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Send us Fan Mail This is part three of the Rettendon / Essex Boys Murders which concludes the Canning Town Crime and corruption series off podcasts. This podcast considers the possible Canning Town connection.

Send us Fan Mail In part 2 of these podcasts we examine the possibility of  it being Corrupt police or Bernard O'Mahoney, or/and Kenneth Noye being involved in the murders of TTR (Tucker, Tate and Rolfe. I will post part 3 within the week,

Send us Fan Mail This is the first of three podcasts on the Rettendon, aka Essex Boys murders which are to finish off the Canning Town Crime and Corruption series of podcasts. I go straight into the story so to aid understanding, The three men that were shot were called Tony Tucker, Pat Tate and Craig Rolfe (TTR) who ran a criminal gang in Basildon, Essex. They supplied an ecstasy tablet which was...

Send us Fan Mail This case dates from May 1979, set in Southampton on the South Coast of the UK. There is an argument between a couple and the woman dies supposedly of strangulation.,  In this case there was an argument for vagal inhibition. I am hoping that you will listen and make up your own minds what was going on here. Alan Gardner head of accounts at Southern Television and his partner Sheil...

Send us Fan Mail A sad and senseless killing of a child crossing her local park after visiting a sweet shop during the school summer holiday . It was a violent and sexual killing. The  seemed totally unplanned and senseless. The killer seemed able to shut it out of his mind, acting normally to all around him. The other mystery to the case is what happened to the killer after conviction? How long d...

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of the Joan Woodhouse case of murder at Arundel, Sussex. Please be advised that this is recorded in one take without editing and there are a couple of intrusive coughs.

Send us Fan Mail This podcast examines a murder from 1948. It was a botched investigation and it seems that for a couple of possible reasons,  there was a conspiracy to prevent the case going to trial. This is part 1 of the podcast, I will post part 2 in four days time. Information for this podcast comes from a variety of sources primarily from files held at the National Archives at London. and th...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of the Michael Maybrick mystery.  In this episode we examine who Michael Maybrick was and why he was thought to be the 'Ripper'. Again just a warning that this is a lo-fi production, I splutter, I forget words and there is a sleeping dog in the room. Despite accusations, I am not eating and only occasionally have a sip of water. I have used too many sources to men...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast is a follow up to The Florence Maybrick trial podcast from November 2020. Florence was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering her husband. who seems to have actually been killed by 'his brother Michael Maybrick and Florence was framed by him for the murder.  The inspiration for this podcast is a book by Bruce Robinson called 'They all love Jack-Busti...

Send us Fan Mail A Femme fatale, Madame Schmeder leaves France, in a hurry,  in her airplane, and crash lands at Selsey in Sussex.  A story that captured the imagination of the world in 1936 but is now virtually forgotten.  This story told in one take and without editing with information from the British Archives, La Bibliothèque nationale de France and various newspaper reports. 

Send us Fan Mail A murder from a long time ago, The Rolling Stones were number 1 in the singles charts with 'I can't get no Satisfaction', this podcast tells of a story from September 1965 when a woman who had just finished her Teacher Training was murdered by a person who had had no positive impact on life having failed at everything and blamed his failure on others. Nevertheless,...

Send us Fan Mail Ghost Story for Christmas 2021. Tony Cornell and others, investigate three cases in East Anglia, Hannath Hall during 1957-60, Wisbech shoe shop 1965-66 and Old Morley Hall 1964. All of these cases as published by the Society of Psychical Research.

Send us Fan Mail Two stories about street drug dealing, both ending in murder ten years ago, during 2011. Both drug dealers lived in Portslade part of the conurbation of Brighton and Hove.  Gary ‘Hammer’ Hampsen was a flawed character who moved from Bootle, Liverpool to Brighton and became a street drug dealer. He seemed to have a loving family but was capable of violence, keeping a hammer for per...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 6 in the Canning Town Crime and Corruption Series of podcasts. This episode is about the novel Judas Pig by Horace Silver. Published in 2004, it became a cult novel as it told stories about an OCG (organised Crime group / gang) that were believed to have actually taken place.  Some thought it the most realistic description of a ruthless OCG in action. I have tried to match...

Send us Fan Mail Hello,  All Hallows Eve 2021. I am only posting one story this year and it is a pretty standard Haunted House story which was first published in 1902 in the Journal of Psychical Research. I do not know the location of the house as it was kept secret on the request of those who lived there at the time. I am not convinced that it was a haunting but you will have to make your own min...

Send us Fan Mail This is not a podcast to interest everyone. It is about the Burbot, only fish in the UK that has been declared extinct in known history. Please also be warned that this podcast is recorded in one take with no editing and there is a dog snoring in the background. and I stumble over some words and make some mistakes. I make podcasts that interest me and I cannot be bothered to spend...

Send us Fan Mail This is the fifth podcast in the Canning Town Crome & Corruption Series. This involves three unsolved murders in Epping Forest, near London. Terry Gooderham and Maxine Arnold murdered in December 1989 and  the murder of Patricia Parsons in June 1990.          There will be three more podcasts in this series, But the next one or two podcasts will be cases of the paranormal as H...

Send us Fan Mail Three Paranormal cases : The Palm Sunday Case which concerned Arthur Balfour the Conservative Prime Minister and his lost love, his cousin May. I dont think it would be possible today to conceive how well the Balfour family were connected when this case broke in 1930.  They were one of the most important aristocratic families when Britain was considered as perhaps the most powerfu...

Send us Fan Mail Podcast 4 in the Canning Town Crime and corruption series: This episode looks at The Bowers OCG  within the Canning Town Cartel, and those who worked within the crime group. Then we look at some feuds concerning Christopher Pearman. The death of Ronnie Fuller, the death of Rocky Dawson and the death of John Donovan; all of these linked to the Canning Town Cartel. There is also the...

Send us Fan Mail Part 3 of the Canning Town Cartel of organised crime groups. Please listen to parts 1 & 2. Part 3 continues the story.  Canning Town part 2 is about the rise of the cartel in Canning Town, in particular the rise of the Hunt OCG and how Jimmy Holmes, the author of Judas Pig fell out with David Hunt.    I think It is likely that Jimmy Holmes is still alive and that he came to so...

Send us Fan Mail Strange Stories UK. Canning Town, London Organised Crime and Corrupt police. Part 2. Season 4, Episode 2. This podcast tells how some members of the Snipers gang in Canning Town, evolved into the Canning Town Cartel which was a group of organised crime groups. One of which was the Hunt OCG. The podcast also examines the falling out between David Hunt and Jimmy Holmes which caused...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 starts with contemporary Organised Crime in London, there will be four or five linked podcasts on this theme starting with a case that developed in Canning Town, the next few podcasts will flow on from this case including a podcast of the Rettendon aka Essex boys murders. I know this case has been very well covered but  it does tie in with the other podcasts.  For this ca...

Send us Fan Mail This a short episode to end Series 3. Again a rambling story about a possible paranormal incident in a small village (St. Boswells)  in the Borderlands between England and Scotland. The story comes from the Journals of the Society of Physical research. I give the links to these on www.strangestories.uk.com I will not post anything for the next six weeks. I would like to thank you...

Send us Fan Mail This is part 2 of the Hess Enigma. What happened to Hess? Was he murdered? Was it Hess? We also examine the roles of other characters such as Tancred Borenius, the Polish leader Sikorski and others. There is also Anthony Blunt the Soviet spy who carried out dirty business for the Royal family. There are so many secrets and rumours regarding the Hess flight, and he was prevented wi...

Send us Fan Mail   May and June 1941 was the period that Nazi Germany came close to conquering Western Europe. But the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler then  opened  a second Front which was going to cost him the war.  Events during May and June 1941 are  shrouded in mystery, part of the puzzle was Rudolf Hess's (Hitler’s deputy) flight to Scotland during May 1941. Was Hess sent by Hitler to offer Br...