April 6th 1912, https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?doc_id=mnhi0005/1DFC5G5B/12040601&page_name=1, Vol XLV, No. 209
Minneapolis Morning Tribune, “Police do not believe Driskell confession”, Wednesday 15th October 1913, Vol XLVI, No. 300 https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?doc_id=mnhi0005/1DFC5G5B/13101501&page_name=10
Minneapolis Morning Tribune, “Throng of Curiosity Seekers at Scene of Matthews’ homicide; Persons connected with incidents following the tragedy”, Wednesday March 27th 1912, Vol XLV, No. 199, https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?doc_id=mnhi0005/1DFC5G5B/12032701&page_name=5
Minneapolis Morning Tribune, “Police Report Flaw in Lindgren’s Alibi for Night of Bowers’ Murder”, Saturday February 11th 1922, Fifty-Fifth Year, No. 263, https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?collection_filter=All&doc_id=addabf07-f848-43e3-a488-2782562f220d%2Fmnhi0005%2F1DFC5G5C%2F22021101&vwrSrch=matthews&objRsltIdx=-1&fitMode=1&scale=0.36&rotation=0&x=0&y=0&highlightColor=yellow&showThumbs=true
PJE Family Research, September 2018, “On This Date in Minnesota History”, https://pjefamilyresearch.blogspot.com/2018_09_09_archive.html
Rivenes, Erik, December 14, 2019, “The 1912 Minneapolis Murder of Alice Matthews,” Minnesota’s Most Notorious: Where Blood Runs Cold podcast, https://podbay.fm/podcast/1434979856/e/1576321272
The Cook County News-Herald, “Driskell Declared Insane”, November 25th 1915, Vol XXIV, https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?collection_filter=All&doc_id=81d335cc-f3f6-48c6-934e-2067e7f912c7%2Fmnhi0031%2F1DFBZ45B%2F15112501&vwrSrch=matthews&objRsltIdx=-1&fitMode=1&scale=0.23&rotation=0&x=0&y=0&highlightColor=yellow&showThumbs=true
The Duluth Herald, “Murdered Girl’s Funeral is Held”, 28th March 1912, Vol XXIX No. 303,
https://newspapers.mnhs.org/jsp/viewer.jsp?collection_filter=All&doc_id=5f9ef777-8d4b-42cd-af9e-74b8717cd759%2Fmnhi0007%2F1DFBWQ5B%2F12032801&vwrSrch=savage&CurSearchNum=5&objRsltIdx=25&fitMode=0&scale=0.31&rotation=0&x=0&y=0&highlightColor=yellow&showThumbs=true
The Minneapolis Star, “Attacked Near Home, October 3rd 1927, Page 2, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16069440/the-minneapolis-star/
The Minneapolis Star, “Oscar Lindgren Appeal Before Parole Board”, September 16 1931, page 22
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/16013118/the-minneapolis-star/
Weir, Sue Hunter, “Alice’s murder exploited by vagaries of politicos and publishers”, The Alley Newspaper, http://alleynews.org/2010/06/alice%E2%80%99s-murder-exploited-by-vagaries-of-politicos-and-publishers/
Most murderers try to hide their crimes. But this one wrote a book about it. Join me on a journey to Poland as we learn about the strange case of the failed intellectual, businessman and novelist who brutally killed his ex-wife’s lover in a jealous rage. He thought he was smarter than the police. But he was wrong.
Recommended Podcast: Morbidology, check out https://morbidology.com/morbidology-podcast/
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash
Voice Acting by “Strange Voice” and Aria. Disclaimer read by Mariah.
Sources
Casefile Podcast, “Case 36 – Amok”, https://casefilepodcast.com/case-36-amok/
CrimeTimeTV, “The Novel Killer”, 2014, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQXgx0JXec4
“Krystian Bala”, Murderpedia, https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bala-krystian.htm
“Krystian Bala”, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystian_Bala
Purvis, Andrew, 2007, “Polish Murder Stranger Than Fiction”, Time, http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1659460,00.html
Struzinska, Katarzyna, 2020, “The Murderer as Writer, Storyteller and Protagonist: The Case of Krystian Bala”, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11196-020-09685-x#Sec6
When Quakers Hill Nursing Home hired a new member of staff without conducting proper background checks, they had no idea of the carnage that would follow, as their night shift nurse Roger Dean became one of the worst mass murderers in Australian history. Murder is always distressing, but when the victims are some of society’s most vulnerable members, it becomes even more poignant.
Recommended Podcast: Brew Crime https://brewcrime.com/
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash
Voice Acting by Hollie Cassar https://www.instagram.com/holliecassar_/
Sources:
A Killer’s Confession, Channel 10, May 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44VFZAPMmxA
Bibby, Paul, 2015, “Quakers Hill Nursing Home murderer Roger Dean loses appeal against 11 life sentences,” The Sydney Morning Herald, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/quakers-hill-nursing-home-murderer-roger-dean-loses-appeal-against-11-life-sentenes-20151204-glfcw6.html
Brand, E, Farquharson, I, Hartwig, K, & Hey Loh, K, “Drugs and doctors: how the law responds to doctor-shopping in Australia,” April 2013, University of Queensland, Australia and UQ ProBono Centre, TC Beirne School of Law, https://law.uq.edu.au/files/1248/MsP-Drugs-and-Doctors-April-2013.pdf
Choahan, Neelima, “Doctor shopping and what it means for GPs”, Aug 2018, News GP, https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/professional/doctor-shopping-and-what-it-means-for-gps
Critchley, Cheryl & McGrath, Helen, “Why did they do it?”, Aug 2015, MacMillan Australia, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Did-They-Do-it/dp/1743533179
Cohen, Ronnie, “Prescription drug monitoring cuts doctor-shopping for painkillers”, February 2017, Health News, Reuters, https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-painkillers-doctor-shopping/prescription-drug-monitoring-cuts-doctor-shopping-for-painkillers-idUKKBN15W281
Deputy State Coroner H.C.B. Dillon, “Fire at Quakers Hill Nursing Home, Hambledon Road, Quakers Hill – Inquest Findings,” 9 March 2015, Coroners Court of New South Wales, http://www.coroners.justice.nsw.gov.au/Documents/finding,%20recommendation%20and%20reasons%20-%20quakers%20hill%20fire.pdf
“Families launch class action over fatal Quakers Hill nursing home fire”, March 2018, The Sydney Morning Herald, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/families-launch-class-action-over-fatal-quakers-hill-nursing-home-fire-20180306-p4z34c.html
Gredley, Rebecca, 2018, “Killer Quakers Hill nurse Roger Dean hired without any reference checks before 14 residents died in aged care fire”, The West Australian, https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/killer-quakers-hill-nurse-roger-dean-hired-without-any-reference-checks-before-14-residents-died-in-aged-care-fire-ng-b88766091z
Quakers Hill Nursing Home, Aged Care Guide, https://www.agedcareguide.com.au/quakers-hill-nursing-home
Quakers Hill Nursing Home Fire, Channel 10, November 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwjkaUyyDUM
Quakers Hill Nursing Home Fire: Nurses Recognized for Bravery, December 2012, The Moran Group, https://www.femoran.com/fe-moran-fire-protection/823
Quakers Hill Nursing Home Fire Sprinkler Test, CPSANSW, August 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gekCOFraeOI
Quakers Hill Nursing Home Fire Victims, The Feed SBS, March 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiwXIPApuZo
Quakers Hill Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers_Hill,_New_South_Wales#Nursing_home_fire
“Roger Kingsley Dean,” Murderpedia, https://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/dean-roger.htm
Sutton, Candance, September 2014, “Man who murdered 11 people in nursing home fire ‘frothed at the mouth’ from drugs and ‘put nails in tyres and poured paint’ over boss’s car, inquest hears”, Daily Mail Australia, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2747402/Roger-Dean-murdered-11-people-nursing-home-fire-frothed-mouth-drugs-nails-tyres-poured-paint-bosss-car-inquest-hears.html
Wells, Jamelle, court reporter, 2013 ,”Nursing home killer Roger Dean cries as victims’ families tell of their grief,” ABC news, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-04/victims-families-tell-of-guilt-after-nursing-home-fire/4731884
Last time, in the first part of this double episode, I told the story of the disguise-wearing, letter-writing serial killer operating in California’s Bay Area in 1968 and 69, who christened himself Zodiac. His choice of victim changed, as did his MO, so how do you catch a killer whose only motive is achieving infamy and mocking the police? Join me for Part 2, where we’ll analyse the killer’s behaviour and review some of the popular suspects and theories, and we’ll hear from Zodiac expert Michael Butterfield. It’s a case that’s now over 50 years old, so will the killer ever be named?
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Special thanks to Zodiac writer and consultant Michael Butterfield http://zodiackillerfacts.com/ who kindly took time out of his busy schedule to contribute to the making of this episode. Please check out his podcast Zodiac A To Z https://zodiacatoz.podbean.com/
Starring the amazing voice acting talents of Ben (The Zodiac, Brian Hartnell and police officer), Mariah (Nancy Slover, Kirsty Martire and disclaimer), Steven (Mike Mageau) and Alan Smith (Rick Marshall, Richard Gaikowski)
Sources:
Arntfield, Michael, May 2018, “The preferred jobs of serial killers and psychopaths”, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/the-preferred-jobs-of-serial-killers-and-psychopaths-96173
Bauer, Craig P, 2018, “The Zodiac Ciphers: What We Know”, History.com https://www.history.com/news/the-zodiac-ciphers-what-we-know
Butterfield, Michael,Zodiac Killer Facts website http://www.zodiackillerfacts.com/case.htm
Calhoun, Bob, 2018, “Yesterday’s Crimes: The Zodiac Killer’s First Known Victims Died 50 Years Ago”, SF Weekly, https://www.sfweekly.com/news/yesterdays-crimes-news/yesterdays-crimes-the-zodiac-killers-first-known-victim-died-50-years-ago/
Gaikowski/Zodiac Connection/Timeline, TapaTalk forum, https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/zodiackillerfr/gaikowski-zodiac-connection-timeline-t2742.html
Graysmith, Robert, 2007, “Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of America’s Most Elusive Serial Killer”, Titan Books
Grinell, Richard, Zodiac Ciphers website https://www.zodiacciphers.com/
Heidelberg, April 2018, “Can estimates from forensic handwriting experts be trusted in court?”, Springer, https://www.springer.com/gp/about-springer/media/research-news/all-english-research-news/can-estimates-from-forensic-handwriting-experts-be-trusted-in-court-/15635428
Martire, K, Growns, B & Navarro, D, April 2018, “What do the experts know? Calibration, precision and the wisdom of crowds among forensic handwriting experts,” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 2346-2355
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-018-1448-3
Officer Down Memorial Page for Eric A Zelms, https://www.odmp.org/officer/14665-officer-eric-a-zelms
Schillemat, Brandon, 2012, “Has the code of the Zodiac Killer been cracked?”, Neighbor News, Patch, https://patch.com/california/fostercity/has-the-code-of-the-zodiac-killer-been-cracked
“Understanding the Birthday Paradox”, BetterExplained.com
https://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-the-birthday-paradox/
Voigt, Tom, Zodiac Killer website http://www.zodiackiller.com/index2.html
Voigt, Tom, YouTube Channel, “Handwriting Expert Sherwood Morrill discusses The Zodiac Killer”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAPtxcvRQko
Was Donald Gene Harden the Zodiac Killer Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/pg/Was-Donald-Gene-Harden-the-Zodiac-Killer-189393988058502/posts/
Wayback Machine Web Archive, Coroner’s Report of Paul Lee Stine,
https://web.archive.org/web/20070327182656/http://www.thezodiacmansonconnection.com/autop_stine_1.html
Wayback Machine Web Archive, New Realities Video, Richard Gaikowski’s website
https://web.archive.org/web/20010411015131/http:/www.slip.net/~richgaik/index.html
Zodiac film, 2007 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443706/
Zodiac Killer Fandom page, “Ross Sullivan”, https://zodiackiller.fandom.com/wiki/Ross_Sullivan
ZodiacKillerIdentified YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/Zeppelin196818/videos
ZodiacKillerVideos YouTube channel, “Lake Herman Road – The Funeral of David Faraday”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwPMg8XfOck
Zodiac Killer Wiki https://zodiackiller.fandom.com/wiki/Zodiac_Killer_Wiki
Zodiologists.com, 2009, “The Riverside Desktop Poem,”
http://www.zodiologists.com/riverside_desktop_poem_introduction.html
How do you catch a serial killer who picks his victims at random, and whose only motive is to taunt the police? In Part 1 of this 2-part investigation into California’s Zodiac Killer, I’ll present the story of one of the most bizarre yet compelling unsolved cases in criminal history. Coincidences, letters, ciphers, phone calls and costumes – they’re all here. Join me again next time for Part 2 where we’ll do some more analysis and a review of the suspects.
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Research, writing, narration and audio arrangement by Prash
With the amazing voice acting talents of Ben (The Zodiac, Brian Hartnell and police officer), Mariah (Nancy Slover), lunamist (Cecilia Shepard and disclaimer) and Steven (Mike Mageau)
Sources
Bauer, Craig P, 2018, “The Zodiac Ciphers: What We Know”, History.com https://www.history.com/news/the-zodiac-ciphers-what-we-know
Butterfield, Michael,Zodiac Killer Facts website http://www.zodiackillerfacts.com/case.htm
Calhoun, Bob, 2018, “Yesterday’s Crimes: The Zodiac Killer’s First Known Victims Died 50 Years Ago”, SF Weekly, https://www.sfweekly.com/news/yesterdays-crimes-news/yesterdays-crimes-the-zodiac-killers-first-known-victim-died-50-years-ago/
Graysmith, Robert, 2007, “Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of America’s Most Elusive Serial Killer”, Titan Books
Grinell, Richard, Zodiac Ciphers website https://www.zodiacciphers.com/
Officer Down Memorial Page for Eric A Zelms, https://www.odmp.org/officer/14665-officer-eric-a-zelms
Schillemat, Brandon, 2012, “Has the code of the Zodiac Killer been cracked?”, Neighbor News, Patch, https://patch.com/california/fostercity/has-the-code-of-the-zodiac-killer-been-cracked
Voigt, Tom, Zodiac Killer website http://www.zodiackiller.com/index2.html
Was Donald Gene Harden the Zodiac Killer Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/pg/Was-Donald-Gene-Harden-the-Zodiac-Killer-189393988058502/posts/
Zodiac film, 2007 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443706/
ZodiacKillerIdentified YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/Zeppelin196818/videos
ZodiacKillerVideos YouTube channel, “Lake Herman Road – The Funeral of David Faraday” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwPMg8XfOck
Zodiac Killer Wiki https://zodiackiller.fandom.com/wiki/Zodiac_Killer_Wiki
Two murders. Two sisters. One mind.
Journey with me back to the 1930s to examine one of the most grotesque and brutal double slayings in the history of France. This is not for the faint-hearted, because true crime just got even bloodier.
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Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
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Credits:
Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash
French song at the beginning: Jess
Sources:
Budanovic, Nikola, “The Papin Sisters and the murder case that still haunts France after more than 80 years,”, 2017, TheVintageNews, https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/12/the-papin-sisters-and-the-murder-case-that-still-haunts-france-after-more-than-80-years/
Silent Twins: Without My Shadow, YouTube Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98WtP1qC61s
Strange Matters podcast, 2019, https://www.strangematterspodcast.com/the-papin-sisters/
Today’s episode is in a slightly different format, so let’s go back in time for a whistle-stop tour of 5 Victorian crimes. From mass murder to bodies in boxes and botched hangings, Murder Minis has you covered for 25 minutes of bitesize blood-soaked crimes.
Board a plane with me and fly to one of the most beautiful countries in the world, forever bloodstained by the murders of at least 38 women by the South African Strangler, or, as I call him, the Black Ted Bundy. How did the injustice and brutality of apartheid contribute to a child growing up to shed the skin of his humanity and becoming a monster?
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Research, writing, narration and audio arrangement by Prash
“This is For Black Men & Women Of South Africa” poem written by Prash
Character Voices: Nicholas Mannie, Prash and Ian
Special Thanks to Nicole from True Crime South Africa. You can check out her amazing podcast here:
https://truecrimesouthafrica.com/
Music:
https://www.dl-sounds.com/
Sources:
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/moses-sithole
https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sithole-moses.htm
https://truecrimesouthafrica.com/blog-episode-9-the-abc-killer/
True Crime Magazine By Detective Monthly (hard copy)
Murder mystery novels would have you believe that crimes only happen in dark, dreary places in the dead of night, but today we’re examining the tragic killing of a young girl in broad daylight on a sunny August afternoon in 1867. How did this happen in such a small, quiet town?
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Sources:
Bondeson, Jan; “Victorian Murders”, 2017, Amberley Publishing
Hoskins, John; Southern Daily Echo, “Brutal Slaying of Sweet Fanny Adams”, 7th February 2008
Journal of the Hampshire Genealogical Society, Volume XII, No. 4, February 1986
Mukerji, Jenny: “Who was Sweet Fanny Adams?” Hampshire Genealogical Society website
https://www.hgs-familyhistory.com
In 1989, students at the Ecole Polytechique in Montreal were looking forward to their Christmas break. But the hopes and dreams of 14 ambitious young women were shattered that day by a gunman on an ideologically driven rampage. We’ll pay tribute to the dead and we’ll also look at why he did it. Marc Lépine wanted to be a martyr, but he made himself into a monster. As we’ll learn, things are rarely black and white.
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Research, writing, narration and audio arrangement by Prash
Disclaimer read by Jessica
Character Voices: Jessica and Eric
Recommended Podcasts:
True Crime Island https://www.truecrimeisland.com/
Music:
https://www.dl-sounds.com/
Night Break by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4125-night-break
Dark Times by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3611-dark-times
Stay The Course by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5048-stay-the-course
Screen Saver by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5715-screen-saver
A Very Brady Special by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5760-a-very-brady-special
All music by Kevin Macleod as per License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sources:
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada website https://bigbrothersbigsisters.ca/about-us/
Chauvin, Pierre, “Let hate go, says mother of Montreal Massacre shooter Marc Lépine”, 2015, The Globe and Mail Newspaper
Deseret News, “Canadian Gunman’s Father beat wife, kids, divorce papers show,”, 1989, https://www.deseret.com/1989/12/10/18836121/canadian-gunman-s-father-beat-wife-kids-divorce-papers-show
Dowson, Anne Lagacé, “Ecole Polytechnique: Legacy of a Hate Crime”, 2014, Ricochet, https://ricochet.media/en/245/legacy-of-a-hate-crime
Gaysina, Darya & Thompson, Ellen Jo, 2017, “Are your parents to blame for your psychological problems?”, The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/are-your-parents-to-blame-for-your-psychological-problems-81203
LeBlanc, Daniel & White, Patrick, 2020, “Canada set to ban assault style weapons, including AR-15 and the gun used in Polytechnique massacre,” The Globe and Mail, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ottawas-gun-ban-to-target-ar-15-and-the-weapon-used-during/
“Marc Lépine”, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_L%C3%A9pine
Mellor, Lee, “Rampage: Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing,” 2013, Dundurn Press, Canada
Patel, Arti, “11 Canadian Women Who Were ‘Firsts’ In Their Fields”, 2016, Huffington Post, https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/06/30/famous-canadian-women_n_10758238.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvLnVrLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADcoU_CoVeBJXmhwHnIwe6eoaDZVjsy0DzspJKlphuQZL6E20IjagIALE5MLfsPUT8ZnIcBfl01TcYqcMhumTQgE3FZbo7hIJEsoeYSzRKtgwLbn78G44hTs4z5qJB_uWhUway1u1g9ReLeW42MhSV4RTZhdgF6vReXDZe1axWRK
“Polytechnique” film, 2009, directed by Denis Villeneuve https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194238/
The Fifth Estate Montreal Massacre Legacy Of Pain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spsAJ76rP3I
“True North: 12 Amazing Canadian Women”, 2019, A Mighty Girl Blog https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=12590
Wallace, Bruce, “The Making of A Mass Killer”, 1989, Maclean’s Archive, https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1989/12/18/the-making-of-a-mass-killer
“Women at War”, 2019, Veterans Affairs Canada, https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/historical-sheets/women
He said he hated women…but then he became one. In this episode, we delve deep into psychology, profiling and gender dysphoria in the case of the Frankston Killer, who terrorised a quiet suburb of Australia in the early 90s but could be released in 2023. We’ll look at nature versus nurture and what could have turned Paul Denyer into a serial murderer.
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Research, writing, narration and audio arrangement by Prash
Disclaimer read by Hollie Cassar. https://www.instagram.com/holliecassar_/
Character Voices: Simon, Jack Timothy, Tanya O’Sullivan
Music:
https://www.dl-sounds.com/
Sources:
Booker, Chloe, 2015, “Someone must know: cold case murder probe into disappearance of Sarah MacDiarmid”, The Age, https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/someone-must-know-cold-case-murder-probe-into-disappearance-of-sarah-macdiarmid-20150711-gia1rg.html
Catter, 2008, “Paul Denyer Police Interviews”, Crimblog
http://wwwcrimblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/paul-denyer-police-interviews.html
Deery, Shannon, 2011, “Family of Paul Denyer tell of killer’s death threat”, Daily Telegraph
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/killers-family-dont-let-him-out/news-story/59e38892e8170309ccd633d1da3ffca4
Denyer, Julie, “True Story of Serial Killer Paul Denyer”, Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/True-Story-of-serial-killer-Paul-Denyer-195830497244618/?hc_ref=ART1CQmM_dfTjuZvIXUTT9BierabnDWenYn-rtwks7kzJA1Zx0khkVQS7-m8fdnAHT4&fref=nf&__tn__=kC-R
Denyer, Paul, 2003 – 2004, letters from prison
http://media.heraldsun.com.au/multimedia/2013/april/denyerletters/index03.html
Evil Clown TV, 2014, “Serial Killer Paul Denyer – Australian Killer – Documentary”, YouTube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFGqBApTjWk
Hull, Megan, 2019, “Gender Dysphoria Statistics,” The Recovery Village
https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/mental-health/gender-dysphoria/related/gender-dysphoria-statistics/#gref [medically reviewed by Paula Cookson LCSW]
Kennard, Julia, 2010, “Carshalton couple haunted by their serial killer relative”, Sutton and Croydon Guardian
https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/5015765.carshalton-couple-haunted-by-their-serial-killer-relative/
Pelly, Julia, 2019, “What is disorganized attachment?”, Healthline Parenthood
https://www.healthline.com/health/parenting/disorganized-attachment [medically reviewed by Karen Richardson Gill, MD, FAAP]
What do we really know about the poignant death of the girl who inspired one of Edgar Allan Poe’s novels, The Mystery of Marie Roget? Join me in New York in 1838 to investigate the unsolved murder of the enigmatic Mary Rogers, loved by all and remembered as the Beautiful Cigar Girl.
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” – Poe’s ‘The Raven’
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Research, writing, original Mary Rogers poem(“The Beautiful Cigar Girl”), narration and audio arrangement by Prash
Character Voices: Ben(Daniel Payne, LaForge), Steve (Edgar Allan Poe)
Sources:
“Edgar Allen Poe: Was Mary Rogers his muse or his victim?”, 8 October 2015
https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena-history-famous-people/edgar-allan-poe-was-mary-rogers-his-muse-or-his-murder-020557
Duke, Thomas; “The Mysterious Murder of Cigar Girl Mary Rogers”, 1910, Celebrated Criminal Cases of America Part III Cases East of the Pacific Coast
http://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/ccca/the-mysterious-murder-of-cigar-girl-mary-rogers-1841/
Geary, Rick; “A Treasury of Victorian Murder Compendium II”, 2015, NBM Publishing Inc. New York
Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, “The Mystery of Marie Roget,” 1978
https://www.eapoe.org/works/mabbott/tom3t001.htm
“Murder of Mary C. Rogers”, New York Tribune 12 August 1841, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19483347/murder_of_mary_c_rogers/
Nickell, Joe; “Historical Whodunnit – Spiritualists, Poe, and the real Marie Roget”, Skeptical Inquirer July/August 2010
Poe, Edgar Allen; “The Mystery of Marie Roget”, 1842 (Audible version)
Semtner, Chris; The Poe Blog, November 16 2016
http://www.thepoeblog.org/poe-museum-announces-loser-of-its-latest-poll/
Stashower, Daniel; “The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allen Poe, and the Invention of Murder,” 2006, Dutton Books
Steiner, Henry John; “The Ghosts and Mr Anderson,” October 15 2014, Headless Horseman Blog
http://headlesshorsemanblog.com/ghosts-edgar-allen-poe-john-anderson/
Various articles from archived New York newspapers
https://stupit.github.io/text/Mystery_of_Mary_Rogers/The_Mystery_of_Mary_Rogers_in_newspapers.htm#1837-09-18
The American frontier could be a perilous place, but most stout-hearted travellers were expecting nothing worse than tumbleweed, rattlesnakes and boredom on their long ride. When people started to go missing in the Osage area, suspicion fell on a family who were not all that they seemed. A local legend says red corn grows on the prairie to this day as the very land is saturated with the blood of their innocent victims, so join me as we investigate one of the greatest puzzles of the Old West.
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Research, writing, original Benders Song, narration and audio arrangement by Prash
Character Voices: Natasha and Ben
Sources:
Cappello, Nile; “The Bloody Benders: America’s First Family of Serial Killers”, August 2019
https://crimereads.com/the-bloody-benders-americas-first-family-of-serial-killers/
Geary, Rick; “A Treasury of Victorian Murder Compendium II”, 2015, NBM Publishing Inc, New York
Kansas Historical Society; “The Bender Knife”, December 2006, Kansapedia
https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/bender-knife/10106
Martin, Michelle M; “Dinner with Death: Kate Bender, Murder and Mayhem on the Kansas Prairie”, August 2019
https://nursingclio.org/2019/08/15/dinner-with-death-kate-bender-murder-and-mayhem-on-the-kansas-prairie/
Rivenes, Erik; “The Bloody Benders”, June 2016, Most Notorious Podcast
“The Bloody Benders, America’s First Serial Killer Family”, January 2018
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53672/bloody-benders-americas-first-serial-killers
Pack your tent and sleeping bag, because in this episode we’re going to spend a night on the shores of Lake Bodom, the scene of one of Finland’s most famous unsolved murder cases. But it’s not the rustling leaves or the hoot of an owl that you should fear, as a vicious killer stalks the campsite. You’d better leave your flashlight switched on…
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Research, writing, narration and audio arrangement by Prash
Character Voices: Simon Hensby, Ian and Jurgen.
Translations from Finnish to English by my friend Marcus who burnt the midnight oil to transcribe everything I threw at him including audio and video interviews. Thank you Marcus!
Recommended Podcast:
True Crime Finland https://truecrimefinland.squarespace.com/
Music:
Randolph Smeets
https://www.dl-sounds.com/
"Heartbreaking" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Sources:
“Archaeology students plan dig at Lake Bodom murder site,” https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/archaeology_students_plan_dig_at_lake_bodom_murder_site/10780763
IncapableofGuile; “The Lake Bodom Murders,” April 2015, https://imgur.com/gallery/ToNes
“Lake Bodom murders” https://solvedandunsolvedcrimes.wordpress.com/2019/08/11/lake-bodom-murders-1960/
Lahettananyt T.K., “Case- Bodomjarven Murhat 1960”, http://rikos-uutiset.blogspot.com/2016/07/case-bodomjarven-murhat-1960.html
Serena, Katie; “The Lake Bodom Murders: Finland’s Most Famous Unsolved Triple Homicide”, August 2019 https://allthatsinteresting.com/lake-bodom-murders
Yle Uutisten artikkeliarkisto, “Suspect in 1960 murder case pleads innocence,” June 2008, https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-5156265
https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2016/10/28/esbopolitiker-ar-saker-pa-att-han-vet-vem-bodommordaren-var
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/2or0mp/another_unsolved_finnish_crime_the_murder_of/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/3ecpwe/in_1960_three_teenagers_were_murdered_at_lake/ctdvjly/
https://pastebin.com/raw/9s48TBY9
https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2006/09/08/bodomjarven-surmaajaa-etsittiin-poliisin-ja-vapaaehtoisten-voimin
https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2006/09/08/professori-palo-ei-uskonut-gustafssonin-syyllisyyteen
https://www.murha.info/rikosfoorumi/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5833&sid=0162e8467c60c0c204030438837fe135&start=15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXMM9CHrxlw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEqMEDm6gkI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4YNI-1bw6I&feature=youtu.be
https://www.murha.info/rikosfoorumi/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=22161
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXLesOFn5RU
https://truecrimefinland.squarespace.com/new-blog/2018/1/26/episode-013-bodom-lake-murders
The sinister Ratcliffe Highway in South East London was home to violence, prostitution and danger. 7 murders in as many days. Man, woman or child…nobody was safe.
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash
Character Voices by Prash
Music:
Long Note By Two by incompetech, Kevin Macleod
Sources:
Jeffries, Bob; “The Ratcliffe Highway Murders”; Thames Police
http://www.thamespolicemuseum.org.uk/h_ratcliffehighwaymurders_4.html
Nicholas, Dean; “200th Anniversary of the Ratcliffe Highway Murders”, December 2011, The Londonist
https://londonist.com/2011/12/200th-anniversary-of-the-ratcliffe-highway-murders
In Victorian Brighton, eating chocolate was about to get dangerous… and it wasn’t just toothache people had to worry about. Triggered by a romantic obsession with her local doctor, vain and conniving Christiana Edmunds masterminded a poisoning spree and was smugly convinced she would never be caught…
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Research, writing, original song, narration and audio arrangement by Prash
Sources:
Bondeson, Jan; “Victorian Murders”, 2017, Amberley Publishing
“Christiana Edmunds 1829 – 1907”, Berkshire Record Office, 2009
https://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/storage/app/media/pdfs/Christiana-Edmunds.pdf
David, Rowland; “Christiana Edmunds”, Old Police Cells Museum, 2012
https://www.oldpolicecellsmuseum.org.uk/content/history/sussex_murders/christiana_edmunds
Jones, Kaye; “The Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer: The Poisonous Passion of Christiana Edmunds”, 2016, Pen & Sword History
Music:
Black Fingerprint (copyright and royalty free)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk5zngU-aAE
In 1939, Germans were reeling from the declaration that their country was at war. But soon, train travellers on the S-Bahn had more to fear than the darkness of the blackout, as a remorseless serial killer stalked the tracks. Don’t forget your ticket, and remember not to trust everyone who wears a uniform…
Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:
Twitter: @PrashsMurderMap
Email: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com
Credits:
Research, writing, narration and audio editing by Prash
Voice of Paul Ogorzow: Louis Coyote
Music:
https://www.dl-sounds.com/royalty-free/ethereal-flight/
https://www.dl-sounds.com/royalty-free/bed-bugs/
https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3661-distant-tension
Sources:
Selby, Scott Andrew, 2014, “A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S Bahn Murderer”, Berkley Publishing Group