Picture The Scene - A True Crime Podcast
Picture The Scene - A true crime podcastTurn up the sound, close your eyes, open your mind and picture the scene.
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She Never Left Hexham: The Murder of Janet Brown (opens the original)
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In June 2005, Janet Brown was 45, living in a converted barn outside Hexham in Northumberland, her elderly parents in the farmhouse next door. She was fiercely independent, she loved her dog, and she was happy travelling alone. On 1 June she booked a ferry to France, sailing on 18 June. She never made the crossing. Because Janet had no office expecting her on a Monday, and a long habit of solo travel, her absence explained itself. No alarm was raised. No missing person inquiry was ever opened. H
The Name on the Whiteboard (opens the original)
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Cassandra McDermott was 19 years old, loved by a houseful of sisters, and had just found the strength to leave a violent boyfriend. On 26 November 2001, while her mother was on a holiday Cassandra herself had insisted she take, she was beaten and left to die on a bedroom floor in Norbury, south London. In 2002, her ex-boyfriend Mario Celaire stood trial at the Old Bailey. The jury deliberated for less than 3 hours and acquitted him. Under the rule against double jeopardy, a principle around 800
The Man Who Held His Hand | The Killing of Ricardo Anderson (opens the original)
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Two men stepped over Ricardo Anderson as he lay dying. One man stayed and held his hand. He was convicted of murder. Nottingham, 28 April 2023. Ricardo Anderson, 22, is stabbed through the heart in a flat at High Cross Leys. CCTV in the foyer below captures what happens next: the man who stabbed him walks past his body and keeps walking. Another man, David Francis, stops, stays, holds his hand and raises the alarm. A year later, both are serving life for his murder. The only person who claimed t
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