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A True crime Podcast
The true crime podcast that uncovers the most notorious murders, heists, and mob sagas from the shadows of the past. Each episode transports you to crime scenes long forgotten, weaving gripping narratives of betrayal, bloodshed, and justice—or the lack thereof. From Prohibition-era gang wars to modern-day mysteries. we explore the dark motives, shocking twists, and enduring legacies that still haunt us today. Perfect for armchair detectives and history buffs alike—listen if you dare,
Episodes
A True crime PodcastThe East London Butcher: John Childs and the Murders With No Bodies
In a council flat in Poplar, a man dismembered his victims in the bathtub, burned their remains in the fireplace, and charged around £2,000 a life. Six people…
A True crime PodcastThe Monster Butler: Archibald Hall’s Six-Month Killing Spree
He poured the wine, polished the silver, and bowed with perfect manners. They called him Roy Fontaine. Behind the polished smile was Archibald Thomson Hall — a…
A True crime PodcastThe Beast of Manchester: He Filed His Teeth… Then Killed Again
In the mid-1970s, three teenage girls were murdered on the streets of north-east Manchester. Their killer stabbed, strangled and mutilated them — then, when…
A True crime PodcastThe Black Panther: How Donald Neilson Terrorised Britain
In the dead of night, a man in black cut the phone lines, slipped into a quiet Shropshire home, and took 17-year-old Lesley Whittle from her bed. The only…
A True crime PodcastThe Monster of Cannock Chase: Raymond Leslie Morris
In the mid-1960s, a series of child abductions terrorised the West Midlands and Staffordshire. Young girls vanished from ordinary streets. Their bodies were…
A True crime PodcastThe Four-Hour Escape: John Thomas Straffen and the Murders of Three Little Girls
In the summer of 1951, three young girls in England went out to play and never came home. One was picking flowers. One was at the cinema. One was riding her…
A True crime PodcastThe Predator on the Tube: How Simon Levy Was Left Free to Kill
A registered sex offender walks free on London’s streets and Tube network for years. Then the violence escalates. In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host…
A True crime PodcastShe Left a Note: “Back in 2 Minutes”… Then Vanished Forever
On a sunny Saturday in 1990, 52-year-old antiques dealer Trevaline Evans pinned a simple note to her shop door in Llangollen, Wales: “Back in two minutes.” She…
A True crime PodcastThe Execution of Nick Whiting: Kidnapped, Tortured & Buried on the Marshes
In June 1990, former racing champion and performance-car businessman Nick Whiting was kidnapped at gunpoint from his garage in Kent. Bound, gagged and thrown…
A True crime PodcastShe Left Home for a 5-Minute Walk… and Never Arrived | Stephanie Whittaker
On a Friday night in March 1990, 34-year-old mother of three Stephanie Whittaker kissed her husband goodbye, stepped out of her Newport home, and began a…
A True crime PodcastThe Silent House: The Unsolved Murder of Baby Jason Ravenscroft
Six weeks old. That’s all the time Jason Ravenscroft was given. On 16 March 1990, inside an ordinary house on King Street in Dawley, Telford, a newborn’s skull…
A True crime PodcastThe Mail-Order Killer: How Richard Humphrey Bought a Gun and Murdered a Mother of Two
She was walking home from church. A mother of two. Thirty-six years old. In the quiet streets of Stockwell, south London, a man she had never met raised a…
A True crime PodcastThe Silent Stab: The Unsolved Murder of Brian Fitzmaurice
Just after midnight in Huyton, a popular grandfather staggered to a neighbour’s door, collapsing from what police first thought was a heart attack. Doctors…
A True crime PodcastThe Unsolved Murder of William Dalziel | Beaten to Death Outside a Care Home
In the early hours of 15 January 1990, 61-year-old William Dalziel was found beaten nearly to death outside an old people’s home in Acton, west London. Struck…
A True crime PodcastYards from the Station: The Unsolved Murder of Doris Kellett
On 17 January 1990, 92-year-old Doris Kellett was beaten to death inside her home in Cleckheaton—just twenty yards from a police station. Forty-five minutes…
A True crime PodcastThey Said Heart Attack… Until the Bruises & Scratch Marks Appeared
In the early hours of January 11, 1990, 70-year-old Bridget Brosnan was found dead in her bed on a psychiatric ward. Staff claimed cardiac arrest. The mortuary…
A True crime PodcastHe Was Tortured for a Safe That Didn’t Exist | The Unsolved Murder of William Howe
January 1990. A retired vet is found face-down in his Worthing flat — arms and legs bound with electrical cable, face smashed, ribs broken, strangled to death…
A True crime PodcastThe Dirty Duchess: Polaroids, Power & the Divorce That Shook Britain
In a locked Mayfair drawer, a Duke discovered Polaroids that would destroy his wife. Naked except for her signature pearls. With a man whose face had been…
A True crime PodcastHe Looked Up as the Blade Fell: The Poet-Killer Who Turned Murder Into Theater
On a freezing Paris morning in 1836, the guillotine jammed halfway down. The condemned man calmly turned his head… and watched the blade finish the job. His…
A True crime PodcastHe Promised Them Good Jobs… Then Strangled Them in the Woods | France’s First Serial Killer
A soft-spoken stranger approaches a young woman in 1850s Lyon and offers her the perfect position as a maid—steady pay, a comfortable house, a better life. She…
A True crime PodcastThe Pantin Massacre: How a 20-Year-Old Murdered an Entire Family
In September 1869, a farmer digging in a field outside Paris uncovers a child’s hand rising from the earth. By nightfall, six bodies are pulled from a shallow…
A True crime PodcastThe Cook Who Poisoned the Soup: Hélène Jégado’s Quiet Reign of Death
In 19th-century Brittany, a simple bowl of soup could be a death sentence. Hélène Jégado, a seemingly devoted cook and servant, is believed to have poisoned as…
A True crime PodcastThe French Ripper: Joseph Vacher, Killer of Shepherds
In the lonely fields of southeastern France, a scarred wanderer in a white rabbit-fur hat left a trail of mutilated adolescents between 1894 and 1897. They…
A True crime PodcastJohn Dillinger: The Gentleman Bandit Who Became Public Enemy Number One
On a hot July night in 1934, America’s most wanted man walked out of a Chicago movie theater and into a hail of bullets. In this episode, Alexander Lawson…
A True crime PodcastShe Named the Minister… Then They Found Her Hanging
A pregnant mill girl. A married Methodist minister. A note that pointed straight at him. On a freezing December morning in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was found…
A True crime PodcastShe Made Murder the Price of Marriage | The Kentucky Tragedy of 1825
At 2 a.m. a knock came at the door of Kentucky’s most powerful politician. Seconds later he was dying on the floor with a dagger in his chest—and the killer…
A True crime PodcastThe Derby Poisoner: How Lydia Sherman Killed 3 Husbands & Her Own Children
In the quiet kitchens of 19th-century America, Lydia Sherman smiled, stirred, and watched the people who trusted her most die in agony. Husbands. Her own…
A True crime PodcastThe Sausage Vat Murder: How Chicago’s Sausage King Dissolved His Wife
In May 1897, Louisa Luetgert walked into her husband’s shuttered sausage factory on Chicago’s North Side and was never seen again. Her husband, Adolph…
A True crime PodcastThe Hatchet and the Flame: The Murder of Helen Jewett (1836)
In the early hours of April 10, 1836, smoke filled a second-floor room at 41 Thomas Street in lower Manhattan. Inside, a 22-year-old woman named Helen Jewett…
A True crime PodcastThe Meadow of Betrayal: Mountain Meadows Massacre
September 11, 1857. A wagon train of Arkansas emigrants rests in a quiet Utah valley, believing they have finally found safety. Under a white flag of truce…
A True crime PodcastThirty Seconds of Smoke: The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
October 26, 1881. Tombstone, Arizona Territory. Four lawmen walk into a narrow vacant lot behind the O.K. Corral. Thirty seconds and nearly thirty shots later…
A True crime PodcastThe Bomb No One Saw Coming: 7 Cops Dead, 4 Men Hanged | The Haymarket Affair
On a rainy night in Chicago, May 4, 1886, a homemade dynamite bomb exploded in a crowd of police at a workers’ rally. Seven officers died. At least four…
A True crime PodcastBilly the Kid: The Jailbreak That Made a Legend
On April 28, 1881, a 21-year-old outlaw sentenced to hang slipped his handcuffs, killed two deputies, and rode out of Lincoln, New Mexico still wearing leg…
A True crime PodcastHe Built a Hotel Just to Kill Them | H.H. Holmes & the Murder Castle
Guests walked into a charming hotel during the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair… and never walked out. H.H. Holmes designed every room, every hallway, and every gas…
A True crime PodcastThe Bloody Benders: She Poured Your Coffee… Then the Hammer Came Down
A lonely trail. A smiling young woman. A warm meal waiting inside a small Kansas cabin. In the early 1870s, the Bender family ran a roadside inn that offered…
A True crime PodcastThe Bullet Didn’t Kill President Garfield — His Doctors Did
A delusional office-seeker shot the President of the United States in a crowded train station. James A. Garfield should have survived. Instead, America’s top…
A True crime PodcastThe Violin Case Killer: Charles Peace – Victorian England’s Master Burglar & Double Murderer
In the gas-lit streets of Victorian England, one man moved like a shadow. By day he played the violin. By night he climbed through windows, revolver in hand…
A True crime PodcastThe Lambeth Poisoner: Dr. Thomas Neill Cream’s Deadly Prescriptions
A trusted doctor. A bottle of pills. And a trail of agonizing deaths that stretched from Canada to Chicago to the fog-choked streets of Victorian London. In…
A True crime PodcastThe Rugeley Poisoner: William Palmer and the Doctor Who Killed for Cash
In Victorian England, a respected country doctor walked the streets of Rugeley by day. By night, he kept a darker ledger — life insurance policies, mounting…
A True crime PodcastShe Killed 21 People for the Insurance Money | Mary Ann Cotton
A respectable Victorian nurse. A trail of dead husbands, dead children, and “gastric fever.” Then one careless remark about a little boy sealed her fate…
A True crime PodcastShe Murdered Hundreds of Babies for Money | Amelia Dyer
In 1896, a baby’s body was pulled from the River Thames with white tape wrapped around its neck. That single discovery exposed Amelia Dyer — a Victorian “baby…
A True crime PodcastShe Sang Home From School… Then Vanished Forever | The Little Red Riding Hood Murder
On a sunny June afternoon in 1946, 12-year-old Muriel Drinkwater stepped off the school bus and began walking the last mile home through the woods—singing the…
A True crime PodcastKilled a Young Girl. It Was Fine and Hot. | The Murder of Fanny Adams
On a sunny Saturday in 1867, eight-year-old Fanny Adams accepted a halfpenny from a friendly stranger… and never came home. Hours later, her severed head was…
A True crime PodcastThey Ate Dinner Over His Body: The Bermondsey Horror of 1849
On a quiet August night in 1849, a man sat down to dinner in a Bermondsey kitchen. Moments later he was shot in the head, beaten with a crowbar, and buried…
A True crime PodcastChurchill’s Gunfight: The Deadly Sidney Street Siege That Shocked London
Three unarmed police officers gunned down in a botched jewellery heist. Two desperate Latvian anarchists barricaded in a East End house. Hundreds of bullets…
A True crime PodcastThe Inheritance Powder: How Frederick Seddon Poisoned for Profit
A quiet London boarding house. A trusting lodger with a small fortune. And a landlord who saw dollar signs in every dose of arsenic. In 1911, insurance…
A True crime PodcastThe Doctor in the Cellar: Hawley Harvey Crippen
A quiet North London house. A mild-mannered American doctor. His wife vanishes. Police dig up the cellar… and find a torso wrapped in his pajamas, soaked in…
A True crime PodcastShe Boiled Her Employer and Wore Her Clothes for Two Weeks | The Kate Webster Murder
In 1879, Irish maid Kate Webster threw her employer down the stairs, strangled her, then carefully cut the body apart and boiled the pieces in a laundry…
A True crime PodcastThe Railway Killers: They Hunted Women at Train Stations
Imagine stepping off a quiet train in 1980s London… and never making it home. Between 1982 and 1986, Irish-born John Duffy and his childhood friend David…
A True crime PodcastMark Nash: Ireland’s Most Brutal Killer – 4 Murders in 5 Months
Two elderly women butchered in their beds in Dublin. A young couple stabbed to death in Roscommon. A false confession that sent an innocent man to prison. A…
A True crime PodcastThe Irish Killer Who Pushed Victims Under London Trains | Kieran Patrick Kelly
In 1983, a homeless Irishman named Kieran Patrick Kelly was arrested in London for a minor crime. By morning, his cellmate was dead — strangled. Then Kelly…
A True crime PodcastThey Planned to Kill a Woman Every Week | Ireland’s First Serial Killers
In the summer of 1976, two Englishmen made a pact: abduct, rape, and murder one woman every single week until they were caught. Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw…
A True crime PodcastBurke & Hare: They Murdered 16 People and Sold the Bodies to Doctors
In 1828 Edinburgh, two Irish immigrants discovered a deadly shortcut to cash: kill the living, sell the corpses to anatomists, and never dig a single grave…
A True crime PodcastThe Blond Angel of Death: He Infiltrated Grieving Mothers — Then Vanished Them
He had the face of an angel. Soft features. Blond hair. A gentle voice that made mothers trust him with their deepest pain. In 1977, Alfredo Astiz posed as one…
A True crime PodcastThe Dictator Who Made 30,000 People Vanish
In 1976, General Jorge Rafael Videla seized power in Argentina and turned an entire nation into a machine of disappearance. Citizens were dragged from their…
A True crime PodcastThey Kept Victims Chained in the Basement… Then Went to Church | The Puccio Clan
In a quiet Buenos Aires suburb, a respected family lived a perfect life by day. By night, their home became a dungeon. Arquímedes Puccio was the polite…
A True crime PodcastThe 15-Year-Old Who Drove a Nail Through a Toddler’s Skull
In 1912 Buenos Aires, a three-year-old boy is found dead with a nail driven into his temple. At the funeral that same night, a teenager with oversized ears…
A True crime PodcastHe Looked Like an Angel. Then He Took a Blowtorch to His Accomplice’s Face.
A soft-faced 19-year-old. Piano lessons. A middle-class home. And eleven bodies left in his wake. Carlos Eduardo Robledo Puch — the Black Angel — terrorized…
A True crime PodcastThe Satyr of San Isidro: The Serial Killer Who Murdered 13 Women in 6 Months — Then Vanished Into History
In the quiet suburbs of Buenos Aires, women started disappearing every Wednesday and Thursday around 6 p.m. Their bodies were later found raped, strangled, or…
A True crime PodcastThe Window Vampire of Monteros: Argentina’s Most Infamous Serial Killer Who May Never Have Existed
On the hottest nights in 1950s Monteros, Argentina, windows stayed open… and something climbed through them. Fifteen women. Necks torn open. Blood allegedly…