Caught Up In Crime

*IMPORTANT NOTE: This episode follows on from THE KILLER ON THE WATER. If you haven't listened to that one yet, please check it out first!*

In this special Bonus Episode, Sarah Bax Horton puts forward the case for a new suspect in the hunt for Jack The Ripper!

In her book, ONE ARMED JACK, Sarah details the extraordinary coincidences and circumstantial evidence that point to her man as a prime suspect in this most notorious of unsol...

London, 1888. The city is gripped by fear as Jack the Ripper roams the streets of Whitechapel. But there's another madman on the loose, and the River Thames is his playground.

The identity of The Thames Torso Killer has remained a mystery for nearly 140 years, but author Sarah Bax Horton believes she has found the culprit. Sarah began researching the case in honour of her great grandfather - Harry Garrett - who was a police sergean...

Bill Kimberlin is not your standard criminal psychologist. For more than 20 years he has visited inmates on Death Row in his home state of Ohio, and across the US. 

What started as a project to expand his professional knowledge has become something of a calling. To date, he has built years-long relationships with 10 men on Death Row, and has witnessed three executions, with more scheduled for the coming months and years.

It is a mu...

*IMPORTANT NOTE: This episode follows on from WHO KILLED MRS HOOD? If you haven't listened to that one yet, please check it out first!

In this special Bonus Episode, we focus on the crucial piece of evidence that convicted Herbert Bennett of his wife Mary's murder in September 1900.

Her necklace was discovered in Herbert's lodgings after her death, helping to convince a jury that he was the man who killed her.

Now, that same neckla...

In September 1900 a woman's body was discovered on the beach in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. She had been strangled with a bootlace. The police had no idea who she was, but they established she had been staying in the town at a boarding house with her infant daughter, Ruby. She had checked in under the name 'Mrs Hood'.

It took several weeks to work out her true identity. Her name was Mary Bennett, and her estranged husband, Herbert, wa...

Emily Patterson was the last victim of one of North America's first known serial killers. But she was also a loving mother to two small boys, a pillar of her local community in Canada, and the long lost ancestor of crime writer Denise Beddows.

It was Emily's bravery as she tried to fight off the evil killer Earle Nelson - known as the 'Gorilla Killer' due to his abnormally large hands - that led to his capture and execution in 1928...

In 1998, author and historian Susan Ronald was in a bank vault in Zurich, Switzerland checking the assets of an elusive billionnaire for a huge investment project. There she stumbled upon evidence of a huge stash of art looted by the Nazis.

Nobody took her story seriously until, more than 15 years later, the German authorities discovered thousands of priceless works of art - many stolen from Jews - secretl...

In this special bonus episode, Tom chats to Stuart Blues, host of the phenomenally successful podcast - British Murders.

With more than 500 episodes and 9 million downloads in the last five years it has captured the imagination of true crime fans everywhere. Stuart talks about how he selects the cases he covers in the show - and the effect that talking murder all day has had on his mental health.

Just before 5pm on 27 November 2000, ten-year old Damilola Taylor was walking home from Peckham Library in Southeast London when he was attacked with a glass bottle. He was found in a stairwell at the North Peckham Estate and taken to Kings College Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

In this episode, we are at the Old Bailey, speaking to a former juror from the first Damilola Taylor trial, where four young defendant...