This is the first of three podcasts on the Rettendon, aka Essex Boys murders which are to finish off the Canning Town Crime and Corruption series of podcasts. I go straight into the story so to aid understanding, The three …

This case dates from May 1979, set in Southampton on the South Coast of the UK. There is an argument between a couple and the woman dies supposedly of strangulation., In this case there was an argument for vagal inhibition. …

A sad and senseless killing of a child crossing her local park after visiting a sweet shop during the school summer holiday . It was a violent and sexual killing. The seemed totally unplanned and senseless. The killer seemed...

This is part 2 of the Joan Woodhouse case of murder at Arundel, Sussex. Please be advised that this is recorded in one take without editing and there are a couple of intrusive coughs.

This podcast examines a murder from 1948. It was a botched investigation and it seems that for a couple of possible reasons, there was a conspiracy to prevent the case going to trial. This is part 1 of the podcast, …

Part 2 of the Michael Maybrick mystery. In this episode we examine who Michael Maybrick was and why he was thought to be the 'Ripper'. Again just a warning that this is a lo-fi production, I splutter, I forget words …

This podcast is a follow up to The Florence Maybrick trial podcast from November 2020. Florence was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering her husband. who seems to have actually been killed by 'his brother Michael Ma...

A Femme fatale, Madame Schmeder leaves France, in a hurry, in her airplane, and crash lands at Selsey in Sussex. A story that captured the imagination of the world in 1936 but is now virtually forgotten. This story told in …

A murder from a long time ago, The Rolling Stones were number 1 in the singles charts with 'I can't get no Satisfaction', this podcast tells of a story from September 1965 when a woman who had just finished her …

Ghost Story for Christmas 2021. Tony Cornell and others, investigate three cases in East Anglia, Hannath Hall during 1957-60, Wisbech shoe shop 1965-66 and Old Morley Hall 1964. All of these cases as published by the Society ...

Two stories about street drug dealing, both ending in murder ten years ago, during 2011. Both drug dealers lived in Portslade part of the conurbation of Brighton and Hove. Gary ‘Hammer’ Hampsen was a flawed character who move...

Episode 6 in the Canning Town Crime and Corruption Series of podcasts. This episode is about the novel Judas Pig by Horace Silver. Published in 2004, it became a cult novel as it told stories about an OCG (organised Crime …

Hello, All Hallows Eve 2021. I am only posting one story this year and it is a pretty standard Haunted House story which was first published in 1902 in the Journal of Psychical Research. I do not know the location …

This is not a podcast to interest everyone. It is about the Burbot, only fish in the UK that has been declared extinct in known history. Please also be warned that this podcast is recorded in one take with no …

This is the fifth podcast in the Canning Town Crome & Corruption Series. This involves three unsolved murders in Epping Forest, near London. Terry Gooderham and Maxine Arnold murdered in December 1989 and the murder of Patri...

Three Paranormal cases : The Palm Sunday Case which concerned Arthur Balfour the Conservative Prime Minister and his lost love, his cousin May. I dont think it would be possible today to conceive how well the Balfour family w...

Podcast 4 in the Canning Town Crime and corruption series: This episode looks at The Bowers OCG within the Canning Town Cartel, and those who worked within the crime group. Then we look at some feuds concerning Christopher P...

Part 3 of the Canning Town Cartel of organised crime groups. Please listen to parts 1 & 2.

Strange Stories UK. Canning Town, London Organised Crime and Corrupt police. Part 2. Season 4, Episode 2. This podcast tells how some members of the Snipers gang in Canning Town, evolved into the Canning Town Cartel which was...

Season 4 starts with contemporary Organised Crime in London, there will be four or five linked podcasts on this theme starting with a case that developed in Canning Town, the next few podcasts will flow on from this case incl...

This a short episode to end Series 3. Again a rambling story about a possible paranormal incident in a small village (St.Boswells) in the Borderlands between England and Scotland. The story comes from the Journals of the Soc...

This is part 2 of the Hess Enigma. What happened to Hess? Was he murdered? Was it Hess? We also examine the roles of other characters such as Tancred Borenius, the Polish leader Sikorski and others. There is also Anthony …

May and June 1941 was the period that Nazi Germany came close to conquering Western Europe. But the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler then opened a second Front which was going to cost him the war. Events during May and June …

This is a rambling story based on John 'Goldfinger' Palmer. We find how the Brinks Mat gold bullion robbery was responsible for a lot of criminal enterprises as these were funded by the proceeds of Brinks Mat gold. John Palme...