Episode 30: Malcolm Webster. This week Emma tells the almost unbelievable story of Malcolm Webster, a compulsive liar and fraudster whose crimes would escalate into arson and murder and who would spark an investigation stretching all the way from Scotland to New Zealand.


Case research by Emma Taylor
Produced by Emma Taylor & Joannagh Shanks
Editing by Shaun O'Neill
Music by Tribe of Noise


Sources of research:

Book - The Black Widower – by Charles Lavery

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-12392028
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh_-POnLugk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob4NyKH8_fc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Webster_(murderer)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-26575831
https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/malcolm-webster-the-widower-reece-shearsmith-actor-murderer-true-story-317419
https://www.bustle.com/articles/114341-what-happened-to-malcolm-webster-in-real-life-the-widower-subject-was-brought-to-justice-in
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/malcolm-webster-case-women-bring-cold-blooded-killer-to-justice/6ZIGLD73HJBKSS2NSF3KX34AE4/
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13150540.black-widower-killer-drops-appeal-over-30-year-sentence/
https://twnews.co.uk/gb-news/scotland-s-most-shocking-crimes-black-widower-malcolm-webster-killed-wife
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/wife-killer-malcolm-webster-gets-3538012
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3033432/Man-reveals-TWENTY-YEAR-battle-bring-brutal-Black-Widower-brother-law-justice-faked-car-crash-death.html
https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/903852/security-alert-over-evidence-on-wife-killer-webster/
https://www.itv.com/thismorning/articles/my-sister-was-a-victim-of-the-black-widower
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeenshire/298611/police-took-many-years-to-investigate-webster-concerns/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/508535/Family-s-anger-as-wife-killer-Malcolm-Webster-launches-new-appeal-to-clear-name
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8525234/Malcolm-Webster-polite-charmer-who-lured-women-then-plotted-their-deaths.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/malcolm-webster-guilty-of-wifes-murder-2286351.html