Prash's Murder Map: True Crime Podcast

In June 1928, a newly married Chinese couple arrived in the Lake District to enjoy their honeymoon. Days later, 28-year-old Wai Sheung Siu was found strangled in woodland near Derwentwater. Suspicion fell on her husband as hidden jewellery, cryptic notes, and reports of mysterious men and secret societies became part of a sensational murder case.

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On 1 July 2026, we were interviewed by Giles Brown on Talk Radio Europe about our latest book, Wartime London's 'Bonnie and Clyde': The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten, which examines the 1944 crime spree that culminated in the shooting of private car hire driver George Edward Heath, known as the 'Cleft Chin Murder'. This is the recording of the interview in which we ...

In June 1982, the murder of Police Constable David Haigh sparked the largest manhunt Britain had seen at that time. As fugitive Barry Prudom moved through the forests and villages of North Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, he left more victims in his wake, including Sergeant David Winter. Hundreds of police officers, helicopters, armed units and a specialist wildernes...

On Christmas Day 1872, the body of 31-year-old Harriet Buswell was discovered in a Bloomsbury lodging house, her throat brutally cut inside a locked room. As detectives reconstructed her final hours, conflicting witness statements and rumours of a mysterious ‘German gentleman’ sent the investigation spiralling in the wrong direction. In this episode, we examine this baffling uns...

In October 1946, 48-year-old Dagmar Peters was found murdered on Wrotham Hill in Kent after a lorry driver spotted a blue shoe at the roadside. The investigation was led by Chief Inspector Robert Fabian, later immortalised in the TV series Fabian of the Yard. Suspicion fell on lorry driver Sidney Sinclair, a man with multiple aliases whose story soon unravelled under ques...