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In the early hours of March 31, 2001 emergency services received a call that a body had been found in a swimming pool during a house party in Roydon in Essex. The emergency services operation soon realized that this would be no normal call for help. The address was that of a British icon, a household name, and a much loved superstar Michael Barrymore. The body was that of Stuart Lubbock. He had su...

We finish up our Breckenridge Murders series with part 3, which covers some of the known suspects in the murders of Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer and Annette Schnee. Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/crimepedia . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/crimepedia--5894684/suppo...

After the murder of Bobbi Jo Oberholtzer, the ski town of Breckenridge, Colorado is further shaken by the disappearance of a second hitchhiker. Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/crimepedia . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/crimepedia--5894684/support .

On a bone-chilling night in January 1982 a woman attempts to hitchhike home after meeting with some friends at a local bar for some drinks after work. When she fails to return home, a frantic husband begins a desperate search for his wife. This search would begin to unravel a series of events which increasingly turned more sinister.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crimepedia/support Get...

This week we have two cases updates for you, in regards to the Case of the Unidentified Hiker (Episodes 2 & 3) and Killing for a Child (Episode 19).--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crimepedia/support Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/crimepedia . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Become a supporter of this podcast: h...

Claudia Elizabeth Lawrence was born in Malton, North Yorkshire, England the 27th of February, 1974 to parents Peter and Joan Lawrence. She grew up with her parents and sister Ali in Hutton in York. She worked at Goodricke College at the Roger Kirk Centre at the University of York. On the 19th of March, 2009 Claudia failed to turn up to work. Despite efforts to try to contact her by phone, her boss...

On December 16th, 2004, the body of 23 year old Bobbie Jo Stinnett was found laying in a pool of blood in her home in Skidmore, MO. What makes this case so horrifying is the fact that Bobbi Jo was 8 months pregnant at the time of her murder. After being strangled, her abdomen was cut open and her unborn child was removed from her body. This is Killing for a Child. Get bonus content on Patreon Supp...

Three murders, three different locations, but was it just one killer? In 1987 on the 28th of March, 66 year old Helen Fleet was murdered while walking her dogs. She was stabbed, beaten and strangled. On the 15th of November 1997, 14 year old Kate Bushell was also murdered; her throat was cut while she was walking her next door neighbor’s dog. And on the 20th of October 1998, 40 year old Lyn Bryant...

On November 25, 1997, 16 year old Karen Marie Mitchell was working at a day care center in Eureka, California, over her Thanksgiving holiday vacation from school. After spending some time in the afternoon with her Aunt at her nearby shoe store, Karen set off on foot to return to the daycare center. With the exception of one single eyewitness, no one has ever reported seeing or hearing from Karen M...

On the morning of 26th of April 1999, 37 year old popular TV presenter Jill Dando left her fiancé’s house in Cheswick in London. She returned alone by car to the house she owned in Fulham. She has previously lived in the house but was in the process selling it and did not visit it frequently. As she reached her front door, at about 11:32, she was shot once in the head. Her body was discovered abou...

Near the Frankfort-Hochst Train Station, in the outskirts of Frankfort, Germany you will find the Liederbach Tunnel. A small walkway and river egress which leads underneath the train tracks above. For many years, the dimly lit tunnel was used by neighborhood kids as a shortcut to schools and playgrounds. But in 1998, the tunnel became the scene of a cruel, gruesome, and inhumane murder and has bee...

On the 28th of November 2004, Alistair Wilson was at home with his wife and kids. At 7pm the doorbell rang and Alistair’s wife Veronica answered the door to a man who only spoke two words to her, Alistair Wilson. She assumes that the man had something to do with Alistair’s work, and while Alistair goes to the door, she then attends to her small children. Alistair returns to the children’s room car...

In the pre-dawn hour of September 28, 2014, firefighters responded to a report of smoke billowing from  a home at 49 Meadow Run Drive in Skillman, New Jersey, an affluent section of Montgomery Township in Somerset County. Once inside, firefighters located a blaze which was isolated in a second floor bedroom. After quickly dowsing the flames, two bodies were discovered laying face up on the floor....

In December 1994, Melissa Ann Witt (known as Missy) went to meet her mom at Bowling World in Fort Smith, Arkansas. She pulled into the carpark, parked her car, and was never seen again. Melissa's car keys and one of her earrings was found at the scene, along with evidence of a struggle and blood in the parking lot. Six weeks later on January 13, 1995, two hunters were hunting near Turner's Bend at...

On the evening of June 3rd, 1980, the body of 8 year old Asenath Dukat was found a block away from her home in a shallow stream in Upper Arlington, Ohio. She had been raped and her head smashed with a 20 pound rock. What happened to Asenath was so incomprehensible in her community, it created a sense of not only sorrow but fear. It has been over 40 years and the case has not yet been solved. So th...

On the evening of June 3rd, 1980, the body of 8 year old Asenath Dukat was found a block away from her home in a shallow stream in Upper Arlington, Ohio. She had been raped and her head smashed with a 20 pound rock. What happened to Asenath was so incomprehensible in her community, it created a sense of not only sorrow but fear. It has been over 40 years and the case has not yet been solved. So th...

Between 1978 and 1983, Dennis Andrew Nilsen murdered at least 12 young men and boys at two London addresses. He strangled and drowned his victims before washing and redressing them. He was sentenced at the Old Bailey in 1983. Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/crimepedia . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Become a supporter of this...

Between 1978 and 1983, Dennis Andrew Nilsen murdered at least 12 young men and boys at two London addresses. He strangled and drowned his victims before washing and redressing them. He was sentenced at the Old Bailey in 1983. This is the case of the Drowning Boy. Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/crimepedia . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

20 year old Heather Elvis was just starting her adult life in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She was working two jobs and had aspirations to become a cosmetologist. All of her dreams and aspirations would come to a halt, when a 38 year old man walked into her life.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crimepedia/support Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show http://supporter.acast.com...

In 1988, 22 year old Marie Wilks after visiting her husband, kissed him goodbye and set off home with her 11 year old sister and 13 month old son. The oil warning light came on in her car, and so she left the children in the car to get help. Marie's body was later found in wood land. In 1989, a man was convicted of her murder, but 5 years later he was released and her case has never been solved. T...

Apple Valley is a private community nestled around a beautiful 3.25 mile-long, 511-acre man made lake. Located 6 miles outside of the town Mount Vernon, in Knox County Ohio, the residents of Apple Valley enjoy the relative seclusion that the hills and trees of the area provide. But for a four Apple Valley residents, their secluded wooded lot presented the perfect opportunity for a man to stalk the...

On 1 October 2012, in Machynlleth, Powis, Wales, 5 year old April Sue-Lyn Jones disappeared after being sighted willingly getting into a vehicle near her home. After a short investigation, a 46-year-old local man named Mark Bridger was subsequently arrested. This is the story of the disappearance and murder of April Jones. Get bonus content on Patreon Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/c...

June 2006. Millions of people packed the stadiums, streets, and bars of Germany to watch 32 teams compete for the World Cup trophy. On one of these summer evenings, as Germans celebrated the World Cup, a young woman disappears in Paderborn. For seven days, she sends disturbing signs of life. And then there was silence…. This week on Crimepedia, “What Happened to Frauke Liebs?” Music:Hidden Truth b...

The Appalachian Trail is a marked hiking trail in Eastern United States. It extends between Springer mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine. On July 2018 two men discovered the body of a man in a tent on the trail in Noble's Camp in Big Cypress National Preserve. He had no ID, no phone and no credit cards. In the tent with him he had a notebook, journal, supplies and cash. As of today he...

The Appalachian Trail is a marked hiking trail in Eastern United States. It extends between Springer mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine. On July 2018 two men discovered the body of a man in a tent on the trail in Noble's Camp in Big Cypress National Preserve. He had no ID, no phone and no credit cards. In the tent with him he had a notebook, journal, supplies and cash. As of today he...