March 28, 2024 • 16 mins
Christmas Eve has a magical feeling in the air. Things feel peaceful after allof the holiday preparations and it's almost time to enjoy all the holiday festivities.
December 23rd, 1993, just outside of Shotley Bridge village in England.
Paul Logan was out making some last minute deliveries before going home to his family for Christmas.
He unfortunately wouldn't make that final delivery or make it home to open presents with his family on Christmas.
Roll that joint for this twisted and calculated trap set for Paul and unfortunately fell victim to.
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(00:00):
Happy 420, I'm Kai and you are listening to Stone Cold Murder.
(00:08):
Just a PSA, if you have any information to help solve a crime, you can go to www.crimestoppers.com
to report any information anonymously.
Thanks for tuning in for Season 2 Episode 8, The Murder of Paul Logan.
This podcast contains material that may not be suitable for all audiences.
(00:30):
Listening discretion is advised.
Alright guys, this is going to be a solo episode so I'm going to jump right into the case.
This is a very unsettling case.
So our story starts out on a cold winter night, December 23, 1993.
(00:52):
Police were contacted by the owners of Blue House Farm, which is located outside of Shotley
Bridge, which is a village in England.
The owners of the home were concerned when they noticed that a Chinese food delivery
car was still on the small road outside the home with its lights turned on.
Earlier that evening at about 9.50pm, a delivery driver named Paul Logan arrived at Blue House
(01:20):
Farm.
Paul Logan was a 25 year old delivery driver for Golden Flower, which is a Chinese restaurant
in Concett.
When he arrived at Blue House Farm, he walked up to the front door of the home and knocked.
Paul stood outside waiting for the homeowners to answer the door, and when the door opened,
(01:43):
Paul reached out his hand to deliver the food, and as he did so, the confused homeowner said,
we didn't order any food.
Now equally confused, Paul apologized and returned to his vehicle with the food to get
kind of his bearings and see where he went wrong.
And honestly, I think if this happened to me, I would be almost in like a daze.
(02:06):
My head would be like running in circles trying to figure out where I went wrong, what road
I took wrong, did I get the instructions wrong.
So I would be kind of discombobulated and out of my wits I think.
I'm sure that's how Paul was feeling after this whole thing happened.
So as Paul went to drive away, he actually had to get back out of his car to open a gate
(02:30):
before he could leave.
I guess there was a gate on that road, and this gate wasn't previously closed, but was
closed during the time that Paul had arrived and then tried to deliver the food.
Some time later, the homeowner noticed that the vehicle was still parked outside of their
home with their headlights on, and they must have maybe got a strange feeling because they
(02:52):
immediately contacted the police instead of investigating themselves.
When police arrived, there was no one inside the vehicle, so they began to search around
the area where the vehicle was parked.
At 2.15 a.m. on Christmas Eve, about 50 yards away, police found Paul's body bludgeoned
(03:12):
to death on the snow-covered ground.
He had severe head wounds, believed to be inflicted by a blunt instrument, and numerous
other injuries.
The circumstances surrounding Paul's death are strange to say the least.
Police got to work investigating, trying to find a motive for Paul's murder, and after
(03:34):
digging, it was determined that he was purposefully lured to this spot with a fake order.
With that, we're going to take a smoke break.
Alright, and we're back.
So Paul was a father of two and lived a relatively quiet life with his wife and children.
(03:54):
In the weeks leading up to Paul's murder, he did have his car vandalized multiple times,
and one of these times someone actually scratched the words, no legs, on the roof, which I couldn't
even find why someone would write no legs, but someone wrote no legs on his car.
(04:21):
I just don't even know what kind of an insult that was, to be honest.
I'm sorry, I'm laughing.
Because he had legs.
He did.
I'll specify with that, he had legs, so no legs seems like a strange insult to me.
Yeah, they didn't cut off his legs after he died.
(04:43):
He was intact when they found him.
I mean, mostly, like, he was bludgeoned, but his legs were there on his body.
Okay, I think you get the point.
He had legs.
We got it.
So yeah, weird.
I think all of his family still had legs too, so as far as I know, everybody had legs.
(05:04):
Family described Paul as just your average guy.
He was just happy-go-lucky and would help anyone.
They also said that they have never thought he was in any sort of trouble leading up to
the murder.
I guess opposed from the car being vandalized.
On the night of Paul's murder, a call came at 9.20pm to the restaurant he worked at.
(05:28):
The caller gave vague directions and the owner didn't understand where they wanted the order
dropped off.
The owner of the golden flower told the caller that the driver, Paul, would need to call
back for further directions.
20 minutes later, Paul called the number back and the caller gave directions to Bluehouse
Farm, located just outside the nearby village of Shotley Bridge.
(05:53):
9.50pm is when Paul arrived to deliver the food and the owners of the home told him that
they hadn't ordered that food.
Police believe that it was planned and that there were multiple people involved in Paul's
murder that night.
The hoax call was discovered to have been made from a payphone of the road from the
(06:15):
golden flower and not only had the call been made, but the caller actually had to wait
around for like 20 minutes to receive a call back to that payphone from Paul to give him
directions to the Bluehouse Farm.
Witnesses saw someone in the phone box that night along with a man who was waiting outside
(06:36):
close by in a red Ford Fiesta.
Other than these few details, there are a lot of unknown surrounding Paul's murder.
It didn't seem like there was any DNA found and the murder weapons were never located
either, making it easy for people to just speculate what happened that night.
(06:56):
It seems strange to me because so many people and the police go straight to assuming Paul
had enemies or that he was connected to some underground crime or gang.
And there's really no evidence of this other than the fact that the car was vandalized
and eventually after his murder, his gravestone was actually vandalized too.
So those are two weird things, but like other than that, he lived a fairly quiet life with
(07:22):
his family.
It's strange to go straight to that, but it does kind of seem like an easy cop out to
use that as a reason for murder, even though it doesn't really seem like it was ever, he
was ever caused in like trauma with the law or anything like that.
But John Stocker was a former Manchester police constable and he investigated Paul's murder.
(07:45):
He said, apparently Paul was a Jack the Lad who had made several enemies in concept and
his headstone was once desecrated, he said.
So I looked up what Jack the Lad meant and it is a term that is used for a young man
who is regarded as brash or a loud show off.
So I don't know.
(08:09):
It's odd that a cop would use that as a reason for someone to be murdered.
Like a show off is a reason.
Like does that make you enemies?
I don't know.
Paul's sister, Dawn, said it can be hard if there's gossip.
If people are saying it might have been this or it might have been that.
(08:30):
I think people automatically assume that we know why, but we haven't got a clue.
The police have never been able to say why.
There has never been a motive.
Dawn said her family is determined not to let gossip ruin the memories of Paul.
She said over the years there has been lots of speculation and you have got to learn to
(08:52):
take it with just a pinch of salt.
She said it is difficult though.
What people need to remember is it is somebody's family, it's somebody's dead brother.
In 1997, 10 men were arrested on speculation of Paul's murder, but all were released without
ever being charged.
(09:12):
One of those men was Keith Sudick, who went to prison in 1999 for 12 months for a bomb
attack on Paul's father Hugh.
So he actually planted a bomb on Hugh's van and was trying to blow it up, which is interesting
to me that he would be attacking his father.
(09:33):
Keith Sudick claimed that Paul's family continued to accuse him of Paul's murder, though he
was never charged.
This eventually had caused his business to fail and this is why he blew up Hugh's van,
because he was upset about that.
Keith would eventually die in 2012 as a result of his cocaine usage.
(09:53):
I guess we'll never know with that one.
Other than the arrest, there have never been any significant developments in the case and
the police periodically review his murder.
Detective Inspector Dave English, police homicide and major inquiry team, is now reviewing the
murder and reexamining old lines of inquiry.
(10:14):
After looking into the case, he believes that now might be the time that people feel safe
to come forward, he said.
When I've looked at this, I think there has been a lot of water under the bridge in 24
years and there's a chance that there has been changes in alliances.
In my experience, that happens quite a bit.
(10:35):
Things change and people move on.
Clearly it's been a very violent, vicious attack on Paul and I have got absolutely no
doubt that somebody knows who's responsible for this.
I genuinely believe we have got someone out there with some information.
There is always tittle-tattle around things like this, he explained.
(10:57):
Paul was well known in the village, but there's no getting away from the fact I believe this
was planned.
They lay in wait in a remote area and attacked him while he was by himself.
I believe there was a number of people involved.
A lot has happened over the past 23 years.
People have grown up and moved.
However, one group of people who cannot move on is Paul's family.
(11:21):
They are still searching for answers as to what happened that night.
Despite his children now being grown adults with their own families, they have grown up
without really knowing their father and no child deserves that.
With improved processes and technology over the years, we hope we can find new lines of
inquiries and pursue and find the missing piece of the puzzle.
(11:46):
Although this has happened on the borders of North Umbra and Durham, inquiries have
spread throughout the country.
We believe that there are a large number of people who know something about what happened
that night and we would urge them to speak to us.
This inquiry may be 23 years old, but we are absolutely determined to catch whoever carried
(12:07):
out this vicious attack and bring them to justice.
Paul's family have made numerous appeals for further information, including offering
a £50,000 reward.
Dave Logan, Paul's brother said,
There is not a day that goes by where Paul isn't in our thoughts.
Just because 24 years have passed, we still haven't moved on.
(12:31):
We live with this every day.
Everyone out there knows what happened to Paul and we are hoping that this reward will
be enough to encourage anyone who remembers even the smallest detail to come forward and
help us get closure our family deserves and to secure justice for Paul.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously
(12:55):
at 0800-555-111 or use their anonymous online forum at crimestoppers-uk.org.
Unfortunately there's not much more on the case of Paul Logan, but I would like to discuss
who Paul was before we end that episode.
(13:18):
Paul was born to Hugh and Elise and Paul grew up in Concet, which is a small county in Durham,
England, and I couldn't find much about his life before his murder, but we do know
Paul would eventually marry his wife Pamela and have two young children, Michael and Natalie.
He worked as a delivery driver for a local Chinese restaurant, the Golden Flower, and
(13:43):
was a dedicated loving father, husband, son, and brother.
Paul's murder left his wife Pamela, a widow, and children, nine-month-old Natalie and
four-year-old Michael without a father.
His family has a huge piece missing and every Christmas, instead of celebrating with Paul,
they are faced with the painful memory of his murder.
(14:06):
Paul Logan was 25 at the time of his murder, he had a family and so much more life to live
with them.
His daughter said approaching the anniversary of his death, 25 years have passed and we
still have no answers and no justice.
My dad was the same age as I am now when he was killed and he had his whole life ahead
(14:27):
of him.
I have no doubt he would have loved us all very much, especially my brother's new son,
his first grandson.
Someone out there knows what happened and why my dad was taken from us.
They know I have gone through life without him and they know what my whole life has been
through, what my whole family has been through, excuse me.
(14:50):
His happy-go-lucky personality is missed and his sister Dawn treasures the fond memories
she had of her brother.
He was great, she said.
We had brilliant times growing up together.
He was a hardworking dad and he loved his kids, but the chance to be a dad was taken
away from him.
My final thoughts on the case is just like, it's just an absolutely sad situation to be
(15:15):
faced with losing your husband and your dad on Christmas Eve when he's just out working
and trying to make money, I'm sure, to get Christmas presents and all that good stuff
for the family and just how unexpected that would be and what a sad situation that is
(15:39):
too.
Makes you just think how fast something can change and how you never expect something
like that.
So my thoughts definitely go out to that family and really hope that someone who knows something
comes forward because there's multiple people involved and usually people do not keep quiet
(16:01):
with that kind of a situation.
Hopefully someone will eventually do the right thing and give some people some closure.
Thank you guys so much for tuning in.
Till next time, stay high, stay safe, and thanks for listening.
If you like this show, please give us a five-star rating and case suggestions wherever you're
(16:21):
listening.
And follow us on Instagram at Stone Cold Murder.
Happy 420, I'm Kai and you are listening to Stone Cold Murder.
(00:08):
Just a PSA, if you have any information to help solve a crime, you can go to www.crimestoppers.com
to report any information anonymously.
Thanks for tuning in for Season 2 Episode 8, The Murder of Paul Logan.
This podcast contains material that may not be suitable for all audiences.
(00:30):
Listening discretion is advised.
Alright guys, this is going to be a solo episode so I'm going to jump right into the case.
This is a very unsettling case.
So our story starts out on a cold winter night, December 23, 1993.
(00:52):
Police were contacted by the owners of Blue House Farm, which is located outside of Shotley
Bridge, which is a village in England.
The owners of the home were concerned when they noticed that a Chinese food delivery
car was still on the small road outside the home with its lights turned on.
Earlier that evening at about 9.50pm, a delivery driver named Paul Logan arrived at Blue House
(01:20):
Farm.
Paul Logan was a 25 year old delivery driver for Golden Flower, which is a Chinese restaurant
in Concett.
When he arrived at Blue House Farm, he walked up to the front door of the home and knocked.
Paul stood outside waiting for the homeowners to answer the door, and when the door opened,
(01:43):
Paul reached out his hand to deliver the food, and as he did so, the confused homeowner said,
we didn't order any food.
Now equally confused, Paul apologized and returned to his vehicle with the food to get
kind of his bearings and see where he went wrong.
And honestly, I think if this happened to me, I would be almost in like a daze.
(02:06):
My head would be like running in circles trying to figure out where I went wrong, what road
I took wrong, did I get the instructions wrong.
So I would be kind of discombobulated and out of my wits I think.
I'm sure that's how Paul was feeling after this whole thing happened.
So as Paul went to drive away, he actually had to get back out of his car to open a gate
(02:30):
before he could leave.
I guess there was a gate on that road, and this gate wasn't previously closed, but was
closed during the time that Paul had arrived and then tried to deliver the food.
Some time later, the homeowner noticed that the vehicle was still parked outside of their
home with their headlights on, and they must have maybe got a strange feeling because they
(02:52):
immediately contacted the police instead of investigating themselves.
When police arrived, there was no one inside the vehicle, so they began to search around
the area where the vehicle was parked.
At 2.15 a.m. on Christmas Eve, about 50 yards away, police found Paul's body bludgeoned
(03:12):
to death on the snow-covered ground.
He had severe head wounds, believed to be inflicted by a blunt instrument, and numerous
other injuries.
The circumstances surrounding Paul's death are strange to say the least.
Police got to work investigating, trying to find a motive for Paul's murder, and after
(03:34):
digging, it was determined that he was purposefully lured to this spot with a fake order.
With that, we're going to take a smoke break.
Alright, and we're back.
So Paul was a father of two and lived a relatively quiet life with his wife and children.
(03:54):
In the weeks leading up to Paul's murder, he did have his car vandalized multiple times,
and one of these times someone actually scratched the words, no legs, on the roof, which I couldn't
even find why someone would write no legs, but someone wrote no legs on his car.
(04:21):
I just don't even know what kind of an insult that was, to be honest.
I'm sorry, I'm laughing.
Because he had legs.
He did.
I'll specify with that, he had legs, so no legs seems like a strange insult to me.
Yeah, they didn't cut off his legs after he died.
(04:43):
He was intact when they found him.
I mean, mostly, like, he was bludgeoned, but his legs were there on his body.
Okay, I think you get the point.
He had legs.
We got it.
So yeah, weird.
I think all of his family still had legs too, so as far as I know, everybody had legs.
(05:04):
Family described Paul as just your average guy.
He was just happy-go-lucky and would help anyone.
They also said that they have never thought he was in any sort of trouble leading up to
the murder.
I guess opposed from the car being vandalized.
On the night of Paul's murder, a call came at 9.20pm to the restaurant he worked at.
(05:28):
The caller gave vague directions and the owner didn't understand where they wanted the order
dropped off.
The owner of the golden flower told the caller that the driver, Paul, would need to call
back for further directions.
20 minutes later, Paul called the number back and the caller gave directions to Bluehouse
Farm, located just outside the nearby village of Shotley Bridge.
(05:53):
9.50pm is when Paul arrived to deliver the food and the owners of the home told him that
they hadn't ordered that food.
Police believe that it was planned and that there were multiple people involved in Paul's
murder that night.
The hoax call was discovered to have been made from a payphone of the road from the
(06:15):
golden flower and not only had the call been made, but the caller actually had to wait
around for like 20 minutes to receive a call back to that payphone from Paul to give him
directions to the Bluehouse Farm.
Witnesses saw someone in the phone box that night along with a man who was waiting outside
(06:36):
close by in a red Ford Fiesta.
Other than these few details, there are a lot of unknown surrounding Paul's murder.
It didn't seem like there was any DNA found and the murder weapons were never located
either, making it easy for people to just speculate what happened that night.
(06:56):
It seems strange to me because so many people and the police go straight to assuming Paul
had enemies or that he was connected to some underground crime or gang.
And there's really no evidence of this other than the fact that the car was vandalized
and eventually after his murder, his gravestone was actually vandalized too.
So those are two weird things, but like other than that, he lived a fairly quiet life with
(07:22):
his family.
It's strange to go straight to that, but it does kind of seem like an easy cop out to
use that as a reason for murder, even though it doesn't really seem like it was ever, he
was ever caused in like trauma with the law or anything like that.
But John Stocker was a former Manchester police constable and he investigated Paul's murder.
(07:45):
He said, apparently Paul was a Jack the Lad who had made several enemies in concept and
his headstone was once desecrated, he said.
So I looked up what Jack the Lad meant and it is a term that is used for a young man
who is regarded as brash or a loud show off.
So I don't know.
(08:09):
It's odd that a cop would use that as a reason for someone to be murdered.
Like a show off is a reason.
Like does that make you enemies?
I don't know.
Paul's sister, Dawn, said it can be hard if there's gossip.
If people are saying it might have been this or it might have been that.
(08:30):
I think people automatically assume that we know why, but we haven't got a clue.
The police have never been able to say why.
There has never been a motive.
Dawn said her family is determined not to let gossip ruin the memories of Paul.
She said over the years there has been lots of speculation and you have got to learn to
(08:52):
take it with just a pinch of salt.
She said it is difficult though.
What people need to remember is it is somebody's family, it's somebody's dead brother.
In 1997, 10 men were arrested on speculation of Paul's murder, but all were released without
ever being charged.
(09:12):
One of those men was Keith Sudick, who went to prison in 1999 for 12 months for a bomb
attack on Paul's father Hugh.
So he actually planted a bomb on Hugh's van and was trying to blow it up, which is interesting
to me that he would be attacking his father.
(09:33):
Keith Sudick claimed that Paul's family continued to accuse him of Paul's murder, though he
was never charged.
This eventually had caused his business to fail and this is why he blew up Hugh's van,
because he was upset about that.
Keith would eventually die in 2012 as a result of his cocaine usage.
(09:53):
I guess we'll never know with that one.
Other than the arrest, there have never been any significant developments in the case and
the police periodically review his murder.
Detective Inspector Dave English, police homicide and major inquiry team, is now reviewing the
murder and reexamining old lines of inquiry.
(10:14):
After looking into the case, he believes that now might be the time that people feel safe
to come forward, he said.
When I've looked at this, I think there has been a lot of water under the bridge in 24
years and there's a chance that there has been changes in alliances.
In my experience, that happens quite a bit.
(10:35):
Things change and people move on.
Clearly it's been a very violent, vicious attack on Paul and I have got absolutely no
doubt that somebody knows who's responsible for this.
I genuinely believe we have got someone out there with some information.
There is always tittle-tattle around things like this, he explained.
(10:57):
Paul was well known in the village, but there's no getting away from the fact I believe this
was planned.
They lay in wait in a remote area and attacked him while he was by himself.
I believe there was a number of people involved.
A lot has happened over the past 23 years.
People have grown up and moved.
However, one group of people who cannot move on is Paul's family.
(11:21):
They are still searching for answers as to what happened that night.
Despite his children now being grown adults with their own families, they have grown up
without really knowing their father and no child deserves that.
With improved processes and technology over the years, we hope we can find new lines of
inquiries and pursue and find the missing piece of the puzzle.
(11:46):
Although this has happened on the borders of North Umbra and Durham, inquiries have
spread throughout the country.
We believe that there are a large number of people who know something about what happened
that night and we would urge them to speak to us.
This inquiry may be 23 years old, but we are absolutely determined to catch whoever carried
(12:07):
out this vicious attack and bring them to justice.
Paul's family have made numerous appeals for further information, including offering
a £50,000 reward.
Dave Logan, Paul's brother said,
There is not a day that goes by where Paul isn't in our thoughts.
Just because 24 years have passed, we still haven't moved on.
(12:31):
We live with this every day.
Everyone out there knows what happened to Paul and we are hoping that this reward will
be enough to encourage anyone who remembers even the smallest detail to come forward and
help us get closure our family deserves and to secure justice for Paul.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously
(12:55):
at 0800-555-111 or use their anonymous online forum at crimestoppers-uk.org.
Unfortunately there's not much more on the case of Paul Logan, but I would like to discuss
who Paul was before we end that episode.
(13:18):
Paul was born to Hugh and Elise and Paul grew up in Concet, which is a small county in Durham,
England, and I couldn't find much about his life before his murder, but we do know
Paul would eventually marry his wife Pamela and have two young children, Michael and Natalie.
He worked as a delivery driver for a local Chinese restaurant, the Golden Flower, and
(13:43):
was a dedicated loving father, husband, son, and brother.
Paul's murder left his wife Pamela, a widow, and children, nine-month-old Natalie and
four-year-old Michael without a father.
His family has a huge piece missing and every Christmas, instead of celebrating with Paul,
they are faced with the painful memory of his murder.
(14:06):
Paul Logan was 25 at the time of his murder, he had a family and so much more life to live
with them.
His daughter said approaching the anniversary of his death, 25 years have passed and we
still have no answers and no justice.
My dad was the same age as I am now when he was killed and he had his whole life ahead
(14:27):
of him.
I have no doubt he would have loved us all very much, especially my brother's new son,
his first grandson.
Someone out there knows what happened and why my dad was taken from us.
They know I have gone through life without him and they know what my whole life has been
through, what my whole family has been through, excuse me.
(14:50):
His happy-go-lucky personality is missed and his sister Dawn treasures the fond memories
she had of her brother.
He was great, she said.
We had brilliant times growing up together.
He was a hardworking dad and he loved his kids, but the chance to be a dad was taken
away from him.
My final thoughts on the case is just like, it's just an absolutely sad situation to be
(15:15):
faced with losing your husband and your dad on Christmas Eve when he's just out working
and trying to make money, I'm sure, to get Christmas presents and all that good stuff
for the family and just how unexpected that would be and what a sad situation that is
(15:39):
too.
Makes you just think how fast something can change and how you never expect something
like that.
So my thoughts definitely go out to that family and really hope that someone who knows something
comes forward because there's multiple people involved and usually people do not keep quiet
(16:01):
with that kind of a situation.
Hopefully someone will eventually do the right thing and give some people some closure.
Thank you guys so much for tuning in.
Till next time, stay high, stay safe, and thanks for listening.
If you like this show, please give us a five-star rating and case suggestions wherever you're
(16:21):
listening.
And follow us on Instagram at Stone Cold Murder.
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