Psycho Killer: Shocking True Crime Stories

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The essential true-crime podcast for anyone hooked on psychopaths, multiple murderers, and mysterious, unsolved cold cases. If you're a true-crime podcast junkie you've come to the right place. Our team includes a former major crime detective plus ex-BBC researchers, journalists and producers to bring you one of the most original and highly recommended true-crime podcasts out there.

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Missing Without A Trace: The Aussie Backpacker Murders And Other Disappearances

Dec 31 2023 63 mins

People don't vanish into thin air, but it sometimes seems that way. Australia has a reputation for mysterious disappearances, but folk go missing everywhere, and families all over the world are left fearing the worst.Sometimes foul play is afoot: a serial killer snatching victims off the street, or a stalker with a score to settle. In those cases, it can be decades before evidence

The Mysterious Death of Alfred Swinscoe

Dec 10 2023 17 mins

The podcast looks at the police investigation into the murder of Alfred Swinscoe, a coal miner who vanished without a trace in 1967. What do the police do when faced with a 50+ year-old cold case? The Psycho Killer team investigates.

Jack The Ripper: Halloween Special

Oct 31 2023 11 mins

Jack the Ripper. The unknown serial killer murdered and mutilated at least five women in the East End of London in 1888.Every time he gave the police the slip. He only made one mistake – dropping a piece of apron ripped from his fourth victim. Catherine Eddowes was murdered in Mitre Square in the City of London. A copper found the apron piece in Goulston Street, less than half a

Jack The Ripper: The Witnesses

Oct 22 2023 12 mins

Jack the Ripper – the serial killer who murdered at least five women in London's East End in 1888 – is the subject of a special Psycho Killer investigation.M.P. Priestly is the author of 'Jack the Ripper – One Autumn in Whitechapel' and Jack the Ripper tour guide.Mick kindly agreed to answer some questions from former major crime detective Jacque Morrell about the reliability

Jack The Ripper: Psycho Or Satanist?

Oct 15 2023 100 mins

Warning: graphic contentMystery surrounds the mass murderer known as Jack the Ripper. He prowled the back streets of London's East End preying on the poor and the vulnerable.This devil butchered his victims and left their mutilated corpses down dark alleys, on doorsteps, and in doss houses. Then, the killer vanished, seemingly into thin air.What spurred the Ripper on his rampage? S

The Pottery Cottage Murders

Jun 26 2023 48 mins

Contains very strong languageSome said Mad Billy Hughes was born bad. He was a misogynist who let his fists do the talking.But Mad Billy was worse than a knuckle-headed bully.He was a psychopath — cunning, resourceful and ruthless.And when he was cornered, he'd stop at nothing.Location recording by Karl Cooper, Podcast Partners UK.

Barry Prudom: The Making Of A Mass Murderer

Apr 16 2023 53 mins

1. Take an unremarkable, working class man, who idolises the soldier father he never knew.2. Steep in military doctrine until rejected by the army.3. Set aside while he retreats into a fantasy world and allow resentment to simmer for several years.4. Then flambé his personal life, garnish with an illegal firearm, and serve to an unsuspecting copper – or three.Acknowledgements Fe

Barry Prudom: In The Footsteps Of A Cop Killer

Feb 26 2023 13 mins

Barry Prudom was a loner. A quiet bloke, obsessed with the army.But the army wouldn't have him. So he made up his own fantasy world where he pretended he was in the special forces. And instead of a toy gun, Prudom had smuggled in the real thing. His little friend was a Beretta Jaguar – his pride and joy – and they played happily together until one day, on manoeuvers when Prudom

Mark 'Reds' Martin - Nottingham's First Serial Killer

Dec 25 2022 23 mins

sex, violence, languageThe newspapers called him the Sneinton Strangler after the district of Nottingham where he plied his trade. Mark Martin operated in the shadows. While others walked by 'Reds', as he was known, always had time for the hungry and homeless. But he was no Samaritan. He took what little they had – their benefits, their drugs, their remaining shreds of dignity. A

Peter Tobin And The Bible John Mystery

Nov 20 2022 69 mins

Journalists Pip Watts and Simon Ford join retired major crime detective Jacques Morrell to investigate the life and crimes of one of Scotland's most reviled serial killers. Peter Tobin, who died in October 2022, was exposed as a paedophile, rapist and murderer of at least three young women. As he rotted in jail, Tobin's name became linked to a spate of sex murders in Glasgow in the