Episodes

  • The Reconstruction: Episode 397
    Jun 26 2024
    It was a bright winters day in Sheffield at about 4pm as two friends were walking to return a drill bit to a tool factory. As the walked, they saw something just off the pavement in the hedges – it hadn’t been covered up and was easily spotted. It was a three foot holdall.

    The two men who found it carried it down the road, thinking it contained something valuable like an engine; it was certainly big enough. The bag was covered by a bedding sheet tied with rope and the body was wrapped in polythene. They undid the rope, unzipped the bag, peeled open the polythene and got the shock of their lives. They had found a badly decomposed body - a body that was soon confirmed to be that of a man who had been murdered a number of years before.

    Just who had dumped the body in this area where it would easily be found. And who had killed him - and why?

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    Sources:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/615460.stm
    BBC News | UK | 'Fascinating puzzle' of Mr X
    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/in-25-years-crimewatch-snares-57-398587
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1190207.stm#:~:text=Police%20believe%20Mr%20Ali%20was,house%20and%20move%20to%20Sheffield.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1190207.stm
    BBC NEWS | UK | England | South Yorkshire | Body in bag killer loses appeal

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    27 mins
  • The Grudge: Episode 396
    Jun 18 2024
    It was almost 5am on a wet and murky morning on an estate just outside Sutton Coldfield. The car pulled up and as the transaction was completed, the customer took a large knife out of his pocket and stabbed the driver of the car, 31 year old Gary Warner. Gary was seriously injured and hours later would lose his life in hospital.

    But just who stabbed him? And why?

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    Sources:
    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/kane-stonehouse-jailed-life-minimum-24241304
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-61814065
    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/kane-stonehouse-executed-gary-warner-24040434
    https://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/20211663.man-convicted-murder-fatal-stabbing-west-midlands/
    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/knives-ruin-lives-gary-warners-24232441
    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/kane-stonehouse-says-had-no-24105425
    Live updates as Kane Stonehouse found guilty of murdering Gary Warner in Sutton Coldfield - Birmingham Live (birminghammail.co.uk)
    Gary Warner murder accused 'lost his head' at victim 'laughing' and stabbed him with dagger - court told - Birmingham Live (birminghammail.co.uk)
    https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/how-police-secured-kane-stonehouse-24236527
    https://www.stourbridgenews.co.uk/news/20211663.man-convicted-murder-fatal-stabbing-west-midlands/
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    26 mins
  • Days of Terror: Episode 395. Part 2/2
    Jun 11 2024
    This is part two of a two part series, so I strongly recommend you listen to part one. This episode, from Northern Ireland, looks at events near Portadown during the period of just a few days at the height of the Troubles. Today the focus is on the quite dreadful Kingsmill Massacre which claimed the life of 10 innocent men. Find out more about the UK True Crime Podcast: https://uktruecrime.com Join me at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime Join me in Sheffield on 7 September https://armchairdetectiveswanted.com/events Join the UK True Crime Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime Buy my book 'Gone Fishing' about serial killer Angus Sinclair: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gone-Fishing-Unsolved-Crimes-Sinclair/dp/1914277201 Sources: https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch75.htm https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/reavey-and-odowd-families-seek-answers-40-years-on-from-killings/34332992.html https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/a-ghost-estate-and-an-empty-grave-i-don-t-think-northern-ireland-was-worth-one-life-1.4761318 https://web.archive.org/web/20110714013648/http://www.madden-finucane.com/the_firm/cases/echr/2007march06_5.htm https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FlSvQ39WAAA1boi?format=jpg&name=large https://armaghi.com/news/tandragee-news/well-known-pubs-in-keady-and-gilford-go-on-the-market/237335 https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/northern-irelands-troubles/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=706430024922417&set=a.431211649110924&type=3&locale=en_GB&paipv=0&eav=Afbu3RKWwaZVKhU2eIfwja0svozktmOPQLo5KFputFcOIb_bPA8Vj44yztDUGQ7kqVg&_rdr https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/government-has-built-a-big-wall-to-hide-the-truth-says-troubles-victim-N5VEWVHXAFHYBBUOVWQ7OIIGLM/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bar_bombing https://republican-news.org/current/news/2015/04/family_mark_tragedy_forty_year.html https://irishpeaceprocess.blog/2021/04/13/__trashed/ https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/sunday-worlds-crime-world-podcast-investigates-one-of-ulsters-bloodiest-24-hours/41222908.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles_in_Portadown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reavey_and_O%27Dowd_killings https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Reavey_and_O%27Dowd_killings https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5f747d9ce90e0740d0c78473/20200722-FOI_2020_02349_Final_Response_Letter.pdf https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Kingsmill_massacre https://armaghi.com/news/markethill-news/kingsmills-inquest-has-fallen-far-short-of-any-form-of-tangible-justice/239961 https://www.westernpeople.ie/ten-murders-at-kingsmill-an-overtly-sectarian-attack-by-ira-coroner-rules_arid-14104.html Kingsmill massacre – Slugger O'Toole (sluggerotoole.com)
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    26 mins
  • Days of Terror: Episode 394. Part 1/2
    Jun 8 2024
    This episode, from Northern Ireland, looks at events near Portadown during the period of just a few days at the height of the Troubles. Three terrorist attacks saw nine innocent civilians killed in a series of revenge attacks at the Central Bar in Gilford and at the homes of the Reavey & O'Dowd families. And as we will see in the second part of the story (released on Tuesday 11 June) the violence still wasn't over. Find out more about the UK True Crime Podcast: https://uktruecrime.com Join me at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime Join me in Sheffield on 7 September https://armchairdetectiveswanted.com/events Join the UK True Crime Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime Buy my book 'Gone Fishing' about serial killer Angus Sinclair: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gone-Fishing-Unsolved-Crimes-Sinclair/dp/1914277201 Sources https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch75.htm https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/reavey-and-odowd-families-seek-answers-40-years-on-from-killings/34332992.html https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/a-ghost-estate-and-an-empty-grave-i-don-t-think-northern-ireland-was-worth-one-life-1.476131 https://web.archive.org/web/20110714013648/http://www.madden-finucane.com/the_firm/cases/echr/2007march06_5.htm https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FlSvQ39WAAA1boi?format=jpg&name=large https://armaghi.com/news/tandragee-news/well-known-pubs-in-keady-and-gilford-go-on-the-market/237335 https://www.codastory.com/rewriting-history/northern-irelands-troubles/ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=706430024922417&set=a.431211649110924&type=3&locale=en_GB&paipv=0&eav=Afbu3RKWwaZVKhU2eIfwja0svozktmOPQLo5KFputFcOIb_bPA8Vj44yztDUGQ7kqVg&_rdr https://www.irishnews.com/news/northern-ireland/government-has-built-a-big-wall-to-hide-the-truth-says-troubles-victim-N5VEWVHXAFHYBBUOVWQ7OIIGLM/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bar_bombing https://republican-news.org/current/news/2015/04/family_mark_tragedy_forty_year.html https://irishpeaceprocess.blog/2021/04/13/__trashed/ https://www.sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/sunday-worlds-crime-world-podcast-investigates-one-of-ulsters-bloodiest-24-hours/41222908.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles_in_Portadown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reavey_and_O%27Dowd_killings https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Reavey_and_O%27Dowd_killings https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5f747d9ce90e0740d0c78473/20200722-FOI_2020_02349_Final_Response_Letter.pdf
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    25 mins
  • Closing Time: Episode 393
    Jun 3 2024
    This episode is from Glasgow.

    The Old Stag Inn pub is to the south-west of Glasgow city centre 30 year old Owen Hassan often went to the pub late on to help his mum - who was the manager there - at closing time.

    But on this occasion there were two men lying in wait for Owen and they carried out a brutal and cowardly attack on the Dad of three young children under ten, leading to him losing his life.

    Just who killed Owen? And why?

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    Sources
    https://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/docs/default-source/cos-general-docs/pdf-docs-for-opinions/2021hcjac4.pdf?sfvrsn=7083ebdd_0
    https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/crime/owen-hassan-murder-trial-told-20923128
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-50664522
    https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/scottish-news/23442897.glasgow-crime-story-murder-owen-hassan-pollokshaws/
    https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17283754.owen-hassan-murder-grieving-mothers-appeal-catch-killers/
    https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/shawlands-pub-violence-sparks-chaos-13607719
    https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-record/20200111/285185835131071
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-51062794
    https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/19022053.criminal-jailed-murdering-owen-hassan-loses-legal-bid-conviction-squashed/
    https://newstral.com/en/article/en/1140418848/owen-hassan-murder-trial-hears-suspect-allegedly-told-pal-he-stabbed-f-out-of-slain-dad#google_vignette
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    21 mins
  • Jealousy: Episode 392
    May 29 2024
    James Field had experienced a tough few years in his personal battle with drug addiction. Progress though, was being made. He had found employment as a labourer on a building site in Newquay and had began to reconnect with his family following a period of estrangement.

    But his relationship with his girlfriend Lindsey Gabriel was a volatile one. And a relationship that would ultimately cost James his life at just 35 years old.


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    26 mins
  • Free to Kill Again: Episode 391
    May 20 2024
    Marcella Davis was a 19 year old mum of a baby daughter, Dione.

    Marcella adored Dione and to make a living for her and her daughter, Marcella worked as a sex worker on the dangerous streets of the red light district of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands.

    One evening, Marcella dropped Dione with a friend as she headed off to work and promised she would be back at 11pm. But Marcella was never seen again.

    The prime suspect in Marcella's disappearance was local man Paul Brumfitt. On close inspection, it turned out he had a long track record of crime - including being twice found guilty of murder...

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    Sources
    https://www.tilburyandchadwellmemories.org.uk/content/people/sidney_samuel
    https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005011/19800801/003/0003
    https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Brutal+past+of+a+twisted+man+who+couldn%27t+stop+killing+The+Killer.-a063661658
    https://www.pressreader.com/uk/midweek-sport/20200916/281883005761267
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/845211.stm
    BBC NEWS | Health | Listening to the 'silent witnesses'
    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=poOK_C-sqFsC&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79&dq=marcella+ann+davis+murder&source=bl&ots=UAidfloUAx&sig=ACfU3U1ofq_RLPUl8-FlURWsc_1l4wiBvg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiuxKTj_5SGAxUSW0EAHWHMA_I4ChDoAXoECAYQAw#v=onepage&q=marcella%20ann%20davis%20murder&f=false
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    25 mins
  • The Soap Box Murder: Episode 390
    May 14 2024
    24 year old Tracey Cowley lived in Cannock with her husband of two years 29 year old Simon and their 19 month old daughter, Robyn. The young family had lived in the house for two years, and the three of them were often spotted together, enjoying their shared leisure time regularly walking and going on bike rides, enjoying each others company and making the most of the beautiful countryside.

    But one evening Tracey went out to see a friend and she never came home.

    I tell Tracey's story.

    Writing Credit:
    Chris Wood
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    28 mins