Turned Up Dead

In the morning of December 31 2014, an unknown man started calling the Future Inns hotel in the city of Cardiff, Wales claiming that someone was dead in their hotel. ‘There’s a woman dead in the room 203,’ he told them. The caller didn't give his name but called a total of four times. When asked for more information, he replied, ‘Well the girl, the girl. 28 years old. A Muslim girl, we was together there in hotel and she kill herself.’

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In May 2013, Lisa Bennett's mother, Janet, was becoming increasingly concerned about her whereabouts. Lisa was Janet's oldest of two daughters and 39 years old at the time. Lisa grew up in the town of Burton-on-Trent in the English midlands and had moved 30 miles away to Birmingham, the UK's second-largest city.

In England, the number of homeless people had risen year by year from 2010 - 2013 and that year, Lisa Bennett was one of an estimated 185,000 people without a home, and like a significant number of those 185,000 people, she had struggled with drug and alcohol addiction.

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In June 1992, Katie Rackliff was a 19-year-old apprentice hairdresser at Bumbles Too salon in the southeast of England. Katie had been showing great promise in her career, but she had been experiencing a few difficulties in her personal life...

Content warning: brief mentions of domestic abuse, animal abuse and self-harming.

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While everyone can agree that the murder of 14-year-old Jodi Jones is inexcusable, the conviction of Luke Mitchell, who was her 14-year-old boyfriend, is polarising.

Content warning: Although not in any detail, this episode briefly mentions sexual assault.

Petition for an independent review of the case against Luke Mitchell: https://www.change.org/p/the-lord-advocate-the-case-of-luke-mitchell-requires-a-full-independent-review

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While everyone can agree that the murder of 14-year-old Jodi Jones is inexcusable, the conviction of Luke Mitchell, who was her 14-year-old boyfriend, is polarising.

Content warning: Although not in any detail, this episode briefly mentions sexual assault.

Petition for an independent review of the case against Luke Mitchell: https://www.change.org/p/the-lord-advocate-the-case-of-luke-mitchell-requires-a-full-independent-review

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On the afternoon of March 22, 2018, a young woman arrived at a remote farmhouse in Dunn County, Wisconsin. She had dried blood around her mouth and on her arms and hands. Her clothes were covered in mud, her trousers torn, and her feet were bare. She rang the doorbell rapidly, several times. When 89-year-old dairy farmer Don Sipple answered, she said she needed to be taken to hospital. On seeing the state she was in, the elderly man brought the stranger inside and called 911.

The woman claimed she had been attacked, but she couldn’t remember anything - not even her name.

The concerned farmer had no idea that the young woman sitting in his home was a persistent liar and, if the jury got it right, a calculated killer.

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In the early hours of November 1, 2014, British resident, Rurik Jutting, called the police three times to report that something had happened in his apartment on the 31st floor. At one point he claimed that special forces were surrounding him and at 3:42 am, he asked for police to come and investigate.

As police headed toward the residence, Jutting, a vice president for Bank of America in Hong Kong, called his office. He warned a superior, ‘I am in a lot of trouble, you need to do something about the reputation of the bank.’

Police arrived at the building, which is only a 10-minute walk from Hong Kong’s infamous red-light district. As officers entered the building, there were no special forces operatives in, or out of sight, but police might have noticed a smell. Over the last few days, residents in the highrise had begun to notice a bad odor; like a dead animal in the building.

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Content warning: This episode mentions suicide and the death of an unborn baby.

At around 4:40pm on June 4th 1992, Norman Edward Gilfoyle arrived home from work. He didn't see his wife, Paula Gilfoyle, in their home but he noticed a letter from her in the kitchen. 

After reading just the first few lines of the two page letter, Eddie stopped reading and took it to his parents’ house.

The first two lines read, ‘Dear Eddie. I’ve decided to put an end to everything and in doing so ended a chapter in my life that I can’t face up to any longer. I don’t want to have this baby that I’m carrying. I wish now that I’d got rid of it.'

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If you are feeling depressed and are having suicidal thoughts, please reach out for help.

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In this bonus episode I look at a letter written by Chris Vaughn; a man convicted and sentenced to four consecutive life terms for the murders of his wife, Kimberly, and children, Abigayle, Cassandra, and Blake, and share my opinion on the truthfulness of the account he gave in it.

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Around 9:45pm on Sunday June 9 1991, a cleaner entered an upstairs room of Pinky's massage parlor in Boughton, Chester.

Inside, laying in a pool of blood, was the semi-naked body of a woman in her late 20s. She had been stabbed multiple times on the upper half of her body. 

Pinky’s, like many similar massage parlor businesses in towns and cities across the UK, was a brothel.

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