Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

In September 2012, 29-year-old Irish woman Jill Meagher was living and working in Melbourne, Australia. After spending an evening with colleagues in the suburb of Brunswick, she began the short walk home. She never made it. Jill’s disappearance sparked a huge search and captured the attention of people across Australia and Ireland. But as investigators pieced together her final movements, CCTV foo...

Content Warning: This episode discusses animal cruelty and contains some non-graphic but distressing descriptions of animal abuse. We understand that this topic will be too upsetting for some listeners, and we completely respect that choice. However, as our guest Mark Randell from the Naturewatch Foundation explains, there is an important reason not to ignore cases like this. Animal cruelty thrive...

A teenager disappears. A family searches for answers. A nation in lockdown watches and waits. In May 2020, 16-year-old Louise Smith vanished from her home in Hampshire, sparking a major missing person investigation. But as detectives began piecing together her final movements, a chilling picture emerged. This week on Seeing Red , we tell the story of Louise Smith, the investigation into her murder...

This week on Seeing Red, Bethan tells us about the shocking murder of Bei Carter, a popular guesthouse owner whose life was cut tragically short in the seaside town of Bridlington. When Bei was found fatally stabbed inside her family-run guesthouse, the crime sent shockwaves through the local community and triggered a major manhunt. What followed was a case filled with disturbing twists, unanswere...

In August 2000, the quiet Cornish village of Carnkie became the scene of one of Britain's most devastating family murder cases. Over the course of just 24 hours, Lee Ford murdered his wife, Lesley, and her four children before attempting to hide what he had done and convince neighbours they had simply disappeared. As the truth slowly emerged, investigators uncovered a story of control, abuse, dece...

Welcome to our first video podcast episode! For those who don't know us, we are Mark and Bethan, and we have been the hosts of the audio podcast Seeing Red for 8 years. Currently at over 17 million downloads and counting! This month we discuss Hannah Pettey, a young mother who was being poisoned, but by who?! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're taking a short mid-season break this week, but rather than leave the feed silent, we thought we'd share an episode from Mark's other podcast, Dead Famous . This episode forms part of a recent trilogy examining famous figures whose lives ended in scandal, criminality and public disgrace. It's a very different show to Seeing Red , but we suspect many of you will find the story every bit as com...

This week on Seeing Red , we travel back to Texas in the 1980s to examine a case that began with the brutal murder of Christine Morton — and led to one of the most shocking miscarriages of justice in modern American criminal history. Her husband, Michael Morton, quickly became the focus of the investigation and was convicted of her murder. But years later, serious questions began to emerge about w...

In July 2005, 18-year-old Anthony Walker was attacked in a Liverpool park in a crime that shocked the UK and became one of Britain’s most devastating modern hate crime cases. Anthony was intelligent, ambitious, and preparing for university when a night out with friends turned into something unthinkably violent. As the investigation unfolded, detectives uncovered a brutal attack driven by racism —...

This week on Seeing Red, Bethan takes the reins solo to untangle the disturbing and deeply tragic case of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon. In early 2023, the aristocrat-turned-fugitive and her convicted rapist partner vanished with their newborn daughter, Baby Victoria, triggering a nationwide manhunt that gripped the UK. As the couple travelled across the country attempting to evade police and s...

In 1994, Gordon Wardell went on TV claiming a gang of men in clown masks had attacked him, tied him up, robbed a building society… and murdered his wife, Carol. Which is… a lot. Carol Wardell was a devoted sister and daughter, quietly getting on with her life — not the kind of person you’d expect to end up at the centre of something this violent. So how does someone like that end up strangled and...

Painkillers. Cold medicine. Morphine, if you're Mark! Something to take the edge off a headache. In 1982, people across Chicago did exactly that — and some of them never got back up. This week on Seeing Red, we’re talking about the case that changed everything: the Chicago Tylenol murders. Cyanide-laced capsules. Random victims. A killer who never had to meet the people they murdered — just quietl...

In April 1991, 21-year-old Jo Ramsden disappeared from the Dorset town of Bridport, a place she knew well and where her routine rarely changed. When she didn’t return home, concern quickly turned into a desperate search. Witnesses reported seeing Jo with a man in a distinctive zig-zag patterned jumper — a sighting that would become central to the case. Despite strong suspicions around a known offe...

Mark’s new podcast, Dead Famous , has just hit 100,000 downloads — so to celebrate, we’re dropping a recent episode straight into your Seeing Red feed. This time, it’s the life and sudden death of Steve Irwin — a man known for getting dangerously close to the world’s deadliest animals… until one moment went fatally wrong. If this episode hooks you, Dead Famous is waiting wherever you get your podc...

This week on Seeing Red , we meet a woman who looked like she’d stepped straight out of a 1950s love story — but left a trail of bodies behind her. Nanny Doss was charming, chatty… and deadly. With a fixation on love and happily-ever-afters, she approached marriage the same way Bethan approaches an all you can eat buffet — aggressively and without hesitation — each one ending in a strangely conven...

Michael Griffiths dealt in antiques — rare, highly sought-after pieces. But in 2013, he became the target of something far less refined: a gang of burglars chasing a quick payday. What followed wasn’t just a robbery gone wrong — it was brutal, calculated, and left behind a trail of evidence as chaotic as the crime itself. This week, we dig into how greed turned deadly… and why some people will kil...

In 1995, 15-year-old Naomi Smith left her home in Nuneaton, Warwickshire — and never returned. What followed was a case that would shock a community, expose uncomfortable truths, and leave lasting scars on a town that thought it was safe. In this episode, Bethan explores Naomi’s life, the events leading up to her murder, and the investigation that followed — asking how something so brutal could ha...

FLASH PATREON SALE! Help us hit the ONE THOUSAND mark! Get 50% off your first month or YEAR, when you sign up by Sunday 29th March. www.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast Use code AC7E3 if it asks for one! This week on Seeing Red, we head to Cheshire to look at the heartbreaking murder of 15-year-old Alex Rodda. Found dead on a quiet country lane in December 2019, Alex’s case would expose a grim story o...

When the truth emerges, it shakes an entire country. In Part Two, we examine what happened after Anne Faber’s disappearance became a murder investigation — the arrest, the revelations, and the uncomfortable questions that followed. This is the story of grief, accountability, public outrage, and the ripple effects that continue long after the headlines fade. www.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Anne Faber should have made it home. In Part One, we follow the life of a bright, warm, and deeply loved young woman whose ordinary Friday bike ride would become anything but. We trace Anne’s world — her family, her relationship, her work, her future plans — and the quiet chain of decisions happening in the background that no one could have known were converging. As the hours pass and Anne doesn’t...

As we move between the end of Season 14 and the start of Season 15, we’re opening the Seeing Red archives. This week, we’re revisiting four cases that took place in the month of March across different years — remembering the victims and reflecting on crimes that continue to leave a lasting impact. These episodes come from earlier in our catalogue, so you may notice a difference in audio quality as...

As we move between the end of Season 14 and the start of Season 15, we’re opening the Seeing Red archives. This week, we’re revisiting four cases that took place in the month of March across different years — remembering the victims and reflecting on crimes that continue to leave a lasting impact. These episodes come from earlier in our catalogue, so you may notice a difference in audio quality as...

As we move between the end of Season 14 and the start of Season 15, we’re opening the Seeing Red archives. This week, we’re revisiting four cases that took place in the month of March across different years — remembering the victims and reflecting on crimes that continue to leave a lasting impact. These episodes come from earlier in our catalogue, so you may notice a difference in audio quality as...

As we move between the end of Season 14 and the start of Season 15, we’re opening the Seeing Red archives. This week, we’re revisiting four cases that took place in the month of March across different years — remembering the victims and reflecting on crimes that continue to leave a lasting impact. These episodes come from earlier in our catalogue, so you may notice a difference in audio quality as...

On 3 January 2025, in a quiet block of flats on Silverdale Close in Aylesbury, 76-year-old John “JJ” Jones was murdered in a brutal, two-stage attack. That afternoon had been painfully ordinary. John spent it the way he’d spent countless others — talking football with friends down the pub and picking up a bit of shopping, before heading home to his flat. Routine. But by late afternoon, he was dead...