What They Hide: Hidden Crimes in Plain Sight. A True Crime Podcast

PART 1 — THE MAKING OF CONTROL For decades, he was one of the most recognisable faces in Britain. A television personality. A radio DJ. A charity fundraiser. A man trusted in hospitals, institutions, and homes across the country. But long before the truth came out… The foundations were already in place. In Part 1 of this three-part series, we examine the early life and rise of acast.com/privacy fo...

In January 2013, seventeen-year-old Kendrick Johnson was found dead inside a rolled gym mat at his high school in Valdosta, Georgia. What initially appeared to be a tragic and unusual accident quickly became one of the most debated and controversial cases in recent memory. Authorities concluded that Kendrick’s death was the result of positional asphyxia, an accident that occurred while attempting...

In the early 1990s, a stretch of forest south of Sydney became the centre of one of Australia’s most disturbing murder investigations. Belanglo State Forest had long been a quiet expanse of bushland along the highways used by backpackers travelling between Sydney and Melbourne. But when police began uncovering human remains hidden beneath the trees, a terrifying pattern emerged. Young travellers f...

In the early 1990s, a stretch of forest south of Sydney became the centre of one of Australia’s most disturbing murder investigations. Belanglo State Forest had long been a quiet expanse of bushland along the highways used by backpackers travelling between Sydney and Melbourne. But when police began uncovering human remains hidden beneath the trees, a terrifying pattern emerged. Young travellers f...

In the early 2000s, a series of brutal attacks on young women began unfolding across the quiet suburbs of West London. At first, the crimes appeared unconnected. A young woman walking home after a night out. Another crossing a quiet green late in the evening. A student struck by a car in what initially appeared to be a hit-and-run. Each attack shocked the local community, but detectives struggled...

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On August 4th, 2002, ten-year-old best friends Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman left home in the Cambridgeshire town of Soham to buy sweets. They were wearing matching Manchester United shirts with “Beckham 7” on the back. They never returned. What followed was one of the largest missing-person investigations in modern British history. As volunteers searched fields and waterways and the nation watc...

For 24 years, beneath an ordinary house in the quiet Austrian town of Amstetten, a hidden world existed. Josef Fritzl was a husband. A father. A landlord. A man who waved to neighbors and maintained his garden. And beneath his home, he imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth in a concealed basement, where she endured decades of captivity and gave birth to seven children. In this extended deep-dive episo...

In 2023, neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder others at the Countess of Chester Hospital. She received a whole-life sentence — one of the most severe punishments available under UK law. The verdict appeared definitive. But outside the courtroom, debate has continued. In this extended deep-dive episode of What They Hide: Hidden Crimes in Plain S...

In the autumn of 1995, North Wales became the hunting ground of a man no one suspected. Peter Moore was a cinema manager. A local businessman. A familiar face dressed almost always in black. Between September and December, four men — Henry Roberts, Edward Carthy, Keith Randles, and Anthony Davies — were murdered in isolated locations across Anglesey and Denbighshire. In this episode of What They H...

In August 1985, five members of the same family were found shot dead inside a farmhouse in rural Essex. At first, investigators believed the deaths were the result of a murder-suicide carried out by Sheila Caffell. Within weeks, the investigation changed direction, and her adopted brother, Jeremy Bamber, was charged and later convicted of all five murders. In this episode of What They Hide: Hidden...

In this episode of What They Hide: Hidden Crimes in Plain Sight, we examine the murders committed by Steve Wright, known in the media as the Suffolk Strangler. In December 2006, Wright murdered 5 women and left lasting harm across Ipswich and beyond. Wright later admitted to killing previously in 1999. This episode tells the story through a victim-first lens, focusing on the lives of Gemma Adams,...

In this episode of What They Hide: Hidden Crimes in Plain Sight, we examine the crimes of Joanne Dennehy — a woman who murdered three men, attempted to kill two others, and walked freely among the public while police searched for someone else entirely. Through a victim-centered lens, this episode traces Joanne’s escalation from calculated trust-based killings to random attacks, her arrest, interro...