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Crime at Bedtime
by Jack Laurence
Crime at Bedtime is a true crime podcast for listeners who love fascinating murder cases, unsolved mysteries, disappearances, strange crimes and extraordinary stories — told in a calm, relaxed style designed for listening as you drift off to sleep. Each episode explores a different true crime story, from notorious murders and mysterious disappearances to unsolved cases, historical crimes and some of the strangest cases from around the world. There are no loud sound effects or over-the-top dramatics. Just compelling true crime storytelling delivered in a slower, relaxed style for those who like to unwind with a fascinating story at the end of the day. So get comfortable, take a minute, unwind and let me tell you a story. Crime at Bedtime is written and hosted by Australian podcaster Jack Laurence. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel
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The World's End Murders: The Case That Changed Scottish Law
The World's End murders haunted Scotland for nearly four decades. In October 1977, two seventeen-year-old friends, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, left the World's End pub in Edinburgh's Old Town and were found murdered in the East Lothian countryside the next day. The case stayed cold for a...
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The Golden State Killer: The Family Tree That Caught Joseph DeAngelo
For more than a decade, the Golden State Killer terrorised California, committing at least thirteen murders and more than fifty rapes before vanishing without a trace. For forty years he had no name and no face, just a DNA profile that matched no one on earth. Then, in 2018, investigators…
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The Disappearance of Harold Holt: The Prime Minister the Sea Swallowed
On the seventeenth of December 1967, Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt walked into the surf at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria, and was never seen again. Despite one of the largest search operations in the nation's history, no body and no trace were ever found. Was it an accidental...
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The Man Next Door: The Murder of Joanna Yeates
The murder of Joanna Yeates gripped Britain over Christmas 2010. Jo, a twenty-five-year-old landscape architect, walked home to her flat in Clifton, Bristol, with a pizza and a bottle of cider, and was never seen alive again. Eight days later she was found strangled in the snow, and in the frenzy...
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The Murder of Tupac Shakur: Thirty Years to Justice
The murder of Tupac Shakur is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in the history of popular culture, and after thirty years, it finally has a verdict. In September 1996, the twenty-five-year-old rapper was shot in a drive-by at a red light just off the Las Vegas Strip, and died six days later....
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Titu Singh: The Boy Who Named His Own Killer
Titu Singh was barely more than a toddler when he began insisting he was not who his family thought he was. He was not a little boy, he said, but a grown man named Suresh Verma, a shopkeeper from the city of Agra, with a wife, two children, and a radio shop, who had been shot dead in his own car....
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Herb Baumeister: The Fox Hollow Farm Murders
Herb Baumeister looked like the American dream: a respectable Indianapolis businessman, a married father of three, the owner of a successful chain of thrift stores, and the master of a beautiful eighteen-acre estate called Fox Hollow Farm. He was also one of the most prolific serial killers in...
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The Murder of Anni Dewani: The Honeymoon Killing
The murder of Anni Dewani in Cape Town in 2010 became one of the most sensational and bitterly contested cases of the decade. Anni was a bright 28-year-old bride, just two weeks married, when the taxi carrying her and her husband on their honeymoon was hijacked in a South African township. She…
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The Hexham Heads: The Cursed Stones and the Werewolf
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The Killing of Ken McElroy: The Town That Kept a Secret
The killing of Ken McElroy remains one of the most extraordinary unsolved cases in American history, and an entire town knows the answer. For more than twenty years, McElroy terrorised the small farming community of Skidmore, Missouri, a thief, an arsonist, and a child abuser who intimidated…
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The Securitas Depot Robbery: The £53 Million Tiger Kidnap
The Securitas depot robbery of 2006 was the largest cash robbery in British history, and it was built on terror. A gang led by a professional cage fighter stole almost £53 million from a cash depot in Tonbridge, Kent, so much money they left another £150 million behind because it wouldn't fit in...
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The Disappearance of Brandon Lawson: The 911 Call in the Dark
The disappearance of Brandon Lawson is one of the most haunting missing-persons cases of the modern age, and it is captured, in part, on a chilling 911 call. In August 2013, the 26-year-old father ran out of petrol on a dark rural road in Texas. He phoned his brother for help, then called 911,...
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The Murder of Julie Ward: A Father's Fight for Justice in Kenya
The murder of Julie Ward in Kenya's Maasai Mara in 1988 became one of the most notorious cover-ups in modern criminal history. Julie was a 28-year-old British wildlife photographer, a week from flying home, when she vanished on safari. Her father flew out to find her, and discovered her remains...
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The Murder of Hae Min Lee: The Adnan Syed Case
The murder of Hae Min Lee and the conviction of Adnan Syed became a global phenomenon through the Serial podcast. In 1999, the 18-year-old Baltimore student was strangled and buried in Leakin Park; her ex-boyfriend was convicted on the testimony of a witness named Jay Wilds and disputed cell…
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The Ilkley Moor Alien: The 1987 UFO Photograph Mystery
The Ilkley Moor alien case is one of Britain's most famous UFO photographs. In December 1987, a retired police officer photographed a small green figure on a Yorkshire moor, then found his compass reversed and an hour of time missing. Experts examined the photo and could not prove it a fake. We…
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The Claremont Serial Killings: Perth's DNA Breakthrough
The Claremont serial killings are the most infamous murders in Western Australian history. Between 1996 and 1997, three young women, Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer, and Ciara Glennon, vanished after nights out in Perth's Claremont nightlife district. It took the largest investigation in the state's...
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Two Days Before Christmas: The Murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier
The murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in December 1996 is one of the most infamous unsolved crimes in Irish history, and one of the strangest legal sagas in modern Europe. Sophie Toscan du Plantier was a 39-year-old French film producer who had bought an isolated holiday cottage in West Cork,...
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The Man Who Walked Off Camera: The Disappearance of Steven Koecher
The disappearance of Steven Koecher in December 2009 is one of the most quietly baffling vanishings of the modern age, and more than sixteen years later, not a single trace of him has ever been found. Steven Koecher was a devout and much-loved 30-year-old journalist from Utah who, in the days...
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The Wrong Man: The Murder of Rachel Nickell
The murder of Rachel Nickell in July 1992 is one of the most notorious crimes in British history, and one of the most catastrophic miscarriages of justice British policing has ever produced. Rachel Nickell was a 23-year-old former model and devoted young mother when she was attacked and killed on...
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The Solway Firth Spaceman: The 1964 Photograph No One Can Explain
The Solway Firth Spaceman is one of the most famous unexplained photographs in British history, and after more than sixty years, people are still arguing about what it shows. On the afternoon of the 23rd of May 1964, a Carlisle firefighter named Jim Templeton took three photographs of his...
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The Carnegie Secret: The Great Con of Cassie Chadwick
The great con of Cassie Chadwick is one of the most audacious frauds in American history, and it was built on a single, brilliant lie: that she was the secret illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world. Born a poor railway worker's daughter in rural Canada, Cassie...
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Ninety Flashes in the Dark: The Disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon
The disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon in April 2014 is one of the most haunting and hotly debated mysteries of the modern age, and more than a decade later, no one agrees on what really happened. The two young Dutch women, best friends near the end of the trip of a lifetime, set out...
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The Man Who Would Not Die: The Murder of Brett Bowyer
The murder of Brett Bowyer in February 2002 is one of the most harrowing crimes in Alabama's history, and it produced one of the most extraordinary acts of survival ever recorded. On a cold night in Russell County, two men posing as narcotics officers talked their way into the home of a car…
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The Acid Bath Murders: The Crimes of John George Haigh
The Acid Bath Murders are one of the most infamous cases in British criminal history, and the man behind them, John George Haigh, believed he had discovered the secret of the perfect crime. A charming, softly spoken fraudster who presented himself as a gentleman and an engineer, Haigh murdered at...
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The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser: The Boy Who Came From Nowhere
The mystery of Kaspar Hauser has haunted Europe for nearly 200 years, and it began on a spring afternoon in 1828 when a bewildered teenage boy appeared in the streets of Nuremberg, barely able to speak. He carried two letters and a single strange request: he wanted to be a cavalryman, like his...
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The Murder of Kim Wall: The Submarine Killing That Shocked the World
The murder of Kim Wall in August 2017 was one of the most shocking crimes in modern Scandinavian history, and it began with an interview. Kim Wall was a brilliant and fearless 30-year-old journalist, a Swedish reporter who had filed award-winning stories from North Korea, Cuba, Haiti, and the...
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The Advocate Who Wasn't: The Case of Brian Mwenda, Kenya's Fake Lawyer
The case of Brian Mwenda captivated Kenya and much of the world in 2023: the story of a confident young man in a well-cut suit who stood up in the High Court of Kenya, argued cases against trained lawyers, and, according to the viral legend, won every one, despite, the Law Society of Kenya…
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The Unread Message: The Ciphers of the Zodiac Killer
The Zodiac Killer ciphers are among the most famous unsolved codes in the world, and after more than fifty years, two of them have still never been cracked. Between 1969 and 1970, the unidentified serial killer who called himself the Zodiac sent four coded messages to San Francisco newspapers…
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Maximum John: The Assassination of Judge John Wood by Charles Harrelson
The assassination of Judge John Wood on the 29th of May 1979 was the first killing of a sitting United States federal judge in the 20th century, and the man who pulled the trigger was a Texas contract killer named Charles Harrelson. On that spring morning in San Antonio, Texas, the 63-year-old...
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The Assassination of Gianni Versace: Andrew Cunanan's Killing Spree
The assassination of Gianni Versace on the 15th of July 1997 was the shocking end of one of the deadliest killing sprees in modern American history. On that summer morning, the world-famous Italian fashion designer walked home from a café to his Miami Beach mansion, Casa Casuarina, and was shot...
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The Attack on Nancy Kerrigan: The Tonya Harding Olympic Scandal
The attack on Nancy Kerrigan on the 6th of January 1994 became one of the most notorious scandals in the history of the Olympic Games, and it involved one of the most famous rivalries in sport: Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. On that afternoon, at the United States Figure Skating Championships…
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If It Doesn't Fit: The O.J. Simpson Case
At approximately 12 minutes past midnight on the morning of Monday the 13th of June 1994, in the leafy Los Angeles neighbourhood of Brentwood, a group of residents on South Bundy Drive were woken by the barking of a distressed Akita dog. The dog was wandering the street. It had blood on its paws....
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The Thing on the Hill: The Mothman of Point Pleasant
Shortly after midnight on the morning of Tuesday the 15th of November 1966, in the small Ohio River town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the county of Mason, two young married couples in a black 1957 Chevrolet drove out along State Route 62 to see what there was to see at the abandoned...
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Listen in app The Firing Squad: Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran
At approximately 12:35 in the morning on Wednesday the 29th of April 2015, in a small clearing in the jungle of a prison island called Nusa Kambangan, off the southern coast of Central Java in Indonesia, a group of eight men and one woman stood in a line, facing a 13-member firing squad. Two of...
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The Woman Who Took the Cartel's Mother: Yadira Guillermo García
On the morning of Tuesday the 13th of December 2016, a video began to circulate on Mexican social media that would, within 48 hours, be seen by millions of people around the world. It had been recorded in the small town of San Miguel Totolapan, in the state of Guerrero, in the Tierra Caliente...
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The Fishermen and the Craft: The Pascagoula Abduction
At approximately 11 o'clock on the evening of Thursday the 11th of October 1973, two men walked into the Jackson County Sheriff's Office in the small Gulf Coast city of Pascagoula, Mississippi, and told the sheriff on duty that a few hours earlier, on the west bank of the Pascagoula River, they…
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The Elf Cleric: The Menhaz Zaman Murders
At approximately 10 o'clock on the evening of Saturday the 27th of July 2019, a 23-year-old man in the Toronto suburb of Markham, Ontario, logged in to a private chat server on the messaging app Discord and began, in real time, to type a message that would be seen, over the course of the…
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The Family Court Bomber: Leonard Warwick
On the morning of Wednesday the 29th of July 2015, New South Wales Police homicide detectives arrested a 68-year-old retired firefighter at his home in the south-western Sydney suburb of Campbelltown. His name was Leonard John Warwick. The charges laid against him ran to 32 offences, including…
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Wow!: The Signal from Sagittarius
On the evening of Monday the 15th of August 1977, in a field outside the small town of Delaware, Ohio, a radio telescope the size of three football fields was listening to the sky. There were no astronomers present. The telescope could not be steered. It sat on the ground, pointed straight up…
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The Boot on the Beach: The Killing of Antonio Neill
On the afternoon of Tuesday the 1st of January 2019, a group of beachcombers walking along Jetty Island, a small sandy island in the estuary off Everett, Washington, found a black Timberland work boot half-buried in the sand. It had been in the water for some time. The leather was waterlogged…
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Missing: Madeleine McCann
On the evening of Thursday the 3rd of May 2007, a British couple on holiday in the resort of Praia da Luz on Portugal's Algarve coast finished dinner with friends at a tapas restaurant, roughly 50 metres from the ground-floor apartment where their three children were sleeping. Kate and Gerry…
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The Thing on the Hill: The Flatwoods Monster
At approximately 7:15 in the evening on Friday the 12th of September 1952, three young boys were playing in the schoolyard of Flatwoods Elementary School, in the small Appalachian town of Flatwoods, West Virginia. It was almost fully dark. One of them looked up. A bright, pulsating object was...
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The Biggest Lie: Bernie Madoff
On the morning of Thursday the 11th of December 2008, two FBI agents knocked on the door of a penthouse apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The man who answered the door was 70 years old, silver-haired, and one of the most respected figures on Wall Street. His name was Bernard Lawrence...
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The Taxi Driver: Sian O'Callaghan and Becky Godden
At just before three in the morning on Saturday the 19th of March 2011, a 22-year-old woman named Sian O'Callaghan left a nightclub in the centre of Swindon, Wiltshire, and began the 800-metre walk home to the flat she shared with her boyfriend. She never arrived. Within days, Detective...
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An Adventure: The Versailles Time Slip
On the afternoon of Saturday the 10th of August 1901, two English women stepped off a train at Versailles, near Paris, on holiday together. One was 55-year-old Charlotte Anne Moberly, the first Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. The other was 38-year-old Eleanor Jourdain, her incoming Vice...
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The Disappearance of Ray Gricar
On a warm Friday morning in April 2005, Ray Gricar, the sitting District Attorney of Centre County, Pennsylvania, walked out of his office in Bellefonte, got into his red Mini Cooper, and drove east on Route 192 towards the town of Lewisburg. He was 59 years old. He was eight months from...
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The Springfield Three
On the morning of the 7th of June 1992, a 19-year-old woman named Janelle Kirby drove across Springfield, Missouri, to a small house on East Delmar Street, looking for her two best friends. They had graduated from high school the day before. They were supposed to be driving down to a resort in...
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The Lost Cosmonauts
On a winter night in 1961, in a stone bunker on a hilltop outside Turin, two young Italian brothers sat in front of a wall of homemade radio equipment and heard something they would spend the rest of their lives trying to explain. The slow, wet sound of a man breathing his last breaths from...
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The Woodchipper Murder: Helle Crafts
At just past three in the morning on the 19th of November 1986, a snowplough driver named Joseph Hine was driving along the edge of Lake Zoar in rural Connecticut when he saw something that did not belong. A rented truck. A woodchipper attached to the back. And a man standing beside it, operating...
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Maternal Instinct: Taylor Parker
For eleven months, Taylor Parker told everyone she was pregnant. She posted gender reveals on social media. She showed off sonograms. She accepted gifts. Her boyfriend believed her. Her friends believed her. So did a young mother in New Boston, Texas named Reagan Simmons-Hancock, who had let…
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Crime at Bedtime is a true crime podcast for listeners who love fascinating murder cases, unsolved mysteries, disappearances, strange crimes and extraordinary stories — told in a calm, relaxed style designed for listening as you drift off to sleep.
Each episode explores a different true crime story, from notorious murders and mysterious disappearances to unsolved cases, historical crimes and some of the strangest cases from around the world.
There are no loud sound effects or over-the-top dramatics. Just compelling true crime storytelling delivered in a slower, relaxed style for those who like to unwind with a fascinating story at the end of the day.
So get comfortable, take a minute, unwind and let me tell you a story.
Crime at Bedtime is written and hosted by Australian podcaster Jack Laurence.
Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel
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