When a pair of legs washed up in Clifford Pier Harbour in Singapore, the police knew something was very wrong. That same week, a South African tourist who had travelled to the country to buy the latest electronics was reported missing. He would never make it home. Somehow, in a country with one of the lowest crime rates in the world and a draconian criminal justice system, he fell prey to British serial killer John Scripps, who travelled the world murdering unsuspecting tourists and butchering their bodies. Who was Scripps, and how did the police track him down?

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Sources:
Boon, Tan Ooi, ‘Body Parts: A British Serial Killer in Singapore, 1996’, April 2019, Straits Times Press

‘Guilty As Charged: John Martin Scripps befriended tourists, then butchered them’, May 2016, The Straits Times, https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/guilty-as-charged-john-martin-scripps-befriended-tourists-then-butchered-them ‘

John Martin Scripps: Body-parts murder’, Singapore Infopedia, https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_437_2005-01-17.html

‘Manslaughter and Murder’, February 2020, I.R.B. Law, https://irblaw.com.sg/learning-centre/manslaughter-murder/

‘Singapore Census of Population, 2000 – Literacy and Language’, December 2000, Singapore Department of Statistics, Web Archive, https://web.archive.org/web/20091113162718/http://www.singstat.gov.sg/pubn/papers/people/c2000adr-literacy.pdf

The Straits Times, 30 March 1995, Reel Number NL19806

The Straits Times, 12 November 1995, Reel Number NL20073

What kind of killer could chisel out the panel of a door and creep inside without waking a soul? How was he so light on his feet that nobody heard him coming on the dark, moonless nights on which he struck? That’s what the people of New Orleans were asking themselves when their city was terrorised by a mysterious Axeman who targeted Italian grocers, leaving nothing behind but blood, fear, and a discarded weapon - and taking nothing with him except the secret of his identity. He came and went like a phantom, spreading a wave of brutality through the City of Festivals that would not easily be forgotten. Who was the Axeman of New Orleans?

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Sources:
The Axe Man of New Orleans: The True Story by Miriam C Davis
A Treasury of XXth Century Murder Compendium 1 by Rick Geary
The Mysterious Axman's Jazz by Joseph John Davilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLDiNcNvCBw

Anjette Donovan Lyles ran a popular diner in downtown Macon, Georgia and she oozed Southern charm, wowing customers with her lemon pie and banana pudding. But behind the home-cooked meals and the bright red lipstick-smile, lurked a dangerous killer from whom none of her family members were safe…

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Sources:

13WMAZ, “Anjette Lyles Case: Murder on the menu”, YouTube, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HU8R_sDJFc

13WMAZ, “From the archives: Anjette Lyles case”, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWhGSEetvnY&t=105s

“Anjette Donovan Lyles”, Murderpedia, https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lyles-anjette.htm

Dan, Tee Jay, “The Difference Between Madness and Mental Illness”, LinkedIn, Nov 2020, The Difference between Madness and Mental Illness (linkedin.com)

GroovyAmericanTourist, “Anjette Lyles The Black Widow of Macon Georgia”, YouTube, Mar 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_6tMhfdBUo

Lyles v. State, Supreme Court of Georgia, Justia, 1959, https://law.justia.com/cases/georgia/supreme-court/1959/20465-1.html

Weldon White, Jaclyn, “Whisper to the Black Candle: Voodoo, Murder, and the case of Anjette Lyles”, Mercer University Press, 2006

Ronald Ruse was a happy, easy-going young man who enjoyed surfing and softball in his home state of sunny California. But when he met girlfriend Linda Ricchio, everything changed for the worse. This is a sad and alarming story of obsession and stalking that culminated in disaster and ruined more than one life.

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Sources:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-06-me-1646-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-29-me-95-story.html https://gunmemorial.org/1987/12/01/ronald-lewis-ron-ruse-jr# https://thecinemaholic.com/where-is-linda-ricchio-now/ https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/deadly-women-linda-ricchio-stalked-and-killed-ronald-lewis-ruse-jr-because-he-broke-up-with-her-sentenced-to-27-years-to-life-in-prison/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3658502/?ref_=ttep_ep16

When a family man desperate for excitement in his mundane life created a fake online persona and swiped right on a beautiful young woman on Tinder, he intended to take advantage of her naivety and hook up with her for casual sex. But neither of them knew it would be a match made in hell...and it was only a matter of time before deception escalated to murder.

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Sources: Balakrishnan, Aravind, ‘Tinder Date Gone Wrong: A Shocking Story of How a Woman Murdered Her Date’, January 2022, Medium.com, https://medium.com/illumination/tinder-date-gone-wrong-a-shocking-story-of-how-a-woman-murdered-her-date-ba3d7fe9584e

Bhardwaj, Deepika Narayan, ‘The Tinder Murder - How Priya Seth murdered her Tinder Date and cheated thousands of men’, June 2018, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICYE358tA9Y

‘Chargesheet filed against Priya Seth, 2 others in Dushyant Sharma murder case’, July 2018, Pink City Post, https://www.pinkcitypost.com/chargesheet-filed-against-priya-seth-2-others-in-dushyant-sharma-murder-case/

Jaithlia, Akshat, and Maheshwari, Aayush, ‘The agonizing pace of the Indian Judiciary’, Jurist.com, https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2020/05/jaithlia-maheshwari-indian-judiciary-pace/

Poonam, Snigdha, ‘Bad Blood: Story of a doomed date’, September 2018, Hindustan Times, https://www.pressreader.com/india/hindustan-times-st-jaipur/20180923/282024738181221

Poonam, Snigdha, ‘Greed, deceit and lies: How a Tinder date ended in murder’, September 2018, Hindustan Times, https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/a-true-account-of-a-tinder-murder/story-NA4xQ19l42XNwjVb3BpZzK.html

Poonam, Snigdha, ‘Lady Killers’, December 2021, https://openthemagazine.com/cover-stories/lady-killers/

‘Priya and Kamra wanted to marry each other: Rajasthan police’, May 2018, Hindustan Times, https://www.hindustantimes.com/jaipur/priya-and-kamra-wanted-to-marry-each-other-rajasthan-police/story-mDq8ZD8GyxYtR1xUzhFOSO.html

When a WWII veteran was approached in Philadelphia by a man in a distinctive alpine hat, the two seemed to hit it off. But by the next morning, one of them would be dead and the other would become the object of a manhunt after a grisly discovery was made inside an abandoned footlocker. But was the case as clear cut as it seemed?

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https://www.leagle.com/decision/19569415padampc2d79183

https://phillysoccerpage.net/2017/07/26/the-life-and-murder-of-a-u-s-soccer-president/

Why did it take so long for the killer of 16-year-old Lynn Siddons to be brought to justice? This case involved a man who was obsessed with Jack the Ripper and blamed his crimes on his stepson, and a police force who were woefully inefficient in tackling the case. Lynn’s tenacious grandmother was forced to fight for the truth, in an 18-year legal battle that no bereaved family should ever have to endure.

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Sources:
BBC 2 documentary, ‘The Lynn Siddons Murder’, Culture of England, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YlHs2HwNxI

‘Granny nails Lynn's killer after 18-year battle’, The Free Library, 1996 Scottish Daily Record & Sunday 26 Jul. 2023 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Granny+nails+Lynn%27s+killer+after+18-year+battle.-a061257284

Hudson, Nick, ’40 years on, retired solicitor pays price for snaring killer of teenage girl’, July 2017, PoliceProfessional.com, https://www.policeprofessional.com/news/40-years-on-retired-solicitor-pays-price-for-snaring-killer-of-teenage-girl-2/

‘Killer Jailed 18 Years After Stabbing Girl’, July 1996, Independent, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/killer-jailed-18-years-after-stabbing-girl-1307616.html

Major Ingram, ‘The Derby Step-Strangler Case – Michael Brookes’, The Algebra of Justice, Just Justice.org, https://www.justjustice.org/surrogate.html

It should have been obvious that for school cleaner Vincent Stanford, spying on girls in the bathroom was just the beginning. When he began stalking a 12-year-old pupil and amassed hundreds of photos of her, it was only a matter of time before he escalated to rape and murder. His victim was dedicated teacher Stephanie Scott, whose life he cut short just days before her wedding, in a case that shocked a small New South Wales community.

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Sources

Hanrahan, Josh, “Identical twin of man who killed teacher and bride-to-be Stephanie Scott finally reveals why he tried to destroy evidence by selling her jewellery – and says he never wants to see his brother again”, Daily Mail, Jul 2019, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7255227/Brother-Stephanie-Scotts-killer-Vincent-Stanford-haunted-crime.html ·

Hayter, Melinda, “Stephanie Scott: police say burned body found in Cocoparra National Park believed to be that of missing teacher”, ABC News, Apr 2015, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-11/stephanie-scott-police-searchers-find-burned-body-near-griffith/6385584 ·

Levy, Megan and Partridge, Emma, “Vincent Stanford charged with murdering Leeton teacher Stephanie Scott, underwent criminal checks, cleaning company says”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 2015, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/vincent-stanford-charged-with-murdering-leeton-teacher-stephanie-scott-underwent-criminal-checks-cleaning-company-says-20150409-1mh8zl.html

Partridge, Emma, “’I only have hatred’: Vincent Stanford, the man who killed Stephanie Scott”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 2016, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/i-only-have-hatred-vincent-stanford-the-man-who-killed-stephanie-scott-20161014-gs2jmc.html ·

Partridge, Emma, “Robert Scott, father of murdered teacher Stephanie Scott, killed in accident”, The Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 2016, https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/robert-scott-father-of-murdered-teacher-stephanie-scott-killed-in-accident-20161101-gsfl4e.html

In the Peak District in 1977, the ‘Year of the Knife’ continued with a robbery that shocked a quiet village, culminating in the murder of a bank clerk and the kidnap of his colleague. Could the police find her in time before the cold night drew in across the freezing Gunn Hill moorland?

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Sources Aberdeen Evening Express, British Newspaper Archives, Fri 22nd July 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19770722/025/0003 Aberdeen Press and Journal, British Newspaper Archives, Sat 26th Feb 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19770226/008/0001 “David Walsh: murder of Ian Nicholas Jebb and Susan Hockenhull on 25 February 1977”, DPP 2/6343, National Archives, https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14604117 Garrett, Dr Geoffrey, “Cause of Death: Memoirs of a Home Office Pathologist”, Robinson Publishing, 2001 “Grisly discovery as police find body in search for kidnapped bride-to-be”, Sunday Post, 1977, PressReader.com, https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-sunday-post-inverness/20220227/282437057571889 Liverpool Echo, British Newspaper Archives, Mon 17th Jan 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19770117/015/0001 Liverpool Echo, British Newspaper Archives, Sat 26 Feb 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19770226/008/0001 Liverpool Echo, British Newspaper Archives, Wed 2nd March 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000271/19770302/009/0001 “Premises occupied by JR Bridgeford, estate agents, Williams and Glyn’s Bank and the library”, Historic England listing, https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1139578?section=comments-and-photos “Prestbury”, City Population.de, https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uk/northwestengland/wards/cheshire_east/E05008647__prestbury/ Reading Evening Post, British Newspaper Archives, Sat 26th Feb 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002471/19770226/003/0001

A birdwatching getaway in the Peak District that should have been uneventful was the inspiration for this episode, with my wife and I accidentally choosing to stay just a few hundred yards from the scene of a notorious set of murders, which we learned about by chance. It seems that true crime follows me everywhere… (my wife still doesn’t believe that I really didn’t know when we booked it!)

The lives of an escaped criminal and an unsuspecting family converge in a dramatic and bloody home invasion set against the cold, bleak, back-drop of Beeley Moor in 1977, a period which would become known as the ‘Year of the Knife’. This episode covers the Pottery Cottage murders and culminates in an explosive finale, while the next instalment will explore the Gunn Hill killings, which took place just a month later.
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Sources ATV Today, “Cremation of mass murderer William Hughes”, Jan 1977, Mace Archive, https://www.macearchive.org/films/atv-today-25011977-cremation-mass-murderer-william-hughes

ATV Today, “Escaped Convict”, Mace Archive, Jan 1977, https://www.macearchive.org/films/atv-today-13011977-escaped-convict

ATV Today, “Escaped Prisoner - William Hughes – Murders”, Mace Archive, Jan 1977, https://www.macearchive.org/films/atv-today-18011977-escaped-prisoner-william-hughes-murders

ATV Today, “Escaped Prisoner’s Murders – William Hughes”, Mace Archive, Jan 1977, https://www.macearchive.org/films/atv-today-17011977-escaped-prisoners-murders-william-hughes

ATV Today, “Inquest into death of escaped convict, William Hughes”, Mace Archive, Apr 1977, https://www.macearchive.org/films/atv-today-27041977-inquest-death-escaped-convict-william-hughes

Belfast Telegraph, British Newspaper Archive, Nov 1977, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002318/19771102/081/0007

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