Lady Justice True Crime
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
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
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 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
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