We all know the story of how penicillin, the life-saving antibiotic, was discovered right? An Alexander Fleming accident. But what if I told you there was actually a lot more to the story and it turns out multiple people were actually involved in the creation of the antibiotic we know and love today? Crazy, right?!

Throughout the latter part of the 20th century crime rates in the USA and across the world started to grow exponentially, before reaching a peak in the early 1990s and rapidly falling from there. Plenty of theories have been put forward over the years, but what if the reason is as simple as the huge usage of lead in the aftermath of World War 2?

Back in 1887-1889, body parts started washing up along the banks of the River Thames in London, victims who for the most part still remain unidentified today as well as the perpetrator. Who was skulking in the shadows, attacking women and dismembering their bodies? Some think it may have been Jack the Ripper, using a different MO from his 1888 Whitechapel murders, but we may never have the answer.

49 years ago to this day, an arsonist set a fire at a gay bar in New Orleans, leading to the deaths of 32 people. Despite many witnesses knowing who set the fire, investigators didn't care enough about the deaths of 32 gay men to investigate properly and no justice was ever brought.

In 2002 the body of a teenage girl was discovered behind a strip mall in Tempe, Arizona after she had died following a cocaine overdose. Despite a man coming forward saying he was the last person to see her alive with a detailed description of her last moments, investigators have never been able to find the girl's identity. 

Holly Bartlett was found unconscious at the base of a bridge in 2010 after a night out with friends. The taxi driver insists he dropped her outside her apartment building the night before but somehow Holly, who was a blind woman, travelled 300m in the wrong direction and somehow became so injured her family made the decision to turn off life support the next day. How did this happen?

Today we're taking a look at some old cases I've covered and sharing some big and some small updates that have recently come out about them. We have new suspects in the Madeleine McCann and Mr Cruel cases, Jane Doe updates and one exciting identification, a new victim announced for San Francisco serial killer the Doodler and more.

This week we're going to be discussing the case of Lorraine Stahl, the alias of a woman who's body was found in Ledyard, Connecticut in 1974. Whilst we do have an alias of hers and someone was even convicted for her murder, we still don't know her real identity, her family have never been notified.

This week let's talk all about vaccines, from inoculation to the creation of the smallpox vaccine to Louis Pasteur, all the way up to the recent creation of the COVID-19 vaccines. A real one to nerd out to!

This week we're going to be talking about Jesse Pomeroy, who at 14 years old became the youngest person to ever be convicted of first degree murder in Massachusetts after killing two children, but suspicion runs deep that he may have been responsible for the deaths of many more.