This week we head to the seaside resort of Blackpool.

Home to Blackpool Pleasure Beach and the iconic Blackpool Tower, the town attracts millions of visitors every year. And it's not just tourists that flock to this quintessentially British holiday destination. Every year, thousands of people move to Blackpool from other parts of the UK. In 2016, 21-year-old Debbie Leitch and her mother, Elaine Clarke, moved there from Leeds, with Elaine's three other children.

The move should have signalled the beginning of an exciting new chapter in their lives, but for Debbie, who had Down Syndrome, it heralded the beginning of the end when her life spiralled into a downward descent into hell where neglect, abuse and isolation reigned supreme.

This is an infuriating story which contains descriptions of neglect and abuse that some listeners may find distressing. Listener discretion is advised.

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This week we take a look at the concept of coincidences in true crime...

Our first case takes us to the Aviemore Station Hotel in the Scottish Highlands. When fire ripped through the hotel in 1950, it ended in tragedy. The community was rocked to its core. And when history repeated itself forty five years later, people were left asking whether this was merely a coincidence, or whether something more sinister was at play...

Our second case takes us to the bustling Birmingham suburb of Erdington. In 1974 a 20-year-old nurse went missing in eerily similar circumstances to a previous missing person's case more than a hundred years hence... Could it be that the two cases were related?

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This week we head to Singapore, a gleaming metropolis known for its towering skyscrapers, lush greenery, and bustling harbour.

John Martin Scripps, originally from Letchworth in Hertfordshire, was charm personified. Tall, handsome and charismatic, he exuded a cool, calm exterior that pulled people in. What they didn't know however, was that he was a killer hiding in plain sight.

Join us as we delve into this deeply disturbing story that spans continents...

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This week we head to Germany, and back to the 1980's, as we begin the episode in the middle of a court case, which takes a dramatic turn when someone pulls a gun...

Join us to find out what prompted this shocking action mid-trial.

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This week, in a two-part special, we head to Paris as we take a look at the shocking death of Princess Diana.

Part one sees us explore the build up to this tragic accident.

Written by Elliot Caddy.

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This week, in a two-part special, we head to Paris as we take a look at the shocking death of Princess Diana.

Part one saw us explore the build up to this tragic accident.

Part two sees us explore the aftermath and the various conspiracy theories that still abound.

Written by Elliot Caddy.

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This week we will hear the story of young Timothy Ferguson, who suffered horrendous torture and abuse at the hands of his mother and older brother.

It goes without saying that as this episode contains descriptions of abuse suffered by a child, listener discretion is advised.

Thank you to Hayley for this listener-written episode!

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This week we head to London as we take a look at the murder of 16-year-old Jimmy Mizen.

At approximately 11:30 on the morning of 10 May 2008, a day after his sixteenth birthday, Jimmy was inside the Three Cooks Bakery in Burnt Ash Hill, south London, with his brother, Harry, when 19-year-old Jake Fahri entered the shop spoiling for a fight. What happened next left the shop workers cowering in terror and Jimmy's family grief-stricken.

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We left part one in February 2019, just after Shamima Begum had been discovered by a British journalist in a refugee camp in Syria.

News of the discovery of one of the 'Isis 4' shocked the nation and spread like wildfire. And soon, journalists were queuing up to interview her.

What unfolded over the following months and years divided public opinion and reached the upper echelons of British government, as they strived to solve the question on everybody's lips: 'How do you solve a problem lime Shamima Begum?'.

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As we head rapidly towards 2025, we thought we would mark the end of the year by sharing our most recent episode of Crimewave, our fortnightly Patreon-exclusive podcast, with you, currently enjoyed by over 500 of our wonderful Patreon supporters.

In this episode we review 2024 - our highs and lows, and the cases that really resonated with us.

Find out how many downloads we achieved this year, why we were once so loved in the Cayman Islands, but why now, they couldn't care less about us! And hear about our special moments from the last twelve months.

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Our very best wishes for 2025,

Bethan & Mark

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