Sidney Harry Fox and his mother Rosaline enjoyed staying at expensive hotels up and down the coast of southeast England, although they could rarely afford to pay. The staff at the Hotel Metropole in Paradise Street, Margate, were charmed by Sidney, who seemed so considerate and devoted to his mother. Little did they know that behind this performance, lay a history of fraud and deceit which would lead to the final act of murder.

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Sources: 
Ancestry
Commonwealth War Graves
Gloucester Citizen 7 December 1929
Daily Herald - Friday 14 March 1930
Western Gazette - Friday 14 March 1930
London Daily Chronicle - Monday 17 March 1930
Lancashire Evening Post - Thursday 27 March 1930
London Daily Chronicle - Tuesday 08 April 1930
Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 17 April 1930
Hampshire Telegraph - Friday 25 April 1930
Sunday Mirror 2 October 1949
Liverpool Echo 15 December 1959
Tonbridge Free Press 2 January 1959
The Sunday Express, 31 July 1960
Mostly Murder by Sir Sydney Smith
Seaside Murders J.Goodman
Mama’s Boy by Bill Waddell

Charlotte Bryant was at the centre of a rural murder case that shocked an English village in 1935. When her husband died after a series of unexplained illnesses in their Dorset cottage, suspicions turned to poison. This true crime episode explores the investigation, the role of arsenic, and the events that led to one of Britain’s most infamous murder trials.

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Unusual Suspects

Sources:
Daily Herald - Thursday 02 January 1936
Sheffield Independent - Friday 20 March 1936
Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser - Wednesday 04 March 1936
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Thursday 28 May 1936
Dundee Courier - Friday 29 May 1936
Gloucestershire Echo - Thursday 28 May 1936
Weekly Dispatch (London) - Sunday 31 May 1936
J.D. Casswell - A Lance for Liberty

When Dawn Viens vanished in 2009, her husband David claimed she’d left after an argument.
Two years later, he confessed to killing her — and offered a chilling explanation.
Despite no body being found, he was convicted of second-degree murder.
This true crime episode investigates control, violence, and a shocking confession.

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Sources:
Altman, Larry, ‘Lomita restaurateur who killed wife, allegedly cooked her body denied parole’, June 2021, Daily Breeze, https://www.dailybreeze.com/2021/06/08/lomita-restaurateur-who-killed-wife-disposed-of-body-denied-parole/

Powers, Ashley, ‘Chef says he cooked wife’s body for four days’, September 2012, Los Angeles Times, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2012-sep-18-la-me-restaurateur-20120919-story.html       

‘Yelp Users Review Thyme Cafe, Restaurant Owned By Chef Accused Of Killing And Cooking His Wife’, September 2012, Huffington Post, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-viens-lomita-chef-killed-cooked-wife-yelp-review-thyme-cafe_n_1900990

Music:
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In Victorian London, Henry Wainwright, a once-respected businessman, leads a double life of deception, infidelity, and mounting debt. When his mistress, Harriet Lane, becomes an inconvenient burden, he devises a gruesome solution.

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Music:
Epidemic Sound - Exile
Epidemic Sound - Terra Firma
Epidemic Sound - Eternal Moment

Sources: 
The Penny Illustrated Paper 25 September 1875
Illustrated Police News - Saturday 23 October 1875
Illustrated Police News - Saturday 27 November 1875
Bondeson, Jan; “Victorian Murders”, 2017, Amberley Publishing
Rowland, David, “Executioners from 1850 to 1964”, 2014,  https://www.oldpolicecellsmuseum.org.uk/content/history/local-historians-history/david-rowland/executioners/part_2

During the blackout nights of WWII London, under the haunting wail of air raid sirens and the devastation of the Blitz, one of the city’s most chilling true crimes was quietly buried beneath the rubble. In this episode, we uncover the twisted tale of Rachel Dobkin, whose dismembered and burned body was discovered in a bombed-out chapel in 1942. As Londoners struggled through nightly raids and rationing, someone used the chaos of war to commit murder—and almost got away with it.

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Unusual Suspects

Sources:
Ancestry
Murderous History London Blitz Killer, Channel 5
Evening Despatch - Thursday 27 August 1942
Daily Mirror - Saturday 12 September 1942
Daily Express - Wednesday 18 November 1942
Daily Herald - Friday 20 November 1942
Derby Daily Telegraph 23 November 1942
Daily Mirror - Tuesday 24 November 1942
Daily News 24 November 1942

Landlord Geoffrey Ferguson, enraged over a bounced rent cheque, drove from North Carolina to Connecticut and unlawfully evicted his tenants by force. The murders that followed shocked the community and were described as the worst mass killing in Connecticut’s modern history.

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Sources:
DeGregory, Lane, April 1995, “Five found shot dead in Conn. home of local man”, The Virginian Pilot, https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950421/04210495.htm
“Former Westporter convicted of mass murders found dead”, May 2003, WestportNow, https://www.westportnow.com/former_westporter_convicted_of_mass_murders_found_dead/
“State v. Ferguson (2002), May 28 2002, FindLaw, https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ct-supreme-court/1247323.html

On July 27, 2018, in Fagersta, Sweden, a cyclist discovered a semi-nude woman, Nella Olander, lying in a dark underpass, fatally stabbed. Soon after, 14-year-old Thomas confessed to his mother that he and a man twice his age Johan Fallqvist, had attacked her.  What brought Thomas and Fallqvist together in this toxic partnership? 

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Sources:
I huvudet på en mördare, 2019
In the Mind of a Murderer, Swedish Documentary, S3 E6, December 2019
Wikström, Mattis, ‘Sexualmördaren vill våldta – tvingas bort’, June 2021, Expressen, https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/krim/sexualmordaren-vill-valdta-tvingas-bort/
Zabielski, Julia, ‘Så lever Johan Fallqvist idag – efter mordet i Fagersta: "Stolt", May 2022, Nyheter24, https://nyheter24.se/nyheter/inrikes/1030864-sa-lever-johan-fallqvist-idag-efter-mordet-i-fagersta-stolt

In 1890, a young machinist named Walter James Lyons committed a shocking act of violence on the streets of Plumstead, southeast London. What drove this 20-year-old to murder a decorated soldier in broad daylight? The answer lies in a moment of rage, a clash of Victorian morality, and a mother’s decision that scandalised an entire community. Leaving the Old Bailey to decide: was Walter truly a killer, or just a son pushed beyond his limits?


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Music:
"Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Eternal moment by Farrell Wooten

Sources:
Ancestry
Gloucester Citizen - Tuesday 16 September 1890
Nottingham Evening Post -Tuesday 16 September 1890
Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 20 September 1890
Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser - Saturday 27 September 1890
London Evening Standard - Friday 24 October 1890

In 2009, 59-year-old Elena Tomova retreated to her countryside villa in Vlado Trichkov, Bulgaria, seeking peace—only to find evidence of an intruder. That evening, she unknowingly invited her own killer, Mihail Leshtarski, inside, offering him food and shelter. The transient drifter repaid her kindness with brutal murder, strangling Elena, mutilating her body, and defacing her home with crosses. Afterward, he lived in a cave until winter forced him into the home of an old cellmate, where he attacked the man and his wife. For four months, he hid in their attic, drilling holes in the walls and ceilings to spy on them, threatening to kill them if they went to the police. A DNA match from Elena’s fingernails finally linked him to the murder, exposing his long history of violence and crime.

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Sources:
No Man’s Land, interview with psychologist Todor Todorov
Sofia News Agency

Music: Eternal moment by Farrell Wooten,  Maximum state by Ethan Sloan

In this episode of my Jack the Ripper suspect investigations, we explore Aaron Kosminski, a prominent suspect in the case. New DNA evidence, particularly from a shawl linked to Catherine Eddowes, allegedly connects Kosminski to the murders, with a 100% match to a descendant of his. However, doubts about the shawl’s authenticity and the limitations of mitochondrial DNA have raised scepticism. We also look at the role of Russell Edwards, who purchased the shawl, and examine the psychiatric records of Kosminski, along with other possible suspects like Nathan Kaminski. Could we finally uncover the true identity of Jack the Ripper?

Thanks to author Karl Coppack and Adam from UK True Crime for lending their voices.

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Music:
"Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 

"Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/