Lady Justice True Crime
Doris Shelley was a frail pensioner who had been brutally beaten in her own home and left for dead, yet there seemed to be no motive.
She was almost Churchillian, ‘I’ve lost my husband, I live alone, I’m not going to let it beat me and I can do it without anybody’s help
Frank Ryder
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
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
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