When Gisèle Pelicot waived her anonymity in 2024 and exposed her husband's crimes to the world, many assumed what happened in Mazan was an isolated case. It wasn’t. A 66-year-old carer from Norfolk subjected a woman to almost three decades of sexual exploitation. He operated in plain sight, using digital networks to recruit men, threatened his victim into silence, and recorded everything…
Read moreReverend Emyr Owen: The Minister’s Dark Secret
A minister was hiding a terrifying secret. For years, Reverend Emyr Owen was one of the most respected men in the Welsh Presbyterian community, a charismatic preacher trusted to lead funerals, conduct marriages, and guide his congregation through life’s darkest moments. But behind the pulpit, Owen harboured a dark obsession. When anonymous letters threatening local families, including a four-year-old child, led police to his door, a detective’s gut feeling uncovered something far more disturbing than poison pen letters…
Read moreConsent, Contraceptives & Controversy / Brian Huntley / Judge Arthur Myerson
In the judicial system, the role of a judge is to ensure a fair and impartial trial. They maintain order, guide the jury and rule on legal issues. Sometimes, judges go far beyond their function and perpetuate injustice by letting bias influence their decisions…
Read moreDouble Jeopardy / Hazel Backwell / Wendell Baker
Hazel was safety conscious, but the fact that she was not answering the door made George concerned that something had happened to her, so he alerted the police. When officers gained entry to the property, they found a pile of boxes blocking a cupboard under the stairs. Faint cries pleading for help were coming from inside. The reality of what had happened to Hazel was far beyond what George could have ever imagined…
Read moreMonster Working In The Morgue / David Fuller
A forensic review of the unsolved murders of two young women who were killed in 1987 turns up new evidence. Genetic genealogy tests lead to one man who left DNA at both crime scenes. During a search of the suspect's home, investigators learn that he not only evaded justice for the murders for over three decades, but the killer had continued to offend in the most horrific manner…
Read moreExacting Vengeance / Boiling Sugar Water
In the early hours of July 14th, a resident of Highfield Road in Neston heard banging on his front door. On his doorstep, he saw a middle-aged woman in a state of distress. The homeowner didn’t know her well, but he knew she lived further down the street. Through heaving sobs, his neighbour said: "I've hurt him. I've hurt him really bad. I think I’ve killed him…"
Read moreCamera In The Courtroom / David & Ben Oliver
Soon after midday, on Tuesday, January 19th, 2021, the London Ambulance Service received a hysterical phone call from Susan Oliver. Susan lived in Mottingham, South London, with her 74-year-old husband, David. She hysterically told the operator that her partner had been stabbed at their home…
Read moreMore Than Evidence, More Than A Witness... / Carvel Bennett
Imagine you grow up unaware of your family history, not knowing why you were adopted, oblivious to the fact that you are the only evidence of a crime — you are walking, talking proof it happened, and your DNA is the key…
Read moreWe Fight For You / The Dark Underbelly Of The Jesus Army
The Jesus Army, also known as The Jesus Fellowship Church, was established in 1969 by Pastor Noel Stanton. It was part of the British New Church Movement, which promised its followers: “Warm Brotherhood, Loving Care, and Unity”. However, behind the façade of kindness and compassion, the movement held a disturbing secret…
Read moreMoney, Incest And Matricide / Barbara & Antony Baekeland
The enviable life of a socialite and her rich husband was not all that it appeared to be. Scratch the impeccable surface of the Baekeland family, and you would find violence, abuse and betrayal…
Read moreNight Stalker / Delroy Grant
Elderly people in and around South London were fearful they could be the next. The man, the press dubbed The Night Stalker, entered the homes of the most vulnerable by prying their windows open in the early hours. With the predator still at large, did anyone feel safe...
Read moreOrkney Abuse Scandal - Part 2
November 1990. South Ronaldsay in Orkney. Seven young children are taken into care by social services under ‘Place of Safety’ orders. At that time, their father — a sadistic tormentor — was behind bars. He had been convicted of abusing his children years earlier. However, following questioning from social workers, some of the youngsters had supposedly disclosed that they were now the victims of ritualistic abuse by members of the local community…
Read moreOrkney Abuse Scandal - Part 1
Within three months, 16 children were removed from their homes in a small island community and taken into the care of social services. The media explained the reasoning behind the removal; they claimed the children had been victims of satanic abuse. Three decades later, the Orkney child abuse scandal remains one of the most notorious child protection failures in the United Kingdom… (Part 1 of 2).
Read moreDestroy The Sole Source Of Evidence / The Crimes Of Brian Field
Days turned to weeks, weeks to months, months to years, years to decades. Roy's murderer was free to travel around the countryside and towns across the United Kingdom, undetected. Almost 33 years later, the law would catch up with him, but perhaps some of his crimes were left behind…
Read moreThe UK's Most Prolific Rapist / Reynhard Sinaga - Part 2
In the final days of spring 2017, the police and paramedics were called to an address in Manchester City centre. At the scene, they found a male in his mid-thirties, incapacitated, left bloody and bruised following an altercation with another man who was barely into adulthood… (Part 2 of 2)
Read moreThe UK's Most Prolific Rapist / Reynhard Sinaga - Part 1
Normawati Sinaga was startled when the phone rang. The voice on the other end of the line told her that they worked for the Greater Manchester Police. Trying to understand why on earth someone would be calling an Indonesian home from the other side of the world, she quickly thought of her son. He was studying in England… (Part 1 of 2)
Read moreA Secret Under The Soil / Barbara & Kenneth Coombes
In 2018, one week after the new year's celebrations, a middle-aged woman enters Cheadle Heath police station in Stockport. She had travelled almost 5 miles on foot from her home in Reddish, Greater Manchester. She has a blank expression on her face. In a quiet and subdued voice, the woman calmly tells an officer that she has killed someone. The body is buried in her back garden…
Read moreControl - Part 2 / Sally & Richard Challen
Sally Challen was found guilty of murdering her husband, Richard in 2010, but over the intervening years, much was changing in the outside world (Part 2 of 2).
Read moreControl - Part 1 / Sally & Richard Challen
On Sunday, August 15, 2010, police were alerted to a situation on the cliffs of Beachy Head (Part 1 of 2).
Read moreThe Massacre In The New Forest
The New Forest is a beautiful and peaceful part of rural Hampshire. Purple heather covers grassland, horses roam freely, deer wander through the woodland. In 1986, the tranquillity was disturbed by one of the most heinous crimes in British history…
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