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  • 90 | Murder in Birkenhead: Lock Ah Tam and the Chinatown Tragedy

    90 | Murder in Birkenhead: Lock Ah Tam and the Chinatown Tragedy
    Feb 26 2026
    After a birthday celebration in Birkenhead in 1925, the Tam family’s life of respectability and success suddenly unravelled in a violent tragedy. This episode explores the life of Lock Ah Tam, his role as a respected figure in Liverpool’s Chinese community, and the fateful events that led to one of the most shocking family murders of the era, set against the backdrop of Liverpool’s Chinatown and surrounded by the eerie coincidences that haunted the case long afterwards.

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    Music:
    "Long Note Three", "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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    Sources:
    Ancestry.co.uk
    National Library of Wales
    Liverpool Echo – Wednesday 02 December 1925
    Lancashire Evening Post – Wednesday 02 December 1925
    Evening Express – Thursday 03 December 1925
    Northampton Chronicle and Echo – Friday 22 January 1926
    Liverpool Evening Express – Wednesday 27 January 1926
    Liverpool Echo – Friday 05 February 1926
    Westminster Gazette – Saturday 06 February 1926
    Leeds Mercury – Saturday 06 February 1926
    Daily Express – Monday 08 February 1926 Shields Daily Gazette - Wednesday 13 August 1924 Daily Express – Monday 08 February 1926 (duplicate entry)
    Widnes & Runcorn Chronicle – Saturday 27 March 1926
    Sunday Sun – Sunday 28 March 1926 Illustrated Police News - Thursday 10 December 1925 Witness History – “The Scandal of Liverpool’s Missing Chinese Sailors”, 2020
    LiverpoolEcho.co.uk – January 2022 Liverpool Daily Post - Thursday 11 February 1926 Daily Express - Wednesday 24 March 1926 Pontypridd and Llantrisant Observer Sat, Nov 25 The Curious Disappearance of Mr Foo (Podcast), 2023
    Murder Casebook 86 Friends of Flaybrick Memorial Gardens https://flaybrick.org/catherine-cecelia-and-doris-tam-1926/ Seal, L. & Neale, A., (2019) “Race, Racialisation and ‘Colonial Common Sense’ in Capital Cases of Men of Colour in England and Wales, 1919–1957”, Open Library of Humanities 5(1), 64. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.471
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    21 min
  • 89 | Murder in Wartime Folkestone: Did Dennis Leckey Get Away With It?

    89 | Murder in Wartime Folkestone: Did Dennis Leckey Get Away With It?
    Feb 19 2026
    On the streets of Folkestone, Kent, amid World War II, 18-year-old Caroline Trayler disappeared after being seen drinking at the local pub one Sunday evening in June 1943. When Police Constable Lewis entered a bombed-out grocer’s shop several days later in the hunt for the missing woman, he discovered a tragic scene which confirmed that the missing person’s case had now become a murder enquiry.


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    Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten
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    Music:
    "Long Note Three", "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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    Sources:
    Ancestry https://www.ancestry.co.uk
    Professor Keith Simpson: An Autobiography, 1978, Harrap Ltd
    A Lance for Liberty, J.D. Casswell, George Harrap & Co Ltd
    British Newspaper Archive, https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
    Daily News 22 June 1943
    Folkestone Herald, 24 July 1943
    Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate & Cheriton Herald - Saturday 25 September 1943
    Hull Daily Mail - Tuesday 02 November 1943
    Daily Mirror - Tuesday 02 November 1943
    Liverpool Echo - Saturday 06 November 1943
    Sunday Sun (Newcastle) - Sunday 07 November 1943
    Daily Herald - Saturday 24 February 1945
    Gloucester Citizen - Saturday 24 February 1945
    Stockport Advertiser and Guardian - Friday 23 March 1945
    Kensington News and West London Times - Friday 23 August 1946
    Wells Journal - Friday 04 October 1946
    https://madebyredrose.co.uk/abuser/dennis-leckey?category=19
    https://www.iicsa.org.uk/reports-recommendations/publications/investigation/cambridge-house-knowl-view-rochdale/part-f-other-institutions/dennis-leckey.html
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    21 min
  • 88 | Elizabeth Jones and Karl Hulten: Wartime London’s “Bonnie and Clyde” - Author Discussion

    88 | Elizabeth Jones and Karl Hulten: Wartime London’s “Bonnie and Clyde” - Author Discussion
    Feb 13 2026
    In this special author discussion episode, Prash and Melissa Ganendran share their experiences of writing their latest book, which examines the 1944 crime spree of Elizabeth Jones and Karl Hulten, culminating in the murder of private car hire driver George Edward Heath. The case became known as the 'Cleft Chin Murder', while some newspapers at the time described the pair as London's 'Bonnie and Clyde'.

    In the episode, we talk about how we discovered and researched the case, the lives and fateful meeting of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten, and some of the new information we uncovered.

    For further information about Wartime London’s Bonnie and Clyde: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten, please visit: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Wartime-Londons-Bonnie-and-Clyde-The-Crime-Spree-of-Betty-Jones-and-Karl-Hulten-Hardback/p/57334

    Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/B7S_4DKxLa8

    You can also find more about the book and our work on my website: https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/

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    14 min
  • 87 | Murder in a Lincolnshire Village: The Ethel Major Poisoning Case

    87 | Murder in a Lincolnshire Village: The Ethel Major Poisoning Case
    Feb 5 2026
    In Lincolnshire in 1934, 44-year-old Arthur Major died suddenly. He had previously been healthy, and his wife seemed unusually eager to arrange his funeral. The ensuing investigation revealed a troubled marriage, and the circumstantial evidence against Ethel Major began to mount, in this vintage true crime case that captured the attention of both the local community and the national press, with Ethel later being dubbed the “corned beef killer.”

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    Sources:
    Ancestry.co.uk; National Archives; Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology; Hull History Centre. Newspaper coverage:
    Lincolnshire Echo, 29 May 1934; Daily Mirror, 30 May 1934; Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian, 2 June 1934; Nottingham Journal, 1 August 1934; Daily Mirror, 3 August 1934; Nottingham Journal, 3 August 1934; Louth Standard, 4 August 1934; Boston Guardian, 4 August 1934; Lincolnshire Echo, 31 October 1934; Daily Express, 2 November 1934; Western Mail, 2 November 1934; Leicester Evening Mail, 19 December 1934, p.10; Taunton Courier and Western Advertiser, 26 December 1934; Taunton Courier, Bristol and Exeter Journal.
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    23 min
  • 86 | Murder in Chantilly Forest: The 1978 True Crime Case of Alain Lamare

    86 | Murder in Chantilly Forest: The 1978 True Crime Case of Alain Lamare
    Jan 23 2026
    A routine patrol in northern France uncovered an abandoned car in May 1978, sparking a terrifying manhunt. Over months, shootings, bombings, and stolen vehicles terrorised the Oise region, while anonymous letters taunted law enforcement. When the pieces fell into place, it revealed a shocking truth: the Oise Killer had been hiding in plain sight all along.

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    Sources:
    Intégrale l'Affaire Alain Lamare - Au bout de l'enquête, 2023
    Alain Lamare - Les affaires criminelles qui ont marqué la Picardie
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    27 min
  • 85 | The Brecknock Road Murder | The True Crime Case of George Vincent Heneage Finch

    85 | The Brecknock Road Murder | The True Crime Case of George Vincent Heneage Finch
    Jan 18 2026
    In 1886, shootings in London were rare - even more so in broad daylight. In this episode, we explore the murder and robbery committed in a quiet Kentish Town road by George Finch, a would-be performer whose stage ambitions had faltered. Finch would avoid execution and go on to live a long life after his release from Broadmoor.


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    Sources:
    Popular Science Monthly (1875)
    The People — Sunday 13 June 1886
    Banbury Beacon — Saturday 19 June 1886
    Exeter and Plymouth Gazette — Thursday 05 August 1886
    St James's Gazette — Wednesday 04 August 1886
    Jersey Express and Channel Islands Advertiser — Tuesday 10 August 1886
    Kenilworth Advertiser — Saturday 25 November 1905
    Old Bailey Online
    Ancestry.co.uk
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    12 min
  • 84 | Murder on Roppa Moor: The Helmsley Double Murder of 1895

    84 | Murder on Roppa Moor: The Helmsley Double Murder of 1895
    Jan 9 2026
    In 1895, 22-year-old Robert Hudson took his wife Kitty and their infant son on holiday to Helmsley, North Yorkshire. When they departed hurriedly under suspicious circumstances, the landlady at their boarding house was surprised. Soon, Kitty Hudson’s relatives grew concerned as to her whereabouts and the Yorkshire Police set out to track a killer who used multiple aliases and sent false letters to throw them off his trail. This episode revisits a little-known Victorian double murder case from North Yorkshire.

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    Sources:
    Ancestry.co.uk
    Manchester Courier – Tuesday 11 September 1894
    Echo (London) – Monday 17 June 1895
    Bingley Chronicle – Friday 21 June 1895
    Loftus Advertiser – Friday 21 June 1895
    Chard and Ilminster News – Saturday 22 June 1895
    Bridlington Free Press – Saturday 22 June 1895
    Wells Journal – Thursday 27 June 1895
    Yorkshire Evening Post – Wednesday 19 June 1895
    Huddersfield Daily Examiner – Monday 1 July 1895
    Hull Daily Mail – Wednesday 3 July 1895
    Stalybridge Reporter – Saturday 27 July 1895
    Hull Daily Mail – Tuesday 13 August 1895
    Bradford Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 13 August 1895
    Weekly Dispatch (London) – Sunday 18 August 1895
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    24 min
  • 83 | Dr Crippen and the Hilldrop Crescent Murder: The Notorious 1910 True Crime Case

    83 | Dr Crippen and the Hilldrop Crescent Murder: The Notorious 1910 True Crime Case
    Nov 18 2025
    Dr Crippen and the Hilldrop Crescent Murder revisits one of Britain’s most infamous true crime cases of 1910. When Cora Crippen, better known on the music-hall stage as Belle Elmore vanished, her husband Hawley Harvey Crippen offered shifting explanations that soon aroused suspicion. A police search of their Hilldrop Crescent home uncovered human remains, pointing to a shocking murder. Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve attempted to flee Britain, but a transatlantic chase brought them into custody. The case became a sensation, cementing Dr Crippen as one of the most notorious figures in British criminal history.

    📄 Full written case file & sources:
    https://prashganendran.com/the-notorious-dr-crippen-and-the-hilldrop-crescent-murder/

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    Sources:
    Coniam, Matthew. Mr Crippen, Cora and the Body in the Basement.Pen & Sword True Crime. Rubenhold, Hallie. Story of a Murder. Transworld. Kindle Edition.
    British Newspaper Archive
    Ancestry.co.uk
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    39 min