Behind The Yellow Tape

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock meets Beverley Cook, curator of the Executions Exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, an exhibition covering over 700 years of public executions, to find out how and why London acquired this epithet: the City of Gallows.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the case of William Reeve, who told all and sundry that he was going to shoot and kill his wife Harriet Reeve. Not too long after that pronouncement, Harriet was found dead with gunshot wounds. Was Harriet murdered by some third-party or did William Reeve himself carry out this deadly deed, as he said he would?

Since her first novel, Cut Short, hit the shelves in 2009, Leigh Russell, without expecting to, has become a prolific and international best-selling crime writer. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with her to find out how she does it.

Since her first novel, Cut Short, hit the shelves in 2009, Leigh Russell, without expecting to, has become a prolific and international best-selling crime writer. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with her to find out how she does it.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape J.A. Lovelock considers the case of Frances Kidder, as the third installment of this Evil Stepmothers series.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape J.A. Lovelock considers the case of Harriet Parker, a woman with a vengeance against her philandering and abusive partner and how her action against his children, her stepchildren, ended with dire and grave consequences.

Fairy tales. Pantomines. Evil stepmothers. All part of the festive season entertainment. But evil stepmothers are not confined to the pages of fairy tales. No. They do exist. In real life. In this episode of Behind the Yellow Tape and forthcoming episodes, J.A. Lovelock considers the cases of four stepmothers who treated their stepchildren very badly with dire and grave consequences.

It’s that time of the year. Yes, the bleak mid-winter gift-giving season. Christmas. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock is joined by crime fiction author GB Williams who shares her recommendations of the crime fiction novels that might look particularly trendy and appealing under anyone’s Christmas tree.

GB Williams (Gail), is a writer whose crime novels have been described as complex and fast-paced. In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with her in her in her South Wales home, to find out more. And about her demanding cat!

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the case of Priscilla Biggadyke. Convicted of poisoning her husband to death, in 1868, she made history by becoming the first woman in Britain to be executed within the walls of a prison. But did she murder her husband or were the killers hiding in plain sight?

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, and in celebration of Black History Month, J.A. Lovelock revisits her time with detective sergeant Janet Hills MBE of the Metropolitan Police Force, social change maker and performer Ashleigh Nugent and former police officer and dub poet Malachai Smith.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the case of farmer’s wife Sarah Chesham who was acquitted of the murders of three children including two of her own. Some felt she got away with murder. Then came the death of her young husband under suspicious circumstances. Would Sarah escape the hangman’s noose one more time?

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers two separate canalside murders in the West Midlands, both involving the untimely deaths of two women. She follows the twists and turns of each, which may leave you wondering ‘whodunit’?

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock catches up with Simon Corbin. Never hidebound by genre, Simon writes across a range of genres. Today he tells her about the folklore of the East Anglian Black Dog and how it made its way into his latest crime-supernatural chiller novels.

Arthur Major led his wife Ethel a miserable existence. He continually quarrelled with her and constantly threatened to beat her. He deprived her and their young son food. Ethel was so afraid of staying in the house with him as she thought he might kill her. But Arthur is the one who is dead. J.A. Lovelock investigates.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock meets Annys and Lisa - who tells her about their relationship with the criminal justice system; the affect it had on them; and how they took advantage of their second chances.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers the case of Mary Lefley, a Lincolnshire wife accused of killing her husband by lacing his rice pudding supper with arsenic.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock considers, the case of Jack Hewitt, who at the age of 15, was convicted and detained at His Majesty’s Pleasure, for the brutal murder, of a pub landlady. But was he the real killer?

Fancy some tropical sunshine, mixed with some rum punch and the odd murder? In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock meets Jamaican based crime fiction writer Paula Lennon who tells her about murderous goings-on on this paradise island.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock meets Malachi Smith - who tells her about his time working as a police officer in Jamaica and Florida and what made him lay aside his handcuffs and baton to lay down some award-winning dub. Dub poetry that is! Think ‘Dub Poet Society’.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock is joined by award-winning Ashleigh Nugent who tells her about his ‘bad boy’ days, his incredible experience of the criminal justice system, both in the UK and in Jamaica, and how he used his talent for rapping and the arts to transform his own life, as well as the life of others, who share similar experiences.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, J.A. Lovelock meets Detective Sergeant Janet Hills of the Metropolitan Police Force to hear about her life on the beat and how she rose through the ranks to become the first female Chairperson of the Metropolitan Black Police Association. And President of the National Black Police Association.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Lovelock takes the case of Grace Duff to its unexpected conclusion.

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Lovelock evaluates the case of Grace Duff, who was considered to be the killer of three members of her family. But was she?

In this episode of Behind The Yellow Tape, Sandra Hempel tells J.A. Lovelock about an horrendous epidemic that swept the world and killed millions of people. Nobody could understand it, or how it was spreading, and seemingly nobody could stop it…