Crowds of witnesses watched on as a woman was brutally killed in the street over numerous hours, some went back to bed instead of helping. The police didn’t even bother to turn up and the perpetrator was just a child.
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Martyr’d Statesman
In the lobby of The Palace of Westminster, a rancorous man sat on a bench; setting his eyes upon his victim, he calmly walked up to him and assassinated him with a bullet to the heart.
I have been murdered
R Hon Spencer Perceval
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Butterknowle Stoning
A policeman completing his night rounds in a sleepy village was to become the victim of death by stoning.
In a week-long frenzy, a town was maddened with terror as multiple reports of a man with a blade was attacking residents. This is the case of the Slasher.
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Pirate Queen
In an episode written by listener, Daniel Carr, we explore Mary Read and Anne Bonny; who were two of the most famous female English pirates of all time, and among the very few women tried for piracy in the early 18th century, during the height of the Golden Age of Piracy..
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Kinky Killer Cop
A sex fiend with a torture chamber in his box room was also the police officer at the door of 10 Downing Street. This is the case of the Kinky Killer Cop.
…apart from being a prostitute who consorted with men for a living, was in her private life a lesbian… who had been knocked about in the course of her life by people other than the defendant.
Micheal Worsley
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Carbon Copy
A woman is found stranged on the South Beach in Yarmouth. A man is put to death for the crime, yet 12 years later another young woman is found in the same spot stranged with a bottlace.
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Pitchforks & Witchcraft
When an elderly man was found brutally slain; the murder was linked to witchcraft by the locals, but could this, and another killing in the area really be the work of supernatural forces?
Potter is undoubtedly lying about his actions at this critical time but the reason for these lies can, for the present, only be a matter for conjectureShe was always a bright, happy little girl who was full of life, never able to sit still as is the case with any three-year-old.
Robert Fabian
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Buried Alive
If we are to keep or friends close and our enemies closer; where are we meant to keep family. This is the macabre case of grandparents buried alive and found whilst still warm.
I touched it with my garden fork and found it was a hand.
Hannah Stirr
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Murder By Invitation
A man who strangled a woman to death had an extraordinary thing in his pocket as the police arrested him. An invitation to murder.
Frank Hatton was invited to murder a friend in the town of Middlesbrough during 1969.
When I came back from the public house she said that, because I told her she was silly and didn’t mean what she was saying, she had written it down because she did mean what she was saying.
Frank Hatton
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