Strange But True Crime

By BBC Local Radio

Dive into a world of bizarre crimes with brazen criminals that will leave you scratching your head for answers.

Rima Ahmed explores audacious heists, secret drugs bunkers and stolen identitie

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How many episodes does Strange But True Crime have?

The podcast currently has 8 episodes available.

Strange But True Crime episodes:

May 27, 2025 The Swiss Art Heist
£3m of Ming Dynasty treasures vanish from Geneva’s Museum of Far Eastern Art.
After what was a peculiar heist, suspicion falls on the Ahearne brothers who are being watched by police in the UK and Switzerland.
An undercover cop meeting is set in an attempt to recover the stolen artefacts, before they're gone for good.
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Reporter: Thomas Mackintosh.
Written and produced by Luke de Costa.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
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34min
May 20, 2025 Unmasking a Fugitive
Arthur Knight claimed he was an Irish orphan during a police interview in a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
The Police were tipped off that the patient could actually be American fugitive Nicholas Rossi, who was wanted in Utah to face rape charges.
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Reporter: Steven Godden.
Written and produced by Luke de Costa.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
To watch on BBC iPlayer - search for: Big Cases ‘Unmasking a Fugitive’.
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35min
May 13, 2025 The Great British Takeoff
The McDonagh’s from Port Talbot in South Wales go out for a steak dinner in Swansea and leave without paying. The restaurant posts to social media to try and track the family down, only to find that this wasn't their first 'dine-and-dash' meal.
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Reporter: Meleri Williams.
Written and produced by Luke de Costa.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
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31min
May 06, 2025 Missing in Action
'Army medic' Tanya Nasir’s CV lands her a prestigious job on the neonatal unit at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, Wales, but all is not as it seems.
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Reporter: Colette Hume.
Written and produced by Luke de Costa.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editor: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
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32min
April 29, 2025 The Treasure Traitors
Two Welsh metal detectorists make an astonishing discovery in a farmer’s field and try to secretly sell the treasure before the authorities track them down.
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Reporter: Nicola Goodwin.
Written and produced by Luke de Costa.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editor: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
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37min
April 22, 2025 Dr Nope
Patrick O’Hara lives a comfortable life with his partner in Newcastle. But a routine visit from a suspicious community nurse is about to put him on life support.
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Reporter: Peter Harris.
Written and produced by Luke de Costa.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
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41min
April 22, 2025 The Man with the Golden Hun
Carolyn Woods starts fresh in the quaint town of Tetbury, Gloucestershire. She falls for the charming Mark Conway, an ‘MI6 spy’.
He says he’s not normal. After moving in to his apartment in Bath she finds out what that really means.
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Reporter: Martin Jones.
Written and produced by Luke de Costa.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge.
Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
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34min
April 16, 2025 Introducing… Strange But True Crime
Dive into a world of bizarre crimes with brazen criminals that will leave you scratching your head for answers.
Rima Ahmed explores audacious heists, secret drugs bunkers and stolen identities with reporters who have lived and breathed these criminal cases.
Presenter: Rima Ahmed.
Written by Luke de Costa.
Produced by Luke de Costa and Luke Eldridge.
Online Producer: Rachael Smith.
Commissioning Editors : Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.
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2min

FAQs about Strange But True Crime:

How many episodes does Strange But True Crime have?

The podcast currently has 8 episodes available.