Prash's Murder Map: True Crime Podcast

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By: Prash Ganendran

Prash’s Murder Map is a true crime podcast created and hosted by British true crime author Prash Ganendran. Each episode explores real murder cases from history and around the world through original, in-depth research that uncovers overlooked facts and forgotten details. Told objectively and without sensationalism, the series places every case in its true historical and social context, offering thoughtful, evidence-based storytelling.

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104 | The Marpole Murders: The Hunt for Rocky Rambo Wei Nam Kam
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In September 2017, occupational therapist Dianna Mah-Jones and her husband Richard were murdered in their Vancouver home by a stranger who had watched Dianna from the street. CCTV, discarded murder weapons, and a cleverly obtained DNA sample led detectives to Rocky Rambo Wei Nam Kam, whose disturbing police interview and claim that he believed he was inside a violent video game became central to the case.

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103 | Murder in Hodgemoor Wood: The Puzzling Death of Dr Helen Davidson
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09/23/2026

In November 1966, respected Buckinghamshire doctor Helen Davidson was brutally murdered while walking her dog in Hodgemoor Woods, leaving her fox terrier as the sole witness. There was no clear motive for the strange killing. The local police, assisted by Scotland Yard detectives, initially focused on Helen's husband and their housekeeper. Later, more information would come to light, along with other tragic deaths connected to the case and the discovery of a further key suspect.

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102 | Murder in the Fens: The 1912 True Crime Case of Minnie Morris
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09/07/2026

In the summer of 1912, 21-year-old Minnie Morris left London for a working holiday picking fruit in the quiet fenland village of Walsoken. When her body was discovered beside a country lane, suspicion fell on fellow fruit-picker Robert Galloway, who had already made a surprising confession but went on to change his story.

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101 | The Ontario Murders: Manhunt for “The Tattoo Man” Peter John Peters
101 | The Ontario Murders: Manhunt for “The Tattoo Man” Peter John Peters episode artwork
08/20/2026

In January 1990, Ontario was gripped by one of Canada’s largest manhunts in 15 years. Peter John Peters, a violent ex-convict known as ‘The Tattoo Man’, terrorised the province for several days, leaving a trail of theft, assault and murder. From the brutal killing of a 63-year-old cleaner to the stabbing of two young women and a bank robbery, his crime spree tested law enforcement and left communities in fear.

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100 | The 1928 Lake District Murder: The Honeymoon Killer of Borrowdale
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08/05/2026

In June 1928, a newly married Chinese couple arrived in the Lake District to enjoy their honeymoon. Days later, 28-year-old Wai Sheung Siu was found strangled in woodland near Derwentwater. Suspicion fell on her husband as hidden jewellery, cryptic notes, and reports of mysterious men and secret societies became part of a sensational murder case.

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99 | Interview with Giles Brown on Talk Radio Europe about Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde'
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07/29/2026

On 1 July 2026, we were interviewed by Giles Brown on Talk Radio Europe about our latest book, Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten, which examines the 1944 crime spree that culminated in the shooting of private car hire driver George Edward Heath, known as the 'Cleft Chin Murder'. This is the recording of the interview in which we briefly explore several aspects of the case, including crime and society in wartime London, American servicemen in Britain during the Second World War, and the lives of Elizabeth Jones and Karl Hulten who were aged 18 and 22...


98 | The Manhunt for Barry Prudom: The Phantom of the Forest Murders
98 | The Manhunt for Barry Prudom: The Phantom of the Forest Murders episode artwork
07/17/2026

In June 1982, the murder of Police Constable David Haigh sparked the largest manhunt Britain had seen at that time. As fugitive Barry Prudom moved through the forests and villages of North Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, he left more victims in his wake, including Sergeant David Winter. Hundreds of police officers, helicopters, armed units and a specialist wilderness tracker joined the search, which culminated in the ‘Siege of Malton’. But how did a reserved former electrician and family man become one of the country’s most dangerous fugitives, known as the Phantom of the Forest?

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97 | The Great Coram Street Murder: The Unsolved True Crime Case of Harriet Buswell
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07/04/2026

On Christmas Day 1872, the body of 31-year-old Harriet Buswell was discovered in a Bloomsbury lodging house, her throat brutally cut inside a locked room. As detectives reconstructed her final hours, conflicting witness statements and rumours of a mysterious ‘German gentleman’ sent the investigation spiralling in the wrong direction. In this episode, we examine this baffling unsolved case that bears striking similarities to the later Jack the Ripper murders, and the tragic story of a young woman whose killer was never found.

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96 | The Wrotham Hill Murder: Fabian of the Yard Investigates
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05/28/2026

In October 1946, 48-year-old Dagmar Peters was found murdered on Wrotham Hill in Kent after a lorry driver spotted a blue shoe at the roadside. The investigation was led by Chief Inspector Robert Fabian, later immortalised in the TV series Fabian of the Yard. Suspicion fell on lorry driver Sidney Sinclair, a man with multiple aliases whose story soon unravelled under questioning.

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95 | The Wife in the Well Murder: The 1885 Botched Execution of Robert Goodale
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04/29/2026

In 1885, in the Fenland village of Walsoken near Wisbech, Bathsheba Goodale was last seen alive with her husband, Robert. That night, he returned home alone, his trousers soaked and his boots thick with mud. He showed little concern when his wife failed to come back from the fields, and his strange indifference quickly stirred suspicion among the villagers. The discovery of Bathsheba’s body at the bottom of a well was followed by a murder charge, a trial, and a guilty verdict. Robert Goodale was condemned to death. Yet it was not the crime that would secure his place in hi...


94 | The Vampire of Kraków: Karol Kot and the Murders That Shocked Poland
94 | The Vampire of Kraków: Karol Kot and the Murders That Shocked Poland episode artwork
04/18/2026

In 1960s Kraków, Poland, a string of random, brutal stabbings shocked the city and left police hunting a killer with no apparent motive. At first, nobody suspected Karol Kot; a polite, intelligent teenager hiding an obsession with knives and violence. The two murders and multiple attempted murders he committed would earn him the nickname ‘The Vampire of Kraków.’

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93 | The Murderess of Newington Butts: The Strange Case of Agnes Norman
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04/11/2026

In Victorian London, 15-year-old Agnes Norman was working as a nursemaid when a 14-month-old girl in her care died suddenly and mysteriously. When suspicions were raised, police uncovered a disturbing pattern. Over the previous three years, Agnes had worked in several households, and each time, a string of sudden deaths – children and pets alike - followed in her wake. Was it cold-blooded murder, or a stunningly tragic coincidence?

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92 | Murder in Babbacombe: The Man They Could Not Hang
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04/04/2026

In November 1884, 68-year-old Emma Ann Whitehead Keyse was brutally murdered in her home in Babbacombe, Devon. As investigators pieced together the crime, suspicion fell on a household member, leading to a trial that gripped the public. But the story didn’t end in the courtroom, as the fate of the accused would take an extraordinary turn that made headlines across Victorian England.


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91 | The Saint-Cloud Murders: The Crimes of Serial Killer Eugen Weidmann
91 | The Saint-Cloud Murders: The Crimes of Serial Killer Eugen Weidmann episode artwork
03/12/2026

Eugen Weidmann, a German-born criminal, carried out a spree of theft, kidnapping, and murder in Paris in the late 1930s, in a case that involved foreign victims, buried bodies, ransom notes, and multiple accomplices. His calm, deceptive charm helped him evade the police for two years before he was finally captured. In 1939, Weidmann became the last man to be publicly guillotined; a controversial method of execution that would remain in use in France until 1977.

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90 | Murder in Birkenhead: Lock Ah Tam and the Chinatown Tragedy
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02/26/2026

After a birthday celebration in Birkenhead in 1925, the Tam family’s life of respectability and success suddenly unravelled in a violent tragedy. This episode explores the life of Lock Ah Tam, his role as a respected figure in Liverpool’s Chinese community, and the fateful events that led to one of the most shocking family murders of the era, set against the backdrop of Liverpool’s Chinatown and surrounded by the eerie coincidences that haunted the case long afterwards.

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89 | Murder in Wartime Folkestone: Did Dennis Leckey Get Away With It?
89 | Murder in Wartime Folkestone: Did Dennis Leckey Get Away With It? episode artwork
02/19/2026

On the streets of Folkestone, Kent, amid World War II, 18-year-old Caroline Trayler disappeared after being seen drinking at the local pub one Sunday evening in June 1943. When Police Constable Lewis entered a bombed-out grocer’s shop several days later in the hunt for the missing woman, he discovered a tragic scene which confirmed that the missing person’s case had now become a murder enquiry.

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88 | Elizabeth Jones and Karl Hulten: Wartime London’s “Bonnie and Clyde” - Author Discussion
88 | Elizabeth Jones and Karl Hulten: Wartime London’s “Bonnie and Clyde” - Author Discussion episode artwork
02/13/2026

In this special author discussion episode, Prash and Melissa Ganendran share their experiences of writing their latest book, which examines the 1944 crime spree of Elizabeth Jones and Karl Hulten, culminating in the murder of private car hire driver George Edward Heath. The case became known as the 'Cleft Chin Murder', while some newspapers at the time described the pair as London's 'Bonnie and Clyde'.

In the episode, we talk about how we discovered and researched the case, the lives and fateful meeting of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten, and some of the new information we uncovered.

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87 | Murder in a Lincolnshire Village: The Ethel Major Poisoning Case
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02/05/2026

In Lincolnshire in 1934, 44-year-old Arthur Major died suddenly. He had previously been healthy, and his wife seemed unusually eager to arrange his funeral. The ensuing investigation revealed a troubled marriage, and the circumstantial evidence against Ethel Major began to mount, in this vintage true crime case that captured the attention of both the local community and the national press, with Ethel later being dubbed the “corned beef killer.”

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86 | Murder in Chantilly Forest: The 1978 True Crime Case of Alain Lamare
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01/23/2026

A routine patrol in northern France uncovered an abandoned car in May 1978, sparking a terrifying manhunt. Over months, shootings, bombings, and stolen vehicles terrorised the Oise region, while anonymous letters taunted law enforcement. When the pieces fell into place, it revealed a shocking truth: the Oise Killer had been hiding in plain sight all along.

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85 | The Brecknock Road Murder: The True Crime Case of George Vincent Heneage Finch
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01/18/2026

In 1886, shootings in London were rare - even more so in broad daylight. In this episode, we explore the murder and robbery committed in a quiet Kentish Town road by George Finch, a would-be performer whose stage ambitions had faltered. Finch would avoid execution and go on to live a long life after his release from Broadmoor.

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84 | Murder on Roppa Moor: The Helmsley Double Murder of 1895
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01/09/2026

In 1895, 22-year-old Robert Hudson took his wife Kitty and their infant son on holiday to Helmsley, North Yorkshire. When they departed hurriedly under suspicious circumstances, the landlady at their boarding house was surprised. Soon, Kitty Hudson’s relatives grew concerned as to her whereabouts and the Yorkshire Police set out to track a killer who used multiple aliases and sent false letters to throw them off his trail. This episode revisits a little-known Victorian double murder case from North Yorkshire.

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83 | Dr Crippen and the Hilldrop Crescent Murder: The Notorious 1910 True Crime Case
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11/18/2025

Dr Crippen and the Hilldrop Crescent Murder revisits one of Britain’s most infamous true crime cases of 1910. When Cora Crippen, better known on the music-hall stage as Belle Elmore vanished, her husband Hawley Harvey Crippen offered shifting explanations that soon aroused suspicion. A police search of their Hilldrop Crescent home uncovered human remains, pointing to a shocking murder. Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve attempted to flee Britain, but a transatlantic chase brought them into custody. The case became a sensation, cementing Dr Crippen as one of the most notorious figures in British criminal history.

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82 | The Murder of Mary Drury: A Forgotten True Crime Case from 1920s Liverpool
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11/11/2025

In February 1920, 15-year-old Kathleen Mary Drury left her home in Waterloo, Liverpool, and never returned. The following morning, her body was found near the Brooke Road allotments, her throat cut and no sign of the killer. Days later, the mutilated body of a railway signalman was discovered on the tracks at Sandhills Station but what linked the two deaths? This episode revisits an obscure and long-forgotten case from post-war Liverpool.

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81 | Murder at the Garibaldi Inn: The True Crime Story of Constable Herbert Burrows
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10/24/2025

In November 1925, police constable Herbert Burrows was found guilty of murdering publican Ernest Laight, his wife Doris, and their young son Robert at the Garibaldi Inn in Worcester. The discovery was made by the family’s charwoman, who raised the alarm after finding the doors unlocked and the till emptied. The case exposed the calculated betrayal of trust within a small community and led to Burrows becoming the last person from Worcester to be executed by hanging.

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80 | The Hednesford Ripper: Henry Thomas Gaskin
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10/06/2025

When career criminal Henry Thomas Gaskin returned from serving with the Royal Engineers, tunnelling under the trenches of the Western Front during WWI, he was furious to discover his wife’s infidelity. He lured her to a meeting place under the pretence of discussing their marriage, and Lizzie Gaskin was never seen alive again. This true crime case remains one of the West Midlands’ most brutal, yet often forgotten, murders.

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79 | The Sarajevo Assassination: Gavrilo Princip and the Gunshot That Triggered WW1
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09/24/2025

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, the continent was engulfed in World War I (The Great War), a conflict that ultimately claimed millions of lives. Was Princip a terrorist, a freedom fighter, or simply a desperate youth caught in history’s ti...


78 | The Murdered Watchmaker of Norfolk: The 1853 Case of Lorenz Beha
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09/16/2025

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 this forgotten piece of history, as the killer’s death mask survives as a gruesome relic of this tragic case.

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77 | Murder at Edencroft Hostel: The Tragic True Crime Story of Stephanie Baird
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08/21/2025

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
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08/12/2025

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 from Australia to England, the cryptic clues left in his wake, and the strange trail of money, ammunition, and unanswered questions that still surround his death.

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75 | Murder in Sovell Woods
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08/02/2025

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
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07/24/2025

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 responsible.

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73 | The Tragic Murder of Station Master Edward Walshe
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07/17/2025

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
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07/09/2025

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
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07/02/2025

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
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06/25/2025

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 that followed.

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69 | Clive Olive and The Mad Dogs of Sussex
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06/18/2025

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
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05/25/2025

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
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05/12/2025

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
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05/04/2025

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)
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04/24/2025

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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