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  • 85 | The Brecknock Road Murder | The True Crime Case of George Vincent Heneage Finch

    85 | The Brecknock Road Murder | The True Crime Case of George Vincent Heneage Finch
    Jan 18 2026
    In 1886, shootings in London were rare - even more so in broad daylight. In this episode, we explore the murder and robbery committed in a quiet Kentish Town road by George Finch, a would-be performer whose stage ambitions had faltered. Finch would avoid execution and go on to live a long life after his release from Broadmoor.


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    Sources:
    Popular Science Monthly (1875)
    The People — Sunday 13 June 1886
    Banbury Beacon — Saturday 19 June 1886
    Exeter and Plymouth Gazette — Thursday 05 August 1886
    St James's Gazette — Wednesday 04 August 1886
    Jersey Express and Channel Islands Advertiser — Tuesday 10 August 1886
    Kenilworth Advertiser — Saturday 25 November 1905
    Old Bailey Online
    Ancestry.co.uk
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    12 min
  • 84 | Murder on Roppa Moor: The Helmsley Double Murder of 1895

    84 | Murder on Roppa Moor: The Helmsley Double Murder of 1895
    Jan 9 2026
    In 1895, 22-year-old Robert Hudson took his wife Kitty and their infant son on holiday to Helmsley, North Yorkshire. When they departed hurriedly under suspicious circumstances, the landlady at their boarding house was surprised. Soon, Kitty Hudson’s relatives grew concerned as to her whereabouts and the Yorkshire Police set out to track a killer who used multiple aliases and sent false letters to throw them off his trail. This episode revisits a little-known Victorian double murder case from North Yorkshire.

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    Sources:
    Ancestry.co.uk
    Manchester Courier – Tuesday 11 September 1894
    Echo (London) – Monday 17 June 1895
    Bingley Chronicle – Friday 21 June 1895
    Loftus Advertiser – Friday 21 June 1895
    Chard and Ilminster News – Saturday 22 June 1895
    Bridlington Free Press – Saturday 22 June 1895
    Wells Journal – Thursday 27 June 1895
    Yorkshire Evening Post – Wednesday 19 June 1895
    Huddersfield Daily Examiner – Monday 1 July 1895
    Hull Daily Mail – Wednesday 3 July 1895
    Stalybridge Reporter – Saturday 27 July 1895
    Hull Daily Mail – Tuesday 13 August 1895
    Bradford Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 13 August 1895
    Weekly Dispatch (London) – Sunday 18 August 1895
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    24 min
  • 83 | Dr Crippen and the Hilldrop Crescent Murder: The Notorious 1910 True Crime Case

    83 | Dr Crippen and the Hilldrop Crescent Murder: The Notorious 1910 True Crime Case
    Nov 18 2025
    Dr Crippen and the Hilldrop Crescent Murder revisits one of Britain’s most infamous true crime cases of 1910. When Cora Crippen, better known on the music-hall stage as Belle Elmore vanished, her husband Hawley Harvey Crippen offered shifting explanations that soon aroused suspicion. A police search of their Hilldrop Crescent home uncovered human remains, pointing to a shocking murder. Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve attempted to flee Britain, but a transatlantic chase brought them into custody. The case became a sensation, cementing Dr Crippen as one of the most notorious figures in British criminal history.

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    Sources:
    Coniam, Matthew. Mr Crippen, Cora and the Body in the Basement.Pen & Sword True Crime. Rubenhold, Hallie. Story of a Murder. Transworld. Kindle Edition.
    British Newspaper Archive
    Ancestry.co.uk
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    39 min
  • 82 | The Murder of Mary Drury: A Forgotten True Crime Case from 1920s Liverpool

    82 | The Murder of Mary Drury: A Forgotten True Crime Case from 1920s Liverpool
    Nov 11 2025
    In February 1920, 15-year-old Kathleen Mary Drury left her home in Waterloo, Liverpool, and never returned. The following morning, her body was found near the Brooke Road allotments, her throat cut and no sign of the killer. Days later, the mutilated body of a railway signalman was discovered on the tracks at Sandhills Station but what linked the two deaths? This episode revisits an obscure and long-forgotten case from post-war Liverpool.

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    Sources:
    Daily Mirror - Thursday 05 February 1920
    Liverpool Daily Post - Friday 06 February 1920
    Liverpool Echo - Thursday 05 February 1920
    Liverpool Evening Express - Wednesday 04 February 1920
    Nottingham Journal - Thursday 05 February 1920, Saturday 21 February 1920
    Portsmouth Evening News - Tuesday 10 February 1920

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    17 min
  • 81 | Murder at the Garibaldi Inn: The True Crime Story of Constable Herbert Burrows

    81 | Murder at the Garibaldi Inn: The True Crime Story of Constable Herbert Burrows
    Oct 24 2025
    In November 1925, police constable Herbert Burrows was found guilty of murdering publican Ernest Laight, his wife Doris, and their young son Robert at the Garibaldi Inn in Worcester. The discovery was made by the family’s charwoman, who raised the alarm after finding the doors unlocked and the till emptied. The case exposed the calculated betrayal of trust within a small community and led to Burrows becoming the last person from Worcester to be executed by hanging.

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    Sources:
    Ancestry.co.uk
    Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 03 February 1926
    Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 20 February 1926
    Evening News 21 January 1987
    Evening News (London) - Tuesday 26 June 1917
    Evesham Standard & West Midland Observer - Saturday 05 December 1925
    Hendon & Finchley Times - Friday 29 June 1917
    Illustrated Police News - Thursday 25 February 1926
    Dundee Courier - Friday 18 December 1925
    Kingston Times - Saturday 30 January 1926
    Reynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 06 December 1925, Sunday 21 February 1926
    Sunday Express - Sunday 29 November1925
    Daily News (London) - Monday 30 November 1925
    Thomson's Weekly News - Saturday 05 December 1925
    Westminster Gazette - Thursday 18 February 1926

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    "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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    16 min
  • 80 | The Hednesford Ripper: Henry Thomas Gaskin

    80 | The Hednesford Ripper: Henry Thomas Gaskin
    Oct 6 2025
    When career criminal Henry Thomas Gaskin returned from serving with the Royal Engineers, tunnelling under the trenches of the Western Front during WWI, he was furious to discover his wife’s infidelity. He lured her to a meeting place under the pretence of discussing their marriage, and Lizzie Gaskin was never seen alive again. This true crime case remains one of the West Midlands’ most brutal, yet often forgotten, murders.

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    Sources:
    Walsall Observer - Saturday 02 June 1906
    Lichfield Mercury - Friday 27 July 1906
    Oxford Journal - Wednesday 13 March 1912
    Lichfield Mercury - Friday 15 March 1912
    Loftus Advertiser - Friday 12 April 1912
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    18 min
  • 79 | History’s Deadliest Gunshot: Gavrilo Princip and the Sarajevo Assassination That Sparked WW1

    79 | History’s Deadliest Gunshot: Gavrilo Princip and the Sarajevo Assassination That Sparked WW1
    Sep 24 2025
    In Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, a young Bosnian student named Gavrilo Princip fired a shot which would become the deadliest in history. With the help of co-conspirators from underground nationalist group Young Bosnia, he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie during their imperial visit to the capital. Their deaths set off a domino effect of ultimatums, alliances, and mobilisations across Europe, and within weeks, the continent was engulfed in World War I (The Great War), a conflict that ultimately claimed millions of lives. Was Princip a terrorist, a freedom fighter, or simply a desperate youth caught in history’s tide? This episode explores the life, motives, and legacy of the 19-year-old whose pistol transformed Bosnia’s struggle into a global war. Few individuals have altered the course of history so suddenly, or so tragically.

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    Sources:
    Dedijer, Vladimir. The Road to Sarajevo. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966.

    Butcher, Tim. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War. London: Chatto & Windus, 2014.

    Feuerlicht, Roberta Strauss. The Desperate Act: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo. London: McGraw-Hill, 1968.

    Additional references:
    Aichelburg, Wladimir. Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand und Artstetten. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 1986.

    Woolf, Alex. Assassination in Sarajevo. Oxford: Heinemann, 2002.

    Ullman, Harlan. A Handful of Bullets: How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace. New York: Potomac Books, 2014.

    Liulevicius, Vejas Gabriel. World War I: The “Great War”

    Culpin, Christopher. Making History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996
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    57 min
  • 78 | The Murdered Watchmaker of Norfolk: The 1853 Case of Lorenz Beha

    78 | The Murdered Watchmaker of Norfolk: The 1853 Case of Lorenz Beha
    Sep 16 2025
    In 2025, two pocket watches were sold at an auction, prompting renewed interest in a 170 year old East Anglia murder case. They were made by skilled German craftsman Lorenz Beha, who came to England to set up his watchmaking business in Norfolk. On a cold November day in 1853, Beha was found murdered on a quiet country road by a local labourer who happened to be one of his customers. The timepieces are not the only reminders of this forgotten piece of history, as the killer’s death mask survives as a gruesome relic of this tragic case.

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    "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) - ending Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) - Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License


    Sources:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gmr362p53o
    A Brief History of Tittleshall People Compiled by Robert Box
    Morning Advertiser - Friday 25 November 1853
    Norfolk News - Saturday 26 November 1853
    Norfolk Chronicle - Saturday 26 November 1853
    Worcester Journal - Saturday 26 November 1853
    Norwich Mercury - Saturday 25 March 1854
    Evening Mail - Monday 27 March 1854
    London Evening Standard - Monday 10 April 1854
    Lynn Museum, https://www.lynnmuseum.norfolk.gov.uk
    Norwich Castle Museum, https://www.norwichcastle.norfolk.gov.uk
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    18 min