Crime Canapés

Today we are covering a man who spent three decades evading justice for the deaths of at least three people. A man so wealthy, so well-connected, so skilled at hiring extraordinary lawyers that he walked free from a murder charge despite admitting he had dismembered the victim. A man who ultimately undid himself not in a courtroom — but in a bathroom, talking to himself while a microphone was stil...

Today's case is one of the most debated, most documented, and most divisive murder cases of the twenty-first century. A case that generated a global Netflix phenomenon. A case that split public opinion completely down the middle. And at the centre of it — a twenty-five-year-old woman who went to work one morning and never came home. Steven Avery. Teresa Halbach. Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Tw...

Today's case is one that demonstrates something we come back to again and again on this show — that some of the most dangerous killers are the ones who present as the most caring. Today's killer was a landlady. A community figure. A woman who took in the vulnerable and the elderly. And who killed them, buried them in her garden, and kept cashing their cheques. Dorothea Puente. Sacramento,...

Episode forty-five. And today we are going to Dublin, Ireland — to one of the most disturbing murder cases in modern Irish criminal history. A case so savage, so clinical in its horror, that it left detectives shaken and prosecutors reaching for language to describe what had been done to a man in a flat in north Dublin. The Scissor Sisters. The murder and dismemberment of Farah Swaleh Noor. A case...

Today's case is one of the most genuinely extraordinary things that has ever happened in an American town. A welder. A bulldozer. Two years of secret preparation. And two hours on a June afternoon in two thousand and four that levelled thirteen buildings, cost seven million dollars in damage, and ended with only one death — the man driving the machine. The Killdozer Rampage. Granby, Colorado....

This one is different. There is no murder. There is no unknown killer. What there is — is a lie. A very elaborate, very damaging lie that consumed a nation, devastated a family, wasted millions of dollars of law enforcement resources, and caused real harm to an entire community that was falsely accused. And at the centre of it — a woman who chose every single part of it deliberately. The Sherri Pa...

Today we are going back to New Orleans in nineteen eighteen. A city already living through the First World War, the Spanish flu, and the everyday chaos of one of the most vivid and complicated cities in America. And into that city stepped someone who has never been identified — someone who broke into homes, picked up an axe, and left behind a trail of blood and one of the strangest pieces of crimi...

Today's case is one that has everything — extraordinary wealth, a family that couldn't agree on whether to save a child, a severed ear sent through the post, and a grandfather who was the richest man in the world and still argued about how much his grandson's life was worth. The kidnapping of John Paul Getty III. Rome, nineteen seventy-three. A sixteen-year-old boy held captive for a h...

Today's case comes at the BTK murders from a direction we haven't taken before — through the eyes of someone who loved the killer. Who grew up with him. Who had no idea. And who has spent the years since trying to reckon with something most of us will never have to face. Dennis Rader. The BTK Killer. Ten murders across seventeen years in Wichita, Kansas. A church president. A compliance of...

The Lululemon murder. Bethesda, Maryland. March two thousand and ten. Jayna Murray was thirty years old, and she was beaten to death in the stockroom of the shop where she worked. What happened to her — and the elaborate lie constructed around it — is one of the most disturbing cases we have covered on this show. Join us from everyday at 7pm for new episodes of historical, unsolved and present cri...

Episode thirty-eight. And this one has everything. A powerful family. A century of untouchable influence. A double murder. Financial fraud on a staggering scale. A faked shooting. And at the centre of it all — a man who thought the rules had never applied to him and was eventually proved catastrophically wrong. The Murdaugh family murders. South Carolina. A case that began with two bodies at a hun...

D.B. Cooper. The man who hijacked a commercial airliner in nineteen seventy-one, extorted two hundred thousand dollars, parachuted out of the back of the plane somewhere over Washington State — and was never seen again. The only unsolved case of air piracy in American commercial aviation history. Join us from everyday at 7pm for new episodes of historical, unsolved and present crimes. The best way...

Episode thirty-six. And today we are going back to the nineteen thirties — to one of the most romanticised, mythologised, and fundamentally misrepresented criminal stories in American history. Bonnie and Clyde. The names alone conjure something. A film. A song. A poster. Two young lovers on the run, sticking it to the system. Except that is not what they were. They were killers. They killed at lea...

Episode thirty-five. And this one — this one is the one that makes you question everything. Not a stranger. Not a monster lurking in the shadows. A family doctor. A GP. The man people called when they were frightened and unwell. The man they trusted with their lives. Literally. Harold Shipman. Convicted of fifteen murders in January two thousand. The Shipman Inquiry later concluded he almost certa...

Episode thirty-four. And this one is different. There is no conviction. There is no resolution. This is a case unfolding right now — a twenty-three-year-old British woman sitting in a Dubai detention facility, charged with premeditated murder, facing execution if convicted, and telling anyone who will listen that she acted in self-defence after being assaulted and held captive. Join us from everyd...

Episode thirty-three today. And this one is not a single murder, not a single killer targeting individual victims. This is an event so catastrophic, so deliberately engineered, that it changed the way the world thinks about cults, about coercive control, and about what human beings are capable of doing to each other in the name of belief. The Jonestown massacre was a mass murder-suicide that occur...

Episode thirty-two today. And this one is different to anything we've covered recently — because there is no conviction, no arrest, and no consensus. Just a young woman who died under circumstances that remain bitterly disputed fifteen years later, and a family who has never stopped fighting for the truth. This is a very upsetting case so please be mindful while listening. Rest in peace you sweet...

I have to be honest with you before we start today. This is Episode thirty-one. And it is one of the hardest cases we have ever covered on this show. A thirteen-month-old baby boy. A whole life sentence. And a system that had every chance to save him and didn't. This is a very upsetting case so please be mindful while listening. Rest in peace you sweet boy. Join us from everyday at 7pm for new...

Grab a snack, get comfortable — because today's case is one that hit South London like a wave of terror in the summer of nineteen eighty-six. And the man at the centre of it was one of the most disturbing killers Britain has ever seen Kenneth Erskine. The Stockwell Strangler. South London, summer of nineteen eighty-six. Over fifteen weeks, he broke into the homes of elderly people through unse...

And I'm Sam. Right. Today's one. I have been waiting to do this case for weeks Joe Ball. The Butcher of Elmendorf. Saloon owner. Elmendorf, Texas. Nineteen thirties. Join us from everyday at 7pm for new episodes of historical, unsolved and present crimes. The best way to support us is to follow us on Spotify and share the episode with a friend. Thank you all for you support. Crime Canapés

Today's case is one of the most haunting unsolved murders in American history. A six-year-old girl. A house full of people. A killer who has never been caught. And nearly thirty years of questions that still have no definitive answer. Join us from everyday at 7pm for new episodes of historical, unsolved and present crimes. The best way to support us is to follow us on Spotify and share the episode...

Today's case is one of the most heartbreaking we've ever covered on this show. A five-year-old girl. A secret kept for forty-four years. And a brother who finally found the courage to tell the truth — even when the world had long since stopped looking for it. Join us from everyday at 7pm for new episodes of historical, unsolved and present crimes. The best way to support us is to follow us on Spot...

Grab a snack, get comfortable... because today's case is a big one. We're talking about the Gilgo Beach murders. A case that started with one missing woman, a frantic nine-one-one call in the middle of the night — and ended with a discovery in the marshes of Long Island that nobody was prepared for. Join us from everyday at 7pm for new episodes of historical, unsolved and present crimes. T...

Today's episode is different from most we cover on this podcast. It is a case about a murder — the brutal killing of a fourteen-year-old boy in Mississippi in August nineteen fifty-five. But it is also a case about what a mother chose to do with her grief, and how that choice changed American history. This is the murder of Emmett Till. Join us from everyday at 7pm for new episodes of historica...

Today we discuss Christopher Watts murdered his pregnant wife, Shanann, by strangulation, and their daughters, Bella and Celeste, by suffocation. He buried Shanann in a shallow grave near an oil‑storage site and placed the girls' bodies inside crude‑oil tanks, each with an opening only 8 inches in diameter. Join us from everyday at 7pm for new episodes of historical, unsolved and present crime...