Buried Evidence

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9 Oct 2026 · 40 min

Death in the Arctic: Franklin's Lost Expedition - Part 1

London, 1848. Three years have passed since Sir John Franklin and 128 officers and men sailed into the Arctic, in search of the Northwest Passage. No letters, no survivors, no ships. What nobody yet realises is that Franklin's men may already be dead, buried across a frozen landscape thousands of miles away. In the first of this two-part episode, we uncover the 180-year-old mystery of Franklin's ill-fated expedition. A mystery that has become one of the biggest cold cases - literally - in exploration history. Buried Evidence is part of The Crime Desk. Subscribe today for ad-free listening,…

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   S1 · E6 · 2 Oct 2026 · 39 min

   Here Be Witches: The Salem Witch Trials

   It’s the 19th of July 1692 and thirty-nine year old Sarah Good, is the youngest of five women being trundled through Salem Village to a hill on the outskirts of the settlement. They are to be hanged as witches. The events in Salem would see over 200 individuals accused, dozens of confessions, 30 convictions, 19 executions, a number of deaths in prison, and a seventy-year-old man tortured to death by pressing. The trials have framed the way we think about mass hysteria - inspiring countless novels, tv shows and perhaps most famously Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. But what really went on? Who…

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   S1 · E5 · 25 Sep 2026 · 40 min

   Lizzie Borden Took An Axe…

   As the legend of Lizzie Borden comes to Netflix, we visit one of the most notorious murder mysteries in American history. A brutal double murder that inspired one of the darkest nursery rhymes of all time. But what do we really know about this case? How much of it is a ghoulish sensation dreamed up by a press hungry to sell a good story? In this episode we go beyond criminal legend to explore the real case of Lizzie Borden that begins in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August,1892, in a modest house on Second Street. Buried Evidence is part of The Crime Desk. Subscribe today for ad-free…

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   S1 · E4 · 18 Sep 2026 · 31 min

   Ötzi: Murder on the Mountain

   It's September 1991, two hikers in the Alps believe they’ve stumbled across the body of a climber who’d lost his way. He lies face-down in the ice. His arm caught awkwardly beneath him. A shoulder protruding from melting snow. Police are alerted. Recovery teams arrive. And then someone notices the axe. Not iron. But Copper. At least five thousand years old. This man didn’t die in the mountains by accident. Someone killed him and the frozen Alps kept the evidence. Buried Evidence is brought to you by The Crime Desk. Subscribe at thecrimedesk.com to get every new episode a week before anyone…

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   S1 · E3 · 11 Sep 2026 · 54 min

   The Tragedy of the Titanic

   11.39pm, 14 April 1912: A grand new Ocean liner, the RMS Titanic, cruises across the North Atlantic. It’s 4 days into a weeklong voyage from Southampton to New York. Most of the passengers have returned to their cabins after the evening’s dinner, music and socialising. Experienced merchant sailors Frederick Fleet and Reginald Lee man the crows nest, 29 metres above deck level. Frederick is the first to spot the dark and terrifying mass ahead of them. He immediately rings the warning bell three times and phones down to the ship’s sixth officer James Moody, warning… "Iceberg! Right Ahead!"…

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   S1 · E1 · 4 Sep 2026 · 34 min

   St. Brice's Day Massacre

   This story begins not on a battlefield, but beneath one of the most prestigious colleges in the world. In 2008, excavations at St John’s College, Oxford uncovered a mass grave of thirty-five men, buried without ceremony. Nothing about the burial looked normal. These weren’t individuals laid to rest. They were dumped. Bodies overlapping, limbs twisted, no sign of burial rites. And then the injuries become clear. Deep cuts to bone. Fractured skulls and the signs of burning. This wasn’t a disease. This wasn't a famine. This was premeditated violence. And it might just be the physical evidence…

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   S1 · E2 · 4 Sep 2026 · 39 min

   The Original Serial Killer

   We tend to think about serial killers as being a modern phenomenon, but in France during the Hundred Years War, we find the story of a monster straight out of a horror film. A sadist, who kidnaps and murders young children to sacrifice them to the devil. In perhaps our darkest case yet, we investigate Gilles de Rais. Military hero, comrade to Joan of Arc, wealthy aristocrat and… the most depraved of serial killers? Buried Evidence is brought to you by The Crime Desk. Subscribe at thecrimedesk.com to get every new episode a week before anyone else, completely ad-free, plus full access to our…

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