Category: True Crime

The Woman in the Wych Elm

Todays throwback article is actually less throwback and more rewrite. It’s a story that you can find on pretty much any true mystery or cold […]

Lady Killers – The Black Widow Who May Have Got Away With Murder

Wherever Belle Gunness went, people had an alarming tendency to die. Children. Husbands. Suitors. Farmhands. And then, just when the authorities finally closed in… Belle herself apparently died.

Throwback Thursday – ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’

Sometimes there is no motive. No reason. Just the mundane made monstrous.

Lady Killers: The Baby Farmer Who Betrayed Victorian Britain

Some stories are hard to tell.. Not because the facts have been lost to time or because history has become tangled with folklore and legend. But because every page reminds us that the greatest horrors are often committed not by mythical monsters, but by ordinary people living ordinary lives.

Lady Killers: The Devil of Royal Street

Some monsters are born in the darkness. Others host lavish dinner parties beneath glittering chandeliers while the city applauds their elegance…

Lady Killers: The Patron Saint of Unhappy Wives.

Every Legend needs its patron saint and the story of Giulia Tofana is no exception. Over 600 men allegedly succumbed to her concoctions – but how much of her story is truth and how much is fiction? Pull up a chair….

The Murder of the Scottish Pedlar

A murdered Scottish pedlar, a hidden cave, a haunted inn and a mystery that has endured for more than two centuries. We investigate the dark legend of Stoney Middleton’s Moon Inn and the ghost said to walk the dale to this day…

Bittersweet in Bradford

One farthing could buy a few moments of pleasure – a little taste of something nicer than reality… Until the humbugs started to kill people…

Katie Santry’s Viral TikTok Mystery – What Was in the Rug?

When Katie Santry found a rolled-up carpet buried in her garden, she jokingly asked TikTok if there was a body inside. What started as a casual post turned into a viral mystery, with millions following as police and cadaver dogs got involved.