In August 2024, Mikhail Ackrim was found dead and undressed in a Glasgow flat. Street valium and alcohol were in his system, along with suspicious bruising and four stab wounds to his body, inflicted after he died. Police Scotland concluded no criminality. His mother disagrees…
Read moreClose Your Eyes / The Murder of Dawn Rhodes and The Killer Who Walked Free
In June 2016, Dawn Rhodes was killed at the family home in Redhill, Surrey. Her husband, carpenter Robert Rhodes, who cut Dawn’s throat and claimed self-defence, told the police that she had attacked him. In 2017, a jury at the Old Bailey believed him. He walked free. But in 2021, one of the couple's children disclosed the truth to a therapist…
Read moreThe Heatwave Killing / Gary Toms / Harold Evans
In the summer of 1976, one of the hottest on record, a young man's body was found in a ditch on a lonely Leicestershire road. At first, it looked like a hit-and-run. It wasn’t. 25-year-old plumber Gary Toms had been in a relationship with a married woman named Marlene Evans. Her estranged husband, Harold Evans, had spent months watching the relationship develop, attending court for breach of the peace, attempting suicide, and quietly acquiring a pistol. Was this a man pushed beyond breaking point, or a calculated, premeditated murder dressed up as provocation?…
Read moreHe Called Home From a Phone Box, Then Vanished / Michael Bell
In 1983, Michael Bell left a Scottish camping trip to head home to Birmingham. He called his parents twice. Then nothing. Over four decades later, he's still missing…
Read moreOne Mother. Two Babies. Seventeen Days / Louise Porton
In January 2018, in a quiet flat in Rugby, a three-year-old girl stopped breathing. Her mother, Louise Porton, told paramedics she had simply found her daughter in bed, unresponsive. No obvious cause of death was found. Seventeen days later, the child’s sister was dead too. Both girls, described by those who knew them as golden, were gone. Porton insisted their deaths were unexplained, but evidence from her mobile phone told a different story…
Read moreREPLAY - Serial Killer / Colin Ireland [Full Series]
Throughout spring 1993, five men were murdered in London at the hands of the same killer. He had met them all in The Coleherne, a bar in Earl's Court. The murderer went back to the victims’ homes and strangled them while they were tied up. The killings were not initially linked by Scotland Yard, however, the man responsible would call the police explaining that he wanted to be a serial killer…
Read moreHis Ex-Wife Gave Them Everything They Needed To Torture Him To Death [TWAU PLUS]
On July 3rd, 2022, a man was found tortured to death in the hallway of his home in Mossley, Greater Manchester. The crime scene had been cleaned. His CCTV hard drive was missing. And his ex-wife had been speaking to the man behind it all…
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 moreThe Trupti Patel Case: When "Expert" Evidence Goes Wrong
Trupti Patel lost three babies to sudden infant death. Then she was accused of murdering them. In 2003, this British pharmacist stood trial at Reading Crown Court, her fate resting on testimony from Professor Sir Roy Meadow - the same expert whose flawed evidence had helped convict Sally Clark. But when Trupti's 80-year-old grandmother travelled from India to testify about five infant deaths in her own family, the case began to unravel. This episode examines the dangerous theory known as Meadow's Law, the systematic failures in investigating sudden infant deaths, and how one trial helped expose a pattern of wrongful accusations against grieving mothers…
Read moreMona Tinsley: The Murder That Changed British Law
In January 1937, ten-year-old Mona Tinsley vanished in Nottinghamshire. Her body was found six months later in a river. This vintage true crime case changed British law, making murder convictions possible without a body. Discover the historic investigation and forensic evidence that redefined criminal justice…
Read moreBurke and Hare (Part 2)
After Burke's arrest, confessions revealed 16 murders. Yet only Burke faced execution. The trial captivated Britain with systematic murders by suffocation. Hanged before 25,000, his body was dissected. But the anatomist who orchestrated the sales escaped justice. This historic true crime case led directly to the Anatomy Act of 1832… (Part 2 of 2).
Read moreBurke and Hare (Part 1)
In 1828, the poorest residents of Edinburgh vanished. Their bodies were sold to anatomists. When Margaret Docherty's body was found hidden in straw, it revealed that Burke and Hare, two Irish immigrants, had become serial killers. This historic true crime case exposed how Edinburgh's medical school created a market for fresh corpses… (Part 1 of 2).
Read moreA Frenzied Attack at Oakhanger Common / Mary & Benjamin Mitchell
A labourer in his mid-forties contacts the police to report that he has killed someone with a hatchet. He refuses legal representation, insisting he is responsible. So why does a jury hesitate to convict him of murder, and how can a judge describe the defendant's actions as understandable?...
Read moreThe Line Between Violence and Intent / Sarah & Jonathan Wicks
A 999 call came in from a man who said that his wife was unresponsive on the floor. He told the call handler that she had fallen and her lips were blue. The man was assured that help was on the way, and in a voice choked with emotion, he was heard saying: "Come on. No, no, you can't die, not over a fucking argument"...
Read moreRomance Fraudster / Kerry Gray
The UK has the third-highest number of dating app users in the world. Over 11 million people in the UK are currently looking for romance online. While there have been many stories of couples who found love over the internet, there are others that end in something worse than heartbreak…
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 moreSeverance / Neil Hopper
A man was rushed to the hospital after feeling unwell during a family camping trip. The medics' battle to save his life was all the more desperate because he was one of their colleagues…
Read moreNightmare on Elm Road / Louis Price / Kirsty Carless
Staffordshire police officers were dispatched to an address following a 999 call on Christmas Day. In a distressed state, the caller said, "My stepdaughter just turned up at my house, and she is alleging that she stabbed her boyfriend, and he is dead. She is in my kitchen at the moment, talking to her mother.” When the operator asked for details about the caller’s stepdaughter and her boyfriend, the man replied, “They have got quite a history, so it’s going to be on your file somewhere”...
Read moreThe Moors Murders - Part 6
The recent confessions of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady aided Detective Chief Superintendent Peter Topping in narrowing down a renewed search of Saddleworth Moor. Just as Greater Manchester CID came under fire for what was believed to be a waste of time and resources, they made a discovery… (Part 6 of 6).
Read moreThe Moors Murders - Part 5
Two decades after Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were convicted of killing three children and burying two of them on Saddleworth Moor, Ian Brady made a confession that reopened the case… (Part 5 of 6).
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