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When a police sergeant was involved in a car accident, he had a large object wrapped in the back of his van. A few weeks later a body was recovered from a river.
I mean an evil eye
Raymond Beard
The executioner John Thrift was a hated man in London and even carried out the last beheading in English history. Curiously he was convicted of murder himself – yet was back at work as hangman merely months later.
Thrift at this time strike the deceased one blow on the left side of the head with a hanger
William Carrier
Did Linda Kelly mean to shoot her sleeping husband? Stories of forced threesomes, spiralling debt and infidelity certainly suggested she had motive…
I went to put them on the bed and I don’t know., then there was just this noise, this bang. There was just this bang I don’t know how or why.
Linda Kelly
It was a white Christmas in 1938, but for the Key family, it was marred by tragedy. A robbery gone wrong had left a man dead and all that was left of the killer was his bowler hat. His motive? To buy two little girls a Christmas present.
Two-month widow of murderer is to marry again!
Daily Express
A killer so depraved was William Corder that everyone wanted a piece of him – literally. His crime against his young lover Maria Marten gave infamy to a sleepy English village and his legacy left tales of curses for the next 200 years.
I am guilty; my sentence is just; I deserve my fate; and, may God have mercy on my soul.
William Corder
When John Perry decided to kill his wife, he went through drastic means to dispose of her body from consulting an ex butcher on the best way to dismember a body, baking her head in the family oven to feeding what he could to his beloved Katie the cat.
I saw struck by a pungent smell somewhere near – the smell of cooked meat. It was so pungent I could almost smell it
Inspector Ross Duffield
It was 12:50 am on a quiet Friday morning when a man walked into a Sunderland police station and declared to the officer before him “I’ve just cut my bairns head clean off”. This is the case of little Tommy Tucknett.
Oh mister please take us with you, daddy’s cut our Tommy’s head off
Sarah Tucknutt
During a snowy Sunday afternoon during the run-up to Christmas in 1993, emergency services were called to a scene of the horrific murder of 21-year-old mother, Karen Hales. In this months bitesize bonus episode we examine the unsolved case and ask who would set fire to a young woman in front of her baby?
I think of the things we would do together, you know, just normal life and she’s missing out on Tommy. He’s lovely, he’s nine-and-a-half months and turning into a right little character.
Emily Hales
An outstanding centre-half, the budding Aston Villa player, Tommy Ball became the first and only active English professional footballer to be murdered. In this episode, we discuss how a quarrel over chickens in the late evening of November 11, 1923, became deadly.
I described it as arguably the greatest tragedy in the club’s history
Rob Bishop
The notorious British serial killer, Reg Christie had been known to kill at least five women by the time he came to his deadliest year – 1953. In this episode, we take a look at the 46 days in which his final murders take place, his eventual downfall and the consequences of this case.
When I murdered my wife I removed the one obstacle which for ten years had apparently held me in check. After she had gone the way was clear for me to fulfil my destiny.
John Reginald Christie
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