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Hullett, Morrell, Whitton and Mawhood, just four of the victims of the hundred that Dr John Bodkin Adams helped propel into another world. It’s likely his victims ran into the hundreds with the good d...
· 20 min 36 sec
In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you the cross-examination of the boy accused of murdering Harvey Willgoose. He is questioned about the witness accounts of teachers and pupils who saw him acti...
· 23 min 49 sec
Early in the morning of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were found brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho. The victims were Kaylee Goncalves, M...
· 42 min 30 sec
In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you the moment the boy accused of murdering Harvey Willgoose describes the fatal stabbing. He claims he only pulled out a knife because he was scared he would...
· 26 min 16 sec
While Shipman and Bodkin Adams made their grisly mark on history as doctors who killed their patients, they weren’t the only men of medicine to murder. Dr Buck Ruxton and Dr Robert George Clements cre...
· 27 min 46 sec
In this episode Caroline and Jack bring you the latest evidence of the boy accused of murdering 15-year-old old Harvey Willgoose, as he tells the court he bought the “scary-looking” knife used in the...
· 22 min 33 sec
Early in the morning of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were found brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho. The victims were Kaylee Goncalves, M...
· 37 min 13 sec
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· 29 min 25 sec
In this episode Caroline and Jack have what the teenage boy on trial said in the moments after he stabbed Harvey Willgoose. He told police he had the knife for his own protection because he thoug...
· 28 min 3 sec
In January 2023, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon went on the run with their newborn baby Victoria. After a nationwide hunt, the couple were found. Two days later, so was the body of Victoria.Last yea...
· 41 min 5 sec
In January 2023, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon went on the run with their newborn baby Victoria. After a nationwide hunt, the couple were found. Two days later, so was the body of Victoria.Last yea...
· 1 min 15 sec
In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you the evidence of several teachers who have described the horrifying moment they found 15-year-old Harvey Willgoose had been fatally injured in the school co...
· 30 min 17 sec
In this final episode of this series - for now - Caroline and Wayne interview one of the key witnesses in the case. Dr Chris Webster suspected Erin Patterson of doing something “macabre” within minute...
· 28 min 28 sec
In this episode Caroline and Wayne have exclusive CCTV footage of Erin Patterson visiting a tip - within half an hour of her lunch guests leaving her house. The video has never been seen before and th...
· 26 min 3 sec
In December 2024, Urfan Sharif along with his wife Bainash Batool and brother Faisal Malik went to prison for their roles in the murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif. This followed a 10-week trial a...
· 29 min 51 sec
In this episode, Caroline and Jack bring you the first of the pupils to give evidence at the trial of the teenager accused of murdering Harvey Willgoose at a school in Sheffield. One friend of Harvey'...
· 20 min 37 sec
It’s the day after the jury returned their guilty verdicts for Erin Patterson. She is now one of the world’s most notorious killers and today we wanted to try to analyse what makes someone so seemingl...
· 27 min 3 sec
Erin Patterson is a mass murderer. The jury in Victoria, Australia have today found her guilty of murdering her in-laws by poisoning them with deadly death cap mushrooms. The jury agreed that she lure...
· 49 min 0 sec
In this episode Caroline and Jack hear from the teachers at the school where Harvey Willgoose was killed. He was described as a cheeky pupil who never crossed the line and in the hours before he died,...
· 22 min 50 sec