Whispers in the Dark

On 28 November 1994, a little boy woke up in his house on the Welland Estate in Peterborough. He made his own breakfast, got himself dressed, and headed off to school alone. He never arrived. What followed was one of the longest, most complicated roads to justice in recent British history. This is Little Rikki.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​#WhispersInTheDark #RikkiNeave #UKTrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase

Claire von der Meden  <claire.vondermeden@gmail.com>1:04 PM (1 hour ago)to meIt is a Saturday night in a small German town in the winter of 1981. A young woman is getting ready to go out. Her friends are already at the club. There will be dancing, there will be music, there will be the particular joy of a girls’ night that stretches past the point of sensible. The night is young and so is sh...

In the Royal Navy, men go missing. It happens. There are reasons — and there are ways to explain it away. But sometimes an explanation is just a door left open. And some doors shouldn’t stay open forever. #WhispersInTheDark #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #TrueCrimeAddict #TrueCrimeJunkie #TrueCrimeLovers #ColdCase #ColdCasePodcast #CrimePodcast #UKTrueCrime #BritishTrueCrime #Roy...

In December 2011, nineteen-year-old art student Katy Wynter was looking forward to Christmas with her family in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. She was bright, warm, creative and loved. She had a new boyfriend. She was getting to know his friends. Something was very wrong. And Katy had no idea. This week on Whispers in the Dark we tell Katy’s story — a case that will stay with you long after the final...

In December 1996, Yvonne Gilford — a British nurse working on a hospital compound in Saudi Arabia — was found dead in her locked room. The violence had been sustained. The crime scene was immediately contaminated. Within days, two of her colleagues were arrested, and both confessed. What followed was one of the most internationally charged criminal cases of the decade: a closed-door trial, a death...