Turned Up Dead

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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Episode sources: https://www.turnedupdead.com/episode-8-lynne-trenholm/

On July 28, 1996, John Copik, a fisherman of 30 years, and his son Craig, were 6 miles off the coast of Teignmouth, a picturesque town in the south-west English county of Devon. After two disappointing hauls, the father and son had taken their trawler further out to an area that wasn’t often fished known as the roughs.

The move paid off and around 3:30pm, the men started to pull in their heaviest load of the day, however, any positive feelings the men had sunk when amongst the fish, the fully dressed body of a middle aged man slid out of their nets and onto the deck.

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On the cool cloudy morning of Saturday 20th September 2014, Barbara Denham was taking her border collie, Max, on his daily walk in Barking, East London. They walked through a gate and into the grounds of St Margaret's Church, as they would usually do but it was then that Barbara noticed a slim young man sitting, sort of propped up, against the churchyard wall. As she got closer, she could barely believe it; the young man was dead.

Now, this would be shocking enough for anyone to stumble across, but just 23 days earlier Barbara, whilst walking her dog Max in the same churchyard had discovered another body of another slim young man, leaning against the same part of the wall in almost the exact same position.

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In the afternoon of Sunday January 4th 2015, a woman dialled 911 from her stylish Manhattan apartment. She calmly gave the address, the cross streets, the apartment number and floor, and then when asked what the emergency was she replied, 'My husband is, I think dead.'

Episode sources: https://www.turnedupdead.com/the-assassination-of-thomas-gilbert-sr/

On the afternoon of Sunday 17 June, William Vinnicombe and James Lelliot were working in the left luggage room of Brighton train station on the south coast of England. It was the beginning of summer and with little fresh air circulating the room, the men had been trying to locate the source of an increasingly offensive smell. Around 4pm, they came across a new-looking, but cheap, brown suitcase...

Episode sources: https://www.turnedupdead.com/the-brighton-trunk-murders/

In a supermarket in a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, employee Matthew was stacking shelves on his first day back at work after a holiday when his supervisor, Jemma Lilley, approached him. 'I did it,' she told him. When he inquired what she had done. Jemma Lilley replied, 'I did it - I killed someone.'

Episode Sources: https://www.turnedupdead.com/the-callous-murder-of-aaron-pajich-sweetman/

When detective superintendent Ray Higgins saw Paul Dyson's image appear on the tv screen, he must have felt somewhat surprised because he had no idea that Dyson, the fiance of the woman whose disappearance he was currently investigating, was going to give the appeal that he was currently watching live on his local news channel...

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Episode Sources: https://www.turnedupdead.com/the-calculated-murder-of-joanne-nelson/

On Monday 9th January 2017, around 6:00 pm, 911 dispatch in northeast Ohio get a call from a man who says that he needs help. When asked what’s going on, the man says that his 5-year-old daughter has gone missing from the restaurant that he and his wife own and operate.

Episode Sources: https://www.turnedupdead.com/the-killing-of-ashley-zhao/