Crime at Bedtime

In 1970, the body of a woman was found strangled and buried in a shallow grave. With no clues to follow, the case quickly went cold, leaving investigators with more questions than answers. What no one knew then was that this was just the beginning of a terrifying reign of terror. This unsolved murder would later be linked to Samuel Little, a man who would become America's most prolific serial kill...

A 29 year old woman who was loved by so many goes missing after a night out in Brunswick Melbourne in September 2012. It would take just six days to catch Jill's killer, Six hours for him to confess and just six minutes for a judge to remand him in custody.  However it was years of failures from a justice system that would lead to Jill's death. Become a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now...

In 2013, a young man by the name of Kendrick Johnson is discovered deceased in his high school gymnasium. The way in which he's found is extremely odd, he was trapped upside down in a rolled up gym mat. The police and medical examiners office would be very quick to call this just a 'Tragic accident'. The family of Kendrick Johnson weren't buying it, there were just too many issues in this lack lus...

Summer, 1934. Brighton, England. The holiday season is in full swing as the beaches and streets fill with cheerful locals and tourists enjoying the warm weather. But beneath the surface of this vibrant seaside town, something dark is about to emerge. It all begins when a mysterious suitcase is abandoned at the railway station. Inside, a gruesome discovery is made—one that will send shockwaves thro...

The year is 1931, and a man named William Herbert Wallace has just returned home to find his house bolted from the inside. This was odd, as his wife was supposed to be home. After eventually managing to get in, he discovers a brutal scene: his wife has been murdered. Once the police arrive and start to take Mr Wallace's account of what happened that evening, suspicion quickly turns to him. He expl...

Today we look at the story of Peter Farquhar. Peter was a well educated and accomplished teacher and author. He made it his life's work to educate and help others in the wonders of literature and poetry. For all of his achievements he had one major thing lacking in his life, love. Peter was deeply lonely and longed for companionship, this was his weakness a weakness that would be exploited by...

Over five harrowing years, Sutcliffe's reign of terror gripped the north of England, claiming the lives of 13 women and injuring many others. The police would come under increasing pressure to solve this case as woman across the North of England started carrying knives to protect themselves from a man that couldn't be stopped. It would be a random vehicle stop conducted by two officers on a suspic...

Sarah Everard was a 33 year old woman who had a bright future ahead of her. Loved by all who met her, she was funny, smart and caring. However on the night of the 3rd March 2021 while walking home from a friends house Sarah goes missing. With no sign of her for three days Police finally get a break through but are utterly shocked by what they discover as the person responsible was one of their own...

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On June 13, 1996, 18-year-old Angie Dodge was found murdered in her Idaho Falls apartment, having been raped and brutally killed. Christopher Tapp was arrested and convicted for the crime in 1998, based on a confession that many believe was coerced. Despite Tapp's conviction, DNA evidence from the crime scene did not match him, raising doubts about his guilt. However it would be the determination...

On July 24, 2002, Clara Harris confronted her husband David in a hotel parking lot over an extramarital affair, then struck and ran over him with her Mercedes sedan, killing him in an act of mariticide. That evening, Clara went to the Hilton Hotel in Nassau Bay, to confront her husband and reportedly attacked his mistress in the lobby. Hotel employees escorted Clara to her car. When David and his...

Jill Cahill was lying in a hospital bed having spent 6 months recovering from a savage attack, an attack that shattered her skull and put her in a coma. Her attacker was her Husband Jeff. Jeff and Jill Cahill from the outside seemed to have a happy and fulfilled marriage. A home with the white picket fence, two beautiful kids and animals to match but all was far from perfect. The couple had been d...

Half a century ago, a murder took place in London in the 1970's. It was brutal, violent and bloody. The case was that of the 7th Earl of Lucan, a 39-year-old professional gambler who was believed to have killed his children’s nanny and attacked his wife. He then went to ground, did he commit suicide? was his escape aided by his wealthy friends and could he still be a live after all these years? Ge...

In 1964 Catherine Genovese was attacked 100 yards from her home by a knife wielding man, he stabbed her to death and then ejaculated on her body. Reports would say that 38 people witnessed the attack, one man even shouted at Winston Moseley to 'leave that girl alone'. Yet no-one called the police or went to help her. The shock from the crime would cause changes to be made to the NYPD's 911 service...

It's April 2015 at four o'clock in the afternoon at the Nether Avon airfield Wiltshire south west England. A group of Skydiving enthusiasts are taking off on their accent to 4000ft for a jump. among them was 41 year old Victoria Cilliers a veteran skydiver with thousands of jumps to her name. Today however would be her first jump in over a year, she had not long given birth to her second child. Sk...

48 year old Mary Lou Morris was a loan officer at a Bank in Houston, Texas. She was happily married to her husband Jay and reportedly loved by many others. On the morning of October 12, 2000, Mary left for work. Throughout the day her husband Jay tried to call her, but she never picked up or called him back. At around 5 PM, he decided to call her supervisor who tells him she hadn’t come in to work...

The Hinterkaifeck murders occurred on the evening of 31 March 1922, when six inhabitants of a small Bavarian farmstead, located approximately 70 kilometres north of Munich, Germany, were murdered by an unknown assailant. The six victims were Andreas Gruber his wife Cäzilia Gruber, their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, Viktoria's children, Cäzilia, Josef and the maid, Maria Baumgartner. They were all fo...

The Lake Bodom murders is one of the most infamous unsolved homicide cases in Finnish criminal history. On 5 June 1960, at Lake Bodom in Espoo, Uusimaa, Maila Björklund and Anja Mäki (both 15) and Seppo Boisman (18) were killed by stabbing and blunt-force trauma to their heads while sleeping inside a tent.  The fourth, Nils Gustafsson, then aged 18, was found outside the tent with broken faci...

Lars Joachim Mittank is a German man who disappeared on 8 July 2014, near Varna Airport in Varna, Bulgaria. Mittank was vacationing at the Golden Sands resort, where he was supposedly involved in a fight, and was subsequently unable to fly home with his friends for health reasons. Mittank was documented acting strangely while alone in Bulgaria. He called home to his mother claiming that people wer...

In June 1978, Bob Crane, the star of the sixties sitcom Hogan's Heroes but now reduced to playing on the dinner-theater circuit, was found bludgeoned to death in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he was appearing in a run of Beginner's Luck. Bob was found by a co-star who had reportedly organised a lunch date with him, after discovering his lifeless body she runs out of the apartment for for help and so...

The story of Fawziyah Javed is a devastating one, a bright and fun loving soon to be mother who's life would be tragically cut short. During her marriage, Fawziyah became pregnant which ultimately caused her to decide to leave her husband Kashif Anwar to live with her parents to raise her child in a safe environment. Her evidence for divorce proceedings against Anwar included recordings in which F...

In a small Florida town in 1990, a woman dressed as a clown showed up at a doorstep with a bouquet of flowers. What happened next shocked the nation and left a family shattered. Join us on our podcast as we delve into the chilling story of Sheila Keen Warren and the mysterious murder she committed. Uncover the secrets, the twists, and the shocking truth behind this infamous case that remained unso...

The  Yuba County Five  were a group of young men from Yuba County, California in the United States, each with mild intellectual disabilities or psychiatric conditions. The boys were reported missing after attending a college basketball game at CSU, Chico (also known as Chico State), on the night of February 24, 1978. That night would lead to a large-scale search for the young m...

On July 6, 2012, Skylar Neese snuck out of her bedroom window in Star City, West Virginia, to meet up with her friends Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf. As she climbs out of her bedroom window and across the carp park of her units a CCTV camera sees her jump into a car and drive off. This footage would be the last time Skylar was seen alive. For six months, her fate was a mystery, until a chilling rev...

In 1961, a picture was snapped of a young girl who was discovered adrift, alone, on a small lifeboat in the waters of the Bahamas. And the story of how Terry Jo Duperrault ended up there is much more horrifying and bizarre than one can imagine. Get early and ad free access to Crime at Bedtime and One Minute Remaining for as little as $1.61 a week! Get early and ad free access to Crime at...