May 11th, 2012 in the early hours of the morning, a fire raged throughout a semi-detached house in Derby. Thick smoke escaped through anywhere it could, billowing out onto the street, alerting neighbours who rushed to try and help those trapped insi...

At 13 Graham Frederick Young’s knowledge of chemistry was that of university student and he needed subjects that he had unlimited access to. That’s when he turned his attention to experimenting on his family. *** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED AS T...

The Secret intelligence service, or MI6, are a not so secret government agency that collates vast amounts of foreign intelligence and feeds this information back to the British government. The agency has been at forefront of intelligence gathering t...

In early December 2015 Katie Locke started communicating online with Carl Langdell. Carl painted a picture of the person he wished he was, while corresponding with Katie but looking from the outside in, through the rose tinted lens of social media,...

The resort town of Morecambe is situated on Morecambe Bay, a popular seaside resort on the north west coast of England. This town is home to the Stud Farm Holiday Park, a simple resort with lines of caravans, tents and mobile homes. Most people v...

During the afternoon of February 19th 2008 a young school girl was meant to return home after a school trip to a local swimming pool. Her disappearance united the community and ignited a nationwide search to find her. For three and half weeks, t...

Colchester is said to be the birthplace of some of the most famous nursery rhymes we are told as children to make us feel safe, and lull us to sleep. However, in the spring and summer of 2014, this Essex town would get a sharp wakeup call as two bru...

On the morning of Thursday March 21st 2002 John Darwin took his red canoe, called the Orca, out for a paddle at the seaside of Seaton Carew in Hartlepool. After John didn't return that evening, an extensive search was undertaken across the coastline...

Halloween 2010 - Joanna Brown was waiting at her home in Ascot, Berkshire expecting the return of her two children after they had been on a half-term visit to their fathers. She was in the middle of a costly divorce and it was taking it’s toll on n...

On the evening of Saturday September 11th in 1971 a robbery was taking place on Baker Street in London. Months of planning had finally come to fruition and Anthony Gavin, Reginald Tucker and Thomas Stephens were just hours away from getting the sco...