Let's Have A Chat About Murder

Sian Blake, a British actress and her two Sons eight-year-old Zachary and four-year-old Amon was murdered by her partner in London in 2015.

This episode looks at the Murders of Sian Blake, a British actress, best known for playing Frankie Pierre on the British television show EastEnders, and her two beautiful sons, Zachary, eight, and Amon, four.

Sian partner and the boy’s father, Arthur Simpson-Kent attacked and killed all three on the night of 14-15 December 2015.

Simpson-Kent had gone to great lengths to conceal his crimes, misleading friends, family, and the police about what he had done.

Even more callously, he suggested that Sian and he had entered a pact to end all their lives because of her condition.

This was not true. In fact, Sian had been making inquiries about schools for the children and had been considering moving to live with her family without him.”

Police believe he committed the murders because she was planning to leave him and take the children.

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Cherish Perrywinkle was an 8-year-old girl from Jacksonville, Florida who was abducted from a Walmart on June 21, 2013. She was seen on CCTV cameras leaving the store with a man named Donald Smith who was later convicted of her murder.

Cherish Lily Perrywinkle was born on Christmas Eve of 2004 to Rayne Perrywinkle and Billy Jarreau, whose marriage ended in divorce and subsequent custody battles.

On June 21, 2013 around 8 pm, Rayne, Cherish, and her two younger sisters went shopping when they first met Donald Smith at a Dollar General, where he offered to buy them clothes, they could not afford with a $150 Walmart gift card.

The Perrywinkles then got into his white van and went with him to Walmart, where they shopped for the next 2 hours.

At 10:30 pm, Smith offered to get them cheeseburgers at the store’s McDonald's and convinced Cherish to go with him.

However, surveillance footage shows that they walked out of the store instead, which was the last time Cherish was seen alive.

This Podcast investigates what could have happened to Penny.

The suspects in this case? The theories surrounding this 30-year-old murder of Penny Bell and can really be solved?

Ruth Penelope "Penny" Bell was an English businesswoman who was murdered on 6 June 1991 in the car park of Gurnell Leisure Centre, Greenford, London.

The frenzied attack in June 1991 happened in broad daylight in a busy area, she was stabbed over fifty times as she sat behind the steering wheel of her car.

Two witnesses spotted Penny’s Jaguar XJS crawling along at 10mph, its hazard lights flashing.

As one overtook her, Penny appeared to be wrestling with someone in the car. She was also seen mouthing "HELP ME!", but no one stopped.

Her body was found an hour later.

Vanessa George, one of the main members of a paedophile ring involving at least five adults from different parts of England. Four of the five members were women.

The case showed that the perpetrators were acting of their own free will and for their own sexual gratification.

The case prompted an increased recognition of the problem of female paedophiles, sex offenders, and the scale of their offending, with one estimate suggesting that at least 10% of sex offenders are female.

The case also challenged the false stereotype that only men sexually abuse children.

Previously some had attempted to blame the behaviour of female child sexual abusers on men, suggesting that the female child sex abusers were usually acting under duress or coercion.

Helen McCourt was Murdered by Ian Simms on the 9th of February 1988, she was 22-years old at the time of her murder. Her body has never been found.

This case out-lines the day of her murder, but this case is really about Helens Law:

To require the Parole Board to consider any failure by a prisoner serving a sentence for unlawful killing or for taking or making an indecent image of a child to disclose information about the victim.

This Bill received Royal Assent on Wednesday 4th November 2020 and was enacted into law.

Since her daughter's disappearance, Marie McCourt has devoted herself to work for Support after Murder and Manslaughter (SAMM) and still puts pressure on Simms to reveal the location of Helen's body.

Simms was given a life sentence with a minimum tariff of sixteen years. On 21 November 2019, before the law could be adopted, it was reported that a Parole Board review on 8 November had recommended Simms for release, finding that he had "met the terms for release". He is now FREE.

For two young teenagers the night of 8 December 2014 in Hartlepool UK began like many others.

But by the next morning, the two girls would be murderers, having taken their time to batter a Vulnerable woman to death with a variety of weapons.

The attack lasted for 5-7 hours. It was said Angela Wrightson suffered an "absolute minimum of 70 separate slash injuries and 54 separate blunt-force injuries".

The girls were aged 13 and 14 when they put 39-year-old Angela Wrightson through this ordeal while posing for Snapchat selfies.

Christina Moore introduces Let's Have A Chat About Murder