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Crime at Bedtime

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 sto

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New episodes: Several times a week
Typical length: 28 min
Latest: 14 Oct 2026
Language: English

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14 Oct 2026 · 28 minNew

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. For decades, everyone seemed to know roughly what had happened, a feud, a beating in a hotel lobby, a revenge killing, yet no one was ever charged. The case drifted into legend and conspiracy theory. Then, in a twist no one could have scripted, the man who orchestrated it was brought down largely by…

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S2 · E79 · 13 Oct 2026 · 28 minNew
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. His family dismissed it as a child’s fantasy, until they travelled to Agra and found the shop, the widow, and the murdered man, all exactly as the boy had described. Then there were the two birthmarks on Titu’s head, which matched the entry and exit wounds recorded in the dead man’s autopsy.…
S1 · E215 · 11 Oct 2026 · 30 min
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 American history. Beneath the surface, Baumeister was luring young men from the gay bars of Indianapolis to his property and murdering them, burying their remains across the grounds where his own children played. The truth only began to surface when his thirteen-year-old son found a human skull in the…
S1 · E214 · 7 Oct 2026 · 28 min
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 was driven away and found shot dead the next morning. What began as an apparent random carjacking exploded into a global scandal when the men convicted of her murder claimed her own husband, British businessman Shrien Dewani, had paid to have her killed. He fought extradition for three years, stood…
S2 · E78 · 6 Oct 2026 · 25 min
The Hexham Heads: The Cursed Stones and the Werewolf
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S1 · E213 · 4 Oct 2026 · 31 min
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 every witness into silence and walked free from charge after charge. Then, on a July morning in 1981, he was shot dead in his truck on the main street, in broad daylight, in front of dozens of people. Not one of them would say who pulled the trigger. More than forty years later, no one has ever been…
S1 · E212 · 30 Sep 2026 · 28 min
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 the lorry. To pull it off, they kidnapped the depot manager, and abducted his wife and nine-year-old son at gunpoint, forcing him to choose between the money he was paid to protect and the lives of his family. But for all their meticulous planning, the gang's getaway was a shambles that left a trail…
S2 · E77 · 29 Sep 2026 · 27 min
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, breathless and terrified, saying men were chasing him and that he'd run out into a field. He begged the operator to hurry. Then the line went dead. When his brother reached the abandoned truck minutes later, Brandon was gone. He was so afraid of whatever was out there that he called the police despite…
S1 · E211 · 27 Sep 2026 · 31 min
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 himself, cut and burned, evidence of murder that Kenyan authorities tried to pass off as an animal attack to protect the tourism industry. What followed was one father's decades-long, multi-million-pound battle against two governments to force the world to admit his daughter had been killed. Three men…
S1 · E210 · 23 Sep 2026 · 29 min
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 phone evidence. We lay out the full case for his guilt and the full case for his innocence, the vacated and reinstated conviction, his 2025 release, and the girl too often forgotten at the centre of it. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the girl who was forgotten. SIGNAL AWARDS…
S2 · E76 · 22 Sep 2026 · 29 min
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 lay out the evidence, the sceptics' case, and why, nearly 40 years on, no one can explain it. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the figure by the quarry. SIGNAL AWARDS 2026 VOTE HERE Become a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now for ealry and ad free access from as little as…
S1 · E209 · 20 Sep 2026 · 32 min
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 history, and a scrap of DNA under a fingernail, to convict Telstra technician Bradley Edwards two decades later. We tell the full story, the forensic breakthrough, and why one victim's killer was never convicted. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the fibre and the fingernail.…
S1 · E208 · 16 Sep 2026 · 25 min
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, near the village of Schull, as a private retreat. Two days before Christmas, she was found beaten to death near the gate of that cottage, in her nightclothes, on a lonely Irish hillside. The investigation that followed became infamous, both for what went wrong in its earliest hours and for the man it…
S2 · E75 · 15 Sep 2026 · 24 min
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 before he disappeared, made a series of long and secret road trips that he explained to no one. On a sunny Sunday two days before Christmas, he drove 135 miles to a retirement community in Henderson, Nevada, a place where he knew no one and had no reason on earth to be. A residential security camera…
S1 · E207 · 13 Sep 2026 · 27 min
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 Wimbledon Common in southwest London, in broad daylight, in front of her two-year-old son, who was the only witness. Under enormous public pressure, the police fixed on a local dog walker named Colin Stagg and, with no forensic evidence against him, mounted one of the most controversial undercover…
S2 · E71 · 12 Sep 2026 · 27 min
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 five-year-old daughter Elizabeth on Burgh Marsh, overlooking the Solway Firth in Cumberland, England. It was an ordinary family day out on an ordinary spring afternoon. But when the film came back from Kodak, the middle photograph showed something that should not have been there: a tall figure in what…
S1 · E206 · 9 Sep 2026 · 28 min
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 Chadwick reinvented herself a dozen times before arriving in Cleveland as the wife of a respectable doctor. Then she staged her masterpiece. She had herself driven to Andrew Carnegie's New York mansion, went inside on a pretext, and let a banker "accidentally" glimpse a forged promissory note for…
S2 · E74 · 8 Sep 2026 · 26 min
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 on a popular jungle trail near Boquete, Panama, on a bright afternoon. They photographed themselves smiling at the foot of the trail at 11 in the morning. They never came back. Six hours later, one of their phones dialled the emergency number. It did not connect, and for the next ten days the phones…
S1 · E204 · 6 Sep 2026 · 24 min
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 dealer named Forrest "Butch" Bowyer, presented a fake search warrant, and handcuffed Butch and his 12-year-old son, Brett. It was not an arrest. It was a robbery, and it would end in a shallow grave in the rural darkness. The two men took Butch's money, drove father and son to a remote site, cut Butch's…
S1 · E204 · 2 Sep 2026 · 30 min
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 least six people in 1940s England for their money, and then dissolved their bodies in drums of concentrated sulphuric acid. He did it because he was convinced of one thing: that without a body, there could be no conviction for murder. He had misunderstood the law, catastrophically. And he had also…
S2 · E73 · 1 Sep 2026 · 26 min
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 father. He could not use a candle without burning himself. He recoiled from meat and drank only water. And when he could finally tell his own story, it was almost unbelievable: he claimed to have spent his entire life imprisoned alone in a darkened cell, never seeing another human face. Kaspar Hauser…
S1 · E203 · 30 Aug 2026 · 25 min
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 nuclear-scarred atolls of the Pacific. On the evening of the 10th of August 2017, she boarded a homemade submarine in Copenhagen harbour to interview its inventor, a celebrated Danish engineer named Peter Madsen. She sent her boyfriend a photograph of herself smiling aboard the vessel. It is very…
S1 · E202 · 26 Aug 2026 · 24 min
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 alleges, never having been a lawyer at all. It is a story of two men with almost the same name. One, Brian Mwenda Ntwiga, was a genuine, fully qualified advocate whose professional identity sat dormant in an online database. The other, Brian Mwenda Njagi, allegedly hijacked that identity, took over the…
S2 · E72 · 25 Aug 2026 · 27 min
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, each a block of strange symbols mixing letters, numbers, and astrological signs. He promised that his codes would reveal his identity. The first cipher, 408 characters long, was solved in about a week by a schoolteacher and his wife at their kitchen table, but it revealed only a chilling boast, not a…
S1 · E201 · 23 Aug 2026 · 29 min
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 federal judge known to defence lawyers as "Maximum John", for the harsh sentences he handed drug traffickers, walked out of his home to drive to work and was shot once in the back with a high-powered rifle. Behind the killing was a quarter-of-a-million-dollar contract, paid by an El Paso drug kingpin…
S1 · E200 · 19 Aug 2026 · 35 min
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 dead on his own front steps by a 27-year-old man named Andrew Cunanan. But Gianni Versace was not Andrew Cunanan's first victim. He was his fifth. Over the previous three months, Cunanan had murdered four other people across four American states: Jeffrey Trail, a decorated Navy veteran; David Madson,…
S1 · E199 · 16 Aug 2026 · 32 min
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 in Detroit, the reigning American champion Nancy Kerrigan finished a practice session and walked down a corridor toward her dressing room. A man stepped out from behind a television cameraman, swung a police baton at her right knee, and ran. The footage of Kerrigan sitting on the floor, clutching her…
S1 · E198 · 12 Aug 2026 · 34 min
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. It had blood on its coat. The dog belonged, as the neighbours knew, to a 35-year-old woman named Nicole Brown Simpson. She lived, with her two young children, in a Mediterranean-style condominium at 875 South Bundy Drive. She was the ex-wife of one of the most famous men in the United States: the…
S2 · E70 · 11 Aug 2026 · 31 min
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 munitions plant seven miles north of town. The plant had been decommissioned since the end of the Second World War. It was known, to everyone in Mason County, as the TNT Area. It consisted of several hundred acres of overgrown vegetation, crumbling concrete storage bunkers, and an abandoned power plant…
S1 · E197 · 9 Aug 2026 · 34 min
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 them were Australians. The younger of the two was 31 years old. His name was Andrew Chan. He had been born in Sydney to Chinese immigrant parents. He had, ten years earlier, at the age of 21, been the ringleader of an operation to smuggle 8.3 kilograms of heroin from the Indonesian island of Bali into…

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Crime at Bedtime is a English true crime podcast from Jack Laurence. Melo plays each episode straight from the publisher's own feed — no ads added, no account needed — and remembers where you stopped, in this browser only.

Publisher: Jack Laurence
Language: English
Category: True Crime
New episodes: Several times a week
Typical length: 28 min
Latest episode: 14 Oct 2026
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