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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 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 […]

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Episode 8: The narcisstic nurse

In today’s episode we’ll be racking up the air miles, seeing one woman lose her life, and three who all had a lucky escape. This man, in the caring profession, only cares about one thing, and that’s himself. He loves himself and will go to extreme lengths to make sure he’s well looked after. Fold […]

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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, […]