Truly Criminal

On the evening of September 27th, 2011 Maple Batalia headed to the campus library with a friend. They had a late night study session planned and met up with a few more people there as well. 

As the hours ticked by into the next morning, Maple hugged her friends goodbye and walked to her car.

Just minutes after 1am, a resident heard 7 loud bangs in quick succession. Maple was lying on the ground, having been shot several times. The race was now on to find her killer.

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In March 2020, the world was in the grips of the pandemic. 

When Gretchen Anthony started texting people saying she had contracted the virus, friends were concerned. But concern soon turned into a sense of unease and confusion, when things just weren’t adding up. Gretchen was missing without a trace, and police needed to act fast.

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October 4th 2004. Rachel O'Reilly had been due to collect her son from his creche, and when she failed to turn up people were immediately concerned. When her mother went to check the house, she would find a scene that was nothing short of a nightmare.

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May 9th, 2016.

Authorities respond to a call from an apartment complex. A resident had found someone lying on the ground, tucked under the stairs to the back of the building. They wondered if they might be sleeping rough and taking shelter, but as they got closer, they saw a pool of blood, and it was now obvious that this was a homicide.

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1st August 2019. It was a bright and sunny day in Mansfield, England. For Liam Gray, it was a chance for him to spend his last day in the town with his friends before he moved to a new city. What had started as a good day would soon end in tragedy.

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April 11th, 2015, was supposed to be Stephanie Scott's wedding day. 

She could not be more excited, having planned every little detail. The final thing to sort out, was the handover for the teacher that would be taking over her classes while she was on her honeymoon. 

But when she didn't come home from school that day, panic quickly set in...

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September 4th 2011. A panicked member of the public called 999, saying they had heard an incident at a neighbour's house. When emergency services arrived at the house, they were met with horrifying scene.

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In 2019, the Kyoto Animation Arson Attack claimed the lives of thirty-six people, injuring an additional thirty-four. The devastating impact of this is almost impossible to comprehend and the impact of it is still felt to this day.

This episode was researched and written by Stephen J. Golds:

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Stephen is also an accomplished author, so please do check out his great work: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08K3M8W39?th=1&psc=1&geniuslink=true 

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On July 23rd, 2018, a 000 call was made from a house in Sunbury in Melbourne, Australia. The caller bluntly and calmly said they thought they had killed someone. When officers arrived at the home, they were met with a face they knew all too well…and this would all be the tip of the iceberg as they started looking into this frightening case.

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December 1999. A letter arrived at a newspaper’s office. It contained a long and graphic confession; the author was admitting to being a serial killer. When journalists went to investigate the property, it would set in motion one of the biggest manhunts Pakistan had seen to find the self-confessed ‘killer of 100 children.'

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