In February 2008, the local community in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire was rocked by the news of a missing girl. 

9 yr old Shannon Matthews was reported missing by her mum Karen. 

Shannon was born on the 9th of September 1998. She had six brother and sisters - Karen had 7 children by 5 different fathers, but only four of them lived with her and Shannon in a house along with Karen’s boyfriend, Craig.

They lived in a deprived area called The Dewsbury Moore Estate. 

On the 19th of February Shannon had a swimming lesson, and was then due to walk home. 

At 6:48pm, her mum Karen rang the police to say Shannon had not returned home from school.

The Mystery In The Oslo Hotel

On an evening in May 1995, a man and a woman checked into the hotel, giving the names Jennifer and Lois Fairgate. 3 days later the police would enter the hotel room to find the woman lying face up on the hotel bed, dead with a single gunshot wound to her head in very mysterious circumstances. 

The Mysterious Disappearance Of Asha Degree

In the early hours of Valentine’s Day, 2000, 9 year old Asha Degree vanished in the middle of the night. All of the evidence we have suggests that this little girl left her own house in the middle of the night, on foot. Her reasons for leaving are still completely unknown, but it appears she was either running to something, or running away from something. This is the case of the mystery of what happened to Asha Degree.

The Harrowing Glynn County Mass Murders

In August 2009, Guy Heinze Jr returned home to find his entire family dead in their trailer park home. Guy then found himself arrested and found guilty of the horrific crime.

In todays episode I explore the frustratingly poor police investigation into this mass murder and reveal shocking truths that blow the case wide open.