The Man Who Made Murder His New Year’s Resolution: Colin Ireland
New Year’s Day, 1993. Most people resolve to quit smoking. Colin Ireland resolved to become a serial killer.
I’m Alexander Lawson. In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, we follow the three-month hunt that began in a leather bar in Earl’s Court and ended at the Old Bailey.
Ireland targeted gay men at The Coleherne, posing as a dominant stranger so they would let him tie them up. Between March and June 1993 he murdered five men in their own homes: Peter Walker, Christopher Dunn, Perry Bradley III, Andrew Collier and Emanuel Spiteri. Then he rang the police to complain they weren’t paying…
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