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Mairi and Phil take some time to delve into the case of Elaine O'Hara who was murdered by Graeme Dwyer, and ask if some of the tropes around the case are really ture?

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Mairi looks at the BBC podcast about eco terrorism in the 1990s as time and attitudes have moved on are those acts of arson as bad as they seemed at the time?

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Mairi thinks about what recent rulings in the case of Emma Caldwell and Sarah Everard mean for women and how society can work to make itself safer.  

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Herkel Durkel is a Scots word that means to lie in a warm bed long after it is time to get up.  This time Mairi and Phil use this leisure time to discuss the podcast Astray which looks at the stories of several backpackers, all of whom have gone missing in India. 

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With a ruling from the High Court about Shamima Begum's British citizenship Mairi updates us on what has happened, and what may happen next.  Including the original episode 108 The Crime and Punishment of Shamima Begum. 

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Last month Carl Andre, who was aquitted of murdering his wife Anna Mendieta, died.  We covered the case originally in episode 137 Death of an Artist.  So what does Andre's death mean for this case, and also for Anna's legacy?

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This week Mairi delves into The Hunt for the Silver Killer.  A true crime book which investigates is the murder/suicides of retiered couples in north west England is really the work of a serial killer.

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In the UK the case the Constance Martin, an aristocrat and her partner Mark Gordon, for the manslaughter of their baby daughter Victoria has been gripping the nation.  Mairi and Phill discuss what we do and don't know about what happened, and what could come up, at the begining stages of the trial.  

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Phil and Mairi are back discussing the popular Netflix documentary American Nightmare, and also discussing what the death of Ian Bailey means for the Sophie Toscan-du Plantier case. 

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Mairi thinks about Belle Gibson, and Australian woman who conned the world into thinking she has cancer, and reflects on why so many young women fall for her type of schtik.

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