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This episode is all about two of the most famous groups of cannibals that lived in Scotland. Well as far as we can tell anyway! These tales now things of myth and folklore, that we tell our children to scare them into behaving....Yeah some of us do that. Christie Cleek is a mythical Scottish cannibal who lived during a famine in the mid-fourteenth …
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Welcome to the worlds end, "behind these walls is the worlds end". Never has the inscription on the walls of the Worlds end pub become more true than in 1977, for Christine Eadie and Helen Scott. Nearly 40 years after the horrific murders of the girls, a man was finally brought to justice. Join me in finding out who and dive right into his past, wh…
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Hey Guys As I am working hard to get out to you a new international series (and I want to do it justice!) I have spent a bit more time focusing on researching this time round. So I have for you another court round up along with a little bit of chit chat. This one blew my mind that I had no idea this had happened. 100% this guy was something not rig…
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Up the close and doon the stair,But and ben’ wi’ Burke and Hare.Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief,Knox the boy that buys the beef. The Burke and Hare murders were a series of 16 killings committed between 1827-1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection …
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In 1979, Eddie Cotogno's bludgeoned body was discovered at his home in Dumbarton by a local policeman. After spotting smoke coming from the flat, the policeman forced his way into the home and called the fire brigade. After a search of the flat the police man came across Wee eddies body in the attic and hundreds of pornographic pictures lay out ove…
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Hey guys! Welcome to episode 3 of our court round up! this one was supposed to get to you a while ago as you can see by the dates oops! i actully forgot i had this recorded so i came across it when i was clearing our my folders and thought id edit it up for this weeks episode. Enjoy your mini cases Let me know what you think on instgram and twitter…
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Edward William Pritchard was a GP who was from England, but now lived in Glasgow with his wife Mary. Dubbed the Human crocodile, after shedding very obvious crocodile tears for his dead wife and mother in law who her murdered in cold blood. join me to find out what happened and how the Human Crocodile's tale ends. I had an editors note but I have c…
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Hey guys, So todays one is a heavy one. Wee Alesha was only 6 years old when she was brutally raped and murdered by 16 year old Aaron Campbell. Join me in discovering the events of july 2018. Aaron was a typical teen on the outside but clearly is something of not right on the inside. He dreamed of being a youtube star, popular at school, drank and …
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Hey guys and welcome to a very special episode. In this one myself and my guest Emma dive into the serial killer Dennis Nilsen. (Apologies in advance for audio as covid recording was a killer itself!) Dennis Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile, active between 1978-1983 he is thought to have killed in the region of 16 men but he was o…
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Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel (13 March 1927 – 11 July 1958) was an American-born Scottish serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven people across Lanarkshire and southern Scotland between 1956 and his arrest in January 1958, (and is believed to have murdered more than he was actual convicted) Prior to his arrest, the media nicknamed the uni…
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American-born Theresa Riggi murdered her three children in Edinburgh during the summer of 2010. Theresa Riggi was born Theresa Butimore in California, and she married Pasquale Riggi on September 30, 1989 they later moved around the world finally come to Scotland. Find out what lead Theresa- a loving parent commit the worst murders Edinburgh has see…
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Henry Burnett was the last man to be hanged in Scotland, at 8.00 am on Thursday, 15 August 1963, the 21-year-old was executed on Britain's newest gallows in front of a crowd of 200 people. Executioner Harry Allen and his assistant Samuel Plant performed the hanging. Shortly afterwards, Burnett's body was buried in an unmarked grave within the walls…
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