Episodes
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The World has many Pubs with unusual and quirky stories behind their names, and nowhere is this more true than the UK and Ireland. In todays episode we look a few of these stories.
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For Many criminal cases one person has a role of uttermost importance.....that of Pathologist. in todays episode we look at what Police and Criminals lawyers need from Pathologists.
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Today we look at John 'Swift Nick' Nevison, a 17th Century Highwayman who's famous 200mile ride was attributed to Dick Turpins Legend in a later book. However Nevison also had a most ingenious Prison Escape from Leicester Gaol.
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In the first part of the 18th Century, the south coast of England had many Smuggling gangs; perhaps the most notorious was the Hawkhurst Gang. Today we read a chapter from Joseph Dragovich's book 'Hawkhurst Murder, corruption and Britains most notorious Smuggling Gang'
Many thanks to Joseph for permission to read from his book and it is available in bookshops.
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In English Law during the 1920s and 30s gaining a Divorce wasn't easy, but a technique was devised to secure one. It became known as a Brighton Quickie
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In the 1960's a book was published which took a sideways glance at London life. One of the area's it looked at was the life of Prostitutes in their many varied forms.
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England in 1971 saw an 19 year old man convicted of Burglary with intent to commit rape on an 18 year old woman. The case and subsequent appeal has been studied and debated by students of Law ever since.
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Samuel Pepys Diaries give us an insight to Daily life through the early Restoration period and he documents life during a Plague and the Great Fire of London....but his Diaries also contain his accounts of his sexual activities and they paint a picture of what we would now view as a Sexual predator.
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www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/women-and-the-history-of-samuel-pepyss-diary/8470046189D88A8805F8B1ACC886475F
Pimm, G. The Dark Side of Samuel Pepys,
Pen and Sword History (2018)
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Merry Christmas dear listeners and as is now custom we have a fictional Christmas crime story.
This year its Cyril Hare's 1949 short story about a man who is being Blackmailed and is determined to find and gain revenge on his Blackmailer.
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The Old Bailey in 1902 saw the trial of a woman accused of killing her lover. She did it in plain sight and we follow the trial transcripts and witnesses who proved her guilty of Murder.
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Just a few days after the US entered into WW2 a German Spy network of 33 Spies were tried and sentenced to combination of over 300 years in Prison.
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Jack Sheppard was one of the most famous criminals of 18th Century London. But it is not for his criminal exploits is he best known, but for his numerous Escapes.
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Story from: The procession to Tyburn, William McAdoo (1927)
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In 1964 a footballing match fixing and betting scandal was uncovered in the UK. Football fans were appalled at such corruption in their beloved sport.
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After the last Battle on British soil at Culloden in 1746, the British Government had a huge amount of Prisoners held in Prison waiting for trial. They came up with a unique way to deal with this problem.
Shirley Jackson's magnificent short story, The Lotteryhttps://youtu.be/Eo6Xyaw3xGg?si=QJl4rEQ2iYWssbaz
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Another case from Scotland Yard and it reads like a mix between a Sherlock Holmes short story and around the world in 80 days, with the detective chasing the suspect across the world.
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In 1983 Miami Police found a body which they suspected to be a gang related killing...but then the case took a twist
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1815 in London, the talk of the town was of a rich, young Pig Faced Lady in Manchester Square. In this Regency Era she wasn't short of Suitors....
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the story of the Spaghetti trees....https://youtu.be/tVo_wkxH9dU?si=W8z4gdAZhk9eSMES
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A tale of favourites, romance and murder in the Court of James I
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On the 9th of February, 1918, Nellie Trew walked across Eltham Common and was never seen alive again. Scotland Yard Detective, Francis Carlin solved the crime and this is his account of the case.
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Francis Carlin: Reminiscences of a Scotland Yard Detective (1927)
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In the Old Wild West travellers were going missing. suspicion fell on the Bender Family who owned an Inn. Legend now knows them as the Blood Benders.
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Special thanks to Cat at catstruecrimecorner.com
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