In 1998, the brutal murder of 11-year-old Wesley Neailey sent shockwaves through Newcastle and the entire nation. Wesley was a friendly and happy boy who trusted people easily, but that trust was cruelly exploited when he was...
Billie-Jo Jenkins was a bright and lively 13-year-old with her whole life ahead of her. But in February 1997, her world was cruelly cut short in one of the most perplexing and heartbreaking unsolved murders in the UK. While p...
In 2011, the peaceful town of Haslemere, Surrey, was shaken by a horrific crime that shattered a family. Heather Cooper, a former detective constable and devoted mother, was killed by her partner - the father of their two you...
I welcome author, filmmaker and investigative journalist Tim Tate to the show in this interview episode. TRUE CRIME recently announced the premiere of a new, original series following the story of a serial identity thief and ...
Nicole Duke was the kind of teenager every parent hopes for - trustworthy, responsible, and well-behaved. She had never caused her parents any trouble, but on Christmas Eve 1975, after a rare request to stay out late, Nicole ...
Steven Donaldson was the kind of person everyone needs in their life - selfless, thoughtful, kind, and always bringing a smile to the faces of those around him. In June 2018, however, a twisted and sadistic plot to take his l...
Eve Stratford seemed to have it all - a promising modelling career, a rock star boyfriend, and a future full of possibilities. But on a cold March day in 1975, her life was brutally cut short when an unknown attacker took eve...
Julie Harrison had always dreamed of becoming a mum, so when she finally welcomed her daughter Maisie into the world, her heart overflowed with joy. To those on the outside, they were the perfect mother-daughter pair, insepar...
The body of keen cyclist David Alderson was found by a dog walker on January 18, 2014, in the grounds of the old Wheal Maid mine in Cornwall, and given the spot's popularity with riders, his death was initially put down as a ...
In the early evening of December 12, 2014, 70-year-old self-made businessman David West was stabbed to death outside his home in the Greater London district of St James's. The perpetrator was David's eldest son (also named Da...
On April 30, 1989, a 22-year-old man left his parent's home with his dad's double-barrelled shotgun and headed for a quiet Monkseaton area of Whitley Bay. Over the next twenty minutes, he walked the streets opening fire on al...
I welcome podcaster Wendy Cee to the show in this interview episode. In December 2007, Graham Birchwood orchestrated the murder of his wife, Sharon - Wendy's beloved aunt - by hiring a hitman named Paul Cryne. In this episode...
74-year-old Anne James had just returned from a quick shopping trip and was making soup at her home when a familiar face turned up at her door. Letting the man inside, Anne had no idea that within just a few minutes, her life...
35-year-old Claudia Lawrence last spoke to her mum on her mobile phone at around half 8 in the evening of March 18, 2009, shortly after phoning her dad. The following morning, she didn't turn up for her shift at the Universit...
23-year-old Megan Newborough was captured on her family's Ring Video Doorbell getting into her car at 7.32 pm on Friday, August 6, 2021. Within an hour of that haunting footage, Megan was murdered by the very person she'd gon...