Crime Canapés

Today's case is one of the most genuinely extraordinary things that has ever happened in an American town. A welder. A bulldozer. Two years of secret preparation. And two hours on a June afternoon in two thousand and...

This one is different. There is no murder. There is no unknown killer. What there is — is a lie. A very elaborate, very damaging lie that consumed a nation, devastated a family, wasted millions of dollars of law...

Today we are going back to New Orleans in nineteen eighteen. A city already living through the First World War, the Spanish flu, and the everyday chaos of one of the most vivid and complicated cities in America. And...

Today's case is one that has everything — extraordinary wealth, a family that couldn't agree on whether to save a child, a severed ear sent through the post, and a grandfather who was the richest man in the world and...

Today's case comes at the BTK murders from a direction we haven't taken before — through the eyes of someone who loved the killer. Who grew up with him. Who had no idea. And who has spent the years since trying to...

The Lululemon murder. Bethesda, Maryland. March two thousand and ten. Jayna Murray was thirty years old, and she was beaten to death in the stockroom of the shop where she worked. What happened to her — and the...

Episode thirty-eight. And this one has everything. A powerful family. A century of untouchable influence. A double murder. Financial fraud on a staggering scale. A faked shooting. And at the centre of it all — a man who...

D.B. Cooper. The man who hijacked a commercial airliner in nineteen seventy-one, extorted two hundred thousand dollars, parachuted out of the back of the plane somewhere over Washington State — and was never seen again...

Episode thirty-six. And today we are going back to the nineteen thirties — to one of the most romanticised, mythologised, and fundamentally misrepresented criminal stories in American history. Bonnie and Clyde. The...

Episode thirty-five. And this one — this one is the one that makes you question everything. Not a stranger. Not a monster lurking in the shadows. A family doctor. A GP. The man people called when they were frightened...

Episode thirty-four. And this one is different. There is no conviction. There is no resolution. This is a case unfolding right now — a twenty-three-year-old British woman sitting in a Dubai detention facility, charged...

Episode thirty-three today. And this one is not a single murder, not a single killer targeting individual victims. This is an event so catastrophic, so deliberately engineered, that it changed the way the world thinks...

Episode thirty-two today. And this one is different to anything we've covered recently — because there is no conviction, no arrest, and no consensus. Just a young woman who died under circumstances that remain bitterly...

I have to be honest with you before we start today. This is Episode thirty-one. And it is one of the hardest cases we have ever covered on this show. A thirteen-month-old baby boy. A whole life sentence. And a system...

Grab a snack, get comfortable — because today's case is one that hit South London like a wave of terror in the summer of nineteen eighty-six. And the man at the centre of it was one of the most disturbing killers...