Blood Ties Podcast

Welcome to part II of "10 Rillington Place". All told John Christie murdered at least eight people, including his wife Ethel, between 1943 and 1953. But everything is not as it seems- could this house be home to two stranglers rather than one? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the home of serial killer John Christie: 10 Rillington Place, London. All told Christie murdered at least eight people, including his wife Ethel, between 1943 and 1953. But everything is not as it seems- could this house be home to two stranglers rather than one? CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodt...

Twenty-five year old landscape architect Joanna Yeates went missing in December 2010 in Bristol; a false accusation and a high-profile investigation ensued. What is the truth behind her murder? CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

The 26th April 2019 will mark twenty years since Jill Dando, a BBC Crimewatch presenter, was shot and killed on her doorstep by a single bullet. Her murder has never been solved. Geoffrey Wansell talks through everything we know about the case that continues to haunt the nation. CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: b...

"A female terrorist, a firebrand, a knifewoman." Model and barmaid Tracie Andrews appeared at a press conference on the 3rd December 1996 with a bruised face, clutching the hand of a mother who had lost her son. Both women appealed for information from the public. Andrews said her fiancé, Lee Harvey, had been the victim of a road rage attack from "a fat man with staring eyes ." It turned out Andre...

When six women were found dead in and around the River Thames in the mid '60s, they were dubbed "The Hammersmith Nude Murders" and their killer "Jack the Stripper". All of the victims had worked as prostitutes, all had been strangled and all were discovered without any clothes. Over fifty years on, are we any closer to knowing the true identity of this serial murderer? CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Da...

Bible John is an unidentified serial killer who murdered three women between 1968 and 1969 in Glasgow. He earned the nick name 'Bible John' because witnesses said he quoted from the Old Testament. But could Bible John really be serial killer Peter Tobin? CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: blood...

Ruth Ellis was a model and nightclub hostess. After being convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely, she was put to death by hanging in 1955. Was she the victim of a cruel boyfriend? Or a calculated killer? CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com  Hosted on Acas...

Joan and John Stirland were murdered on the 8th August 2004 in the seaside resort of Trusthorpe. Mrs Stirland's son, Michael O'Brien, had killed another man outside a pub in Nottingham a year earlier, and the couple had been in fear for their lives ever since. Timothy Spencer QC would later describe Joan and John Stirland as the victims of "a calculated, ruthless and merciless execution." CREDITS:...

On a Wednesday afternoon in May 2013, off-duty British Army soldier Lee Rigby was attacked and killed by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale near the Royal Artillery Barracks in southeast London. The two men told passers-by that they had committed the murder to avenge the killing of Muslims by the British armed forces. Who were these men? And what led them to commit such a brutal crime, seemin...

British rapists and serial killers, John Duffy and David Mulcahy, together attacked numerous women and children at railway stations in the 1980s. In this two part special find out the story of their crimes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

British rapists and serial killers, John Duffy and David Mulcahy, together attacked numerous women and children at railway stations in the 1980s. In this two part special find out the story of their crimes.  CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com  Hosted on Acast. See ac...

Stephen Port used online gay social network Grindr to meet victims before drugging, raping and murdering them in his Barking flat. Join this week to hear about the tangled web The Grindr Killer wove and the clues the police missed... CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.co...

In May 2010 Stephen Griffiths appeared in the magistrates' court giving his name as the Crossbow Cannibal. By December he was found guilty of the three brutal murders he was charged with. Who was Stephen Griffiths? And why did he commit these crimes?  CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodtie...

How did David Bieber, originally from Florida USA and the son of a middle school principal, end up a convicted cop killer in the United Kingdom?  CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Italian Danilo Restivo is a ritual-style killer with a perverted obsession with hair. Why did it take so long for him to face justice?  CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Glyn Dix used a knife, hacksaw and scissors to cut up his second wife Hazel's body after they argued over what to watch on television. The victim's son, Adam Langford, found Dix bloodied and standing over his wife's body. Dix told him: "We've had a little argument." How was this killer able to strike twice? CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter...

Two teenage sweethearts became Britain's youngest double murderers when they knifed a dinner-lady and her daughter to death in their beds. The killers then took a bath together to wash the blood off themselves, watched a Twilight vampire film and had sex. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodt...

What happened to murdered April Jones and who is Mark Bridger? This week Blood Ties explores the crime that shocked the nation.  CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh  Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dale Cregan was described in the British press as a "cold-blooded cop killer" when he murdered two policewomen with a Glock gun and his 'calling card' hand grenades in September 2012. What drove him to such extreme violence? And how did he lose his eye?  CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com   Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: blo...

A shop worker lured a police detective's teenage daughter to his family home and took pictures of himself murdering her. Georgia Williams, 17, was choked to death by Jamie Reynolds, 23, in May 2013. Could the police have done more to prevent her death? CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com   Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: blood...

"He was a monster.....who could be charming at first ....". In the season finale Geoffrey Wansell shares his detailed knowledge and theories about convicted murderer Levi Bellfield AKA The Bus Stop Killer. CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com   Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com  Ho...

Mark Martin killed three homeless women in Nottingham between December 2004 and January 2005. He later said his ambition was to become "Nottingham's first serial killer". CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com   Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

This week Geoffrey and Molly discuss psychopathic and sadistic murderer Peter Tobin: a convicted Scottish serial killer and sex offender who committed his crimes between 1991 and 2006. CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com   Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com  Hosted on Acast. See ac...

In this episode Molly and Geoffrey discuss the sad story of Joanna Dennehy- the UK's third most prolific female serial killer. She was convicted of three murders and two further attempted murders in 2013. CREDITS:  Producer: Poppy Damon  Artwork: George Leigh, www.georgeleigh.com   Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT:  Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com  Hos...