Crime at Bedtime

The murder of Arlene Fraser is one of Scotland's most remarkable "no body" cases. In April 1998, Arlene, a thirty-three-year-old mother of two, vanished from her home in New Elgin, Moray, after taking her children to school, and was never seen again. With no body, no weapon and no confession, the case against her estranged husband, Nat Fraser, came to rest on a single hauntin...

The murder of Lynette White is one of the most troubling cases in British criminal history, a crime that went wrong twice over. On Valentine's night in 1988, the twenty-year-old was killed in a flat in the Cardiff docklands, and three innocent men, who became known as the Cardiff Three, were convicted on the strength of a confession forced out of a vulnerable suspect. It took...

The disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh remains one of Britain's most enduring mysteries. On 28 July 1986, the twenty-five-year-old estate agent left her Fulham office to show a house to a client she had written in her diary only as "Mr Kipper", and she was never seen again. Her car was found abandoned that night, her body has never been found, and although police would later nam...

The World's End murders haunted Scotland for nearly four decades. In October 1977, two seventeen-year-old friends, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, left the World's End pub in Edinburgh's Old Town and were found murdered in the East Lothian countryside the next day. The case stayed cold for a generation, until DNA finally pointed to a man named Angus Sinclair, and a collapsed...

For more than a decade, the Golden State Killer terrorised California, committing at least thirteen murders and more than fifty rapes before vanishing without a trace. For forty years he had no name and no face, just a DNA profile that matched no one on earth. Then, in 2018, investigators uploaded that profile to a public genealogy website, traced his distant relatives throug...