Crime Most Scots
Bi-weekly podcast about crimes committed in Scotland.
Episodes
June 29, 2025 • 30 mins
Episode 19: Takin’ The High Road, The Helen Torbet Case
It’s holiday season, and the B&Bs up and down Scotland are no doubt doing a roaring trade. Rural homes fling open their doors to strangers, and get to live in bucolic splendor, who doesn’t love a cozy trip away, staying in a B&B. In this episode we’ll be out in the wilds of the highlands, this is the case of an experienced walker going missing out in landscape she knew ...
It’s holiday season, and the B&Bs up and down Scotland are no doubt doing a roaring trade. Rural homes fling open their doors to strangers, and get to live in bucolic splendor, who doesn’t love a cozy trip away, staying in a B&B. In this episode we’ll be out in the wilds of the highlands, this is the case of an experienced walker going missing out in landscape she knew ...
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June 15, 2025 • 32 mins
Episode 18: 3 Women and Scottish Law Enforcement, Handy To Have Around
In this episode I’ll not be running you through a case from start to finish, but we’ll be looking at the three different ladies, and how they reached the headlines. They all have hands, big, strong shovel hands, hands that were accused of being where they weren't, and metaphorical hands that think hands are a lot more than just finger and palm prints.
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In this episode I’ll not be running you through a case from start to finish, but we’ll be looking at the three different ladies, and how they reached the headlines. They all have hands, big, strong shovel hands, hands that were accused of being where they weren't, and metaphorical hands that think hands are a lot more than just finger and palm prints.
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June 1, 2025 • 33 mins
Episode 17: The Deadly Game of Dominos: The Mary McLaughlan Case
In this episode we’re in Glasgow, well Partick to be precise. Wee Mary’s not been seen in a week, and the normal chap on the window to get Mary to the door isn’t getting an answer when one of her grown-up kids pops round to see her. And I think you’ve been listening to the podcast long enough to know the end of that part of the story. Mary’s inside, sadly passed away. ...
In this episode we’re in Glasgow, well Partick to be precise. Wee Mary’s not been seen in a week, and the normal chap on the window to get Mary to the door isn’t getting an answer when one of her grown-up kids pops round to see her. And I think you’ve been listening to the podcast long enough to know the end of that part of the story. Mary’s inside, sadly passed away. ...
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May 18, 2025 • 33 mins
Episode 16: The John Barclay Smith Case, You Can’t Outrun the Hands of Time
In this week’s episode we’re back in the North East, and the tartan time machine will be throwing us back to the Edwardian era. We’re in the tiny village of Lhanbryde, near Elgin, in Morayshire. A neighbour smells something out of the ordinary coming from the downstairs flat, and the occupant’s not been seen for a few days. Time to call the rozzer’s in to in...
In this week’s episode we’re back in the North East, and the tartan time machine will be throwing us back to the Edwardian era. We’re in the tiny village of Lhanbryde, near Elgin, in Morayshire. A neighbour smells something out of the ordinary coming from the downstairs flat, and the occupant’s not been seen for a few days. Time to call the rozzer’s in to in...
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May 4, 2025 • 36 mins
Episode 15: Dr and Mrs Wood, The Doctor Won’t See You Now, Murder He Wrote
In this episode we’ll be stopping off in Scotland’s 4th biggest city, and calling in at an infamous house, so much so that locally it’s referred to as The Murder House. We’ll be investigating the case of a retired doctor and his wife’s brutal death, and the fact that this double murder has seen no one in the docs answering the case of this savage attack, and ...
In this episode we’ll be stopping off in Scotland’s 4th biggest city, and calling in at an infamous house, so much so that locally it’s referred to as The Murder House. We’ll be investigating the case of a retired doctor and his wife’s brutal death, and the fact that this double murder has seen no one in the docs answering the case of this savage attack, and ...
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April 20, 2025 • 37 mins
Episode 14: The Brenda Page Case, A Scientist Waiting for Science Advances
In this episode we’re back under the northern lights of Old Aberdeen again, right in the heart of the city. We’re in the west end, and a street that’s filled with starter flats for first time buyers, and for those that are starting again. It’s also a road I know well as I lived in the next street, albeit 30 years later. We’re with a couple of work colleagues ...
In this episode we’re back under the northern lights of Old Aberdeen again, right in the heart of the city. We’re in the west end, and a street that’s filled with starter flats for first time buyers, and for those that are starting again. It’s also a road I know well as I lived in the next street, albeit 30 years later. We’re with a couple of work colleagues ...
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March 30, 2025 • 30 mins
Episode 13: Spirited Away, The Arlene Fraser Case
This case sees us standing at the school gates waiting for Mum to come and collect us, it’s Tuesday the 28th 1998. Mum’s normally home from college and doing the house work, she’s never missed a day of picking us up. Back at the Fraser family home we find the door open, but the house is deserted mid house cleaning, it’s like the Mary Celeste. Where is Arlene, and why is her estranged...
This case sees us standing at the school gates waiting for Mum to come and collect us, it’s Tuesday the 28th 1998. Mum’s normally home from college and doing the house work, she’s never missed a day of picking us up. Back at the Fraser family home we find the door open, but the house is deserted mid house cleaning, it’s like the Mary Celeste. Where is Arlene, and why is her estranged...
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March 16, 2025 • 37 mins
Episode 12: Peter Tobin, The Scumbag With A Thousand Names
In this week’s case we’ll start off in the holiest of places, and finish in a Kent seaside town. Three young women will have their lives cut short, a national operation will be opened, and a slippery handyman will be caught after being lazy when putting carpeting back down in a chapel. And are we to believe that this man has only done this three times. Sadly we’re back in s...
In this week’s case we’ll start off in the holiest of places, and finish in a Kent seaside town. Three young women will have their lives cut short, a national operation will be opened, and a slippery handyman will be caught after being lazy when putting carpeting back down in a chapel. And are we to believe that this man has only done this three times. Sadly we’re back in s...
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March 2, 2025 • 65 mins
Episode 11: Scumspotting - The Murder of Caroline Glachan
In this episode we’ll be discussing a seemingly motiveless murder of a 14 year old girl, a horrible start to a person’s forties and a murder trial with our youngest ever witness. But why did it take so long for justice to be given to her Mum and father, and are we so sure that the 3 suspects are really the ones who savagely ripped life away from this young girl?
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In this episode we’ll be discussing a seemingly motiveless murder of a 14 year old girl, a horrible start to a person’s forties and a murder trial with our youngest ever witness. But why did it take so long for justice to be given to her Mum and father, and are we so sure that the 3 suspects are really the ones who savagely ripped life away from this young girl?
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February 16, 2025 • 43 mins
Episode 10: Lynda Spence, Grifting The Wrong People
In this episode I outline the case of a woman who gets herself in very hot water, stealing from the wrong kind of people that result in her being kidnapped, tortured and murdered. I think of the cases we’ve covered so far she the most unsympathetic murder victim as she’s a scammer, and out and out thief, and she was a young lady that played with fire, and literally got burnt becau...
In this episode I outline the case of a woman who gets herself in very hot water, stealing from the wrong kind of people that result in her being kidnapped, tortured and murdered. I think of the cases we’ve covered so far she the most unsympathetic murder victim as she’s a scammer, and out and out thief, and she was a young lady that played with fire, and literally got burnt becau...
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February 8, 2025 • 42 mins
Episode 9: Heart of Glass, The Stephen Donaldson Slaying
In this episode we’ll be heading to never land, but sadly this story sees us with two Captain Hooks and an evil tinkerbell. This case rocked a tiny town with such a savage murder, and yet another vehicle on fire, come on Scotland, what’s up with setting so many cars on fire. It’s a case that sees a possible love triangle, or is it a case of not paying what’s owed. Forensics ve...
In this episode we’ll be heading to never land, but sadly this story sees us with two Captain Hooks and an evil tinkerbell. This case rocked a tiny town with such a savage murder, and yet another vehicle on fire, come on Scotland, what’s up with setting so many cars on fire. It’s a case that sees a possible love triangle, or is it a case of not paying what’s owed. Forensics ve...
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January 19, 2025 • 36 mins
Episode 8: The narcisstic nurse
In today’s episode we’ll be racking up the air miles, seeing one woman lose her life, and three who all had a lucky escape. This man, in the caring profession, only cares about one thing, and that’s himself. He loves himself and will go to extreme lengths to make sure he’s well looked after. Fold away your tray tables, put your seats into the upright position and buckle up for a heartless, craven ride...
In today’s episode we’ll be racking up the air miles, seeing one woman lose her life, and three who all had a lucky escape. This man, in the caring profession, only cares about one thing, and that’s himself. He loves himself and will go to extreme lengths to make sure he’s well looked after. Fold away your tray tables, put your seats into the upright position and buckle up for a heartless, craven ride...
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January 5, 2025 • 41 mins
Episode 7: The Ardlamont Murder: A hunting accident, or Murder?
In this episode’s case we’ll be popping on our Sunday best, jumping in the time machine and heading off to the remote location of Adrlamont House, a Georgian country house, located in an isolated peninsula in Argyll. There, we see three young chaps having a jolly time slaughtering the local rabbit population. But, wait, it seems there’s only two of them when they come ...
In this episode’s case we’ll be popping on our Sunday best, jumping in the time machine and heading off to the remote location of Adrlamont House, a Georgian country house, located in an isolated peninsula in Argyll. There, we see three young chaps having a jolly time slaughtering the local rabbit population. But, wait, it seems there’s only two of them when they come ...
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December 22, 2024 • 31 mins
Episode 6: The World’s End Murders, A Long Road to Justice
In this episode we’re in Auld Reechie!! We’ll start in an Edinburgh’s old town institution,and go through to Glasgow. This case was a shadow over Scotland for a long time, and it took a change in science, and a change in the law to bring a monster to justice. He’s a psychopath in all senses of the world, who started his criminal career at a young age.
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In this episode we’re in Auld Reechie!! We’ll start in an Edinburgh’s old town institution,and go through to Glasgow. This case was a shadow over Scotland for a long time, and it took a change in science, and a change in the law to bring a monster to justice. He’s a psychopath in all senses of the world, who started his criminal career at a young age.
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December 8, 2024 • 41 mins
Episode 5 : Spicy Food, Indian Bullet and an Protective Father: The Shamsuddin Mahmood Murder
This episode sees us getting our feet wet as we leave Lanarkshire behind, and head up North, and I mean north. We’re leaving the mainland and warping back to 1994, and going to the Orkney Islands. A Pakistani waiter, here for the summer, starts his shift at the local Indian restaurant, but he’d not see the end of the shift, he was shot, in...
This episode sees us getting our feet wet as we leave Lanarkshire behind, and head up North, and I mean north. We’re leaving the mainland and warping back to 1994, and going to the Orkney Islands. A Pakistani waiter, here for the summer, starts his shift at the local Indian restaurant, but he’d not see the end of the shift, he was shot, in...
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November 24, 2024 • 29 mins
Episode Four: Manhattan to Lanarkshire, the Beast of Berkinshaw
This week’s episode finds us South of Glasgow, in Lanarkshire, in the 1950s. We'll start with a triple homicide, a family brutally murdered in their homes, in their beds. But wait, Dad’s off on a fishing trip miles away, so far that you need to take a ferry back. Did he have time to take a late night boat, drive home, murder his family, and make it back again before...
This week’s episode finds us South of Glasgow, in Lanarkshire, in the 1950s. We'll start with a triple homicide, a family brutally murdered in their homes, in their beds. But wait, Dad’s off on a fishing trip miles away, so far that you need to take a ferry back. Did he have time to take a late night boat, drive home, murder his family, and make it back again before...
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November 10, 2024 • 30 mins
Episode 3: Karen Buckley
An international flavour to this episode’s case, an Irish nurse goes missing after a night out in Glasgow, a thankfully short search is started, but what the police discover will make your blood run cold. The warning signs were there, but sadly they were ignored, leaving us to discuss a murderer that has shades of Walter White.
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An international flavour to this episode’s case, an Irish nurse goes missing after a night out in Glasgow, a thankfully short search is started, but what the police discover will make your blood run cold. The warning signs were there, but sadly they were ignored, leaving us to discuss a murderer that has shades of Walter White.
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October 27, 2024 • 46 mins
Episode 2: The Judi Jones Case
On a late summer’s afternoon a teenager sends a text to her boyfriend that she’s just leaving the house to come and see him. It should have been a short, picturesque jaunt through a wood, but tragically it would become the location for Jodi’s last moments, and murder. The family starts a search for her, and it would be the boyfriend who located Jodi’s body, like fast, and off the beaten track. Was it...
On a late summer’s afternoon a teenager sends a text to her boyfriend that she’s just leaving the house to come and see him. It should have been a short, picturesque jaunt through a wood, but tragically it would become the location for Jodi’s last moments, and murder. The family starts a search for her, and it would be the boyfriend who located Jodi’s body, like fast, and off the beaten track. Was it...
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October 13, 2024 • 30 mins
Episode 1: The Fishy Triangle
For our inaugural episode we’re looking at a crime that’s a landmark in Scotland, and like a lot of murder cases involves matters of the heart. When a lonely fisherman’s wife seeks warmth in the arms of another, but then decides she’s made an awful decision, things turn deadly, and end in the last hanging in Scotland, but why was it seen as controversial?
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For our inaugural episode we’re looking at a crime that’s a landmark in Scotland, and like a lot of murder cases involves matters of the heart. When a lonely fisherman’s wife seeks warmth in the arms of another, but then decides she’s made an awful decision, things turn deadly, and end in the last hanging in Scotland, but why was it seen as controversial?
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October 9, 2024 • 56 secs
Episode 1: The Fishy Triangle
For our inaugural episode we’re looking at a crime that’s a landmark in Scotland, and like a lot of murder cases involves matters of the heart. When a lonely fisherman’s wife seeks warmth in the arms of another, but then decides she’s made an awful decision, things turn deadly, and end in the last hanging in Scotland, but why was it seen as controversial?
For more information, visit our website: http://c...
For our inaugural episode we’re looking at a crime that’s a landmark in Scotland, and like a lot of murder cases involves matters of the heart. When a lonely fisherman’s wife seeks warmth in the arms of another, but then decides she’s made an awful decision, things turn deadly, and end in the last hanging in Scotland, but why was it seen as controversial?
For more information, visit our website: http://c...
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