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Episode 7: The Ardlamont Murder: A hunting accident, or Murder?

In this episode’s case we’ll be popping on our Sunday best, jumping in the time machine and heading off to the remote location of Adrlamont House, a Georgian country house, located in an isolated peninsula in Argyll. There, we see three young chaps having a jolly time slaughtering the local rabbit population.  But, wait, it […]

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Episode 6: The World’s End Murders, A Long Road to Justice

In this episode we’re in Auld Reechie!! We’ll start in an Edinburgh’s old town institution, and go through to Glasgow. This case was a shadow over Scotland for a long time, and it took a change in science, and a change in the law to bring a monster to justice.  He’s a psychopath in all […]

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Episode 5 : Spicy Food, Indian Bullet and an Protective Father: The Shamsuddin Mahmood Murder

This episode sees us getting our feet wet as we leave Lanarkshire behind, and head up North, and I mean north.  We’re leaving the mainland and warping back to 1994, and going to the Orkney Islands. A Pakistani waiter, here for the summer, starts his shift at the local Indian restaurant, but he’d not see […]

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Episode 4: Manhattan to Lanarkshire, the Beast of Berkinshaw

This week’s episode finds us South of Glasgow, in Lanarkshire, in the 1950s.   We’ll start  with a triple homicide, a family brutally murdered in their homes, in their beds.  But wait, Dad’s off on a fishing trip miles away, so far that you need to take a ferry back.  Did he have time to […]

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Episode 3: Karen Buckley

An international flavour to this episode’s case, an Irish nurse goes missing after a night out in Glasgow, a thankfully short search is started, but what the police discover will make your blood run cold.  The warning signs were there, but sadly they were ignored, leaving us to discuss a murderer that has shades of […]

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Episode 2: The Jodi Jones Case

On a late summer’s afternoon a teenager sends a text to her boyfriend that she’s just leaving the house to come and see him.  It should have been a short, picturesque jaunt through a wood, but tragically it would become the location for Jodi’s last moments, and murder.  The family starts a search for her, […]

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Episode 1: The Fishy Love Triangle

For our inaugural episode we’re looking at a crime that’s a landmark in Scotland, and like a lot of murder cases involves matters of the heart. When a lonely fisherman’s wife seeks warmth in the arms of another, but then decides she’s made an awful decision, things turn deadly, and end in the last hanging […]