Picture The Scene - A True Crime Podcast

Cassandra McDermott was 19 years old, loved by a houseful of sisters, and had just found the strength to leave a violent boyfriend. On 26 November 2001, while her mother was on a holiday Cassandra herself had insisted she take, she was beaten and left to die on a bedroom floor in Norbury, south London.

In 2002, her ex-boyfriend Mario Celaire stood trial at the Old Bailey. The jury deliberated for less than 3 hours and acquitted him....

Two men stepped over Ricardo Anderson as he lay dying. One man stayed and held his hand. He was convicted of murder.

Nottingham, 28 April 2023. Ricardo Anderson, 22, is stabbed through the heart in a flat at High Cross Leys. CCTV in the foyer below captures what happens next: the man who stabbed him walks past his body and keeps walking. Another man, David Francis, stops, stays, holds his hand and raises the alarm. A year later, bot...

Bailieborough, Co. Cavan. 5 September 2013.

Patricia Kierans was 54. She had walked away from a 33-year marriage, started again, and the day before she died she chose her new partner's door over any other. For months she had been telling people she was frightened. She showed neighbours the shotgun hidden under the mattress. She left her home because of it.

This episode is the story of what happened that morning in a town where everyo...

In the early hours of Sunday 2 April 2023, Vincent Jordan was lured to a flat in Nottingham by a woman he knew. He went to bed. He fell asleep naked. He had no idea three men were on their way through the door.

What followed lasted two hours.

By the time Vincent Jordan escaped that flat, bleeding, onto the forecourt of a petrol station, he had been stabbed 9 times, his ankle was fractured, his hand was broken, and chunks of his dread...

On the early hours of Tuesday 30 August 2022, a 25-year-old man called Brandon Malutshi was shot twice in the legs on the dance floor of a packed East London nightclub. The man who pulled the trigger was Chris Kaba — a core member of the Brixton Hill gang the 6-7. Six days later, Kaba was dead, shot through the windscreen of his car by a Metropolitan Police firearms officer in Streatham. He would never stand trial.

But five ot...

A note on the door said 'Back in 2 minutes.' She was never seen again.

On Saturday, 16th June 1990, 52-year-old Trevaline Evans locked up her antique shop in Llangollen, North Wales, and stepped out for what should have been a quick errand. Her handbag, car keys, credit cards and jacket were left inside. Her car never moved. No money has ever been withdrawn from her bank account. She has been missing for 36 years.

In this episode, we...

Sheffield, April 2018. The fire brigade force open a locked front door and find a 52-year-old man unconscious in his armchair. Next door, sharing a wall, lives a 92-year-old woman with dementia.

This isn't a whodunnit. Everyone agrees who started the fire. The question is what to do with a man the system can't quite decide is a defendant, a patient, or someone else's responsibility entirely; and how a juror, on day one of his trial,...

In this episode we dive into the rise and brutal fall of Premier League defender Calum Davenport, the powerful centre-back who came through Coventry City before earning his big move to Tottenham Hotspur and later West Ham United. At Spurs, Davenport was seen as a long-term prospect, gaining experience on loan before joining West Ham, where he fought for his place in the heart of their defence and looked set for a solid top-flight c...

In September 2016, Michael McCoy headed out for a routine dog walk in the Dublin Mountains, and never came home. By morning, one of his boxer dogs was found staying close… while the other had vanished without a trace. Michael’s death would become one of Dublin’s most unsettling unsolved cases, tangled with rumours, local tensions, and a trail of unanswered questions. This episode retraces his last known movements...

This episode of the Picture the Scene podcast delves into the tragic case of James Bulger, a two-year-old boy who was abducted and murdered in 1993. The hosts discuss the events leading up to the abduction, the search for Jamie, the investigation, and the subsequent trial of his young killers. They reflect on the societal implications of the case, the psychological aspects of the perpetrators, and the lasting impact on the families...