Manchester Murders: A True Crime Podcast

In the summer of 1906, the body of nineteen year old servant Eliza Jane Mackay was pulled from a fifty foot deep well beside a farmhouse on the bleak Pennine moors above Oldham. Her throat had been cut. A razor was missing. And just hours earlier, she had walked out of her home in tears, saying, “If I don’t see you again, goodbye.” An inquest quickly ruled her death a suicide “while of unsound min...

On a rainy Saturday night in April 1971, seventeen-year-old Dorothy Leyden went to see Motown star Jimmy Ruffin perform at Manchester’s Golden Garter nightclub. She laughed with her friends, caught a towel thrown from the stage, and left just after 1am to make her way home. She never arrived. A few hours later, Dorothy was found beaten to death behind a pub in Collyhurst. Witnesses had seen a youn...

In the heart of Manchester, beneath the concrete of a quiet car park, construction workers made a chilling discovery: the skeletal remains of a young woman, wrapped in carpet and hidden for decades. She had no name, no missing persons report, and no known killer. The city would come to call her The Angel of the Meadow. In this episode, we unravel her story — from the haunting history of Angel Mead...

In 1989, Inspector Raymond Codling was shot and killed during a routine patrol at Birch Services on the M62. This episode explores his life, military and police service, the tragic events of that day, and the legacy he left behind. A powerful story of duty, sacrifice, and remembrance. Join our Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61583892939793 Or reach out, hello@manchestermur...

As the clocks ticked toward a new year, two men named Ashley set out on ordinary nights — and never came home. In this New Year special of Manchester Murders, Susan revisits the devastating cases of Ashley McGurk and Ashley Walsh, two unrelated men whose lives were violently cut short on the streets of Greater Manchester more than a decade apart. Ashley McGurk was just 32 when a Christmas night ou...

In the early hours of a June morning in 1976, a quiet pub on the edge of Manchester’s Northern Quarter became the scene of one of the city’s most disturbing crimes. Mother Mac’s - then a modest backstreet local near Piccadilly - was run by Arthur Bradbury, a man known to regulars as reserved, private, and deeply devoted to his family. Behind closed doors, however, something was unravelling. When p...

Two men dead. One dying word. An isolated inn on the moors. And a mystery that’s baffled historians for almost two centuries. The Bill O’Jack’s murders are as chilling today as they were in 1832. Join me to hear more about a story still whispered in the inns of Saddleworth...

In 1975, a young girl set out to run an errand to the local shops, and never returned. What followed was tragedy - not only Lesley's murder, but the wrongful conviction of an innocent man. Stefan Kiszko spent 16 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, while the true killer remained free.

Over the last two decades, more than 80 bodies have been pulled from Manchester’s canals - a statistic that has fuelled rumours of a serial killer stalking the waterways at night. Locals call him The Pusher: an unseen figure lurking in the shadows, shoving unsuspecting victims into the dark, icy water. But is the Pusher a real predator… or a modern urban legend born from fear, tragedy, and unanswe...

In the shadows of Greater Manchester lie stories long forgotten… and others whispered still. From moorland mysteries to inner-city conspiracies, Manchester Murders unearths the region’s most chilling true crimes — unsolved, unsettling, and unmistakably Northern. Step into the fog. Hear the echoes. And discover the truth… if you dare.