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It’s the last episode of the season and boy, it’s a cracker of a case. You’d never suspect that Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt could hurt a fly. With their perfectly coiffed hair, kind eyes and grandmotherly manners they seem like your typical 70-somethings.But secretly, this pair of friends have a murderous plan involving homeless men, life insurance policies and some careless driving.See a photo of Helen and Olga here.This podcast contains descriptions of murder. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.comTo all our Living Legends, thank you for listening to this season of Partners in Crime! Please stay in touch at @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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This is a story that starts with one poison pen letter and ends with a death, a murderous booby trap and a community ringing with rumours.In 1976, residents of Circleville Ohio began receiving dozens of anonymous letters threatening to expose their secrets to the entire community. When Ron Gillespie’s wife Mary was repeatedly accused of having an affair with the school superintendent, Ron saw red. He tried to hunt down the letter writer, with disastrous consequences.See a photo of Ron’s wife and the alleged letter writer here.This podcast contains discussion of murder. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: We’re off to Hollywood to meet two nasty nannas with a dastardly plan.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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In December 1994, businessman Marc Schiller called his accountant, attorney and associates and told them to sell his many businesses. He’d met a girl, he told them. He was leaving his wife and children and running away with her.Marc’s associates did what they were told. They had no idea that as he spoke, Marc was blindfolded and chained to a wall in a disused warehouse, a burly bodybuilder pressing a gun to his head.See a photo of Marc here, and two of his attackers here.This podcast contains discussion of violence, torture and murder. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: We’re uncovering a poison pen plot that led to one dead body, one booby trap and - possibly - the wrong man behind bars. If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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On the day after Christmas 1929, Larry Griffin’s bicycle was discovered abandoned in the middle of the road in Stradbally, Ireland. But Larry was nowhere to be found.As the authorities started to investigate the local postman’s disappearance, they uncovered more questions than answers: were the local gardaí (Irish police) in on it? Was the pub landlord hiding a secret? And whose wife was lying to protect her husband?This is a case that cast a dark shadow over the community for decades. See a photo of Larry Griffin’s discarded bicycle here.This podcast contains discussion of violence. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: We’re heading to sunny Miami to meet some bad dudes with big muscles and even bigger egos.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Amy Allwine was a kind, Christian woman with a loving husband and a gorgeous son. But someone wanted her dead.In early 2016, a journalist stumbled upon a post on a murder-for-hire site on the dark web. A mystery woman was asking for a hitman to kill Amy because, she said, Amy had slept with her husband and ruined her life. The journalist alerted the FBI, hoping they’d save Amy. But would they get there in time?This is a story of mystery, lies and the dark, dark web.See a photo of Amy and Stephen Allwine here.This podcast contains discussion of murder. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: We’re off to Ireland to track down a missing postman.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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We all know that too much chocolate is bad for you. But that’s especially true when Christiana Edmunds has had anything to do with it.Christiana’s story starts in Brighton, UK, in 1870, with a crush. Christiana took a fancy to her neighbour - the married Dr Beard. When he didn’t return her advances, she retaliated by giving his wife a very special, very dangerous gift. But Christiana didn’t stop there. By the time she was done, no one in her home town of Brighton could bite nonchalantly into a chocolate ever again.See a drawing of Christiana Edmunds here.This podcast contains discussion of poisoning, and one instance of a child’s death. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: We hack into the dark web and uncover a dark tale.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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How did miso soup and a spoon help one man escape from Japan’s toughest prisons?Today’s episode is all about Yoshie Shiratori, the prisoner who confounded guards and slithered out of his cell four times in the 1930s and 1940s.Each escape was more extraordinary than the last, and Yoshie eventually became a celebrated figure, known as ‘Japan’s Houdini’.See a photo of Yoshie Shiratori here, and his statue here.This podcast contains discussion of murder, and mistreatment of prisoners. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: Laura takes Iain to a poisoned sweet shop.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Etta Smith was sitting at her desk when a vision came to her. She saw a shimmering desert, bare but for a few sparse bushes… behind which lay the body of a young woman.Etta knew instantly that this was Melanie Uribe - a local nurse who had gone missing earlier that week.When she came to, she was back at her desk with a decision to make. Should she keep her vision to herself? Or go to the police? What Etta did next would ruin the next six years of her life.See a photo of Etta Smith here and Melanie Uribe here.This podcast contains discussion of violence and rape. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: We meet a Japanese escapologist with a penchant for miso soup.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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In the freezer of her Vienna ice cream parlour, Estibaliz Carranza had all sorts of flavours - strawberry, chocolate… human leg.In today’s episode we learn all about Estibaliz, also known as The Ice Woman, and the strange series of events that led to the remains of two men turning up in her basement. See a photo of Estibaliz Carranza here.This podcast contains discussion of violence and murder. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: A woman’s life is changed forever when she has a psychic vision.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Eastbourne, a town on England’s south coast, is often labelled ‘Heaven’s Waiting Room’ due to its large number of elderly inhabitants. For 68-year-old Clara Neil Miller, that couldn’t be more true. When Clara moved to the seaside resort in 1936, she was ready to settle down and live a peaceful life. But a quiet old age was denied her by the unlikeliest of people. Her doctor, John Bodkin Adams, was respected by the crème de la crème of Eastbourne, but in other circles, some suspected he might be getting a little too close to his patients. And when Clara fell under his spell, there was no saving her.See a photo of Doctor John Bodkin Adams here. This podcast contains discussion of elder abuse. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.comSee a photo of Living Legend’s Shyane’s pigs here and here!——Next week: We take a trip to an ice cream parlour with an unexpected item in its freezer.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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22-year-old Julian Buchwald and 17-year-old Caroline Watson are in love.They have their whole future mapped out in front of them. As young, devout Christians, they’re planning to get married once Caroline finishes school. And Julian is even building a house for them in their hometown in rural Southeastern Australia.But in March 2008, while on a picnic date in the countryside, the young couple goes missing.Soon after, mysterious letters arrive at their parents' houses. Letters claiming they’ve been kidnapped by a satanic neo-Nazi cult.And these letters will turn out to be just the tip of the iceberg.See a photo of Julian and Caroline here, and the infamous passport photo here. This podcast contains scenes of violence and discussion of sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: We meet a doctor with a worrying bedside manner.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. And see a photo of Living Legend’s Becky’s very cute dog Nyota here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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A bubbling hot tub. A glass of chilled white wine. And a portable TV on the side, playing your favourite show. It started as a perfect evening for 52-year-old Barbara Loesch.But when the police found her hours later, she was long dead and her TV was bobbing next to her in the tub. The lone beneficiary of her life insurance policy had just become very rich indeed.See a photo of the suspects here.This podcast contains scenes of violence. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: A satanic, neo-nazi cult kidnaps two teenagers in the Australian bush. But all is not what it seems.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Do you believe in ghosts?In 1897 Virginia, Mary Heaster was in mourning when she was visited by a spirit: a ghost who looked just like her late daughter, Zona. The ghost told Mary that her suspicions were right. Her daughter’s death had not been an accident. And Zona’s charming husband Edward was not the person he claimed to be. What Mary did next made legal history, and revealed dark truths that Edward had been hiding for years.See a photo of Zona and Edward Stribbling Trout Shue here.This podcast contains scenes of violence. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: We meet two lovers whose romance started in prison, and ended on the run.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The truth is - sometimes love can suffocate.From the outside, Dee Dee Blanchard appeared to be the perfect, doting mother to her daughter, Gypsy Rose. This saintly woman spent every waking moment caring for her sweet little girl, who had a list of debilitating illnesses longer than her arm. But when vile messages appeared on Dee Dee’s Facebook page in 2015, friends and family discovered that Dee Dee and Gypsy weren’t the people they thought they were. See a photo of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose here.This podcast contains discussion of child abuse and scenes of violence. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: We travel back to 1800s Virginia, where a ghost makes legal history.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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A story of con artistry, murder, and wigs. Many, many wigs.The New Year is a time when many of us set out to reinvent ourselves. We sign up at the gym, chuck out the Christmas biscuits and start getting up at 5am to meditate every morning (right, Iain?)But today’s case centres around someone who took reinventing herself to a whole new level. This podcast contains graphic descriptions of crime scenes and a mention of suicide. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: Laura will be telling the story of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard: the world’s ‘sweetest’ mother and daughter duo.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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We’ll be back with a brand new case next week, but in the meantime we're repeating another one of our favourite episodes of the series so far. This week Laura’s chosen The Thelma and Louise Case - a classic tale of friendship, loyalty and murder.Listen in for a bonus festive introduction. This podcast contains descriptions of violence. Listener discretion is advised.For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: We’re back with a brand new story. Prepare to meet The Chameleon Killer - a master of disguise and deception.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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We’re taking a short, two-week break over Christmas to eat mountains of mince pies and dig up even more bizarre true crime stories for you all. In the meantime, we decided to each pick our favourite episodes from the series so far.This week, its Iain’s turn, and he’s chosen the weird and wacky tale of The Shark Arm Murder.Listen in for a bonus festive introduction. This episode includes discussion of suicide. Please keep this in mind when deciding if, how and when you’ll listen. For resources on these topics, go to resources.byspotify.com——Next week: Laura chooses her favourite episode so far. Can you guess which one it is?If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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A bad Santa and a very brave boy - this week, join us for a festive tale of guns, cash and Santa hats.It’s the 23rd of December 1927. In rural Texas, 14-year-old Woody Harris is driving his parents home after a day of Christmas shopping in town. All is merry and bright, until they come across a large Buick parked in the road, blocking their way. Woody slows to a stop, and is shocked when Santa Claus himself steps out of the Buick. But this Santa isn’t jolly, or carrying presents. Instead, he’s holding a large gun, and shouting at Woody’s family to run for their lives. (See a photo of ‘Santa’ here.)This episode contains scenes of violence, including one that involves a child. Listener caution is advised.For more resources on this topic, visit spotify.com/resources.—We’ll be taking a short break over the next two weeks, but in the meantime we’ll be delving into the Partners in Crime archive and replaying our favourite episodes. Next week, it’s Iain’s turn to choose.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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At 13 years old, Anatoly Moskvin found himself in a bizarre situation - invited into a house in the middle of a funeral wake. When he realised what was going on, he tried to leave. But the family of the deceased - a young girl - begged him to stay, and drew him close to the coffin. There, the girl’s mother performed a marriage ceremony between Anatoly and her daughter. Anatoly left the house that evening feeling like something inside him had changed forever. He would go on to dedicate his life to the study of death and black magic. His journey would take him to some very dark places, where he’d do some unimaginable things. (See a photo of Anatoly here.)This episode contains graphic content, including descriptions of dead bodies. Plus we also talk about paranoid schizophrenia. Listener caution is advised.For more resources on this topic, visit spotify.com/resources.—Next week: We meet a bad Santa and a very brave boy.If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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When 16-year-old Tina Bowen sets up a ouija board in her basement one night, she’s full of hope. All she and her 9-year-old sister want is to contact their late mum. So when they get a ghostly response, they can’t believe their luck. But when scary messages appear on the walls, the girls start to wonder if their friendly ghost is friendly after all.This episode contains adult subject matter, including scenes of violence. It will also include references to child abuse, so listener caution is advised. For more resources on this topic, visit spotify.com/resources—Next week: We’re off to Russia to meet a man with a graveyard obsession. If there’s a case you’d like Laura and Iain to cover, email [email protected] and follow @thewhitmore and @iaindoesjokes for weekly updates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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