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Crime at Bedtime

Crime at bedtime is a show dedicated to those who love all things crime stories, even as you drift off to sleep at night.So relax take a minute, unwind and let me tell you some fascinating stories.Crime at Bedtime is written and hosted by Jack Laurence.tickets to LIVE show here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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21:46

A tragic accident or a coverup? - Kendrick Johnson

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/09/01

In 2013, a young man by the name of Kendrick Johnson is discovered deceased in his high school gymnasium.The way in which he's found is extremely odd, he was trapped upside down in a rolled up gym mat.The police and medical examiners office would be very quick to call this just a 'Tragic accident'.The family of Kendrick Johnson weren't buying it, there were just too many issues in this lack luster investigation. As they began their own independent investigation the evidence began to mount that this

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21:25

The Trunk Murders

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/08/25

Summer, 1934. Brighton, England.The holiday season is in full swing as the beaches and streets fill with cheerful locals and tourists enjoying the warm weather. But beneath the surface of this vibrant seaside town, something dark is about to emerge.It all begins when a mysterious suitcase is abandoned at the railway station. Inside, a gruesome discovery is made—one that will send shockwaves through the town and eventually, the entire country.What dark secrets lie behind this chilling find? The

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21:50

A mystery caller, leads to murder

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/08/18

The year is 1931, and a man named William Herbert Wallace has just returned home to find his house bolted from the inside. This was odd, as his wife was supposed to be home.After eventually managing to get in, he discovers a brutal scene: his wife has been murdered.Once the police arrive and start to take Mr Wallace's account of what happened that evening, suspicion quickly turns to him. He explains that he was out attending a meeting with a mysterious man that he never found.Did this man really

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29:21

Letters from the grave - Peter Farquhar

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/08/11

Today we look at the story of Peter Farquhar.Peter was a well educated and accomplished teacher and author. He made it his life's work to educate and help othersin the wonders of literature and poetry.For all of his achievements he had one major thing lacking in his life, love.Peter was deeply lonely and longed for companionship, this was his weakness a weakness that would be exploited by a man named Benjamin Field. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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28:38

The Yorkshire Ripper - Peter Sutcliffe

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/08/04

Over five harrowing years, Sutcliffe's reign of terror gripped the north of England, claiming the lives of 13 women and injuring many others.The police would come under increasing pressure to solve this case as woman across the North of England started carrying knives to protect themselves from a man that couldn't be stopped.It would be a random vehicle stop conducted by two officers on a suspicious car that would finally see the end of the nightmare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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25:06

Broken trust - Sarah Everard

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/07/28

Sarah Everard was a 33 year old woman who had a bright future ahead of her. Loved by all who met her, she was funny, smart and caring.However on the night of the 3rd March 2021 while walking home from a friends house Sarah goes missing.With no sign of her for three days Police finally get a break through but are utterly shocked by what they discover as the person responsible was one of their own. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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28:23

Introducing One Minute Remaining

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/07/25

Hello Crime at Bedtime listeners, I know a lot of you have just recently found this show and so you may not be aware that I have two other crime shows called WANTED and One Minute Remaining - Stories from the inmates so I wanted to introduce you today to OMR. If you like it we have 200 episodes for you to binge right now! available wherever you listen to Crime at Bedtime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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28:00

No one admits to a crime they didn't do - Angie Dodge

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/07/21

On June 13, 1996, 18-year-old Angie Dodge was found murdered in her Idaho Falls apartment, having been raped and brutally killed.Christopher Tapp was arrested and convicted for the crime in 1998, based on a confession that many believe was coerced.Despite Tapp's conviction, DNA evidence from the crime scene did not match him, raising doubts about his guilt.However it would be the determination and strength of Angie's mother which would uncover the real truth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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23:36

A moment of madness? - Clara Harris

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/07/14

On July 24, 2002, Clara Harris confronted her husband David in a hotel parking lot over an extramarital affair, then struck and ran over him with her Mercedes sedan, killing him in an act of mariticide.That evening, Clara went to the Hilton Hotel in Nassau Bay, to confront her husband and reportedly attacked his mistress in the lobby.Hotel employees escorted Clara to her car. When David and his mistress came out of the hotel, Clara struck down her husband in the parking lot as her teenaged

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21:09

As she slept - Jill Cahill

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/07/07

Jill Cahill was lying in a hospital bed having spent 6 months recovering from a savage attack, an attack that shattered her skull and put her in a coma. Her attacker was her Husband Jeff.Jeff and Jill Cahill from the outside seemed to have a happy and fulfilled marriage. A home with the white picket fence, two beautiful kids and animals to match but all was far from perfect. The couple had been dealing with some serious issues within their marriage and would eventually separate.On April 21, 1996

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27:18

Lord and Lady Lucan

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/07/01

Half a century ago, a murder took place in London in the 1970's.It was brutal, violent and bloody. The case was that of the 7th Earl of Lucan, a 39-year-old professional gambler who was believed to have killed his children’s nanny and attacked his wife.He then went to ground, did he commit suicide? was his escape aided by his wealthy friends and could he still be a live after all these years? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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20:40

The bystander effect - Catherine Susan Genovese

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/06/23

In 1964 Catherine Genovese was attacked 100 yards from her home by a knife wielding man, he stabbed her to death and then ejaculated on her body.Reports would say that 38 people witnessed the attack, one man even shouted at Winston Moseley to 'leave that girl alone'. Yet no-one called the police or went to help her.The shock from the crime would cause changes to be made to the NYPD's 911 service as well as have psychologists studying what is now known as the 'Bystander Effect'. Hosted on Acast. See

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28:35

A murder plot at 4000ft - Emile Cilliers

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/06/16

It's April 2015 at four o'clock in the afternoon at the Nether Avon airfield Wiltshire south west England. A group of Skydiving enthusiasts are taking off on their accent to 4000ft for a jump. among them was 41 year old Victoria Cilliers a veteran skydiver with thousands of jumps to her name. Today however would be her first jump in over a year, she had not long given birth to her second child. Skydiving for Victoria was not just a hobby, in fact she had said that it was her life prior to marriage

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21:24

Coincidental murders? - Mary Morris

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/06/09

48 year old Mary Lou Morris was a loan officer at a Bank in Houston, Texas. She was happily married to her husband Jay and reportedly loved by many others.On the morning of October 12, 2000, Mary left for work. Throughout the day her husband Jay tried to call her, but she never picked up or called him back. At around 5 PM, he decided to call her supervisor who tells him she hadn’t come in to work that morning and wasn’t picking up their calls either. Concerned of course for his wife he reports her

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20:41

The bodies in the barn - Hinterkaifeck murders

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/06/02

The Hinterkaifeck murders occurred on the evening of 31 March 1922, when six inhabitants of a small Bavarian farmstead, located approximately 70 kilometres north of Munich, Germany, were murdered by an unknown assailant. The six victims were Andreas Gruber his wife Cäzilia Gruber, their daughter Viktoria Gabriel, Viktoria's children, Cäzilia, Josef and the maid, Maria Baumgartner.They were all found bludgeoned with a mattock. The perpetrator or perpetrators lived with the six victims for three days

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19:46

The Lake Bodom murders

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/05/26

The Lake Bodom murders is one of the most infamous unsolved homicide cases in Finnish criminal history.On 5 June 1960, at Lake Bodom in Espoo, Uusimaa, Maila Björklund and Anja Mäki (both 15) and Seppo Boisman (18) were killed by stabbing and blunt-force trauma to their heads while sleeping inside a tent.The fourth, Nils Gustafsson, then aged 18, was found outside the tent with broken facial bones and stab wounds. Despite extensive investigations, the perpetrator was never identified and various

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20:14

The most famous missing person on YouTube - Lars Mittank

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/05/19

Lars Joachim Mittank is a German man who disappeared on 8 July 2014, near Varna Airport in Varna, Bulgaria. Mittank was vacationing at the Golden Sands resort, where he was supposedly involved in a fight, and was subsequently unable to fly home with his friends for health reasons. Mittank was documented acting strangely while alone in Bulgaria. He called home to his mother claiming that people were trying to kill him. On the day when he was supposed to fly home, Mittank went to the Varna Airport to

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25:22

A Hollywood mystery - Bob Crane

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/05/12

In June 1978, Bob Crane, the star of the sixties sitcom Hogan's Heroes but now reduced to playing on the dinner-theater circuit, was found bludgeoned to death in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he was appearing in a run of Beginner's Luck. Bob was found by a co-star who had reportedly organised a lunch date with him, after discovering his lifeless body she runs out of the apartment for for help and so began a thirty year search for answers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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29:39

The Push - Fawziyah Javed

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/05/05

The story of Fawziyah Javed is a devastating one, a bright and fun loving soon to be mother who's life would be tragically cut short. During her marriage, Fawziyah became pregnant which ultimately caused her to decide to leave her husband Kashif Anwar to live with her parents to raise her child in a safe environment. Her evidence for divorce proceedings against Anwar included recordings in which Fawziyah accused her husband of ruining her life.In September 2021, Fawaizyah agree to travel with Kashif

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22:35

killer Clown - Sheila Keen-Warren

Crime at Bedtime ·

2024/05/05

In a small Florida town in 1990, a woman dressed as a clown showed up at a doorstep with a bouquet of flowers. What happened next shocked the nation and left a family shattered. Join us on our podcast as we delve into the chilling story of Sheila Keen Warren and the mysterious murder she committed. Uncover the secrets, the twists, and the shocking truth behind this infamous case that remained unsolved for nearly three decades. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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