Lady Justice True Crime
After a night of drinking on October 31st 1980, Derek Grain, an aerospace engineer, was fatally attacked with a traffic cone on his way back to a hotel in Bristol. In this bonus Halloween minisode, we examine what happened that fateful evening and ask – who should we really fear on All Hallows Eve?
They used an awful lot of violence – it was a particularly vicious, brutal, murder
Detective Inspector Brian Theobald
In the second episode special on Reg Christie we take a centre on his next three victims, including his most known that ultimately led to one of the most significant miscarriages of justice the UK has witnessed.
The sixth commandment – ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ – fascinated me . . . I always knew that some day I should defy it.
John Reginald Christie
With an IQ of 128, Reg Christie was an intelligent man but an awful criminal. His need for thrill led him down a path of petty crime but when that didn’t suffice anymore, he decided he would kill.
In the first of three episodes, we take a look at the man, from childhood through to his first two known victims.
For me a corpse has a beauty and dignity which a living body could never hold . . . there is a peace about death that soothes me.
John Reginald Christie
Julie Hogg had just seperated from her partner in 1989 and had a young son to provide for. the young mum left her littl boy with her mum as she did every evening she had work in a local pizza shop.
She then disappeared without a trace. Cleveland Police conducted a forensic search of her home in Billingham yet found nothing. 80 days later, her mum found her decomposing body under the family bathtub.
It took 17 years, almost three trials and a change of a 300-year-law to bring her murderer to justice.
I’m glad that the heartfelt campaign of Julie Hogg’s family, and others like hers, have been vindicated.
David Blunkett
In 1945; just a month after VE day, a 14-year-old girl decided to take a stroll on a Sunday afternoon in the sleepy Suffolk countryside.
Discovered shoved under a bush, just a few hours after leaving her family home; she was close to death after being beaten with a large branch. She was to die just a few hours later.
Daphne Bacon’s killer was someone in an occupation the country collective trusted, and it sent shockwaves nationwide.
I lay awake all night thinking of what I had done to that poor girl.
Earnest Bailey
Lady Justice True Crime