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#To watch this interview - subscribe at robertmurphy.substack.com#Det Insp Paul Franklin was in charge of the inquiry to bring the murderous, cheating husband Emile Cilliers to justice.But it wasn’t easy. There was little direct evidence that C
#To watch this interview - subscribe at robertmurphy.substack.com#Emile Cilliers made global headlines in 2018 when he was convicted of the attempted murder of his wife Victoria.He was an upstanding army sergeant, a family man, who led a debauc
#Subscribe for free: robertmurphy.substack.com#Laura Lippman spent more than 20 years as a journalist working in Texas and Baltimore.She has won Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Barry, Nero and Shamus awards (among many others) for her 25 novels - which
#Subscribe for free at robertmurphy.substack.com #This was Penelope Jackson’s final chance. The evidence against her seemed overwhelming: the glib 999 call admitting the killing of her husband, her further confessions on police body worn footag
#Subscribe for free: robertmurphy.substack.com#To friends, David and Penelope Jackson were like most other retired couples living in the West Country.They had a good life: a nice home, an active social life and a penchant for foreign cruises.Bu
Subscribe for free: robertmurphy.substack.comAward-winning crime novelist Denise Mina has written the latest Philip Marlowe book: The Second Murderer. To research the book, she spent months studying Los Angeles in 1940, deconstructing Raymond C
To coincide with the launch of my true crime book ‘Decoy’ I’ve updated and reissued this podcast featuring a rare and exclusive interview with Chris Gould.In the 1970s, the city of Bristol was terrorised by a man nicknamed ‘The Clifton Rapist.’
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit robertmurphy.substack.comSubscribe at: robertmurphy.substack.comNearly 20 years had passed and forensic scientist Dr Colin Dark received a call asking if he’d like to take on the cas
Subscribe at robertmurphy.substack.comOn March 21st 1984, Hilda Murrell disappeared. It would take police three days to find her - yet her body was in the obvious place.She had been murdered.But by whom?Now the conspiracy theories started: Did
SUBSCRIBE: robertmurphy.substack.comScreenwriter George Kay (Hijack, Lupin, The Long Shadow, Criminal UK) was talking with his mother about a potential project: would he be interested in writing a script about the Lord Lucan mystery?Then, she d
SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE: robertmurphy.substack.comIn her book ‘A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan’ writer Laura Thompson suggests six possible scenarios of what happened on the night of November 7th 1974.Was Lady Lucan the target?
SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE: robertmurphy.substack.comWithin a few moments on the night of November 7th 1974, Lord Lucan killed his children’s nanny, tried to murder his wife - and then disappeared.But that attack had been brewing for months, years even
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit robertmurphy.substack.com#Subscribe for free at robertmurphy.substack.com #Margaret Backhouse survived - it was a miracle. The car bomb seemed amateur but it was effective.Why would
SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE at robertmurphy.substack.comIn June 1984, 17-year-old Melanie Road was murdered as she walked home from a nightclub in the beautiful city of Bath, England.The investigation became Britain’s biggest manhunt, yet despite 96 arr
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit robertmurphy.substack.comThis suspect had already escaped from police custody once. Now he was wanted for a triple murder. He was living wild off the land and Britain’s newspapers ha
In October 1998, Jenny King vanished. The 22-year-old had been on a night out at a club near her home in Kingswood near Bristol, in the South West of England.Police realised the office worker was in a good, stable relationship. She had no enemi
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit robertmurphy.substack.comEugène-François Vidocq was the real-life Paris detective who inspired Sherlock Holmes, Edgar Allen Poe’s Dupin and Maurice Lablanc’s Lupin stories.He revolut
It was the occasional smell of weed which made detectives suspicious at first. Then a mystery delivery alerted police to the former nuclear bunker in the middle of the English countryside.But when detectives mounted a raid on the underground fo
To welcome new listeners to Behind The Crimes, every day this week I’m highlighting some of the incredible stories we have covered in the last year. This is a replay of an episode from June 2023.In the early hours of October 4th 1922, a woman w
NB. As a welcome to new Substack subscribers, this is a reissue of an episode released in 2023.Roy and Joan Clarke are found dead in their home in rural England in December 2004. They’ve been stabbed in a ‘ritualistic-style’ attack.Det Ch Supt
NB. This is a replay episode - first released in July 2023.What does it take to be a cold case detective? How do you solve a case from the past when all the files have vanished?All Julie and Gary had was one sheet of paper: a laboratory submiss
Who is Banksy? It is a question that has taunted the art world for two decades.As a graffiti-artist, he has committed criminal damage. Which is why I’m including him in Behind the Crimes.I uncovered a ‘lost’ interview with the secretive stencil
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit robertmurphy.substack.comThis is a video interview for Behind the Crimes paid subscribers. It features a three-minute preview. Visit robertmurphy.substack.com for access to the full
#Subscribe for free extras - robertmurphy.substack.comHow long would you wait for justice? What about fifty years? Liz Roberts was assaulted as an eight-year-old girl. She didn’t tell her parents - even though her father was a high-ranking murd
I have been privileged enough to cover some of the biggest, most absorbing trials in recent British history: for example the serial killer Christopher Halliwell defending himself in court or the drama of hostile-witness-victim in the Cilliers c
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