Prefer to watch the Youtube video Click Here  Mary Bateman was a career criminal from a child, beginning with theft and graduating to fraud.  She realised that those with a belief in the supernatural could easily be manipulated.  She set herself up as a fortune seller and would eventually add witchcraft to her services.  Need a love rival stricken with sickness, Mary had a potion for that. becoming known as the “Yorkshire Witch”.  However, one of her grifts would go too far and leave a woman dead.  It would take a year for the victim’s husband to suspect it was M ..read more

Prefer to watch the Youtube video Click Here  In St Marys, the Virgin Church in Burwell is a memorial depicting a flaming heart and angel wings, for one of Cambridgeshire’s worst tragedies. Welcome to the case of the Burwell Fire The evening of the 8th September 1727, should have been a night of joy and laughter for the community of Burwell, a small village 30 minutes outside Cambridge.  Richard Shepherd owned and performed a travelling puppet show, he his wife, daughter and 2 servants had arrived in Burwell earlier that week and had decided to rent a barn to put on a performance. E ..read more

This case is an all too common example of one person losing their life because of the selfish motives of another.  Thomas Weems was engaged to be married, only problem was he was already married.  So he hatched a murder plot, but he gave little thought to how he would get away with it.  He was caught, tried and hanged.  It is at this point that this case becomes anything but usual.  Let’s explore the case dubbed the Frankenstein Bride Killer Mary Ann Weems rests in Godmanchester churchyard, Cambridgeshire  under a striking white headstone.  On one side it sa ..read more

Violent murder even in 1733 was rare and a triple murder carried out by a 22-year-old woman was extremely rare. Sarah Malcolm was a triple murderess whose crime against the household of a frail 80-year-old widow was purely motivated by financial gain. A heartless crime indeed. But one that made Sarah a celebrity of sorts. Famous English painter William Hogarth sketched Sarah when she was in condemned hold waiting to be executed. He would go on to paint her portrait. The portrait now hangs in the Scottish National Gallery nearly 300 years after her death. Let’s explore the murders of Lydia Dun ..read more

Prefer to listen to this case as a podcast? Click here or Watch the Video on Youtube Click here  1944 London was a scene of devastation, after years of being bombarded from the air as World War 2 raged.  The people though were standing strong, united in fighting the common enemy.  This backdrop makes the crime spree which culminated in the murder of George Edward Heath – the man with the cleft chin even more cowardly and selfish.  It rightly outrages the nation.   George Edward Heath was a loveable rogue.  He enjoyed betting at the racetrack and cruising in his F ..read more

Prefer to listen to the podcast you can find it here  The 3rd January 1946 should have been a normal workday for Bernard Phillips and it certainly started out that way.  Bernard was a 37-year-old married father of a 2-year-old son.  Lending Manager for Refuge Lending Society, Walker Street Manchester.  That Thursday he greeted his secretary and started his day. About 11 am, a man giving his name as George Wood came to the office seeking a loan for £60 (£2529.43 in today’s money).  He offered the deeds to Moss Side Farm in Tarporley as surety.  The address he shar ..read more