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Episode 17: The Deadly Game of Dominos: The Mary McLaughlan Case

In this episode we’re in Glasgow, well Partick to be precise. Wee Mary’s not been seen in a week, and the normal chap on the window to get Mary to the door isn’t getting an answer when one of her grown-up kids pops round to see her. And I think you’ve been listening to the […]

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Episode 16: The John Barclay Smith Case, You Can’t Outrun the Hands of Time

In this week’s episode we’re back in the North East, and the tartan time machine will be throwing us back to the Edwardian era. We’re in the tiny village of Lhanbryde, near Elgin, in Morayshire. A neighbour smells something out of the ordinary coming from the downstairs flat, and the occupant’s not been seen for […]

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Episode 15: Dr and Mrs Wood, The Doctor Won’t See You Now, Murder He Wrote

In this episode we’ll be stopping off in Scotland’s 4th biggest city, and calling in at an infamous house, so much so that locally it’s referred to as The Murder House. We’ll be investigating the case of a retired doctor and his wife’s brutal death, and the fact that this double murder has seen no […]

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Episode 14: The Brenda Page Case, A Scientist Waiting for Science Advances

In this episode we’re back under the northern lights of Old Aberdeen again, right in the heart of the city. We’re in the west end, and a street that’s filled with starter flats for first time buyers, and for those that are starting again. It’s also a road I know well as I lived in […]

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Episode 13: Spirited Away, The Arlene Fraser Case

This case sees us standing at the school gates waiting for Mum to come and collect us, it’s Tuesday the 28th 1998. Mum’s normally home from college and doing the house work, she’s never missed a day of picking us up. Back at the Fraser family home we find the door open, but the house […]

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Episode 12: Peter Tobin, The Scumbag With A Thousand Names

In this week’s case we’ll start off in the holiest of places, and finish in a Kent seaside town. Three young women will have their lives cut short, a national operation will be opened, and a slippery handyman will be caught after being lazy when putting carpeting back down in a chapel. And are we […]

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Episode 11: Scumspotting – The Murder of Caroline Glachan

In this episode we’ll be discussing a seemingly motiveless murder of a 14 year old girl, a horrible start to a person’s forties and a murder trial with our youngest ever witness.  But why did it take so long for justice to be given to her Mum and father, and are we so sure that […]

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Episode 10: Lynda Spence, Grifting The Wrong People

In this episode I outline the case of a woman who gets herself in very hot water, stealing from the wrong kind of people that result in her being kidnapped, tortured and murdered.  I think of the cases we’ve covered so far she the most unsympathetic murder victim as she’s a scammer, and out and […]

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Episode 10 Announcement: Lynda Spence, Grifting The Wrong People

We have recorded episode 10. In this episode I outline the case of a woman who gets herself in very hot water, stealing from the wrong kind of people that result in her being kidnapped, tortured and murdered.  I think of the cases we’ve covered so far she the most unsympathetic murder victim as she’s […]

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Episode 9: Heart of Glass, The Stephen Donaldson Slaying

In this episode we’ll be heading to never land, but sadly this story sees us with two Captain Hooks and an evil tinkerbell. This case rocked a tiny town with such a savage murder, and yet another vehicle on fire, come on Scotland, what’s up with setting so many cars on fire. It’s a case […]