A man is hanged for the murder of his child, and presumed to be the his wife’s murderer, too. But three years later, in the same house that the couple had lived, more bodies were found.
Six More.
Including the wife of the man who had been the Crown’s star witness against Tim Evans in his murder trial.
This is the story of the serial murders of John Reginald Christie at Ten Rillington Place.
Continue reading “49 – Wrongful Conviction: Tim Evans & the serial murders of 10 Rillington Place”In 1987, Brian McGrath disappeared. His wife, Vera, said he’d gone to Holland to find work. That he was abusive and delusional. But 6 years later, their eldest daughter Veronica told police that her mother, and her fiance at the time, had beaten Brian McGrath to death and buried and burned his body at their home in Coole, Co. Westmeath.
Who murdered Brian McGrath?
Continue reading “47 – Family Secrets: The death of Brian McGrath”This week, we take another trip back in time and have a look at three vintage murders. First, we crack open the 1832 autobiographical account of John Holloway, who murdered his first wife Celia and buried her body, hidden in a trunk, down a lovers lane.
Over 100 years later, two more trunks filled with murder victims’ bodies were found again in Brighton. One of these cases remains unsolved to this day, while the culprit for the other Toni Mancini, was never punished for his crime.
Continue reading “19 – The Brighton Trunk Murders: Unsolved Crimes”