What They Hide: Hidden Crimes in Plain Sight. A True Crime Podcast

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Madeleine McCann Part 2: The Suspects, The Theories & The Search for Truth

Nearly two decades after Madeleine McCann disappeared from Apartment 5A in Praia da Luz, the case remains one of the most debated criminal investigations in modern history.

In Part 2, we examine what happened after the disappearance.

Why did Portuguese police make Kate and Gerry McCann arguidos? What did that legal s...

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For nearly two decades, one question has haunted investigators, journalists and millions of people around the world.

What happened to Madeleine McCann?

In the first part of this special two-part investigation, we leave the speculation behind and focus on what can actually be established.

From the McCann family’s arrival in the quiet Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz, to the events of the ...

The Disappearance of Shannon Matthews | The Search That Fooled Britain

In February 2008, nine-year-old Shannon Matthews vanished during the short walk home from school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

As the hours turned into days, one of the largest missing child investigations in British history unfolded. Hundreds of police officers, specialist search teams and thousands of volunteers searched desperately for a little girl who seemed...

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On Easter Sunday 2015, Victoria Cilliers stepped from an aircraft over the Wiltshire countryside expecting an ordinary skydive.

Moments later, her main parachute failed.

Then her reserve parachute failed too.

Falling from around 4,000 feet, Victoria should not have survived. Yet somehow she did.

At first, it appeared to be a freak accident. A tragic equipment failure that had nearly claimed the...

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On 26 April 1999, one of Britain’s most recognisable television presenters was shot dead outside her home in Fulham, West London.

Jill Dando had spent years bringing unsolved crimes into the nation’s living rooms through Crimewatch. Then, in a matter of seconds, she became the centre of one of the most baffling murder investigations in British h...

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On the morning of 14 September 2007, fourteen-year-old Andrew Gosden left his home in Doncaster and appeared to head to school as normal.

Instead, he wi...

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On 15 July 1992, 23-year-old Rachel Nickell took her two-year-old son for a walk on Wimbledon Common.

She never came home.

What followed was one of the most shocking murders in modern British history and one of the greatest investigative failures the UK has ever seen.

As police faced intense public pressure to catch the killer, they became convinced th...

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THE ESSEX BOYS – PART 2: JUSTICE OR MYSTERY?

In December 1995, Tony Tucker, Pat Tate and Craig Rolfe were found murdered inside a blue Range Rover on a remote farm track near Rettendon, Essex.

The murders shocked Britain.

But the controversy that followed would prove every bit as enduring as the crime itself.

In Part Two, we examine the investigation ...

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THE ESSEX BOYS – PART 1: THE LAST RIDE

On a cold December morning in 1995, a farmer made a discovery that would shock Britain.

Parked on a remote farm track near Rettendon, Essex, sat a blue Range Rover.

Inside were the bodies of Tony Tucker, Pat Tate and Craig Rolfe.

All three had been killed in what appeared to be a carefully planned execution.

The ...

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On the evening of 1 December 2018, 21-year-old British backpacker Grace Millane went on a Tinder date in Auckland, New Zealand.

CCTV footage showed Grace laughing, drinking and enjoying a night out in the city centre before entering the CityLife Hotel with a man she had met only hours earlier.

She ...

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In September 2016, 23-year-old RAF gunner Corrie McKeague vanished after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

CCTV captured Corrie walking into a loading bay known as The Horseshoe at 3:25am.

He was never definitively seen leaving.

What followed became one of Britain’s strangest a...

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A luxury honeymoon in South Africa.

A late-night taxi ride through Cape Town.

A sudden hijacking.

And within hours, a young bride was dead.

In November 2010, Anni Dewani travelled to South Africa with her new husband Shrien Dewani for what should have been the beginning of their married life together. Instead, the trip became one of the most controversial international murder cases of the mo...

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In July 1986, 25-year-old estate agent Suzy Lamplugh left her office in Fulham, London, for what should have been a routine property viewing.

The client’s name was written in the appointment diary as:

“Mr Kipper.”

She never returned.

Her white Ford Fiesta was later discovered abandoned several streets away. There were no signs of a struggle. No confirmed crime scene. And de...

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In the final chapter of our three-part series on Fred West and Rose West, we examine the trial of Rose West, the psychological collapse of the Cromwell Street investigation, and the lasting impact left behind by one of Britain’s most disturbing criminal cases.

We explore how hidden abuse survived for years behind an ordinary front door in Gloucester, the unanswered questions that still ...

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The excavation of 25 Cromwell Street has begun.

As investigators dig beneath the house in Gloucester, the scale of the crimes connected to Fred West and Rose West slowly begins to emerge.

In Part Two of this three-part series, we examine the victims linked to the Wests, the methods used to groom and control vulnerable young women, and the atmosphere of fear that existed inside one of Britain&...

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For years, 25 Cromwell Street appeared to be an ordinary family home in Gloucester.

Behind its walls lived Fred West and Rose West — a married couple whose crimes would eventually shock Britain and transform a quiet residential street into one of the most infamous crime scenes in modern history.

In Part One of this three-part series, we explore the early lives of Fred and Rose, the form...

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In September 2017, 63-year-old former Royal Navy officer Tony Parsons set out on a solo charity cycle ride through the Scottish Highlands.

A cancer survivor, Tony was riding home from Fort William to Tillicoultry to raise money for charity — a demanding journey across remote roads and open landscape.

But somewhere along the A82…

he vanished.

No witnesses.

No crash scene.

No bicy...

The shootings ended in October 2002.

But for many, that was only the beginning.

In the final part of this series, we move beyond the manhunt and into the aftermath—what happened after the arrests, the trials, and the headlines faded.

We examine the execution of John Allen Muhammad, the ongoing imprisonment and legal challenges surrounding Lee Boyd Malvo, and the complex questions around justice, punishment, and responsibility...

The shootings had terrorised the Washington region for weeks. Then, in the early hours of October 24th, 2002, everything changed.

At a roadside rest stop in Maryland, police surrounded a dark Chevrolet Caprice and arrested John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo as they slept inside.

But the arrests only answered one question.

Who they were.

They did not answer why.

In Part Two of this three-part series, we examine the dramatic...