True Crime Storytime

Welcome to True Crime Storytime , and thank you for joining us. In this episode, we explore the story of one of the most infamous names of America’s Depression-era crime wave. It is the case of Ma Barker, a woman long portrayed as the ruthless mastermind behind a violent criminal gang, but whose true role remains far more complex and hotly debated. Kate “Ma” Barker was the mother of several sons w...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime , and thank you for joining us. In this special Christmas 2025 video illustrated episode, we travel back to early nineteenth-century Edinburgh to examine one of the most notorious chapters in British criminal history. It is the story of Burke and Hare, two men whose crimes exposed a dark underside of medical progress and shocked the city to its core. In the late 182...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime , and thank you for joining us. In this episode, we explore one of the most audacious and meticulously planned robberies in criminal history. It is the Lufthansa Heist , a crime carried out in 1978 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, which for many years stood as the largest cash robbery ever committed. The heist was depicted in the famous movie &q...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime , and thank you for taking the time to join us. In this episode, we explore one of the most enduring prison mysteries of the twentieth century. It is the story of the 1962 escape from Alcatraz by Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin, a daring plan carried out inside a prison once believed to be completely escape proof. Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary sat...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime , and thank you for joining us. In this episode, we revisit one of the most infamous unsolved murders in American history. It is the case of the Black Dahlia , the name given by the press to Elizabeth Short, a young woman whose death in 1947 shocked Los Angeles and has haunted investigators and the public ever since. Elizabeth Short was 22 years old when her body wa...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime , and thank you for joining us! In this episode, we explore the remarkable and controversial story of Frank Abagnale, a man whose life of deception has become one of the most famous crime tales of the twentieth century. Celebrated by some as a master con artist and questioned by others as an unreliable narrator, his story sits at the uneasy intersection of fact, myt...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime , and thank you very much for joining us. In this episode, we explore one of the most baffling and unsettling deaths in modern British history. It is the case of Gareth Williams, an MI6 codebreaker whose body was discovered in circumstances so unusual that it immediately raised serious questions about secrecy, security and what may have been hidden behind closed doo...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime , and thank you for taking the time to join us. In this episode, we turn our attention to one of the most infamous unsolved cases in criminal history. It is the story of the Zodiac Killer , a figure who terrorised Northern California in the late 1960s and whose identity has never been conclusively established. Decades on, the case remains a source of fascination, fr...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime , and thank you for joining us. In this episode, we examine a case that crossed borders, divided public opinion and became one of the most closely followed legal dramas of the 1990s. It is the Notting Hill Nanny Case, centred on Louise Woodward, a young British au pair whose life became the focus of intense international scrutiny. Louise Woodward had travelled from...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime, and thank you for joining us. In this episode, we revisit one of the most talked-about cases of the 1950s, a story that has left a lasting imprint on British legal and social history. It is the case of Ruth Ellis, a young nightclub hostess whose life became the centre of a national storm in 1955. Her name is still recognised across the UK, yet the circumstances sur...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime , and thank you for joining us on this episode about The Green Bicycle Mystery . We step back more than a century to examine one of England’s most puzzling and enduring mysteries. It is known as the Green Bicycle Case, a story filled with intrigue, unanswered questions and a trail of clues that never quite settled into a clear conclusion. Despite its age, the case c...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime , and thank you for joining us on this episode about The Disappearance of Lord Lucan . In this episode, we step into one of Britain’s most enduring mysteries, a case that has fascinated the public for decades. It is the story of Lord Lucan, an aristocrat whose name became synonymous with disappearance, speculation and unanswered questions. What began as a violent in...

True Crime Storytime: The Murder of TV Presenter Jill Dando Welcome to True Crime Storytime , and thank you for tuning in. In this episode, we revisit a case that stunned the UK and continues to raise questions decades later. It is the murder of Jill Dando, a much loved television presenter whose life was taken in a quiet London street in 1999. Her death triggered an investigation of immense scale...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime . Today we are taking you back to one of the most intense and unsettling manhunts the UK has ever witnessed. It is the story of Raoul Moat, a former nightclub doorman whose violent actions in the summer of 2010 left the country on edge and the police scrambling to contain an escalating crisis. This episode explores how an ordinary man spiralled into notoriety and ho...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime In this episode, we investigate one of the most fascinating unsolved crimes in aviation history — the mysterious case of D. B. Cooper, the man who vanished into legend after hijacking a commercial airliner and disappearing without a trace. It is a story that has puzzled investigators, inspired countless theories, and secured its place as one of the greatest mysterie...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime In this episode, we revisit one of the most daring and legendary crimes in British history : The Great Train Robbery . It was a crime that stunned the nation, captured the imagination of the public, and changed the way Britain viewed organised criminal enterprise forever. On a quiet August night in 1963, a Royal Mail train made its way from Glasgow to London carryin...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime . In this true crime episode, we journey to the Scottish Highlands to uncover one of the most haunting and enduring mysteries in British criminal history: the disappearance of Renee MacRae and her three-year-old son, Andrew. What begins as an ordinary November evening in 1976 quickly spirals into a case that has baffled detectives, divided opinions, and gripped Scot...

True Crime: The Yorkshire Ripper In this gripping episode of True Crime Storytime , we take a deep dive into one of Britain’s most chilling and controversial criminal cases : The Yorkshire Ripper. This stand-alone investigation explores the horrifying crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the man who terrorised Northern England throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, and the police failures that allowed him to...

Welcome to True Crime Storytime and the case of Jeremy Bamber. This episode delves into the disturbing case of Jeremy Bamber and the White House Farm murders. Join our hosts as we discuss the case, the background and the outcome of a murder case which shocked the UK.

Welcome to True Crime Storytime Unveil the mystery behind one of history's most infamous unsolved cases in " The Identity of Jack The Ripper ." Join our hosts on True Crime Storytime as they delve into the dark alleys of Victorian London to explore the chilling possibilities of who Jack the Ripper might have been. We investigate different suspects, examine historical evidence, and de...