Spelade
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When the body of 3-year-old Saville Kent was found with his throat cut at his home in Wiltshire, local magistrates appealed for a detective from London to solve the case. In 1860, Inspector Jonathan Whicher was Scotland Yard’s star detective, making him the natural choice for the job. But by the time he arrived on the scene, much of the evidence had either been removed or destroyed. And Wiltshire police had already arrested a suspect. The only problem was, Inspector Whicher was not at all convinced they had the right person. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Once, Anthony Hardy’s life seemed to be going along conventional lines. He married his university girlfriend, got a good job after graduating, and settled down to have a family. Then something went wrong. Just how wrong became clear in 2002 when a homeless man made a grisly discovery in a Camden bin. Police followed a trail of body parts to Hardy’s sinister lair, where they found the remains of his latest victim. They knew that he had killed before. If they didn’t stop him, he would certainly kill again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Early in his career, the great Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian pitched himself against a suave and daring cat-burglar. Robert Augustus Delaney was responsible for a one-man crime wave targeting London’s wealthiest homes in the 1920s. His exploits even gained the admiration of the police who were chasing him. But behind the glamorous exterior of the gentleman thief, lay the secrets of a dark past. For Fabian, capturing the elusive thief was an opportunity not just to put a master criminal behind bars, but also to make his own reputation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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In 2010 the body of young MI6 agent Gareth Williams was found locked inside a holdall. Scotland Yard was called in to investigate, but from the beginning it was clear that MI6 wanted detectives to keep their distance. Some claim that Gareth somehow climbed into the bag and died by accident...but that doesn’t explain how it got locked from the outside. Was Gareth Williams’ death the result of a foreign intelligence hit? And if so, how could Scotland Yard possibly investigate it without upsetting the most powerful espionage agencies in the world? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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In February 2011, police on patrol in Blackheath, London, spot a burning car half-hidden up a quiet lane. When the fire is put out and they’re able to investigate, they discover the burned body of a young man in the boot. With no way to identify him from the charred remains, they set about tracing the vehicle registration and find it belongs to a young man called Gagandip Singh. Gagandip told his family he went to a party the night before, but he didn’t come home and hasn’t been seen since. Is the body in the car the missing Gagandip? Or has he committed a terrible crime and fled the scene? DCI Damian Allain knows that the next 24 hours will be crucial to finding the killer. What they uncover is a chilling tale of a love triangle, a honey-trap, and a plot for revenge taken too far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
