Bible John is an unidentified serial killer who murdered three women between 1968 and 1969 in Glasgow. He earned the nick name 'Bible John' because witnesses said he quoted from the Old Testament. But could Bible John really be serial killer Peter Tobin? CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 23, 2018•48 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Ruth Ellis was a model and nightclub hostess. After being convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely, she was put to death by hanging in 1955. Was she the victim of a cruel boyfriend? Or a calculated killer? CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 09, 2018•49 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Joan and John Stirland were murdered on the 8th August 2004 in the seaside resort of Trusthorpe. Mrs Stirland's son, Michael O'Brien, had killed another man outside a pub in Nottingham a year earlier, and the couple had been in fear for their lives ever since. Timothy Spencer QC would later describe Joan and John Stirland as the victims of "a calculated, ruthless and merciless execution." CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Ins...
Jun 25, 2018•45 min•Season 2Ep. 13
On a Wednesday afternoon in May 2013, off-duty British Army soldier Lee Rigby was attacked and killed by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale near the Royal Artillery Barracks in southeast London. The two men told passers-by that they had committed the murder to avenge the killing of Muslims by the British armed forces. Who were these men? And what led them to commit such a brutal crime, seemingly with no attempt to conceal their guilt? CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Mus...
Jun 11, 2018•47 min•Season 2Ep. 11
British rapists and serial killers, John Duffy and David Mulcahy, together attacked numerous women and children at railway stations in the 1980s. In this two part special find out the story of their crimes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 28, 2018•30 min•Season 2Ep. 11
British rapists and serial killers, John Duffy and David Mulcahy, together attacked numerous women and children at railway stations in the 1980s. In this two part special find out the story of their crimes. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 14, 2018•36 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Stephen Port used online gay social network Grindr to meet victims before drugging, raping and murdering them in his Barking flat. Join this week to hear about the tangled web The Grindr Killer wove and the clues the police missed... CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 30, 2018•46 min•Season 2Ep. 9
In May 2010 Stephen Griffiths appeared in the magistrates' court giving his name as the Crossbow Cannibal. By December he was found guilty of the three brutal murders he was charged with. Who was Stephen Griffiths? And why did he commit these crimes? CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 16, 2018•39 min•Season 2Ep. 8
How did David Bieber, originally from Florida USA and the son of a middle school principal, end up a convicted cop killer in the United Kingdom? CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 02, 2018•42 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Italian Danilo Restivo is a ritual-style killer with a perverted obsession with hair. Why did it take so long for him to face justice? CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mar 19, 2018•41 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Glyn Dix used a knife, hacksaw and scissors to cut up his second wife Hazel's body after they argued over what to watch on television. The victim's son, Adam Langford, found Dix bloodied and standing over his wife's body. Dix told him: "We've had a little argument." How was this killer able to strike twice? CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast....
Feb 26, 2018•45 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Two teenage sweethearts became Britain's youngest double murderers when they knifed a dinner-lady and her daughter to death in their beds. The killers then took a bath together to wash the blood off themselves, watched a Twilight vampire film and had sex. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 19, 2018•41 min•Season 2Ep. 4
What happened to murdered April Jones and who is Mark Bridger? This week Blood Ties explores the crime that shocked the nation. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 05, 2018•43 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Dale Cregan was described in the British press as a "cold-blooded cop killer" when he murdered two policewomen with a Glock gun and his 'calling card' hand grenades in September 2012. What drove him to such extreme violence? And how did he lose his eye? CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 29, 2018•44 min•Season 2Ep. 2
A shop worker lured a police detective's teenage daughter to his family home and took pictures of himself murdering her. Georgia Williams, 17, was choked to death by Jamie Reynolds, 23, in May 2013. Could the police have done more to prevent her death? CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jan 08, 2018•47 min•Season 2Ep. 1
"He was a monster.....who could be charming at first ....". In the season finale Geoffrey Wansell shares his detailed knowledge and theories about convicted murderer Levi Bellfield AKA The Bus Stop Killer. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 26, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Mark Martin killed three homeless women in Nottingham between December 2004 and January 2005. He later said his ambition was to become "Nottingham's first serial killer". CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Dec 11, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This week Geoffrey and Molly discuss psychopathic and sadistic murderer Peter Tobin: a convicted Scottish serial killer and sex offender who committed his crimes between 1991 and 2006. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 27, 2017•49 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode Molly and Geoffrey discuss the sad story of Joanna Dennehy- the UK's third most prolific female serial killer. She was convicted of three murders and two further attempted murders in 2013. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Nov 13, 2017•56 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Join Molly and Geoffrey as they discuss the life and crimes of Arthur Hutchinson, the man responsible for The Dore Wedding Day Massacre, one of the most brutal and shocking crimes in Sheffield's history. It was on October 23rd 1983 that three members of the same family were murdered just hours after a joyous wedding celebration. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.po...
Oct 29, 2017•42 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Molly and Geoffrey kick off the season with an exploration of English serial killer Graham Young, who started murdering his victims at the age of just fourteen. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_podEmail: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 15, 2017•37 min•Season 1Ep. 1