Always True Crime

A crime with no victims, just the faceless banks. Or is that ever really the case? Elliot Castro was one of the most prolific fraudsters in the UK, starting from a very early age where he stole identities and credit card details to fund a life of luxury across the world. From five-star hotels to designer shopping sprees, Castro lived under countless false identities while staying one step ahead of...

A 20-year-old woman returns to Tamworth after a night out in Birmingham watching one of her favourite artists perform. She’s laughing with friends, making plans for the next day, and looking ahead to a job interview that could bring her dream of working with children one step closer. It should have been an ordinary journey home. Instead, by the following evening, her family are searching streets a...

This is Part A of D of Undressing Jack the Stripper , an eight part series made in conjunction with the True Crime Enthusiast podcast. From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, the bodies of eight sex-workers (Elizabeth Figg, Gwynneth Rees, Hannah Tailford, Irene Lockwood, Helen Barthelemy, Mary Fleming, Margaret McGowan and Bridget O’Hara) were found dumped in or near the River Thames in West London....

He's the London serial killer you may never have even knew existed - from the late 1950's to the mid 1960's, West London was shocked by the deaths of several sex workers, stripped, strangled, and their bodies dumped unceremoniously, like pieces of rubbish. It's commonly considered to be the UK's most prolific series of unsolved serial killings, claiming more victims than his similar namesake the p...

A woman closes up her dress shop on a quiet November evening in Rochford, Essex, and heads out to run a simple errand for a friend. It should have been an ordinary trip, one of those everyday moments no one thinks twice about. But somewhere between locking the door and reaching her car, 63-year-old Norah Trott was attacked and left dying in a lane just yards from her own home. By the early hours o...

Kevin Weaver was in his early twenties but he wasn't enjoying life at all. He had been suffering from depression for a long time, drinking heavily and he missed his finance - despite being split for two years he couldn't accept it was really over. Then one morning, he woke up and decided that this was the day he was going to kill... I release episodes every Tuesday and Friday, so please join me on...

What began as a celebration ended in devastating violence. Pat Howard and Adam Fanelli were killed after a baby shower in Houghton Regis spilled out onto the street, where a confrontation escalated rapidly into a brutal and sustained attack. In front of multiple witnesses, the violence intensified - culminating in the use of both a vehicle and a knife. Along with Adam Fanelli, who was trying to de...

On Monday the 24th of September 2018, an unnamed couple parked-up outside of Princethorpe House in Woodchester Square in Paddington, W2. The man was kidnapped, driven across London, and then in an unspecified bathroom on Fulham Palace Road, he was tortured using acid. But how did acid become the weapon of choice for many London gangs? Find out on Murder Mile. Location:  Princethorpe House in...

A busy Saturday afternoon in Brixton. Market stalls are buzzing, Electric Avenue is filling with shoppers, and a black sports bag is left quietly on the pavement. At first, it was nothing out of the ordinary. Something forgotten and seemingly harmless. People even joked about it, but inside that bag was a nail bomb, ticking down in the middle of one of South London’s most crowded communities. With...

David Black, a 52-year-old Northern Ireland prison officer, was shot dead in a targeted motorway ambush whilst driving to work at Maghaberry Prison. Gunmen pulled alongside his car and opened fire in the the first murder of a prison officer in over two decades. So just who killed David? And why? Buy My New True Crime Content Creators Online Course https://adam-s-site-be58.thinkific.com/produc...

A quiet morning run through woodland in South Yorkshire. A routine followed like clockwork. And a brutal killing that would shock a community. In September 2018, 48-year-old Gary Dean left his home in Silkstone Common, Barnsley, just like he did every day. Hours later, he was found in a ditch near the Trans Pennine Trail, fatally injured after a violent and sustained attack. His phone was still ri...

Open water is, for many people, their greatest fear, and being trapped within it must be terrifying - especially if you cannot swim to safety, to face your final, mortal moments like that. On a freezing cold March morning back in 2013, in the town of Arklow, in County Wexford, in Ireland, a 31 year old Hungarian national named Csaba Orsos faced exactly his greatest fear. It was the last thing he w...

50-year-old Robert Powell was brutally murdered outside a party in Essex in what investigators believed was a planned, targeted hit - carried out in front of his two sons. A truly shocking and deeply distressing crime. Thanks to determined and meticulous police work, the main suspect, Nana Oppong (pictured), was tracked down after fleeing the UK immediately after the killing. He travelled to Spain...

Monday the 15th of August 2022 at 3pm, Flat 72 on the first floor of Clariat Court was the home of Aziza Bennis, a 58-year-old school dinner lady and a mother-of-two, where she had raised her daughters as a single parent. To their neighbours, she was liked, as were her family. But on the afternoon of Monday the 15th of August 2022, she was frenziedly attacked and stabbed to death by her eldest dau...

In April 1999, British TV's Golden Girl Jill Dando was shot dead on her own doorstep in Fulham, West London, in broad daylight. The attacker didn’t flee in panic - they simply walked away. No weapon was ever recovered and no clear motive was established. And despite one of the largest murder investigations in British history, the case remains unsolved to this day. How does someone so well known an...

A gang of experienced criminals set out to pull off what would have been one of the biggest robberies in British history - targeting a priceless diamond exhibition inside London’s Millennium Dome. Armed with sledgehammers, a nail gun, and a speedboat for their escape, the plan was bold, fast, and meticulously organised. But what the gang didn’t know was that detectives from the Metropolitan Police...

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, has since its establishment in 1978 assisted Lebanese forces along the country's border with Israel to maintain peace, security, and ensure humanitarian access. In it's near five decades in existence, countless soldiers from nations across the world have lost their lives as part of these peacekeeping forces, and it is the Irish Army that...

In the late 1970's, LSD was big in Cambridge University's radical academic fringe, inspired by LSD pioneer Timothy Leary. He had a strong belief that the drug broadened the mind and could transform society and make it better for all of us. Henry Todd got very much into this scene and then started his own LSD lab, producing huge quantities of the stuff. In the episode of the UK True Crime Podc...

THIS IS PART TWO OF TWO. On Wednesday 21st of March 1984, 79-year-old Hilda Murrell of Shropshire was attacked in her own home by an unseen assailant. Double killer, David McKenzie had already been convicted of the murders of 76-year-old widow Barbara Pinder in 1984 in Battersea and 86-year-old widow Henrietta Osbourne in Chelsea, which had similar hallmarks. McKenzie had confessed to HIlda's murd...

An eight-year-old girl disappeared while playing near her grandparents’ home on a summer’s day in West Sussex, and within hours, a nationwide search was underway. In July 2000, Sarah Payne vanished in what should have been a safe, familiar setting, sending shockwaves across the UK. As police raced against time, one of the largest missing person investigations in British history began to unfold. In...

For my 500th episode, this is a special extended episode where I speak to Michael Ross about the tragic murder of his wife Jacquie, on just a normal Sunday morning when she was walking their dog Rosie as usual. We talk about Michael's life with Jacquie, the murder, how Michael and his family coped with these events, the murder trial and how since the tragedy, Michael has used his experiences to br...

On May 4, 2010, 38-year-old Suzanne Pilley followed her usual morning routine before disappearing without a trace on her way to the office. With no witnesses, no clear crime scene, and no body ever recovered, what began as a missing person case quickly turned into one of the most baffling murder investigations in modern Scottish history. In this episode, we dive into the timeline of Suzanne’s fina...

The story this week returns to Paisley, near Glasgow. It had been a great day for Laura Connelly as she caught up with some old school friends she hadn't see for a while at the bar, and at approaching 2am, she left to walk the mile or so to her home. But tragically, Laura didn't ever come home as she was attacked and murdered almost in sight of her home. In this episode of the UK true Crime Podcas...

This is Part One of Two. On the Saturday the 27th of October 1984, 76-year-old widow Barbara Pinder was brutally murdered in her own flat on Prince of Wales Drive in Battersea by an unknown man with a lot of hatred for her. One year later, on Saturday 27th of October 1985, 86-year-old widow Henrietta Osbourne was also stabbed and attacked frenziedly in an attack which had similar hallmarks. It wen...

On Easter Monday in 1991, in a quiet village in Kent, a couple spent the evening at home together. It had been a normal day, nothing out of the ordinary. But just after 10pm, a knock at the door shattered that routine. Within minutes, 43-year-old Alan Leppard had been shot dead on his own doorstep in what many would later describe as an execution-style killing. Witnesses reported seeing a mysterio...