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Episode 310 - Brenda Spencer: ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’
Episode 310
School shootings are now tragically commonplace in the US. But in 1979, when Brenda Spencer opened fire on Cleveland Elementary School, it took every…
3 years ago
Episode 309 - Thabo Bester: Twisted Firestarter
Episode 309
At 2am, on the 3rd of May last year – inmates at Mangaung prison in Bloemfontein, South Africa, were woken up by an explosion. Word spread that Thabo…
3 years ago
Episode 308 - Christine 'Chris Chan' Chandler: Lifelong Lolcow
Episode 308
Graphic Sonic fanfiction, a botched DIY sex change, incest and relentless psychosexual trolling are just some of the hallmarks of Christine Weston Ch…
3 years ago
Episode 307 - Warren Jeffs: Bleeding the Beast - Part 2
Episode 307
Last week, we looked at the formation of the ultra-obedient, bigamist Mormon cult, the FLDS – in which plural marriage to pregnant preteen girls is j…
3 years ago
Episode 306 - Warren Jeffs: God’s Chosen People - Part 1
Episode 306
According to Warren Jeffs’ thousands of followers, he was the leader of a secretive but devoted religion – their prophet, and the representative of G…
3 years ago
Natalia Grace: The Orphan | #305
Episode 305
In 2009, the horror movie Orphan told the story of a couple who take in a creepy child from a Russian orphanage who – spoiler alert – turns out to b…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Richardson Family Murders: Groomed to Kill | #304
Episode 304
Violently stabbed to death in their own home, the bodies of Debra and Marc Richardson showed signs of a desperate struggle. Upstairs lay the body of…
3 years, 1 month ago
Antony Gignac: Prince of Fraud | #303
Episode 303
How did a Colombian-born orphan become one of the most audacious con artists the United States has ever seen?
Starting his shapeshifting career in M…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Grenfell Tower Fire: Failed By The State | #302
Episode 302
On 14th June 2017, a catastrophic fire engulfed Grenfell Tower, a high-rise residential building in West London.
72 people died, including 18 childr…
3 years, 1 month ago
Tupac & Biggie Part 2: Rivalry, Revenge and Gangster Rap Murder | #301
Episode 301
In our second instalment exploring one of music’s biggest true-crime mysteries, we turn the spotlight on Christopher Latore Wallace – better known a…
3 years, 2 months ago