Tragedy Unravelled

Summer, August 2005 in Bayswater, London.  Hotel guests reported hearing an argument.  Staff claimed they saw nothing unusual.  Security cameras did not catch anyone suspicious.  And yet Newton Thompson was found dead inside a hotel room.  Newton wasn't famous.  He wasn't powerful.  This podcast looks at the final hours of his life - from the mysterious telephone call that took him away from the hotel, to the chilling discovery that was made the following morning

Beaulieu Heights was populated with about 20 people.  It was dark and the densely populated woodland hid the glow of distant streetlights.  Someone was heard running through the walkways, and shortly afterwards, in the early hours of the morning in the summer of 2002, Geoffrey Houghton-Windsor was found lying unconscious beneath a tree in a park in south London.  A piece of jewellery was found lying beside him.  Despite interviews and years of unanswered questions, no arrests or convictions were ever made.  To this day - more than 20 years later - the murder remains unsolved and the park still carries the shadow of that night 

In the winter of 1986, a quiet community was shaken by a crime so brutal it still haunts those who remember it.  Dr Danuta Kaczmarska, or "Dr Kay" as she was more commonly known, was murdered with an axe before her body was set alight in an attempt to erase the truth.  Decades later, the questions, rumours and horrifying details surrounding her death continue to cast a long shadow.  In this episode, we examine the events leading up to the murder, the investigation that followed and the chilling story at the centre of one of the most disturbing crimes of the 1980s