Meet the podcasters: UK True Crime podcast

A weekly helping of lesser-known UK true crimes in 30 minutes.

'She was the brightest thing': The murder of Alesha MacPhail

In 2018, the tranquillity of the Isle of Bute was rocked by an extremely barbaric murder, the after-effects of which still reverberate today.

Interview with David Wilson co-host of podcast 'If It Bleeds It Leads'

Crime+Investigation spoke to the UK's leading criminologist about his new podcast series that he co-hosts with actress Emilia Fox

The 7 most dangerous cities to live in the world

Here are the global cities you may want to swerve if you want to stay safe

When prison guards abuse their power

How vicious, corrupt or just plain cruel wardens abused their position in the most horrific of ways…

Shocking political murders in Britain since the 90s

Assassinations in the UK: From Jo Cox to Alexander Litvinenko

Alcatraz: The most famous prison break in history

The story of the 1962 Alcatraz escape still manages to captivate the world over half a century later and still remains an enduring mystery.

Dragged for 3 miles behind a pickup: The racist Murder of James Byrd Jr

One of modern America's worst hate crimes

Homicide Hunter: Joe Kenda's most revealing insights into murder

Few people on the planet have experienced the psychology of murder quite as intensely as Lt. Joe Kenda has

Meet the podcasters: The Unseen Q&A

Ahead of CrimeCon UK we spoke to Caprice, host of The Unseen who will be appearing alongside your favourite podcast hosts in Podcast Row

What really happened to Timmothy Pitzen?

A decade has passed since that fateful road trip and Timmothy still remains missing | Image: Shutterstock

Fred and Rose West: How many women did they kill?

Their gruesome string of murders would shock the nation to its very core

Furious biology professor shoots colleagues | I Knew My Murderer

No one would have expected that she would turn a gun on six of her colleagues. 

Serial killer at large in the Royal Navy | Murdertown | Full Episode

In 1986, 18-year-old Simon Parkes vanishes into thin air while on shore leave in Gibraltar

Smelly Cellmate won't take a shower | 60 Days In: The Jail

Tony's cellmate has some hygiene issues, and it's stinking up their living quarters

Man brutally attacks woman in Dundee woodland | Murdertown

Obsessive ex-girlfriend turns violent | Deadly Deception Episode 1

Brett and Rochelle's relationship was a toxic affair, but eight years after their break up, Brett had moved on

Evil uncuffed: When police unknowingly release serial killers

Here are five examples of when some of modern history’s most brutal and notorious murderers were caught, only to be unwittingly released

Comedy actors who played real-life killers

Stars of the small and big screens who have surprised fans by transforming themselves into notorious real-life killers

British prisoners still serving whole life sentences

There are currently just 11 inmates serving entire life sentences: Who are they? | Image: Shutterstock

What makes a murderer?

What causes people to kill again and again and again...?

How Ted Bundy escaped from custody…twice!

Bundy had an uncanny ability of escaping even when the law had caught up with him.

Rose West: Britain's most depraved female killer

The more frightening, volatile, sadistic and passionately wicked half of 'Fred and Rose' Image: Making A Monster

Do serial killers like BTK want to get caught?

'They all got caught except the Ripper, could I become a killer and not get caught?’ So taunted Dennis Rader to the police

Real life cases that inspired Line of Duty

From the very first episode, the show has taken inspiration from watershed moments in the history of UK policing

The biggest crime gangs in the world

Let’s take a look at some of the largest criminal syndicates currently operating out there.

Bent coppers: The most corrupt British police officers

The real-life coppers who crossed the thin blue line

The Amityville Murders: The family slaying that inspired a horror film

The massacre and the aftermath would inspire a bestselling paranormal-inspired book, as well as a successful film and a number of spinoff movies.

Russian serial killers: Andrei Chikatilo and beyond

From ‘The Necrophile Rebel’ to the ‘The Butcher of Rostov’

The world's weirdest gangs

So, let’s forget - briefly - about the ganglands we know all about and take a little time out to explore some altogether more odd mobs…

Tourist killers: from Charles Sobhraj to Ivan Milat

The killers who targeted tourists in search of fun and adventure

Dermot Murnaghan: Killer Britain Interview

Dermot Murnaghan returns to investigate five shocking British murder cases

'Big Ed': Edmund Kemper, the 6ft 8in serial killer

He killed both his grandparents, his own mother and 7 other women in a variety of sick and depraved ways

Did Levi Bellfield kill Lin and Megan Russell?

There has long been speculation that serial killer, Levi Bellfield was involved in the slayings

America's hidden mafias

From biker gangs and Albanian gangsters to a Mormon splinter group, these are some less-well-known American crime groups

Serial killers and their gruesome residences

To some twisted murderers, the act of killing is one they prefer to indulge in at home