Over the course of two summers across Belgium six young girls went missing - their captor, Marc Dutroux, seemed untouchable as he brazenly abducted, imprisoned, raped and murdered his young victims. But this is much more than a sad story about a sick, sadistic pedophile; how Dutroux evaded arrest time and time again raises serious questions as to whether he was just a small part of a powerful pedophile network stretching to the highest levels of Belgian society... See acast.com/privacy for priva...
Sep 13, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 61
In 1981 Ken McElroy was shot dead in front of at least 30 people in his hometown. Not one person called for help, not one person came forward to give evidence and to this day his murder remains unsolved. But people weren't afraid of Ken's killers, this was vigilante street justice exacted against a violent bully and pedophile, who had raped, abused, assaulted - and generally terrorised the people of Skidmore, Missouri. Finally the terrified residents had taken matters into their own hands. See a...
Sep 06, 2018•53 min•Ep. 60
Governments kill people who try to uncover their dirty dealings, that's a fact. But is that what happened to Danny Casolaro? Danny claimed to be on the verge of connecting the dots between multiple governmental scandals and uncovering an international network of unbelievable crimes. 2 days after meeting his final source, Danny was found dead, could he have been onto something? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Aug 30, 2018•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 59
This week Hannah and Suruthi delve into the dawn of the web, following the case of Sharon Lopatka, a woman who fantasised about being tortured to death. One day Sharon had enough and decided to make her fantasy a reality; she met her dream man online - a man who dreamt of torturing women. Eventually Sharon was found buried in a shallow grave, but the state of her remains left many unanswered questions about what really happened to her... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Aug 23, 2018•52 min•Ep. 58
12 year old Tia Sharp adored her Grandmother’s partner, Stuart Hazell. He'd been in Tia’s life since she was a baby, and he'd always been her loving “Grandad”. But unbeknownst to anyone in the family Hazell, a man with a dark past, was starting to have sick sexual fantasies about Tia... One day, out of the blue she vanished and her panic stricken family had no idea that they would eventually find her closer to home than they could ever have imagined. Merch shop: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/re...
Aug 16, 2018•42 min•Ep. 57
This week in the concluding episode of the harrowing Snowtown saga; John Bunting and Robert Wagner start to spiral. As they killed with increasing impunity, the net began to close - and their eventual capture led to a trial so gruesome members of jury walked out in disgust. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Aug 09, 2018•48 min•Ep. 56
On the 21st of May 1999 police in South Australia went to investigate the contents of a derelict bank in the small town of Snowtown. Inside, they found 6 large barrels full to brim with decomposing human remains. Little did they know, this was just the beginning of what would become one of Australia’s most unrelenting and harrowing cases. Australia Expert - Kelly Ryan See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Aug 02, 2018•56 min•Ep. 55
Charlie Brandt was a happily married family man, until September 2004 when he was found hanging in his niece's garage. The scene he left behind was brutal beyond belief, and no one could make sense of what had happened - until his sister Angela turned up to reveal Charlie's dark childhood secret. All families have secrets, but none quite so dark as the one the Brandts had kept hidden for almost 30 years. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Jul 12, 2018•37 min•Ep. 54
In the early hours of May 11, 2010 a fire tore through 81 Victory Road; inside 6 children were trapped, outside stood their parents.Tragically all 6 of the Philpott children died and the nation mourned for a grieving Mick and Mairead Philpott. But as the days passed, their behaviour, and their stories about what had happened that night started to raise serious suspicion... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frmdzbTAdQc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5IrbrO7SQ0 See acast.com/privacy for privacy an...
Jul 05, 2018•42 min•Ep. 53
One morning 23 year old Amy Bradley got up, got dressed, grabbed her cigarettes - seemingly went for a walk - and vanished. And what makes this case even stranger is that Amy was on a ship, out at sea on a Caribbean cruise with her family. How does one just disappear from a ship, never to be seen again? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Jun 27, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 52
In this week's episode Myra Hindley and Ian Brady escalate; abducting, torturing, raping and murdering four more children. In their arrogance and hedonistic pursuit of violent pleasure, they make the grave mistake of trying to involve a new accomplice - one who would ultimately reveal their evil to the world. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Jun 21, 2018•44 min•Ep. 51
Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - a seemingly ordinary pair of twenty-somethings abducted, tortured and killed 5 children in North West England. The Moors Murders, so named because the victims' bodies were found on the barren and remote Saddleworth Moor, still remain Britain's most infamous case half a century later. But what drove these two to commit crimes so heinous that they scarred the psyche of a generation? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Jun 14, 2018•33 min•Ep. 50
If you want to be killed, is it still a murder? This is the question that sits at the heart of this week's case of cannibalism and consent. Even at the dawn of the internet there were dark corners where you could find anything you wanted - as Armin Meiwes and Bernd Branders knew only all too well. They were a perfect online match, Armin wanted to dine and Bernd wanted to be dinner... Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2FUWmA9B9Y See acast.com/privacy for privacy and...
Jun 07, 2018•38 min•Ep. 49
On Halloween night 2001 Chuck Erickson got blackout drunk with his friends. 2 years later a 19 year old Chuck, who had been plagued with dreams that he and his friend Ryan Ferguson had killed a man that night, went to the police and confessed to the murder of local man Kent Heitholt. Ryan was adamant this never happened, and there was no physical evidence linking either of them to the crime - so what really happened that night? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
May 31, 2018•39 min•Ep. 48
In 2017 intrepid super-journalist Kim Wall scored an underwater submarine interview with eccentric Danish 'inventrepreneur' Peter Madsen. 17 hours later Madsen was rescued from the sinking vessel, but Kim was no where to be seen. Exactly what happened during those 17 hours is hard to tell, but as Kim's dismembered body began to surface, alongside the library of torture porn Madsen had on his computer, it was clear this twisted man had lived out his sordid sexual fantasy 20,000 leagues under the ...
May 24, 2018•42 min•Ep. 47
The brutal, racially motivated murder of 18 year old Stephen Lawrence on the streets of South East London was a watershed moment in British history. It revealed the shocking institutional racism that lay at the heart of the London Metropolitan Police. In this week’s episode Hannah and Suruthi trace this difficult, but desperately important, story from the climate of race relations before Stephen’s murder, how this fed into a corrupt police investigation - and ask why 25 years later, justice has ...
May 16, 2018•52 min•Ep. 46
Rage fuelled by violent misogyny; the defining trait of the ‘incel’, or so-called ‘involuntary celibate’. It's rage like this, coupled with psychopathy, that led to the recent Toronto attack and the Isla Vista Massacre in 2014. Join Hannah and Suruthi as they reveal what they discovered when they went creeping into the grimy depths of the ‘manosphere’ to understand this rage, the radicalisation and the ramifications of the hate group known as ‘incels’. Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes See acast.c...
May 09, 2018•42 min•Ep. 45
A man is found stabbed to death in a small Pennsylvanian town and unbelievably a young, local couple were arrested and charged with his murder. Despite there being no clear motive it seemed an open and shut case, until the 19 year old woman confessed to being a demonically possessed, satanic serial killer - who had already killed 22 people... Vote for us in the British Podcast Awards here: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes See acast.com/privacy for privacy...
May 03, 2018•45 min•Ep. 44
In 1989, Swedish backpackers Heidi Paakkonen and her fiancé Urban Hoglin disappeared into the bush on the Coromandel Peninsula in NZ. A local man, David Tamihere, was convicted of their murders - and it seemed like it was case closed, until they found Urban's body that is... Because the story his remains told was very different to the one which sent Tamihere away. What really happened to Heidi and Urban? Vote for us in the British Podcast Awards here: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/vote/ A...
Apr 26, 2018•36 min•Ep. 43
Rebecca Zahau’s naked body was found hanging in the mansion she shared with her millionaire boyfriend Jonah Shacknai and his son, Max. Just days before Rebecca's apparent suicide she had been babysitting Max when he was fatally injured - had Rebecca taken her own life out of guilt? The evidence suggests otherwise... Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Apr 19, 2018•52 min•Ep. 42
Dying is easy, coming back is hard. In 2002 John Darwin took his red, handmade canoe out to sea and disappeared. He was eventually declared dead, but 5 years later in 2007 he walked into a police station claiming to have no memory of the past half decade. How had John Darwin vanished? And why had he come back? Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Apr 12, 2018•45 min•Ep. 41
What would you do if you were arrested for a crime you didn't commit? What would you say if the police told you they had definitive proof it was you? When 16 year old Martha Puebla was shot dead, Juan Catalan faced this exact nightmare situation - and his life seemed doomed - until he was saved in the most unexpected way... Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Apr 05, 2018•36 min•Ep. 40
In 2015, when shy 16 year old Becky Watts suddenly went missing no one could believe it. But tragically within days her dismembered body was found just a mile from her home. As the true motivations behind the murder were revealed it quickly became clear that someone in the family knew more than they were letting on... Audio Mastered by Conrad Hughes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Mar 29, 2018•33 min•Ep. 39
The Los Angeles celebrity justice system comes under scrutiny this week. Convicted murderer and one time music producer Phil Spector sits in a Californian prison medical centre, actor Lana Clarkson is dead and River Deep Mountain High is regrettably still a banger. Audio mastered and Hannah's editing tantrum patiently endured by Conrad Hughes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Mar 22, 2018•34 min•Ep. 38
In a frantic 911 call on the 24th of November 1997 Marlene Aisenberg reported her 5 month old baby, Sabrina, missing. The FBI launched a nationwide search and the media relentlessly covered the story. But soon the parents’ odd behaviour left onlookers wondering what they really knew about their daughter’s disappearance... Audio mastered by Conrad Hughes 48 Hours Mystery - Where's Our Baby? - Dateline NBC See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Mar 15, 2018•38 min•Ep. 37
In this week’s episode Hannah and Suruthi follow a spiraling, unmedicated and (literally) bloodthirsty Richard Chase as he dives into a brutal killing spree. With suburban home invasions, bloody eviscerations, necrophilia and vampiric lore made real, this is truly a disturbing and haunting finale. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Mar 08, 2018•39 min•Ep. 36
Clinical vampirism, terrifying delusions and paranoid schizophrenia. This week the girls enter the bloody world of their very first truly psychotic spree killer, Richard Trenton Chase. Join them as they follow his evolution from cat-murdering child, to drug-addicted teen, to blood-smeared twenty-something; unpicking the unbelievably shocking story of one of America’s bloodiest killers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
Mar 01, 2018•30 min•Ep. 35
In a Perspex box, in Wakefield maximum security prison sits alleged cannibal, confirmed killer and rumoured inspiration behind "Hannibal" - Robert Maudsely. Named the most dangerous prisoner in Britain, after 39 years in solitary, Maudsely now also holds the record for the longest time served in soltiary confinement in the world. Join the girls this week as they get knee-deep in prison politics and the reality of managing a man like Robert Maudsley. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out ...
Feb 22, 2018•31 min•Ep. 34
In the early hours of Valentine's Day 2014, 29 year old model Reeva Steenkamp was shot to death by her partner; South African Olympic sprint runner and double amputee, Oscar Pistorius. He still claims that it was a tragic case of mistaken identity, but the forensics and the messages Reeva left before her death tell a very different story. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Feb 15, 2018•37 min•Ep. 33
Starting on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth and ending up in Texas via the Caribbean, Suruthi & Hannah unpick how a British grandmother and DEA informant ended up on death row. Many campaign for Linda Carty’s release, but is she as innocent as they would have you believe? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Feb 08, 2018•45 min•Ep. 32
