Psycho Killer: Shocking True Crime Stories

Visit our website https://psycho-killer.co for exclusive videos, photos, articles, and transcripts. Michael Benneman Sams was one of life’s losers, a little man with big, bad ideas. He snatched his victims and held them to ransom locked in a wheelie bin. Birmingham estate agent Stephanie Slater walked free when her employers paid £175,000. Julie Dart, a teenager from Leeds, wasn’t so lucky. She es...

Visit our website https://psycho-killer.co for exclusive videos, photos, articles, and transcripts. In straight-laced Victorian Britain, the railway line between London and the seaside town of Brighton was a bordello on wheels. Inevitably, the secret trysts and dodgy deals conducted in its curtained carriages led to some unsavoury crimes. A series of murders on the Brighton Line shocked polite soc...

Visit our website https://psycho-killer.co for exclusive videos, photos, articles, and transcripts. Part 2 of a two-part UK true-crime documentary Donald Neilson was born Donald Nappey. He changed his name to get the bullies off his back. But he couldn’t shake the jealousy that drove him to rob the vulnerable at gunpoint. He murdered defenceless victims in the pursuit of greed. And he tethered a t...

Visit our website https://psycho-killer.co for exclusive videos, photos, articles, and transcripts. Part 1 of a two-part UK true-crime documentary It was the culmination of a reign of terror climaxing in a crime that horrified a nation. Between 1967 and 1974, an athletic, shadowy figure carried out a series of nighttime raids on sub-post offices in the English Midlands. The masked robber, who alwa...

Visit our website https://psycho-killer.co for exclusive videos, photos, articles, and transcripts. More than 50 years have passed since the fatal stabbing of publican George Wilson in Nottingham and his family members are still seeking closure. The pub was called the Fox and Grapes, but local folk knew it by another name, the Pretty Windows, on account of its ornate stained glass. It was late one...

Visit our website https://psycho-killer.co for exclusive videos, photos, articles, and transcripts. Two musicians; two murders, separated by hundreds of miles. On the face of it, ex-Beatle John Lennon and Reggae star Peter Tosh were gunned down in very different circumstances. Lennon was shot by an obsessed fan; Tosh a victim of 1980s Jamaican gun culture. On closer examination, however, their dea...

Visit our website https://psycho-killer.co for exclusive videos, photos, articles, and transcripts. Part 3 of a three-part British true-crime documentary series John Samuel Humble killed nobody, but he had blood on his hands, and he knew it. He was the hoaxer who pretended to be the Yorkshire Ripper. Dubbed Wearside Jack by the newspapers, his infamous ‘I’m Jack’ tape sent the Ripper investigation...

Visit our website https://psycho-killer.co for exclusive videos, photos, and articles. Part 2 of a three-part British true-crime documentary series ‘Wicked beyond belief’, is how the trial judge summarised the character of Peter William Sutcliffe. Between 1975 and 1980 he murdered 13 women and attempted to murder seven others. The north of England was gripped by fear during a reign of terror the p...

Visit our website https://psycho-killer.co for exclusive videos, photos, and articles. Part 1 of a three-part British true-crime documentary series Peter Sutcliffe's heinous crimes made him one of the UK's most notorious serial killers. In 1981, the gravedigger turned lorry driver from Yorkshire was found guilty of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980. He...

Visit our website https://psycho-killer.co for exclusive videos, photos, and articles. Frederick Bailey Deeming was many things – a bigamist, a swindler and murderer of two women and four children. But was he also Jack the Ripper? Journalist Simon Ford and former major-crime detective Jacques Morrell plunge into the life and brutal times of this Victorian enigma. Deeming’s career spanned the globe...

Visit our website https://psycho-killer.co for exclusive videos, photos, and articles. Mild-mannered, handsome and geeky were all terms used to describe Neil Entwistle. Yet this British computer engineer was convicted of shooting dead his wife and baby daughter at their home near Boston, Massachusetts. Entwistle fled the scene, jumped on a plane and ran home to mum and dad. The American authoritie...

Visit our website https://psycho-killer.co for exclusive videos, photos, articles, and transcripts. The farmer who found Bella Wright’s body thought she’d been knocked off her bicycle. Hours later the police realised she’d been shot in the face. Bella was 21 when she met her death on an English country road in July 1919. Detectives brought a man to trial, but he was acquitted by the jury and walke...

Visit our website https://psycho-killer.co for exclusive videos, photos, articles, and transcripts. He saw her at a bus stop and thought, ‘she’ll do’. That was how Wakefield shoe fetish murderer Christopher Farrow chose his victim, Wendy Speakes. He followed her home, where he tied her up, raped her and stabbed her 11 times. Farrow evaded justice for six years. He was caught thanks to advances in...

The UK has just experienced the horror of its first mass shooting in decades. The first indications are that Jake Davison killed his family before turning the gun on himself. What drives some men – and it is mainly men – to murder their families? The motivation for familicide is only partly understood but seems to be linked to a ‘loss of control over masculine domains’, even where there is no prio...

The press dubbed this killer ‘Jack the Stripper’. He was never caught but left behind a trail of bodies and struck fear in the heart of London in the Swinging Sixties. The six female victims were found undressed in or near the River Thames in 1964 and 1965. Two earlier murders, committed in 1959 and 1963, have been linked to the same perpetrator. Despite intense media interest and one of the bigge...

This unsolved, brutal murder happened in a sleepy, secretive village hidden in the heart of rural England. Apparently motiveless, folklore and legend have linked the killing of Charles Walton to witchcraft and satanism. His body was found lying – some say ritually posed – in the shadow of Meon Hill, an Iron Age fort. As detective Jacques Morrell and reporter Simon Ford discover, an area cloaked in...