An 89-year-old widow trusted the odd-job man enough to make him a cup of tea in her own kitchen. Minutes later he beat her to death with a projector case for £25.

Twenty-five years earlier the same man had forced a hotel worker to strip naked and stabbed him 35 times. George Norman Johnson was released on life licence — and killed again.

Host Alexander Lawson examines the brutal double murders that left one man with a whole-life tariff and two victims who never got a second chance.

In May 2010, CCTV captured a desperate chase through a Bradford flat block. A woman flees. A man follows with a crossbow. He fires. Then he turns to the camera and raises a finger.

That moment exposed Stephen Shaun Griffiths — a criminology student obsessed with serial killers who murdered three women and called himself the Crossbow Cannibal.

Host Alexander Lawson examines the disappearances of Susan Rushworth, Shelley Armitage and Suzanne Blamires, the horrific discoveries inside Griffiths’ flat, his chilling courtroom declaration, and the whole-life sentence that followed.

A dark true crime story of obsession, violence and a killer who studied murder while committing it.

In 1982, Wilbert “Tony” Dyce raped and stabbed Norma Richards, then killed her 9-year-old and 7-year-old daughters in their Dalston flat. He daubed NF symbols to fake a racist attack and got away with it for nearly 3 decades… until DNA and one journalist caught him.

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In 1989, nineteen-year-old Desmond Lee smothered his landlady to death in Bradford. He served fourteen years of a life sentence and was released on licence in 2004.

Less than five years later, while still under supervision, he killed again.

On this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson examines the two murders committed by Desmond Lee — the first as a teenager, the second while on life licence — and the whole-life order that followed. From a flat in Ravensthorpe to the moors near Huddersfield, this is the story of a man a judge would later call “evil and dangerous.”

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On 3 April 2010, John Nigel Maden dialled 999 and calmly told the operator he had just finished killing his 12-year-old niece. When asked why, he replied: “Because I felt like it.”

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson examines the calculated torture, rape and murder of Tia Rigg in Cheetham Hill, Manchester — a crime driven by Maden’s obsession with violent child pornography and “snuff” material. From the chilling 999 call to the whole-life sentence that followed, this is the story of a child betrayed by the uncle she trusted.

In the early hours of 30 December 2002, a rough sleeper searching bins in Camden found a woman’s legs… then more body parts nearby. Two women had been strangled, photographed after death, and dismembered. Their killer lived just streets away — and police had already found a third woman’s body in his flat nearly a year earlier.

This is the story of Anthony John Hardy, the Camden Ripper.

Join host Alexander Lawson as he unravels how a man with a history of violence and mental illness slipped through the net of police and psychiatric services, murdered three vulnerable women, and turned a quiet London flat into a scene of unimaginable horror.

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A 68-year-old man in a balaclava walks up to a Bradford front door at dawn with a sawn-off shotgun. Six shots later, one man is executed and another barely escapes with his life.

But this was no ordinary pensioner.

Thirty-eight years earlier, Ernest Leslie Wright had beaten a man to death with an iron bar in a caravan on a Buckinghamshire airfield — then tried to burn the body while the victim’s pregnant wife watched. He served 26 years, was released on life licence… and killed again.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the full story of a manipulative double murderer the system failed to stop — from the 1971 “crime of passion” to the brutal 2009 execution-style attack that finally put him behind bars for good.

In September 2006, the body of a young Polish student was discovered hidden under the floorboards of a Glasgow church — bound, gagged, and stabbed sixteen times. The quiet handyman who worked there called himself Pat McLaughlin. His real name was Peter Britton Tobin.

What followed was one of the most far-reaching investigations in British criminal history. Operation Anagram would uncover the murders of two teenage girls who had been missing for sixteen years, buried in the garden of Tobin’s former home in Kent. It would also reveal a lifetime of violence, deception, and aliases that allowed a serial killer to move unnoticed across the UK for decades.

In this episode, Alexander Lawson examines the crimes of Peter Tobin: the 1991 murders of Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol, the brutal 1993 attacks on two schoolgirls, the killing of Angelika Kluk, and the secrets he may have taken to his grave when he died in prison in 2022.

A story of hidden bodies, false identities, and the long shadow of a man who hid in plain sight.

A woman calls the police, terrified her ex is going to kill her. Officers already know the truth: he has murdered before. He strangled a previous girlfriend, buried her body, served fifteen years, and was deported back to Britain. Eight days after that desperate call, he answers the door when police arrive and tells them she’s not home. They believe him. They leave.

Her body is later found under a pile of coats in the downstairs toilet, strangled with a dog lead.

This is the story of Maria Stubbings and Marc Chivers — a convicted killer who was free to strike again, and a catalogue of police failures that made her murder both predictable and preventable.

Host Alexander Lawson examines the case that still stands as one of the most damning failures in modern British domestic abuse policing.

In April 2008, a 71-year-old woman was attacked on her own doorstep in central London. The man who tried to rape and slash her had been in Britain for less than four months.

His name was Simon Wilson. Born in the UK, raised in Australia, he left a trail of extreme sexual violence and murder behind him — including the savage killing of Joan Randell in 1992. When Australia deported him after 16 years in prison, British authorities had almost no power to control him.

Host Alexander Lawson examines the crimes, the legal gaps that let a known predator walk free, and the whole-life sentence that finally stopped him.

A stark true-crime story of cross-border failure, repeated violence against vulnerable women, and a justice system that almost failed again.