Crime at Bedtime

The Sam Sheppard case has been argued over for more than seventy years, and it has never been settled. In the small hours of the fourth of July, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard, four months pregnant, was beaten to death in her bedroom in the quiet lakeside suburb of Bay Village, Ohio. Her husband, Dr Sam Sheppard, said he had fought a bushy-haired intruder in the dark and been knocked unconscious. The police, the press and a jury did not believe him. His conviction would travel all the way to the United States Supreme Court and change the meaning of a fair trial, a second trial would set him free, the story is widely believed to have inspired The Fugitive, and decades later DNA would reopen the question all over again. On Crime at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the Sam Sheppard case.

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In 1970, the body of a woman was found strangled and buried in a shallow grave. With no clues to follow, the case quickly went cold, leaving investigators with more questions than answers.

What no one knew then was that this was just the beginning of a terrifying reign of terror. This unsolved murder would later be linked to Samuel Little, a man who would become America's most prolific serial killer, confessing to over 90 murders across four decades.

In this episode of Crime at Bedtime, we uncover how Little evaded capture for so long, the lives he destroyed, and how justice finally caught up with him.

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A child who has never left Oklahoma suddenly remembers mansions, movie sets and a life in old Hollywood. He names streets, describes trips, and recalls a very specific death – all before researchers uncover the real man he claims he once was: Hollywood agent Marty Martyn. Was this an extraordinary coincidence, or a rare glimpse of reincarnation?

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In the early 2000s, Rudy Kurniawan was the toast of the wine world — pouring $20,000 vintages at elite tastings and selling millions in rare bottles. But when experts began spotting vintages that never existed, a global investigation exposed one of the most sophisticated wine frauds of all time. This is the story of charm, counterfeit corks, and a cellar built on deception.

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The murder of Rachel McLean sent a chill through Britain in 1991. Rachel, a nineteen-year-old Oxford University student, vanished from her home, and her boyfriend, John Tanner, wept in front of the cameras as he appealed for her safe return, even taking part in a police reconstruction of her final movements. But Rachel had never left. She was hidden beneath the floorboards of her own home, where Tanner had put her after he strangled her. This is the story of the performance that slowly unravelled, and the detectives who saw through the grieving boyfriend. On Crime at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the murder of Rachel McLean.

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The Shag Harbour incident is one of the best-documented UFO mysteries in the world. On the night of 4 October 1967, at least eleven people, police among them, watched a large lit object descend from the sky and settle onto the water off the fishing village of Shag Harbour, in Nova Scotia, Canada. Fishing boats raced out, the Royal Canadian Navy sent divers down for three days, and no wreckage, no missing aircraft and no explanation were ever found. Logged in Canada's own government records as a UFO, the object has never been identified to this day. On Mysteries at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the Shag Harbour incident.

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The murder of Arlene Fraser is one of Scotland's most remarkable "no body" cases. In April 1998, Arlene, a thirty-three-year-old mother of two, vanished from her home in New Elgin, Moray, after taking her children to school, and was never seen again. With no body, no weapon and no confession, the case against her estranged husband, Nat Fraser, came to rest on a single haunting detail: a set of rings that reappeared in the house days after she disappeared. This is the story of that one piece of evidence, a conviction won, quashed by the Supreme Court, and then won all over again. On Crime at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the murder of Arlene Fraser.

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The murder of Lynette White is one of the most troubling cases in British criminal history, a crime that went wrong twice over. On Valentine's night in 1988, the twenty-year-old was killed in a flat in the Cardiff docklands, and three innocent men, who became known as the Cardiff Three, were convicted on the strength of a confession forced out of a vulnerable suspect. It took a landmark appeal to free them, and then a pioneering familial-DNA search for an unknown man the forensic team called "Cellophane Man" to finally reveal the real killer, Jeffrey Gafoor, fifteen years after Lynette died. This is a story of wrongful conviction, patient science, and a truth that refused to stay buried. On Crime at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the murder of Lynette White.

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The disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh remains one of Britain's most enduring mysteries. On 28 July 1986, the twenty-five-year-old estate agent left her Fulham office to show a house to a client she had written in her diary only as "Mr Kipper", and she was never seen again. Her car was found abandoned that night, her body has never been found, and although police would later name the convicted killer John Cannan as their prime suspect, he was never charged over her disappearance and always denied any involvement. Nearly forty years on, the questions still stand: who was Mr Kipper, and what happened to Suzy? This is the story of a young woman who vanished in broad daylight, and the mystery that has never let go. On Mysteries at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh.

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The World's End murders haunted Scotland for nearly four decades. In October 1977, two seventeen-year-old friends, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, left the World's End pub in Edinburgh's Old Town and were found murdered in the East Lothian countryside the next day. The case stayed cold for a generation, until DNA finally pointed to a man named Angus Sinclair, and a collapsed trial forced Scotland to tear up its centuries-old double jeopardy law so that he could at last be tried again, and convicted, in 2014. This is the story of two young women, the thirty-seven-year fight for justice, and the case that changed the law of a nation. On Crime at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the World's End murders.

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