Evidence Locker True Crime

Posing as a charitable missionary organisation, William and Lila Young offered refuge to unmarried young mothers. But what happened behind the closed doors of the Ideal Maternity Home in Nova Scotia in the 1930s is a horrific story of evil intentions and unimaginable greed.  For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to become a Patron of the podcast? Visit our page at Patreon For...

Phoolan Devi’s family arranged her marriage to a man three times her age when she was only 11 years old. Suffering constant sexual assault and abuse, she managed to flee from her husband, to the disgrace of her family. Destitute and angry, she joined a gang of bandits and took revenge on upper-caste men who married young girls.  She fell in love with one of the gang members, but he was killed in g...

On the side of a narrow forest road near Lake Annecy, a man came upon a grisly scene. A BMW Estate had reversed into an embankment, its wheels still spinning in the mud. In front of the car was the lifeless body of a cyclist. On the other side he saw a young girl covered in blood. She gave a couple of steps, then collapsed. Inside the car were three people, all dead. What happened on the roadside...

Béla Kiss ran a lonely-hearts con between 1905 – 1914. He took the life savings of many women before killing them and storing their bodies in metal drums filled with alcohol. He told their families that they had left him and ran away. When the Great War began, Kiss volunteered to serve in the Austria-Hungarian forces in Serbia. By the time police found the bodies of 24 people in his hometown of Ci...

When a young woman by the name of Pia went missing in Finland in 1994, police were mystified. Three years before, another young lady named Pia disappeared from the same region. And three years prior to that, yet another Piia. All disappearances occurred on a Friday night in the first week of October. The cases were eerily similar – was it only coincidence, or was it all part of a bigger plan? For...

When a 13-year-old girl is murdered at her school, the hunt is on to find the killer. Police arrested Roman Zadorov, a Ukrainian citizen who worked in Israel illegally and he confessed. But was he really guilty? This case has been called the ‘Making a Murderer’ of Israel, with many people believing Zadorov is innocent. But if he did not kill Tair Rada, who did? Special thanks: Ruti Robertson For p...

On the 2nd of August 1980, 18-year-old Lakota teenager Candace Rough Surface went to the Silver Dollar Bar with her sister, Clara and her sister’s boyfriend. Candi felt like a fifth wheel, so told them that she wanted to go somewhere else. Clara tried to convince her to stay and hang out with them, but being the tag-along wasn’t quite Candi’s idea of fun. She left into the night and her loved ones...

The peace was shattered in the scenic town of Lolol when a local shopkeeper brutally killed and beheaded two unsuspecting customers. The motive was unclear and for the first time in Chilean criminal history, the prosecutor ordered a psychological autopsy. This is the story of Oscar Lopez Rodriguez and the terror he inflicted on a small town in Chile.  For pictures and more information, join us on...

Twin sisters June and Jennifer Gibbons refused to speak to anyone but each other for as long as they could remember. After committing arson in their teens, they were sent to Broadmoor Hospital for the criminally insane, Britain’s most notorious maximum-security hospital. The girls made a pact: if one of them died, the other one would start speaking and live a normal life. 11 years later, on the da...

The citizens of the Western Australian City of Perth were living in fear between 1959 to 1963. A murderer was on the loose. He killed 8 victims and attempted to murder 14 more. His victims had nothing in common and his methods changed for each murder. Only one man was behind all the horrendous crimes. His name was Eric Edgar Cooke. For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to bec...

Shockwaves rippled through Sweden as the news of their Prime Minister’s murder broke in the early morning hours of March 1st 1986. Thirty years later it remains unsolved. With so many secret agencies at play, will authorities ever know for sure who ordered the hit on Olof Palme? For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Want to become a Patron of the podcast? Visit our page at Patreon...

On February 16 2003, $100 Million’s worth of diamonds was stolen from the impenetrable security vault in the Antwerp World Diamond Centre. This was the largest diamond heist in the world, ever. In a plot that seems more like a Hollywood movie, one smooth criminal (Leonardo Bortolo) and his gang of experts managed to pull off the job of the century. Everyone except the King of Keys was caught, howe...

42-year-old Betsy Faria went for chemotherapy treatment on Tuesday afternoon of December 287h 2011. Her husband, Russ, had gone to a friend’s house, but when he arrived home later that night, he found Betsy dead in the living room. But it was not cancer that had killed her. The scene in the living was a bloody one and Russ assumed that she had taken her own life. He called 911, hysterical, distrau...

On a cool December morning, a man walking his dog on Prestwick Beach in Scotland saw someone laying on the beach and went closer to have a look. When he reached the figure, he could see it was the body of a young woman. Her blonde hair was full of sand and seaweed. She was no longer alive. The woman was 30-year-old Swedish national, Annie Börjesson, who had been living in Edinburgh on and off for...

A close friendship between two teenage girls turns into a fatal obsession. When their parents take measures to separate them, they decided it was time to take revenge. Honora Rieper was brutally murdered at the hands of her daughter Pauline and her best friend Juliet. What made these seemingly innocent girls resort to such extreme violence? For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook Wa...

11-year-old Nicky Verstappen went to Summer Camp with many kids from his hometown of Heibloem. At 5am one morning, Nicky was seen, still sleeping in his tent. By 6am he was gone. The next day, his body was found, not far from the campsite. This is a heart-wrenching case that took law enforcement 20 years to solve. It also made history as one of the largest DNA sweeps ever performed in The Netherla...

Carlos Monzón was Argentina’s golden son: a man with a humble background who managed to win the boxing World Middleweight Championship – a title he defended 14 times. But his violence did not stay inside the ring. On the morning of February 14th 1988, in a domestic dispute, he murdered his wife, then threw her half-naked body over the railing of a second floor balcony. Yet, this brutal event did n...

In 1950, 25-year-old Timothy Evans was convicted of murdering his wife Beryl and their 1-year-old daughter, Jeraldine. He professed his innocence to the end, but was hanged later in the same year. Tim said that his neighbour, 51-year-old year-old John Reginald Christie was responsible for the murders, but nobody believed him. Two years later, when the bodies of six more women were found at the sam...

10 Rillington Place became one of the most notorious addresses in London. One of its occupants, Reg Christie, would lure women into his home with the promise of giving them medical procedures, like illegal abortions. By 1950, he had killed four people and kept the bodies at the property. Christie framed his neighbour for two of the murders and Timothy Evans was wrongfully sent to the gallows. For...

On a grey winter’s morning, the captain of a tugboat made a gory discovery in the Vistula River in the centre of Krakow. Stuck in the propeller of his boat, was the skin of missing student, Katarzyna Zowada. There was no body, it was just the skin, sliced off with surgical precision. This case became one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in Poland’s criminal history. Until October 2017, when a loc...

Zack Bowen and Addie Hall had an intense love that was sealed during the destructive landfall of Hurricane Katrina. Their volatile relationship led to many arguments and fights, until one day, things went too far. Zack strangled Addie and dismembered her body before jumping off the roof of a hotel in New Orleans. This is their tragic love story. For pictures and more information, join us on Facebo...

When a maintenance worker forced his way into a locked room in the cellar of a building in Vienna, he never thought he would find the remains of two men. Their body parts had been mixed with cement and stored in empty ice cream buckets. Other parts were kept in small freezers. It didn’t take long to figure out who the men were. They were Holger Holz and Manfred Hinterberger and they had one thing...

When a British businessman, Neil Heywood, is found dead in a hotel room in China’s megacity Chongqing, a series of events began that set in motion political change that would influence the next decade in Chinese politics. A flamboyant politician, Bo Xilai’s wife, Gu Kailai, was tried for the murder of Neil Heywood, but was she framed by her husband’s political enemies in an attempt to keep him fro...

As police investigate the murders of British backpackers Joanne Walters and Caroline Clarke, more bodies are discovered in the Belanglo State Forest. Investigators zone in on the large dysfunctional family, known to be gun-loving and violent: The Milats. The hard part was to narrow down which one of the ten brothers was the most likely suspect. For pictures and more information, join us on Faceboo...

Australian police received multiple missing person’s reports in the early 1990s. Young backpackers from the UK and Germany who were hitchhiking from Sydney to Melbourne disappeared without a trace. When the bodies of two young British women were discovered in the Belanglo State Forest, one of the largest manhunts in Australia’s history began. For pictures and more information, join us on Facebook...