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Blood Ties Podcast
by Pod60
Blood Ties 2.0 marks the return of the father-daughter duo Geoffrey and Molly Wansell. Their weekly conversations often turn to murder — the very reason they launched the original Blood Ties. Now, due to popular demand, they’re back with a brand-new series, revisiting notorious cases and uncovering the psychology behind real-life killers. Gripping stories, chilling insights, and the unique perspective only Geoffrey and Molly can bring. https://www.youtube.com/@bloodtiespodcast http://bit.ly/bloodtiespodcast-survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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S15 Ep2: The Most Depraved of Killers: Christopher Halliwell
In this episode of Blood Ties, hosts Molly and Geoffrey Wansell discuss the horrifying crimes of serial killer Christopher Halliwell. The conversation explores Halliwell's troubled childhood, his life as a Swindon minicab driver, and the 2011 abduction and murder of Sian O'Callaghan. They analyse...
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S15 Ep1: The Death Of PC Andrew Harper
In this episode of Blood Ties, hosts Molly and Geoffrey Wansell examine the tragic 2019 death of PC Andrew Harper, who was killed in the line of duty while responding to a robbery. The father-daughter duo trace the harrowing event, the controversial trial that resulted in manslaughter convictions...
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Bonus Ep: Listener Request - The Murder of Julie Hogg
In this bonus episode of Blood Ties, Molly and Geoffrey Wantsall close out Season 14 with a listener-recommended case that changed British legal history. They explore the tragic murder of 22-year-old Julie Hogg, whose body went undiscovered beneath her own bath for months after a flawed police...
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S14 Ep25: The Mother's Day Massacre
In this episode of Blood Ties, Molly and Geoffrey Wansell examine the shocking case known as the Mother's Day Massacre. In 2008, Edward Covington murdered his girlfriend, Lisa Freiberg, and her two young children in a crime that stunned the community and left a family devastated. After later...
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S14 Ep24: The Chevaline Massacre
In September 2012, a quiet forest road in the French Alps became the scene of one of Europe's most baffling unsolved murders. Three members of the British French al Hilli family and a local cyclist were shot dead near the village of Chevaline, close to Lake Annecy. Miraculously, the couple's two...
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S14 Ep23: The Case of Anthony Russell
In October 2020, a series of brutal murders shocked the Midlands and sparked one of the region's largest manhunts. When Julie Williams reported her son David missing, she could not have known she would become one of Anthony Russell's victims. Within days, Julie and David were dead, and Russell…
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S14 Ep22: Spy in the Bag
In August 2010, Gareth Williams, a brilliant Welsh mathematician working for GCHQ and on secondment to MI6, was found dead inside a padlocked sports bag in a London flat linked to the security services. His death quickly became one of Britain's most perplexing unsolved mysteries. An inquest...
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S14 Ep21: The Aspirant Ripper
When two vulnerable women vanish from the streets of East London within weeks of each other, detectives uncover a chilling predator hiding in plain sight. Derek Brown, a convicted rapist and serial sex attacker, targeted Xiao Mei Guo, a mother selling DVDs to support her family, and Bonnie…
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S14 Ep20: The Life of Oscar Pistorius
In this episode of Blood Ties, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell examine one of the most controversial criminal cases of the 21st century: the killing of Reeva Steenkamp by South African Paralympian Oscar Pistorius. On Valentine’s Day 2013, Steenkamp was shot dead at Pistorius’s home in Pretoria....
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S14 Ep19: Monkey Man Jack
On the remote Orkney island of Sanday, a love triangle would end in brutal violence. In June 2009, Yorkshireman Robert Rose disappeared after beginning a relationship with the former girlfriend of local man John "Jack" Campbell. When Rose failed to return home, a major search operation was...
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S14 Ep18: The Story of Robert Black
In this episode of Blood Ties, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell examine the crimes of serial killer Robert Black, whose abduction, rape and murder of young girls shocked the UK throughout the 1980s. From the disappearance of Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg and Sarah Harper to the later conviction for the...
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S14 Ep17: The Blackout Ripper Pt2
In this episode of Blood Ties, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell uncover the terrifying story of Gordon Frederick Cummins, the RAF serviceman who became known as the Blackout Killer. Over just five days in wartime London, Cummins murdered four women and brutally attacked two others while the city lay...
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S14 Ep16: The Story of Bible John
Three women murdered. One city terrified. And a killer who vanished without a trace. In this gripping episode of Blood Ties, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell investigate the chilling case of Bible John, the unidentified serial killer who preyed on young women in Glasgow between 1968 and 1969. Each…
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S14 Ep15: The Blackout Ripper Pt1
In this episode of Blood Ties, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell uncover the terrifying story of Gordon Frederick Cummins, the RAF serviceman who became known as the Blackout Killer. Over just five days in wartime London, Cummins murdered four women and brutally attacked two others while the city lay...
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S14 Ep14: The Dennis Nilsen Story Pt 2
Part 2 of this Blood Ties special with Geoffrey and Molly Wansell. Confronting one of Britain’s most chilling killers: Dennis Nilsen. Calm, calculated, and hiding in plain sight, he murdered at least twelve young men between 1978 and 1983. Luring victims back to his North London flats, he…
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S14 Ep13: The Case Of Barry Prudom
In this episode of Blood Ties, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell investigate the terrifying case of Barry Prudom, the fugitive killer known as the 'Phantom of the Forest'. An electrician turned murderer, Prudom sparked the biggest manhunt in British history after shooting dead PC David Haigh in June…
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S14 Ep12: The Dennis Nilsen Story Pt 1
Blood Ties with Geoffrey and Molly Wansell confronts one of Britain’s most chilling killers: Dennis Nilsen. Calm, calculated, and hiding in plain sight, he murdered at least twelve young men between 1978 and 1983. Luring victims back to his North London flats, he strangled them, then carried out...
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S14 Ep11: The Killer of Leo Ross
In this episode of Blood Ties, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell explore the shocking murder of 12 year old Leo Ross, killed in a seemingly random knife attack on his walk home from school in Birmingham. They examine the disturbing profile of a 14 year old killer who had already carried out violent...
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S14 Ep10: The Third Female Serial Killer
Blood Ties with Geoffrey Wansell and Molly Wansell delves into one of Britain’s most disturbing criminal cases, the story of Joanna Dennehy. Geoffrey and Molly explore how Dennehy carried out a shocking killing spree in 2013, targeting strangers and revelling in violence. Father and daughter…
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S14 Ep9: The Forgotten Prisoner
Maria Pearson is Britain’s longest serving female prisoner and one of its most unsettling cases. Dubbed the 'forgotten prisoner', she has spent decades behind bars, yet still refuses to accept responsibility for a brutal murder that shocked the nation. In 1987, driven by jealousy and rage, she...
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S14 Ep8: The Bayou Strangler
In the shadows of Louisiana’s bayous, a predator operated almost unnoticed for nearly a decade. Ronald Joseph Dominique, later dubbed The Bayou Strangler, confessed to the murders of at least 23 men and boys between 1997 and 2006. He lured vulnerable victims with false promises of work, then...
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S14 Ep7: The Orkney Assassin
Blood Ties with Geoffrey and Molly Wansell explores one of Scotland’s most haunting crimes and the long road to justice. In 1994, Bangladeshi waiter Shamsuddin Mahmood was shot at point blank range in a busy Orkney restaurant, shocking a quiet island community. With eyewitness accounts, twists in...
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S14 Ep6: The Wests
Fred and Rosemary West looked like an ordinary couple. A home in Gloucester. A family. A life that, from the outside, seemed unremarkable. But inside 25 Cromwell Street, a house later dubbed the House of Horrors, unimaginable crimes were unfolding. Together, they tortured, abused, and murdered...
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S14 Ep5: The Killer Landlady
Dorothea Puente looked like the perfect landlady. Warm. Trustworthy. Harmless. But behind the doors of her Sacramento boarding house lurked something far darker. Throughout the 1980s, she preyed on the elderly and mentally disabled, offering shelter before poisoning them, burying their bodies in...
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S14 Ep4: Steve Wright: The Suffolk Strangler
Steve Wright was already one of Britain’s most notorious killers. Known as the Suffolk Strangler, he was given a whole life sentence in 2008 for murdering five women in Ipswich. The case shocked the nation and left lasting scars on a community that had felt safe. But the story did not end there.…
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S14 Ep3: Valdo Calocane: A preventable tragedy?
In the early hours of a summer morning, a city that should have been asleep became the scene of something unthinkable. On 13 June 2023, a series of violent attacks unfolded across Nottingham. What began as a quiet walk home for two students ended in tragedy. Minutes later, a school caretaker...
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S14 Ep2: The Grindr Killer: Four young men, a web of lies, and a predator hiding in plain sight
In this episode of Blood Ties, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell examine the chilling case of Stephen Port, a serial killer who hid in plain sight in modern London. On the surface, Port seemed deeply unremarkable. A softly spoken bus depot chef who kept largely to himself, he lived a quiet, almost...
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S14 Ep1: Tony Dyce: The East London predator who thought he'd escaped
Geoffrey and Molly Wansell examine one of the most shocking cold cases in East London history. A brutal triple murder that went unsolved for nearly three decades and a killer who believed he had got away with it forever. In July 1982, 27 year old Norma Richards and her two young daughters were...
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Season 14 Trail! Blood Ties is back!
Each week, father and daughter duo Geoffrey and Molly Wansell explore some of the most compelling true crime stories from around the world. Drawing on Geoffrey’s decades of experience as a crime writer and historian, and Molly’s sharp curiosity and insight, the pair unravel the human stories…
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Bonus Ep: Blood Ties meets Grace from Redrum
In this episode, with special guest Grace from Redrum, Geoffrey and Molly confront one of the most disturbing crimes in recent British history. The murder of Brianna Ghey. A 16 year old girl who trusted the wrong people and paid with her life. On 11 February 2023, Brianna was lured to a park by...
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Bonus Ep: Blood Ties meets British Murders
Blood Ties bonus with a case that refuses to stay quiet. The murder of Bhim Kohli shocked a community and exposed uncomfortable questions about family loyalty power and silence. In this episode we are joined by Stuart Blues of British Murders to find out more. CREDITS: Presenters: Geoffrey and...
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S13 Ep 22: Hannibal the Cannibal
Geoffrey and Molly Wansell confront Britain’s most chilling killer, Robert Maudsley, the man the tabloids dubbed Hannibal the Cannibal. Locked away in a glass cell beneath Wakefield Prison, Maudsley has spent decades in near-total isolation after a string of murders so brutal they shocked even...
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S13 Ep21: Devil in Disguise
Gregory Vincent Greene was a man of contradictions, charming yet cold, generous yet ruthless. Behind the façade of an ordinary life lay secrets that would unravel a family and shock a community. In this gripping new episode of Blood Ties, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell peel back the layers of a…
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S13 Ep20: The Shankill Butchers
In the heart of Belfast during the height of the Troubles, a brutal gang prowled the night, abducting, torturing, and killing innocent Catholics in a reign of terror that would shock even hardened police officers. Known as The Shankill Butchers, this group of loyalist paramilitaries turned the...
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S13 Ep19: The Curry Killer
Geoffrey Wansell uncovers the shocking story of Lakhvir Singh, a woman whose passion turned to poison. When her lover began a new relationship, jealousy consumed her. In an act as chilling as it was calculated, she laced his curry with a rare poison — aconite — earning her the nickname “The Curry...
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S13 Ep18: The Teacup Poisoner
He was just fourteen when he started killing — a schoolboy with a chemistry set and a deadly obsession. Graham Young, known to history as The Teacup Poisoner, was the embodiment of evil hiding behind a polite English smile. In this episode of Blood Ties, Molly and Geoffrey uncover the chilling...
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S13 Ep17: The Greatest Criminal
In this gripping episode of Blood Ties, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell delve into the chilling case of Catherine Wilson — the so-called “Victorian Poisoner.” A trusted nurse who turned her patients’ trust into a death sentence, Wilson used poison to line her pockets, leaving a trail of mysterious...
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S13 Ep16: The Golden State Killer
He was the bogeyman of suburban America — a ghost who crept into homes, shattered lives, and vanished into the night. For decades, the Golden State Killer taunted police, leaving behind terrified families and a trail of violence that stretched across California. Rape, murder, stalking — his…
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S13 Ep15: The Selfish Predator
He called himself a “psychopath with a conscience.” But behind the bravado, Mark Brown was a cold, calculating killer. In the quiet seaside town of St Leonards, Brown led a double life — father, partner, builder by day, and murderer by night. When two women vanished months apart, detectives...
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S13 Ep14: The Real Peaky Blinders
Long before the hit TV series turned them into legends, the real Peaky Blinders ruled the backstreets of Birmingham. With swagger in their step, and blood on their hands — they were the original urban gangsters of Britain’s industrial age. In Blood Ties: The Real Peaky Blinders, we uncover the...
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S13 Ep13: The Jilted Boyfriend
Kyle Clifford turned up at their quiet Hertfordshire home like any other ex returning a few belongings — calm, deliberate, utterly convincing. Kyle Clifford wasn’t some impulsive man in a rage; he was calculated, chillingly controlled. He moved with purpose, carrying out his grim mission with...
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S13 Ep 12: The White House Farm Murders
In Blood Ties, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell confront one of Britain’s darkest and most divisive crimes — the White House Farm murders. Six members of one family gunned down in cold blood, a nation horrified, and a son accused of orchestrating it all. Jeremy Bamber — charming, intelligent, and now...
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S13 Ep11: The 'I Heard Voices' Killer
After 1994, something in Nicholas Burton’s mind began to unravel. Once seen as bright and promising, he started shouting at himself and became obsessed with religion. Friends noticed the change — but no one imagined how dark things would become. His fixation soon turned toward Rachel McGraa, a...
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S13 Ep10: The Soham Murders
It was every parent’s worst nightmare. In the summer of 2002, two bright, happy ten-year-old girls — Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman — vanished without a trace from the quiet village of Soham. Overnight, their faces were on every front page, every television screen, as a frantic nation prayed for...
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S13 Ep9: Victorian Poisoners - Jolly Jane & Polly Bartlett
Two women, two different worlds — but both hiding lethal secrets. Jane Toppan, the nurse known as “Jolly Jane,” poisoned more than 30 patients in the late 1800s, later admitting she killed simply for pleasure. And Polly Bartlett, dubbed Wyoming’s first female serial killer, ran a boarding house...
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S13 Ep8: The Brutal Murder of Lin and Megan Russell
This is one of Britain’s most harrowing true crime stories – a crime so savage it shocked the nation to its core. In this gripping episode of Blood Ties, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell dissect the chilling case of Lin and Megan Russell, a mother and daughter brutally murdered in a frenzied hammer...
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S13 Ep7: The Menendez Brothers
In this gripping episode of Blood Ties, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell unravel the chilling case of Lyle and Erik Menendez — the brothers whose brutal murder of their wealthy parents shocked America in 1989. Was it an act of cold-blooded greed, or the desperate response of two young men pushed beyond...
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S13 Ep6: Babes in the Wood
Two little girls vanished in Brighton—and for decades, their killer almost got away with it. CREDITS: Presenters: Geoffrey and Molly Wansell Producer: Peter Shevlin https://pod60.com/ Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email:...
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S13 Ep5: Ireland’s Black Widow
She was Ireland’s most glamorous killer – the so-called Black Widow who spun a web of lies, murder, and betrayal that stunned a nation. CREDITS: Presenters: Geoffrey and Molly Wansell Producer: Peter Shevlin https://pod60.com/ Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter:...
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S13 Ep4: The Unsolved Murder of Jill Dando
On 26th April 1999, BBC Crimewatch presenter Jill Dando was shot dead on her doorstep with a single bullet. Twenty years on, her shocking murder remains unsolved — and continues to haunt Britain. Who killed Jill Dando? Was it a professional hit, a stalker, or a case of mistaken identity? Despite...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Blood Ties 2.0 marks the return of the father-daughter duo Geoffrey and Molly Wansell. Their weekly conversations often turn to murder — the very reason they launched the original Blood Ties. Now, due to popular demand, they’re back with a brand-new series, revisiting notorious cases and uncovering the psychology behind real-life killers. Gripping stories, chilling insights, and the unique perspective only Geoffrey and Molly can bring.
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Blood Ties 2.0 marks the return of the father-daughter duo Geoffrey and Molly Wansell. Their weekly conversations often turn to murder — the very reason they launched the original Blood Ties. Now, due to popular demand, they’re back with a brand-new series, revisiting notorious cases and uncovering...
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