Jean Bradley – 25th March 1993This episode is the last in an accidental trilogy. I didn’t set out with the idea of doing another mini-series on the senseless deaths of women of a similar status at the hands of another angry and violent man wh

Ruth Penelope 'Penny' Bell - 6th June 1991

Oct 26th, 2018 48m 27s

Ruth Penelope “Penny” Bell – 6th June 1991Penny Bell, as most people will know her, was born in 1948. Her family life seems to have been a happy and healthy one. In 1981 she married her boyfriend, Alistair Bell. They had met in 1975. The marr

Janice Carole Weston - 11th September 1983

Oct 12th, 2018 50m 51s

Janice Carole Weston - 11th September 1983In 1982 Janice and Tony were to end up as a couple. Two wealthy people with Janice being a leading solicitor, first with Herbert Oppenheimer, Nathan & Vandyke, immediately after college, and then Char

Lucy McHugh - 26th July 2018

Sep 28th, 2018 34m 42s

Series 3, episode 6: Lucy McHugh – 26th July 2018 This week’s show deals with violence against children and is significantly different from most of the cases as this is still an active investigation and someone has been detained, but the Poli

Natalie Jane Pearman - 20th November 1992

Sep 20th, 2018 41m 48s

1992 seems such a long time ago these days. Charles and Eddie were topping the charts with their falsetto filled soul/disco classic, “Would I lie to you”, the Church of England voted to allow women to become priests, and the Hoxne Hoard of late

PC Keith Blakelock Part two

Sep 7th, 2018 1h 26m

News of Pc Keith Blakelock’s murder spread rapidly across the Broadwater Farm Estate, and according to multiple sources, as word spread the intensity of the anger seemed to ebb away, the rioters thinned out and the police regained control of th

PC Keith Blakelock - October 1985 - Part One

Aug 23rd, 2018 45m 24s

The social order of things in the UK had a number of growing problems – unemployment, disenfranchisement from the political system, rising crime and rising tensions between the Police and communities of Black and other ethnic minorities, due ma

Janet Brown 1995

Aug 9th, 2018 54m 11s

At fifty-one, Janet Brown was the model of educated rural success. Her three children, Zara, Benedict and Roxanne, were either living away from home, away at university, or as in the case of the youngest, Roxanne, studying for A-levels and a pl

Peter Andrew Miller - December 1984

Jul 26th, 2018 40m 7s

At 7:45pm on 9th of December, Tony Miller returned to the home he shared with his brother Peter, in Camden Place, Great Yarmouth in Norfolk on the east Coast of England. On arrival he found the front door ajar. Upon entering the house, he found

The Lancashire Ripper - Pt 4

Jul 6th, 2018 51m 18s

Linda Donaldson had been found dreadfully mutilated and left in a remote field between Liverpool and Manchester, in 1988. Her death was the starting point of a wide-ranging inquiry into the unsolved murders of women across the UK. Many men were

The Lancashire Ripper - Pt3

Jun 25th, 2018 38m 53s

Following the murders of Linda Donaldson and Maria Requina in 1988 and 1991 respectively, Greater Manchester Police uncovered the signs of as many as twenty-one potential serial killers who were collectively responsible for more than one-hundre

The Lancashire Ripper Pt2

Jun 10th, 2018 47m 16s

In 1996 the Greater Manchester Police initiated a special operation called Enigma. Operation Enigma set out to look for a pattern in the deaths of several women who were found murdered between Liverpool and Manchester. Their results were horrif

The Lancashire Ripper Pt1

May 25th, 2018 35m 25s

Coffee tables across the country were being graced by a book that would spark a populist wave of renewed interest in the sciences. Famously including only one equation, Einstein's E=MC2 the author, the late great Dr Stephen Hawking explores the

Adam - 2001

May 12th, 2018 36m 13s

At 4pm on the afternoon of Friday 21st September, Adam Minter was crossing the iconic Tower Bridge in London, when he spotted an object floating in the Thames. At first Mr Minter believed it to be either a stained barrel or manikin, but as the

Dr Michael Meenaghan

Apr 27th, 2018 32m 33s

1994 also witnessed the passing of the legendary formula one racing driver, Ayrton Senna on lap 6 of the San Marino Grand Prix, when he lost control of his car as he entered the Tamburello corner at 190mph and hit a wall. Tony Blair became the

Deborah Linsley - 1988

Apr 13th, 2018 40m 30s

Life on the mainland was, however, pretty normal for most people. For twenty-six-year-old Deborah Linsley it was the day she would return to her home in Edinburgh following a few days visiting her family in friends in Bromley, South East London

Amala Whelan - 1972

Mar 30th, 2018 29m 5s

Maida Vale, in 1972, wasn't the gentrified location preferred by affluent families, celebrities and successful professionals that it is today. Back then it had a reputation for being a bit sleezy and run down. There were many derelict buildings

The Hammersmith Nude Murders AKA Jack The Stripper - Part Three

Mar 16th, 2018 36m 10s

If this the first episode you're listening to, I would advise that you go back and begin at the start of the Hammersmith Nudes mini-series. That is episode two of series two. This episode is the concluding part so it would be very confusing to

The Hammersmith Nude Murders AKA Jack the Stripper - Part Two

Mar 2nd, 2018 32m 2s

By mid-February 1965 the Police in London had six young women who had been murdered in a short space of time. Two other women had been murder in the years prior to this, an as February 1965 came to a close, they hadn't been connected, yet. At

The Hammersmith Nude Murders AKA Jack The Stripper - Part One

Feb 16th, 2018 31m 21s

London was a city undergoing a massive change. World War two had reduced much of the capital to rubble and the rebuilding of it was the primary focus of the 1950s. Towards the end of the 50s, a serial murderer was beginning a reign of violence

Anne Noblett - 1957

Jan 30th, 2018 21m 5s

On Monday, 30 December 1957, 17-year-old Anne Noblett disappeared whilst travelling to her home in Marshalls Heath, Hertfordshire. A month later, on 31 January 1958, her fully clothed body was found in woodland near Whitwell. Her remains showed

Michaela Hague - 2001

Nov 25th, 2016 25m 50s

At 7pm on November 5th, 2001, mother of one, Michaela Hague climbed into a Blue Ford Sierra in Bower Street, Sheffield. The driver was a white male, clean shaven and wearing a wedding ring. Bonfire night was another working night for Michaela.

Victoria Hall - 1999

Nov 8th, 2016 25m 26s

Two weeks before her 18th birthday, Victoria Hall, known widely as Vicky, was murdered in the early hours of September 19, 1999, no more than a couple of hundred yards from her home in Faulkeners Way, Trimley St Mary, Suffolk. She was last see

Linda Cook - 1986

Oct 24th, 2016 23m 24s

Linda left the house where she was living at about 11.30pm on 8 December, to visit a friend in Sultan Road, Portsmouth. It must have only been a brief visit as she was reported as leaving that address at shortly after midnight on the 9th to mak

Eve Stratford And Lynne Weedon - 1975

Oct 7th, 2016 24m

In March 1975 Bunny Girl Eve Stratford was found by her boyfriend with her throat cut. Police began to hunt for her killer but the case was stalling by the Autumn of the same year. On 3rd September 1975, schoolgirl Lynne Weedon is discovered wi