***This episode is sponsored by Stamps.com. Use promo code POD to get a 4 week free trial, free postage and a digital scale*** Halloween dates back over 2000 years to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced Sown). November 1st, the Celtic new year, marked the end of summer and harvest and the beginning of a long, cold, dark winter for Celts, who inhabited areas that are now known as Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France. This time of year in particular was associated with human death and Celts believed that on the night before new year, the boundaries between the worlds o ..read more

***This episode is sponsored by PodGo - one of the easiest ways to monetise your podcast*** The idea of being murdered by a complete stranger is a significant fear that has been mentioned several times on this podcast, however, more recently, has been discussed at length in the news and on social media following the murder of Sarah Everard. This horrific murder has solidified women’s fear around walking alone in the dark, and has ignited significant conversations surrounding women’s trepidations and how men can make us feel safer. According to a recent survey by UN Women UK, 97% of women in t ..read more

***This episode is sponsored by PodGo - the easiest way to begin monetising your podcast*** A huge thank you to Mel from Mask of Sanity and Bobbie from Killer Stories for their voice over for this episode. If you have any information relating to Cherrie's disappearance, you are urged to contact Pennsylvania police's Missing Person Unit on 724-284-8100. It’s impossible to put an exact number on the amount of stranger abductions in the US in the 1980s. Child Find, a missing children organisation, suggested the number was roughly 600 per year, with the FBI reporting 67 cases and the National C ..read more

***This episode is sponsored by Podcorn, the easiest way to begin monetising your podcast*** DISCLAIMER: I misremembered the facts regarding the Oscar Pistorius case - please accept my sincerest apologies. This is a very special episode featuring our first ever guest, Ellyn Marsh. Ellyn co-hosts the true crime/comedy podcast, Obsessed With Disappeared, alongside Patrick Hinds (from True Crime Obsessed). Join Ellyn and I, as we play Would You Rather, Innocent or Guilty and Ellynism or Not. Obsessed With Disappeared can be found wherever you get your podcasts. You can follow them on Twitter ..read more

***This episode is sponsored, in part, by Away Travel*** ***This episode is sponsored, in part, by Podcorn - the easiest way to monetise your podcast*** Nature vs nurture is a longstanding debate in the world of psychology that discusses the extent to which certain aspects of our behaviour are either inherited via genetics, or the influence of external factors. Approaches vary, with the biological approach focusing on genetics and hormones to explain behaviour, and behaviourism suggesting that all behaviour is learned, via conditioning, from the surrounding environment. In more recent years ..read more

A huge thank you to Stuart from British Murders and Jenny from It’s Murder Up North for their voice over for this episode. Plan International UK suggests that 63% of women in Britain feel unsafe walking alone in the dark. It’s an innate fear, one that’s reinforced in childhood. Stranger danger dictates that all strangers are dangerous, and that you should never interact with strangers in the street, a child should never accept sweets off of a stranger and you should never walk off or get into a car with a stranger. The occurrence of the Moors Murders, murders committed by Levi Bellfield and t ..read more

***This episode is sponsored by Clarks. Visit podgo.co/clarks to get up to 30% off on selected items*** If you have any information relating to Brianna's disappearance, you are urged to contact Vermont State Police on 802-524-5993. Huge thank you to Nat and Ash for their voice over work for this episode. They say your teenage years are the best years of life. You begin to make long-term friendships and these friends become an important fixture in your life, you start going to parties and school either becomes more or less of a priority. You get your first ever job, you learn how to drive an ..read more

***This episode is sponsored, in part, by Podcorn - the easiest way to monetise your podcast. Head over to www.podcorn.com to sign up now.*** ***This episode is sponsored, in part, by Scary Time podcast. Listen now at http://www.dummies.fan/MurderandMore*** Social media has taken the world by storm in the last decade. It’s become a platform to express your thoughts and feelings and a way to connect with old friends you’ve not spoken to for years. You can see what your aunt had for dinner last night, how your nephew’s first day of school went or the troubles the couple down the street are hav ..read more

***This episode is brought to you, in part, by Podgo, the easiest way to monetise your podcast. Sign up today at podgo.co*** ***This episode is brought to you, in part, by Scary Time podcast. Listen now at http://www.dummies.fan/MurderandMore. Follow them on Facebook and Instagram @scarytimepod*** Credit for this episode goes to Joseph Cusack and his documentary, The Murder of Charlene Downes. The 25th of May is International Missing Children’s Day, first initiated by Ronald Reagan in 1983 and is in place to not only bring awareness to the thousands of missing children worldwide but to also ..read more

***This episode is brought to you by restaurant.com. Head over to www.restaurant.com/podcast for 50% off your next order*** Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire is a high security psychiatric hospital that houses some of Britain's most notorious and dangerous criminals, including Robert Napper, Peter Sutcliffe and John Straffen. Broadmoor Hospital is run by the NHS and serves to prove that there is a credible link between mental illness and violent crime. In an article for GQ Magazine in June 2019, Dr Das, a forensic psychiatrist, confirms that whilst not all mental illness will cause a person to ..read more