Simon Hall had just been convicted of murder. His parents looked on from the gallery of Norwich Crown Court unable to believe their son killed a defenceless woman in her late seventies. Appeal after appeal would follow, and it was not until a decade later that the cold hard facts of the case would see the light of day (Part 1 of 2).
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Sometimes a killer can just blend in. Be one of many faces in a crowd, unnoticed by everyone, including the officers desperately searching for them. The person known to many as an unassuming "softly spoken gentleman", carries on with his life. Will he ever have to pay the price for what he has done?
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“Psychological reports say they are absolutely sane individuals. It’s frighting that they are such ordinary people. There is nothing special about them.”
— Detective Inspector Peter Wall, outside Manchester Crown Court, 1993.
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PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 4 - EPISODE 36’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE.
Sally Challen was found guilty of murdering her husband, Richard in 2010, but over the intervening years much was changing in the outside world (Part 2 of 2).
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On Sunday, August 15, 2010, police were alerted to a situation on the cliffs of Beachy Head (Part 1 of 2).
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When the internet and social media evolved, it created another method through which stalkers could intimidate their victims. In 2012 stalking laws were introduced in England and Wales which included cyberstalking. For some victims it was too little too late, they had already lost their lives.
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As there is not a new episode this week, we thought we’d post a short extract from the final chapter of our book ‘They Walk Among Us’
Ten brand new intriguing and unsettling cases that we have not covered on the podcast.
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For information regarding your data...From the outside in, there did not seem to be anything wildly different about the Barrass family. Six children and a single mother Sarah, living together in a semi-detached house in the South of Yorkshire. But the Barrass family were not the only occupants. Sarah shared her life with a secret so big she was willing to do absolutely...
PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 4 - EPISODE 32’ FOR PART ONE OF THIS TWO-PART CASE.
Benjamin Field and Martyn Smith were on trial, accused of murdering Peter Farquhar at his home and conspiring to murder Ann Moore-Martin before she died of natural causes. She had handed over more than £30,000 before she died. Peter Farquhar had...
“I think I will get away with most of it”. Those were the words uttered by a deputy churchwarden while he was in the custody police. He was arrested when his second elderly lover in as many years was admitted to hospital. The first had died under somewhat mysterious circumstances.
How had this man, in his late twenties - who bore all...
The fire was intense. The strap of the victim's wristwatch had disintegrated. The hands of the watch — still visible, had stopped moving at 2:58 am… about the same time its wearer had lost their life.
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PLEASE LISTEN TO ‘SEASON 4 - EPISODES 27, 28 & EPISODE 29’ FOR PART ONE, TWO AND THREE OF THIS FOUR-PART CASE.
As the opening remarks were given to the court — describing the lives of two young girls who would now be in their early forties, Russell Bishop sat writing notes, observed from a public gallery full to the brim...