In the morning of December 31 2014, an unknown man started calling the Future Inns hotel in the city of Cardiff, Wales claiming that someone was dead in their hotel. ‘There’s a woman dead in the room 203,’ he told them. The caller didn't give his name but called a total of four times. When asked for more information, he replied, ‘Well the girl, the girl. 28 years old. A Muslim girl, we was together there in hotel and she kill herself.’ Episode sources: https://www.turnedupdead.com/nadine-abruas Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turnedupdead/donations ..read more

In June 1992, Katie Rackliff was a 19-year-old apprentice hairdresser at Bumbles Too salon in the southeast of England. Katie had been showing great promise in her career, but she had been experiencing a few difficulties in her personal life... Content warning: brief mentions of domestic abuse, animal abuse and self-harming. Episode sources: turnedupdead.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turnedupdead/donations ..read more

Content warning: This episode mentions suicide and the death of an unborn baby. At around 4:40pm on June 4th 1992, Norman Edward Gilfoyle arrived home from work. He didn't see his wife, Paula Gilfoyle, in their home but he noticed a letter from her in the kitchen.  After reading just the first few lines of the two page letter, Eddie stopped reading and took it to his parents’ house. The first two lines read, ‘Dear Eddie. I’ve decided to put an end to everything and in doing so ended a chapter in my life that I can’t face up to any longer. I don’t want to have this baby that I’m carry ..read more

In this bonus episode I look at a letter written by Chris Vaughn; a man convicted and sentenced to four consecutive life terms for the murders of his wife, Kimberly, and children, Abigayle, Cassandra, and Blake, and share my opinion on the truthfulness of the account he gave in it. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turnedupdead/donations ..read more

Around 9:45pm on Sunday June 9 1991, a cleaner entered an upstairs room of Pinky's massage parlor in Boughton, Chester. Inside, laying in a pool of blood, was the semi-naked body of a woman in her late 20s. She had been stabbed multiple times on the upper half of her body.  Pinky’s, like many similar massage parlor businesses in towns and cities across the UK, was a brothel. https://prostitutescollective.net/petition/ Episode sources: https://www.turnedupdead.com/episode-8-lynne-trenholm/ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turnedupdead/donations ..read more

On July 28, 1996, John Copik, a fisherman of 30 years, and his son Craig, were 6 miles off the coast of Teignmouth, a picturesque town in the south-west English county of Devon. After two disappointing hauls, the father and son had taken their trawler further out to an area that wasn’t often fished known as the roughs. The move paid off and around 3:30pm, the men started to pull in their heaviest load of the day, however, any positive feelings the men had sunk when amongst the fish, the fully dressed body of a middle aged man slid out of their nets and onto the deck. Episode sources: https ..read more

On the cool cloudy morning of Saturday 20th September 2014, Barbara Denham was taking her border collie, Max, on his daily walk in Barking, East London. They walked through a gate and into the grounds of St Margaret's Church, as they would usually do but it was then that Barbara noticed a slim young man sitting, sort of propped up, against the churchyard wall. As she got closer, she could barely believe it; the young man was dead. Now, this would be shocking enough for anyone to stumble across, but just 23 days earlier Barbara, whilst walking her dog Max in the same churchyard had discovered ..read more

In the afternoon of Sunday January 4th 2015, a woman dialled 911 from her stylish Manhattan apartment. She calmly gave the address, the cross streets, the apartment number and floor, and then when asked what the emergency was she replied, 'My husband is, I think dead.' Episode sources: https://www.turnedupdead.com/the-assassination-of-thomas-gilbert-sr/ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turnedupdead/donations ..read more

On the afternoon of Sunday 17 June, William Vinnicombe and James Lelliot were working in the left luggage room of Brighton train station on the south coast of England. It was the beginning of summer and with little fresh air circulating the room, the men had been trying to locate the source of an increasingly offensive smell. Around 4pm, they came across a new-looking, but cheap, brown suitcase... Episode sources: https://www.turnedupdead.com/the-brighton-trunk-murders/ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turnedupdead/donations ..read more

In a supermarket in a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, employee Matthew was stacking shelves on his first day back at work after a holiday when his supervisor, Jemma Lilley, approached him. 'I did it,' she told him. When he inquired what she had done. Jemma Lilley replied, 'I did it - I killed someone.' Episode Sources: https://www.turnedupdead.com/the-callous-murder-of-aaron-pajich-sweetman/ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turnedupdead/donations ..read more