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Back to Search74. The Brown Palace Murders
A love triangle erupts into a gunfight at Denver’s Brown Palace Hotel, exposing a scandalous affair that ends in a double murder
Iain unpacks the heat…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
MYW: Bradford’s Deadly Delicacies
Iain transports us to 1858 Bradford – then the world's wool capital, where confectioner William Hardaker ("Humbug Billy") unknowingly sold arsenic-co…
1 year ago
73. The Kidnapped Duke
Iain takes us back to the swinging 60s to revisit the theft of a portrait that had been hanging in London’s National Gallery for just 19 days before …
1 year ago
MYW: Lurking in the Lake District
Laura takes us to the hauntingly beautiful Lake District and uncovers three chilling murders. Meanwhile Iain digs up tales of thieving pensioners, ba…
1 year ago
72. The Green Bicycle Case
Laura retraces the twists of one of Britain's most debated unsolved cases. In 1919, a farmer found the body of a young woman on the side of a quiet c…
1 year ago
MYW Mailbag: Pronunciation Debates – Milngavie, Bearsden, Gotham… Tortoise!?
Laura and Iain dive into the inbox and face a full on tribunal from Living Legends across the UK. Is it “Mull-guy”? What about "Gotham"? And how do y…
1 year ago
71. Public Enemy No.1
Iain takes us to the 1930s to uncover the twisting tale of Pretty Boy Floyd, a young outlaw that escapes a prison train and vanishes into the hills. …
1 year ago
MYW: Croydon’s Conundrum – Poison, Plots & Piles of Rubbish?
Listener Simon sends Laura to Croydon for a trio of tales: unsolved family poisonings, a 1930s airport gold heist, and a fly‑tipper with a skip-load …
1 year ago
70. The Cameo Cinema Murders
Laura revisits the shocking case of The Cameo Cinema Murders, a deadly robbery that shook Liverpool in 1949. When a cinema manager and his assistant …
1 year ago
MYW: The Lost Lord Lovat of Inverness
Iain dives into the wild story of Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, a tale packed with betrayal, dramatic beheadings, and the mystery of his missing remains.…
1 year, 1 month ago