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Still At Large PodcastJean Bradley - March 25th 1993Jean Bradley – 25th March 1993
This episode is the last in an accidental trilogy. I didn’t set out with the idea of doing another mini-series on the senseless deaths of women of a similar status at the hands of another angry and violent man who is evading justice to this day, but they have all, at one time or another been tenuously linked by the popular press with each other.
Janice Weston was murdered changing a tyre by a roadside, near her car. Penny Bell was viciously murdered in her car. Both were successful thoroughly modern women whose murders had a co...2018-11-1500 min
Still At Large PodcastRuth Penelope 'Penny' Bell - 6th June 1991Ruth Penelope “Penny” Bell – 6th June 1991
Penny Bell, as most people will know her, was born in 1948. Her family life seems to have been a happy and healthy one. In 1981 she married her boyfriend, Alistair Bell. They had met in 1975. The marriage would be Penny’s second, the first ending in divorce some years earlier. Together Penny and Alistair would both become successful people employed at the director level. Alistair was a director of an estate agency, that’s a realtor for the American audience, and Penny was the director of a Human Resource agency with a specialism in the supply of...2018-10-2600 min
Still At Large PodcastJanice Carole Weston - 11th September 1983Janice Carole Weston - 11th September 1983
In 1982 Janice and Tony were to end up as a couple. Two wealthy people with Janice being a leading solicitor, first with Herbert Oppenheimer, Nathan & Vandyke, immediately after college, and then Charles Russell and Co as a partner. Janis’ drive was monumental and as well as writing a book on the emerging computer data legal framework, she also helped to set-up a network for professional women in business and law. The neat and tidy child had become a force of nature.
By some odd quirk of fate, Janice experienced a puncture in the rear ne...2018-10-1200 min
Still At Large PodcastLucy McHugh - 26th July 2018Series 3, episode 6: Lucy McHugh – 26th July 2018
This week’s show deals with violence against children and is significantly different from most of the cases as this is still an active investigation and someone has been detained, but the Police, Hampshire Constabulary, are still appealing for information about the movements of the victim on the day she died and need to speak with any potential witnesses.
This is the tragic and active investigation in to the murder of thirteen-year-old Lucy McHugh, in Southampton on the 25th or 26th of July 2018.
Lucy was a smart, funny, friendly girl with a lot of frie...2018-09-2800 min
Still At Large PodcastNatalie Jane Pearman - 20th November 19921992 seems such a long time ago these days. Charles and Eddie were topping the charts with their falsetto filled soul/disco classic, “Would I lie to you”, the Church of England voted to allow women to become priests, and the Hoxne Hoard of late Roman Gold and Silver was discovered by a metal detectorist in Suffolk, but the most controversial news for the week beginning 16th November 1992, was the High Court decision to allow for the disconnection of feeding tubes to twenty-one-year-old Tony Bland who had been in a coma since the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. Such ethical debates around euthanasia and...2018-09-2000 min
Still At Large PodcastPC Keith Blakelock Part twoNews of Pc Keith Blakelock’s murder spread rapidly across the Broadwater Farm Estate, and according to multiple sources, as word spread the intensity of the anger seemed to ebb away, the rioters thinned out and the police regained control of the streets at around 4:30 am.
Smoke still hung in the air as the injured officers of Shield Serial 502 were variously taken to hospital or were left to sit in their Sherpa Van in a state of dazed, terrified, shock. The van wasn’t an official van, it was a private hire that had been used to ferry the officers into...2018-09-0700 min
Still At Large PodcastPC Keith Blakelock - October 1985 - Part OneThe social order of things in the UK had a number of growing problems – unemployment, disenfranchisement from the political system, rising crime and rising tensions between the Police and communities of Black and other ethnic minorities, due mainly to the wide spread use of the ‘sus laws’. This was legislation allowed Police to conduct stop and searches without needing the suspicion of a crime in progress, and despite the ‘sus laws’ officially being repealed in August 1981, the stop and searches continued.
Several times during the nineteen-eighties the tension erupted into riots and civil unrest with Bristol, Liverpool, London, Birmingham and Leeds seei...2018-08-2300 min
Still At Large PodcastJanet Brown 1995At fifty-one, Janet Brown was the model of educated rural success. Her three children, Zara, Benedict and Roxanne, were either living away from home, away at university, or as in the case of the youngest, Roxanne, studying for A-levels and a place at university. Her husband, Grahaem Brown, was a doctor who worked for pharmaceutical companies. His work took him away from home a great deal, and at the time in question, Dr Brown was in Switzerland, while Janet herself worked as a research nurse at Oxford University.2018-08-0900 min
Still At Large PodcastPeter Andrew Miller - December 1984At 7:45pm on 9th of December, Tony Miller returned to the home he shared with his brother Peter, in Camden Place, Great Yarmouth in Norfolk on the east Coast of England. On arrival he found the front door ajar. Upon entering the house, he found his brother on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood. He had been stabbed once through the heart. There is a smell that has been described as being “CS gas” or tear gas in the room. Thirty-four-years later, his killer is still at large.2018-07-2600 min
Still At Large PodcastThe Lancashire Ripper - Pt 4Linda Donaldson had been found dreadfully mutilated and left in a remote field between Liverpool and Manchester, in 1988. Her death was the starting point of a wide-ranging inquiry into the unsolved murders of women across the UK. Many men were considered suspects, but none proved to be responsible. Cases went cold, killers went unapprehended, women continued to go missing and turn up murdered in shallow graves and by roadsides all over the country. In 2011 a new suspect appeared on the radar of Police forces all over the country.
Christopher John Halliwell.2018-07-0600 min
Still At Large PodcastThe Lancashire Ripper - Pt3Following the murders of Linda Donaldson and Maria Requina in 1988 and 1991 respectively, Greater Manchester Police uncovered the signs of as many as twenty-one potential serial killers who were collectively responsible for more than one-hundred murders, and for a while they considered that there many have been a link between the two women's deaths. Their most promising suspects all drew blanks and detectives were left with a series of killings as more women from the cities of Liverpool and Manchester were left in the countryside between them. Most of the women murdered were working as prostitutes and their murders were more...2018-06-2500 min
Still At Large PodcastThe Lancashire Ripper Pt2In 1996 the Greater Manchester Police initiated a special operation called Enigma. Operation Enigma set out to look for a pattern in the deaths of several women who were found murdered between Liverpool and Manchester. Their results were horrifying. Of the two-hundred and seven unsolved murders between 1986 and 1991, seventy were found to be split into twenty-one clusters of activity. Rather than one serial murderer who had killed Linda Donaldson in 1988 and Maria Requena in 1991, they were possibly looking at as many as twenty-one.
Music by Russel J White2018-06-1000 min
Still At Large PodcastThe Lancashire Ripper Pt1Coffee tables across the country were being graced by a book that would spark a populist wave of renewed interest in the sciences. Famously including only one equation, Einstein's E=MC2 the author, the late great Dr Stephen Hawking explores the physics behind the cosmos and the then current ideas about the universe's beginning. Using easily accessible charts, illustrations and language, the redoubtable Doctor unlocks the story of how the universe came to be and how even with the vast leaps in technology and ability, we are still faced with mysteries in outer reaches of space, time and spacetime.
At...2018-05-2600 min
Still At Large PodcastAdam - 2001At 4pm on the afternoon of Friday 21st September, Adam Minter was crossing the iconic Tower Bridge in London, when he spotted an object floating in the Thames. At first Mr Minter believed it to be either a stained barrel or manikin, but as the object came closer to the bridge, he was able to see that the object was the body of a young child. Mr Minter could also tell that the body had been mutilated. When the Police retrieved the body from the water, it became apparent that the child was a young boy dressed only in orange...2018-05-1200 min
Still At Large PodcastDr Michael Meenaghan1994 also witnessed the passing of the legendary formula one racing driver, Ayrton Senna on lap 6 of the San Marino Grand Prix, when he lost control of his car as he entered the Tamburello corner at 190mph and hit a wall. Tony Blair became the leader of the Labour Party, the Provisional IRA declared a ceasefire, trading was allowed on a Sunday for the first time and in a rather unremarkable working-class housing estate on the outskirts of Oxford, thirty-three years old biochemist with a post-doctoral research role at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, was murdered with a shotgun...2018-04-2800 min
Still At Large PodcastDeborah Linsley - 1988Life on the mainland was, however, pretty normal for most people. For twenty-six-year-old Deborah Linsley it was the day she would return to her home in Edinburgh following a few days visiting her family in friends in Bromley, South East London, following a training course in London. Deborah was going to be her brother's bridesmaid in two weeks-time and the trip was a welcomed break that allowed her to catch-up with the wedding plans. At the time the train was most sensible and economic way to travel around the UK, so her brother took her to Petts Wood train station...2018-04-1300 min
Still At Large PodcastAmala Whelan - 1972Maida Vale, in 1972, wasn't the gentrified location preferred by affluent families, celebrities and successful professionals that it is today. Back then it had a reputation for being a bit sleezy and run down. There were many derelict buildings and the sizable student population was attracted to the area because of the low rents and proliferation of bedsits that were available there.
Incidental Music is by Russel J White
https://soundcloud.com/russ-white2018-03-3000 min
Still At Large PodcastThe Hammersmith Nude Murders AKA Jack The Stripper - Part ThreeIf this the first episode you're listening to, I would advise that you go back and begin at the start of the Hammersmith Nudes mini-series. That is episode two of series two. This episode is the concluding part so it would be very confusing to start from here.
Over the last two episodes I have looked at the deaths of eight young women, and have examined the three primary suspects, none of whom were convicted. This episode will look at the various other suspects and some of the theories put forward about who is responsible for the deaths of these...2018-03-1600 min
Still At Large PodcastThe Hammersmith Nude Murders AKA Jack the Stripper - Part TwoBy mid-February 1965 the Police in London had six young women who had been murdered in a short space of time. Two other women had been murder in the years prior to this, an as February 1965 came to a close, they hadn't been connected, yet.
At the head of the investigation was Chief Superintendent John Du Rose. A seasoned detective approaching the end of his career. A career that had seen him involved with such infamous characters of John George Haigh, the acid bath murderer. Over the course of his time in the police he had developed a reputation for the...2018-03-0200 min
Still At Large PodcastThe Hammersmith Nude Murders AKA Jack The Stripper - Part OneLondon was a city undergoing a massive change. World War two had reduced much of the capital to rubble and the rebuilding of it was the primary focus of the 1950s. Towards the end of the 50s, a serial murderer was beginning a reign of violence against the working girls of London. His methods would lead to him being dubbed Jack the Stripper by the press, although the series of killings is more correctly known as The Hammersmith Nude Murders.2018-02-1600 min
Still At Large PodcastAnne Noblett - 1957On Monday, 30 December 1957, 17-year-old Anne Noblett disappeared whilst travelling to her home in Marshalls Heath, Hertfordshire. A month later, on 31 January 1958, her fully clothed body was found in woodland near Whitwell. Her remains showed signs of having been refrigerated and the case was dubbed the "Deep Freeze Murder" by the press.2018-01-3000 min
Still At Large PodcastMichaela Hague - 2001At 7pm on November 5th, 2001, mother of one, Michaela Hague climbed into a Blue Ford Sierra in Bower Street, Sheffield. The driver was a white male, clean shaven and wearing a wedding ring. Bonfire night was another working night for Michaela. Prostitution had become her line of trade to make ends meet.
The next time this delicately featured young woman with almond shaped eyes, dark brown hair and an impish grin would be seen, she was semi-conscious and bleeding heavily from nineteen stab wounds to her neck and back. Discovered by a friend in the Spittalfields area of Sheffield, Michaela...2016-11-2500 min
Still At Large PodcastVictoria Hall - 1999Two weeks before her 18th birthday, Victoria Hall, known widely as Vicky, was murdered in the early hours of September 19, 1999, no more than a couple of hundred yards from her home in Faulkeners Way, Trimley St Mary, Suffolk.
She was last seen by her friend, Gemma Algar, when they parted company at around 2:30am after a night out at the Bandbox Nightclub in Felixstowe. As part of their journey home, the two young women had stopped at fish and chip shop briefly, before continuing to walk home.2016-11-0800 min
Still At Large PodcastLinda Cook - 1986Linda left the house where she was living at about 11.30pm on 8 December, to visit a friend in Sultan Road, Portsmouth. It must have only been a brief visit as she was reported as leaving that address at shortly after midnight on the 9th to make her way back South to Linda Gray’s house in Victoria Road North. Roughly twenty or so minutes’ walk along suburban and reasonably well-lit streets.
At some time between half past twelve and one o’clock in the morning, Linda Cook was viciously raped, strangled and stamped on. The ferocity of the attack is extrem...2016-10-2400 min
Still At Large PodcastEve Stratford And Lynne Weedon - 1975In March 1975 Bunny Girl Eve Stratford was found by her boyfriend with her throat cut. Police began to hunt for her killer but the case was stalling by the Autumn of the same year. On 3rd September 1975, schoolgirl Lynne Weedon is discovered with serious head injuries following a rape. She clung onto life for a week before succumbing to her injuries. Police in London had two very different murders to investigate, both cases went cold.
Thirty-two years after the murders new evidence links the cases for the first time.2016-10-0700 min
Still At Large PodcastPart Two- April Fabb - April 1969April Fabb disappeared from Norfolk on 8th April 1969 - this is part two.2016-09-2600 min
Still At Large PodcastPart One- April Fabb - April 1969At around 1:40 pm on Tuesday 8 April 1969, April Fabb left her home at 3 Council Houses, Metton to visit her sister's house in Roughton. Travelling by bicycle, she had a packet of ten cigarettes, 5½d and a handkerchief in the saddlebag, and was planning to deliver the cigarettes as a birthday present to her brother-in-law. Just after 2:00 pm, she was seen cycling along the country road towards Roughton.
At around 2:15 pm, her blue and white bicycle was found lying in a field by two Ordnance Survey workers. Despite an extensive police investigation and search of the surrounding area, no trace of Fabb w...2016-09-0700 min
Still At Large PodcastJean Mary Townsend 1954The Murder of Jean Townsend, (born c. 1933) is an unsolved murder case from Ruislip, in the county of Middlesex, England. Townsend was a 21-year-old English woman who was murdered in September 1954. Despite an extensive police investigation, no one has ever been charged with her murder and the case remains unsolved.2016-08-2200 min