Cozy Crime

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores a duel that was also a crime, a murder charge that was never collected, and the fifty-year aftermath of a single July morning on the Hudson River — beginning with a man who wrote down, the night before, exactly what he planned to do.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores one of the most quietly brilliant thefts in Victorian history: a conspiracy of wax impressions, duplicate keys, and lead shot that sent three iron safes across the Channel to Paris containing entirely the wrong thing.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the death of Charles Bravo, a young Victorian barrister who collapsed in his bedroom in Balham in April 1876 and died three days later from deliberate antimony poisoning — with three suspects, forty witnesses, and a verdict that named no one.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the Paisley Witch Trial of 1697, in Scotland, in which seven people were condemned to death after an eleven-year-old girl accused her household servants of bewitching her, setting in motion one of the last and most haunting witch trials in Scottish history.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the life of Eustace the Monk: a Benedictine novice who became an outlaw, a licensed privateer, and finally the naval architect of a French invasion of England, before meeting an end that his enemies made very sure everyone would see.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the case of George Chapman, a Polish-born barber and pub landlord who poisoned three women over five years in late Victorian and Edwardian England, and the quiet, determined mother who finally broke the pattern.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the quiet domestic life and sudden disappearance of Cora Crippen - the story leads through the Music Hall Ladies Guild, a pioneering wireless telegraph message, and the contested forensic testimony of a young pathologist, revealing rumours, strange clues, and competing theories that still puzzle historians today.

But what really happened to Cora Crippen after she waved goodbye at her front door?

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores a meticulously planned theft inside a supposedly impenetrable diamond vault, where years of quiet observation ultimately overcame layers of advanced security.

Tonight's Cozy Crime explores a plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers and the Prime Minister Lord Liverpool in 1820.

Tonight's Cozy Crime story explores the death of Christopher Marlowe, the most celebrated playwright in Elizabethan England, who died at twenty-nine in a pub in London, in circumstances that have never been fully explained.