In the mid-1960s, a series of child abductions terrorised the West Midlands and Staffordshire. Young girls vanished from ordinary streets. Their bodies were later found on the heathland of Cannock Chase.

Only one man was ever convicted: Raymond Leslie Morris, a factory engineer who became known as the Monster of Cannock Chase and the A34 Killer.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson examines the crimes linked to Morris, the enormous manhunt that followed, the breakthrough that finally led to his arrest, and the lasting impact on the communities left behind.

Listen as we revisit one of the most significant and disturbing cases in post-war British criminal history.

In the summer of 1951, three young girls in England went out to play and never came home. One was picking flowers. One was at the cinema. One was riding her bicycle. All three were strangled by the same man — a man the authorities had already locked away… then allowed to escape for just four hours.

Host Alexander Lawson tells the chilling story of John Thomas Straffen, the child killer whose crimes shocked post-war Britain and made him one of the country’s longest-serving prisoners. From Bath to Broadmoor and a quiet Berkshire village, this is a case of missed warnings, a failed system, and three lives cut short.

A registered sex offender walks free on London’s streets and Tube network for years. Then the violence escalates.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson examines the case of Simon Levy — the serial sex attacker convicted in 2026 of murdering two vulnerable women and brutally raping a third. From early assaults in 2018 to the fatal attacks in 2025, we follow the timeline of missed chances, bail decisions, and risk assessments that allowed a known predator to keep offending.

Content warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of sexual violence, murder, and systemic failures. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

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On a sunny Saturday in 1990, 52-year-old antiques dealer Trevaline Evans pinned a simple note to her shop door in Llangollen, Wales: “Back in two minutes.”

She left her handbag, jacket, keys, and the fruit she planned to take home. Her car stayed parked nearby.

She never returned.

No body. No bank activity. No confirmed trace in over 36 years.

What really happened in those two minutes?

Host Alexander Lawson unravels one of Britain’s most baffling disappearances — a case that still haunts North Wales Police.

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In June 1990, former racing champion and performance-car businessman Nick Whiting was kidnapped at gunpoint from his garage in Kent. Bound, gagged and thrown into the boot of a stolen car, he vanished along with five of his high-end vehicles. Twenty-five days later his body was discovered in a shallow grave on Rainham Marshes — beaten, tortured, stabbed nine times and shot twice in the head.

More than three decades on, no one has ever been convicted of his murder.

Join host Alexander Lawson as he unravels the chilling details of this unsolved gangland execution, the underworld connections that still surround the case, and the claims made by figures like Billy Jasper. A cold-blooded crime that remains open… and a family still waiting for answers.

On a Friday night in March 1990, 34-year-old mother of three Stephanie Whittaker kissed her husband goodbye, stepped out of her Newport home, and began a short, well-lit walk to meet friends.

She never made it.

No bag. No money. No passport. Just a few pounds in change… and then silence.

Thirty-six years later she is still missing. Police still call the case highly suspicious. And no one has ever explained what happened in those five minutes.

This is the haunting, almost forgotten disappearance of Stephanie Whittaker — a devoted mother who vanished on one of the shortest walks in true crime history.

Six weeks old. That’s all the time Jason Ravenscroft was given. On 16 March 1990, inside an ordinary house on King Street in Dawley, Telford, a newborn’s skull was shattered. No one has ever been convicted of his murder.

Host Alexander Lawson revisits the quiet industrial streets of Shropshire, the trial that ended in acquittal, and the questions that still hang over one of Britain’s most haunting unsolved infant killings. A case of intimacy, silence, and justice left unfinished.

She was walking home from church. A mother of two. Thirty-six years old. In the quiet streets of Stockwell, south London, a man she had never met raised a pistol he’d ordered through the post… and ended her life with two shots.

In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, host Alexander Lawson tells the chilling story of Richard Humphrey — a small-time south London mugger who exploited a loophole in 1990s gun laws, ordered firearms by mail using a stolen certificate, and went on a four-month rampage of robbery, attempted murder, and cold-blooded killing.

Discover how a .22 pistol delivered by courier turned an ordinary criminal into a compulsive killer, the brutal execution of Victoria Odususi, the near-fatal shooting of an RAF officer, and the Old Bailey trial that sparked national outrage over Britain’s firearms laws.

A story of casual violence, fatal loopholes, and a murder that should never have been possible.

Just after midnight in Huyton, a popular grandfather staggered to a neighbour’s door, collapsing from what police first thought was a heart attack. Doctors later discovered a single, precise stab wound to his stomach. No struggle. No robbery. No motive. And more than three decades later, still no killer.

Host Alexander Lawson examines the 1990 murder of Brian Fitzmaurice — the quiet handyman known as a good Samaritan — and the investigation that has never found answers.

In the early hours of 15 January 1990, 61-year-old William Dalziel was found beaten nearly to death outside an old people’s home in Acton, west London. Struck repeatedly about the head with a heavy object, he never regained consciousness and died four days later.

His fur hat, wallet and bus pass were missing. Robbery seemed the obvious motive — but why was this quiet, private security guard, a man who rarely went out at night, walking alone in Edgecote Close after midnight?

More than three decades later, no one has ever been charged.

Host Alexander Lawson examines the sparse facts, the unanswered questions, and the lingering mystery of a murder that still sits cold in the Metropolitan Police files.