A baby goes into hospital with a chest infection. The nurse smiles. Hours later, he’s dead.

Between February and April 1991, 13 children collapsed on one UK children’s ward. Four never came home. The only person on duty for every attack was 22-year-old nurse Beverley Allitt — later dubbed the Angel of Death.

Insulin. Air. Suffocation. A 59-day killing spree inside Grantham Hospital. How she got away with it for so long. How police finally caught her. And why she’s still locked up at Rampton more than 30 years later.

Host Alexander Lawson on Britain’s first convicted killer nurse.

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A pregnant woman sets brunch for Christmas morning. Her husband says he’s going fishing. Four months later, Laci Peterson and her unborn son wash up in San Francisco Bay — miles from the marina Scott said he launched from. By then his hair is dyed blond, he’s carrying cash and extra IDs, and he’s heading toward the border.

Alexander’s Lawson takes apart the case that ate American cable news: the affair Scott hid from a wife eight months pregnant, the voicemail he left while she was already gone, the boat, the bay, the trial with no murder weapon — and the conviction that still won’t stay quiet.

He said he didn’t do it. A jury said he did. Twenty years later, the bodies are still the last word.

A True Crime Podcast.

He watered other people’s gardens. He posed as Santa at the mall. Neighbours said he was gentle.

Under the soil in those planters were eight men.

Between 2010 and 2017, men vanished from Toronto’s Gay Village. Police treated the cases as isolated. Missing — not murdered. Then a single word in Andrew Kinsman’s calendar — Bruce — pulled the thread.

This episode is the story of Bruce McArthur, the largest forensic search in Toronto police history, and the eight lives a city was too slow to look for.

Skandaraj Navaratnam. Abdulbasir Faizi. Majeed Kayhan. Soroush Mahmudi. Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam. Dean Lisowick. Selim Esen. Andrew Kinsman.

A gardener. A village. A pattern no one connected in time.

I’m Alexander Lawson. This is A True Crime Podcast.

Content warning: murder, sexual violence, human remains.

July 15, 1982. Two boys find a body in the Green River south of Seattle. She is sixteen. Within a month, four more women are pulled from the same water and mud. For nearly twenty years after that, a truck painter named Gary Leon Ridgway lives an ordinary life by day and hunts vulnerable women along Pacific Highway South by night.

He later said he chose them because he thought no one would miss them.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson traces the rise of the Green River Killer: the first dumpings in the river, the years of bodies in the woods, the 1987 search that took Ridgway’s DNA and still could not stop him, and the 2001 breakthrough that finally matched that sample to his victims. It follows the plea that spared him the death penalty in exchange for forty-eight — then forty-nine — guilty verdicts, and the families who waited two decades to hear him say the word.

This is not a portrait of a myth. It is the story of Wendy Coffield, Debra Bonner, Marcia Chapman, Opal Mills, Cynthia Hinds, and the dozens of other women Ridgway murdered — daughters, sisters, and friends the system too often treated as disposable.

Content warning: serial murder, sexual violence, and the deaths of young women.

Hosted by Alexander Lawson.

Two girls walked onto an Indiana railroad bridge. One filmed a stranger. The next day they were dead — and the man who later confessed lived down the road the whole time.

On February 13, 2017, Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, vanished on the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi. Libby’s phone captured “Bridge Guy.” For five years the case went cold. Richard Allen — a local CVS tech with no record — had already told police he was on that trail that afternoon. The tip sat in a box until a volunteer opened it. Then came the unspent bullet, the prison calls, the trial, and 130 years.

Host Alexander Lawson tells the story of how a forgotten file, a cartridge that never fired, and a child’s last video ended one of America’s most watched unsolved murders.

Listen if you followed Delphi from day one — or if you’re hearing Abby and Libby’s names for the first time.

For sixteen years, Charles Cullen walked hospital corridors in New Jersey and Pennsylvania as a critical-care nurse. Patients who were recovering suddenly died. Families were told it was natural. It wasn’t.

Cullen admitted to murdering 29 people with lethal overdoses of ordinary hospital drugs. Investigators have long said the real number could be far higher. He was fired, forced out, and hired again — until a colleague and two detectives finally stopped him.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander’s Lawson tells the record of Cullen’s crimes, how the system kept giving him a badge and a night shift, and why twenty-nine names on a judgment still don’t close the story.

Listener note: this episode discusses hospital deaths, serial murder, and the betrayal of medical trust.

At 1:48 a.m. on August 13, 2018, a doorbell camera caught pregnant Shanann Watts walking into her Frederick, Colorado home. By dawn her husband, Chris Watts, was loading a truck. By Thursday she was in a shallow grave at his worksite. Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, were in crude-oil tanks. Then he went on TV and asked America to bring his family home.

Alexander Lawson tells the Watts case from the last ordinary night to the confession, the plea that took death off the table, and the words Bella said in the truck: “Daddy, no.”

This episode covers the murders of a pregnant woman and two children. Listen with care.

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A stable twin dies 90 minutes after Lucy Letby takes over. His sister collapses the next night. Then the insulin. Then the air in the lines. Then the triplets.

This episode of A True Crime Podcast with Alexander Lawson tells the Lucy Letby case as the court recorded it — and as the fight over it still stands.

Between June 2015 and June 2016, babies on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital began dying and crashing in clusters consultants said they could not explain. A jury later convicted Letby of murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven more. She received 15 whole-life orders: no parole, ever. She has always said she is innocent.

Inside: the year on the ward, how long it took to call the police, the notes the Crown called a confession, the retrial, the failed appeals — and why a public inquiry and medical experts are still arguing over the same tiny bodies.

Listener warning: deaths and serious harm of newborns.

Israel Keyes looked like a contractor and a dad. The FBI called him one of the most methodical serial killers in modern U.S. history. He flew thousands of miles, picked strangers at random, and dug up weapons he had buried years earlier. Only three victims have been named. He said there were more — then he died in jail and took the map with him. Host Alexander Lawson on the case that still isn’t finished.

He cut the phone line, murdered a family—including two children—and went home to dinner. For decades, Wichita hunted “BTK.” The man they were looking for wrote parking tickets, led Boy Scouts, and sat in the front pew.

This episode of A True Crime Podcast follows Dennis Rader from the Otero house in 1974 to a floppy disk in 2005—the letters, the near-misses, the neighbor he killed, and the metadata that finally put a name on the monster.

Ten lives. One ordinary face. Host Alexander Lawson tells the case as it happened.

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