Prash's Murder Map: True Crime Podcast

Prash's Murder Map: True Crime Podcast

Join me on a journey through some of the most heinous, macabre, and enigmatic murders from across the globe and throughout history in this immersive exploration of solved and unsolved shocking true crime cases. In this independently run show, I dive deep into the stories of the victims, as well as the killers and the detectives who put them behind bars, bringing to life detailed, vivid, and objective re-tellings of disturbing murders.

Episodes

79 | History’s Deadliest Gunshot: Gavrilo Princip and the Sarajevo Assassination That Sparked WW1

September 24, 2025 • 57 mins
In Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, a young Bosnian student named Gavrilo Princip fired a shot which would become the deadliest in history. With the help of co-conspirators from underground nationalist group Young Bosnia, he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie during their imperial visit to the capital. Their deaths set off a domino effect of ultimatums, alliances, and mobilisations across Europe, and within weeks, t...
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78 | The Murdered Watchmaker of Norfolk: The 1853 Case of Lorenz Beha

September 16, 2025 • 18 mins
In 2025, two pocket watches were sold at an auction, prompting renewed interest in a 170 year old East Anglia murder case. They were made by skilled German craftsman Lorenz Beha, who came to England to set up his watchmaking business in Norfolk. On a cold November day in 1853, Beha was found murdered on a quiet country road by a local labourer who happened to be one of his customers. The timepieces are not the only reminders of thi...
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77 | Murder at Edencroft Hostel: The Tragic True Crime Story of Stephanie Baird

August 21, 2025 • 23 mins
Just days before Christmas 1959, the Edencroft Hostel in Birmingham became the scene of a shocking murder. Stephanie Baird, 29, was brutally killed by 27-year-old Patrick Byrne, a man hiding a history of stalking and violent sexual fantasies. The case revealed the terrifying progression from secret obsession to murder, leaving investigators to confront one of Britain’s most disturbing true crimes.

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76 | Who Killed Kent Reeks? A Murder Mystery in Wolverhampton

August 12, 2025 • 26 mins
In January 1914, the industrial town of Wolverhampton became the backdrop to a baffling mystery when 24-year-old ship’s engineer Kent Reeks was found shot dead near a disused mine shaft — 90 miles from the Liverpool hotel where he had been staying. Just days earlier, he had arrived from Canada, carrying a large sum of money and travelling in the company of a mysterious man. This little-known true crime case follows Kent’s journey f...
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75 | Murder in Sovell Woods

August 2, 2025 • 17 mins
In 1913, the little known hamlet of Gussage St. Michael in Dorset, southwest England, became the scene of a shocking discovery when a young woman’s body was found buried in woodland. This obscure true crime case explores the lives of killer William Burton and his victim, Winifred Mitchell, and how she came to be buried in a shallow grave in one of England’s most rural counties. 

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74 | Murder at The Crumbles

July 24, 2025 • 26 mins
In the summer of 1920, Irene Munro chose a solo holiday in Eastbourne, on the south-east coast of England, over joining her mother in Edinburgh. Days later, her body was found buried on the remote Crumbles beach by a family on holiday. She had been violently murdered. As police investigated, newspapers suggested she had led a double life. With the help of witnesses, detectives began to piece together what happened and who was respo...
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73 | The Tragic Murder of Station Master Edward Walshe

July 17, 2025 • 11 mins
In 1868, 19-year-old railway porter Thomas Wells shot and killed Dover Priory stationmaster Edward Walshe after a disciplinary dispute. Wells showed little remorse and offered no resistance during his arrest. He was tried, found guilty, and became the first person executed privately under the new Capital Punishment Act.

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72 | Murder on a Tropical Island: The True Crime Case of Deborah Gardner

July 9, 2025 • 20 mins
Deborah Gardner joined the Peace Corps in 1976, hoping to make a positive impact in Tonga.
She embraced the local culture and formed close bonds with the community.
But one volunteer, Dennis Priven, developed a disturbing fixation.
What followed would lead to tragedy and lasting controversy.

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71 | The Wimbledon Lovers’ Lane Murder

July 2, 2025 • 14 mins
In July 1938, a woman’s body was discovered on Somerset Road in Wimbledon, just yards from Centre Court. The investigation revealed she had been murdered, prompting a nationwide search for van driver George Brain. In this episode, we explore Brain’s background, how the police tracked him to his hideout, and the revelations that emerged during the investigation.

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70 | A Brutal Murder in West Bromwich: The Case of Stanley Eric Hobday

June 25, 2025 • 14 mins
In the early hours of August 1933, Charles Fox was murdered during a violent break-in at his West Bromwich home. The crime triggered a large-scale police investigation that uncovered a trail of forensic evidence linking the attack to 21-year-old Stanley Eric Hobday. As the manhunt intensified, Hobday’s movements led officers across the country. This episode explores a shocking crime, its swift resolution, and the public reaction th...
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69 | Clive Olive and The Mad Dogs of Sussex

June 18, 2025 • 26 mins
In 1973, the body of a teenage boy surfaced in Shoreham Harbour, weighted down with concrete and secrets. Clive Olive was 16, a dreamer turned drifter, seduced by a violent subculture.
This episode unravels the chilling story of biker gangs, betrayal, and revenge in 1970s Britain.
The motive was personal. The violence, unforgettable.

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68 | The Mummy’s Boy Who Killed: The Dark Tale of Sidney Fox

May 25, 2025 • 24 mins
Sidney Harry Fox and his mother Rosaline enjoyed staying at expensive hotels up and down the coast of southeast England, although they could rarely afford to pay. The staff at the Hotel Metropole in Paradise Street, Margate, were charmed by Sidney, who seemed so considerate and devoted to his mother. Little did they know that behind this performance, lay a history of fraud and deceit which would lead to the final act of murder.

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67 | The Charlotte Bryant Murder Case: Love, Lies, and Arsenic

May 12, 2025 • 28 mins
Charlotte Bryant was at the centre of a rural murder case that shocked an English village in 1935. When her husband died after a series of unexplained illnesses in their Dorset cottage, suspicions turned to poison. This true crime episode explores the investigation, the role of arsenic, and the events that led to one of Britain’s most infamous murder trials.

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66 | The Murder of Dawn Viens: Hidden Without a Trace

May 4, 2025 • 25 mins
When Dawn Viens vanished in 2009, her husband David claimed she’d left after an argument.
Two years later, he confessed to killing her — and offered a chilling explanation.
Despite no body being found, he was convicted of second-degree murder.
This true crime episode investigates control, violence, and a shocking confession.

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65 | The Murder of Harriet Lane (Victorian True Crime)

April 24, 2025 • 19 mins
In Victorian London, Henry Wainwright, a once-respected businessman, leads a double life of deception, infidelity, and mounting debt. When his mistress, Harriet Lane, becomes an inconvenient burden, he devises a gruesome solution.

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64 | Murder in the Blackout: The Shocking Wartime Killing of Rachel Dobkin

April 17, 2025 • 32 mins
During the blackout nights of WWII London, under the haunting wail of air raid sirens and the devastation of the Blitz, one of the city’s most chilling true crimes was quietly buried beneath the rubble. In this episode, we uncover the twisted tale of Rachel Dobkin, whose dismembered and burned body was discovered in a bombed-out chapel in 1942. As Londoners struggled through nightly raids and rationing, someone used the chaos of wa...
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63 | Geoffrey Ferguson: Landlord From Hell (Mass Murder in Connecticut)

April 10, 2025 • 21 mins
Landlord Geoffrey Ferguson, enraged over a bounced rent cheque, drove from North Carolina to Connecticut and unlawfully evicted his tenants by force. The murders that followed shocked the community and were described as the worst mass killing in Connecticut’s modern history.

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62 | Dark Underpass: The Murder of Nella Olander

March 27, 2025 • 31 mins
On July 27, 2018, in Fagersta, Sweden, a cyclist discovered a semi-nude woman, Nella Olander, lying in a dark underpass, fatally stabbed. Soon after, 14-year-old Thomas confessed to his mother that he and a man twice his age Johan Fallqvist, had attacked her.  What brought Thomas and Fallqvist together in this toxic partnership? 

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61 | The Plumstead Tragedy: A Victorian Murder Story(mini episode)

March 18, 2025 • 11 mins
In 1890, a young machinist named Walter James Lyons committed a shocking act of violence on the streets of Plumstead, southeast London. What drove this 20-year-old to murder a decorated soldier in broad daylight? The answer lies in a moment of rage, a clash of Victorian morality, and a mother’s decision that scandalised an entire community. Leaving the Old Bailey to decide: was Walter truly a killer, or just a son pushed beyond his...
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60 | Mihail Leshtarski: The Killer From The Caves

March 13, 2025 • 21 mins
In 2009, 59-year-old Elena Tomova retreated to her countryside villa in Vlado Trichkov, Bulgaria, seeking peace—only to find evidence of an intruder. That evening, she unknowingly invited her own killer, Mihail Leshtarski, inside, offering him food and shelter. The transient drifter repaid her kindness with brutal murder, strangling Elena, mutilating her body, and defacing her home with crosses. Afterward, he lived in a cave until ...
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