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Prash’s Murder Map is a true crime podcast created and hosted by British true crime author Prash Ganendran. Each episode explores real murder cases from history and around the world...
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Prash’s Murder Map is a true crime podcast created and hosted by British true crime author Prash Ganendran. Each episode explores real murder cases from history and around the world through original, in-depth research that uncovers overlooked facts and forgotten details. Told objectively and without sensationalism, the series places every case in its true historical and social context, offering thoughtful, evidence-based storytelling.
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23 JAN 2026 · A routine patrol in northern France uncovered an abandoned car in May 1978, sparking a terrifying manhunt. Over months, shootings, bombings, and stolen vehicles terrorised the Oise region, while anonymous letters taunted law enforcement. When the pieces fell into place, it revealed a shocking truth: the Oise Killer had been hiding in plain sight all along.
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Intégrale l'Affaire Alain Lamare - Au bout de l'enquête, 2023
Alain Lamare - Les affaires criminelles qui ont marqué la Picardie
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18 JAN 2026 · In 1886, shootings in London were rare - even more so in broad daylight. In this episode, we explore the murder and robbery committed in a quiet Kentish Town road by George Finch, a would-be performer whose stage ambitions had faltered. Finch would avoid execution and go on to live a long life after his release from Broadmoor.
📘 Learn more about my upcoming book
Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten
https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/
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Explore the mysteries, folklore, and forgotten stories of Britain. Listen now: https://linktr.ee/curiousbritainpodcast
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Sources:
Popular Science Monthly (1875)
The People — Sunday 13 June 1886
Banbury Beacon — Saturday 19 June 1886
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette — Thursday 05 August 1886
St James's Gazette — Wednesday 04 August 1886
Jersey Express and Channel Islands Advertiser — Tuesday 10 August 1886
Kenilworth Advertiser — Saturday 25 November 1905
Old Bailey Online
Ancestry.co.uk
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9 JAN 2026 · In 1895, 22-year-old Robert Hudson took his wife Kitty and their infant son on holiday to Helmsley, North Yorkshire. When they departed hurriedly under suspicious circumstances, the landlady at their boarding house was surprised. Soon, Kitty Hudson’s relatives grew concerned as to her whereabouts and the Yorkshire Police set out to track a killer who used multiple aliases and sent false letters to throw them off his trail. This episode revisits a little-known Victorian double murder case from North Yorkshire.
📄 Full written case file, sources & newsletter: https://prashganendran.com/penny_dreadfuls/murder-on-roppa-moor-helmsley-1895/ 💡
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Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk
Manchester Courier – Tuesday 11 September 1894
Echo (London) – Monday 17 June 1895
Bingley Chronicle – Friday 21 June 1895
Loftus Advertiser – Friday 21 June 1895
Chard and Ilminster News – Saturday 22 June 1895
Bridlington Free Press – Saturday 22 June 1895
Wells Journal – Thursday 27 June 1895
Yorkshire Evening Post – Wednesday 19 June 1895
Huddersfield Daily Examiner – Monday 1 July 1895
Hull Daily Mail – Wednesday 3 July 1895
Stalybridge Reporter – Saturday 27 July 1895
Hull Daily Mail – Tuesday 13 August 1895
Bradford Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 13 August 1895
Weekly Dispatch (London) – Sunday 18 August 1895
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18 NOV 2025 · Dr Crippen and the Hilldrop Crescent Murder revisits one of Britain’s most infamous true crime cases of 1910. When Cora Crippen, better known on the music-hall stage as Belle Elmore vanished, her husband Hawley Harvey Crippen offered shifting explanations that soon aroused suspicion. A police search of their Hilldrop Crescent home uncovered human remains, pointing to a shocking murder. Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve attempted to flee Britain, but a transatlantic chase brought them into custody. The case became a sensation, cementing Dr Crippen as one of the most notorious figures in British criminal history.
📄 Full written case file & sources:
https://prashganendran.com/the-notorious-dr-crippen-and-the-hilldrop-crescent-murder/
Who Killed Kent Reeks?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6kghscLHJSpItxl6zXpM5P?si=0RZa0eBsQy-ps1mzGRpitg
https://youtu.be/aOvgSPFRZfU
📘 Learn more about my upcoming book
Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten
https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/
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Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap
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🎧 Listen to my other podcast Curious Britain
Explore the mysteries, folklore, and forgotten stories of Britain. Listen now: https://linktr.ee/curiousbritainpodcast
🙏 Thank You!
Sources:
Coniam, Matthew. Mr Crippen, Cora and the Body in the Basement.Pen & Sword True Crime. Rubenhold, Hallie. Story of a Murder. Transworld. Kindle Edition.
British Newspaper Archive
Ancestry.co.uk
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11 NOV 2025 · In February 1920, 15-year-old Kathleen Mary Drury left her home in Waterloo, Liverpool, and never returned. The following morning, her body was found near the Brooke Road allotments, her throat cut and no sign of the killer. Days later, the mutilated body of a railway signalman was discovered on the tracks at Sandhills Station but what linked the two deaths? This episode revisits an obscure and long-forgotten case from post-war Liverpool.
🔗 Prefer to read the case?
https://prashganendran.com/the-murder-of-mary-drury/
📘 Learn more about my upcoming book
Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten
https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/
📺 Subscribe for video versions
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap
💡 Support my work
Patreon (ad-free episodes): https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap
Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap
PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap
🎧 Listen to my other podcast Curious Britain
Explore the mysteries, folklore, and forgotten stories of Britain. Listen now: https://linktr.ee/curiousbritainpodcast
🙏 Thank You!
Your support means the world to me and helps keep Prash’s Murder Map alive. I truly appreciate it!
Sources:
Daily Mirror - Thursday 05 February 1920
Liverpool Daily Post - Friday 06 February 1920
Liverpool Echo - Thursday 05 February 1920
Liverpool Evening Express - Wednesday 04 February 1920
Nottingham Journal - Thursday 05 February 1920, Saturday 21 February 1920
Portsmouth Evening News - Tuesday 10 February 1920
Music:
Eternal Moment Even If I Go "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License "Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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24 OCT 2025 · In November 1925, police constable Herbert Burrows was found guilty of murdering publican Ernest Laight, his wife Doris, and their young son Robert at the Garibaldi Inn in Worcester. The discovery was made by the family’s charwoman, who raised the alarm after finding the doors unlocked and the till emptied. The case exposed the calculated betrayal of trust within a small community and led to Burrows becoming the last person from Worcester to be executed by hanging.
👉 For further information about my upcoming book, Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/
Subscribe to my YouTube channel for video versions of the podcast:
📺 https://www.youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap
💡 Support me on Patreon to get ad-free audio episodes
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💰 One-off contributions
☕ Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap
💵 PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap
🎧 Listen to my new podcast Curious Britain
Explore the mysteries, folklore, and forgotten stories of Britain. Listen now: https://open.spotify.com/show/5DaHZikOhsXP13vl36Oyqu
🙏 Thank You!
Your support means the world to me and helps keep Prash’s Murder Map alive. I truly appreciate it!
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk
Birmingham Daily Gazette - Wednesday 03 February 1926
Cheltenham Chronicle - Saturday 20 February 1926
Evening News 21 January 1987
Evening News (London) - Tuesday 26 June 1917
Evesham Standard & West Midland Observer - Saturday 05 December 1925
Hendon & Finchley Times - Friday 29 June 1917
Illustrated Police News - Thursday 25 February 1926
Dundee Courier - Friday 18 December 1925
Kingston Times - Saturday 30 January 1926
Reynolds's Newspaper - Sunday 06 December 1925, Sunday 21 February 1926
Sunday Express - Sunday 29 November1925
Daily News (London) - Monday 30 November 1925
Thomson's Weekly News - Saturday 05 December 1925
Westminster Gazette - Thursday 18 February 1926
Music:
"Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
"Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Even if I go
"Ominous" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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6 OCT 2025 · When career criminal Henry Thomas Gaskin returned from serving with the Royal Engineers, tunnelling under the trenches of the Western Front during WWI, he was furious to discover his wife’s infidelity. He lured her to a meeting place under the pretence of discussing their marriage, and Lizzie Gaskin was never seen alive again. This true crime case remains one of the West Midlands’ most brutal, yet often forgotten, murders.
Subscribe to my YouTube channel for video versions of the podcast:
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Website: https://prashganendran.com
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💰 One-off contributions
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🎧 Listen to my other podcast Curious Britain
Explore the mysteries, folklore, and forgotten stories of Britain. Listen now: https://linktr.ee/curiousbritainpodcast
🙏 Thank You!
Your support means the world to me and helps keep Prash’s Murder Map alive. I truly appreciate it!
Sources:
Walsall Observer - Saturday 02 June 1906
Lichfield Mercury - Friday 27 July 1906
Oxford Journal - Wednesday 13 March 1912
Lichfield Mercury - Friday 15 March 1912
Loftus Advertiser - Friday 12 April 1912
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24 SEP 2025 · In Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, a young Bosnian student named Gavrilo Princip fired a shot which would become the deadliest in history. With the help of co-conspirators from underground nationalist group Young Bosnia, he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie during their imperial visit to the capital. Their deaths set off a domino effect of ultimatums, alliances, and mobilisations across Europe, and within weeks, the continent was engulfed in World War I (The Great War), a conflict that ultimately claimed millions of lives. Was Princip a terrorist, a freedom fighter, or simply a desperate youth caught in history’s tide? This episode explores the life, motives, and legacy of the 19-year-old whose pistol transformed Bosnia’s struggle into a global war. Few individuals have altered the course of history so suddenly, or so tragically.
Subscribe to my YouTube channel for video versions of the podcast:
📺 https://www.youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap
💡 Support me on Patreon to get ad-free audio episodes
https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap
💰 One-off contributions
☕ Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap
💵 PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap
🎧 Listen to my new podcast Curious Britain
Explore the mysteries, folklore, and forgotten stories of Britain. Listen now: https://linktr.ee/curiousbritainpodcast
🙏 Thank You!
Your support means the world to me and helps keep Prash’s Murder Map alive. I truly appreciate it!
Sources:
Dedijer, Vladimir. The Road to Sarajevo. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966.
Butcher, Tim. The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War. London: Chatto & Windus, 2014.
Feuerlicht, Roberta Strauss. The Desperate Act: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo. London: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
Additional references:
Aichelburg, Wladimir. Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand und Artstetten. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 1986.
Woolf, Alex. Assassination in Sarajevo. Oxford: Heinemann, 2002.
Ullman, Harlan. A Handful of Bullets: How the Murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand Still Menaces the Peace. New York: Potomac Books, 2014.
Liulevicius, Vejas Gabriel. World War I: The “Great War”
Culpin, Christopher. Making History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996
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16 SEP 2025 · In 2025, two pocket watches were sold at an auction, prompting renewed interest in a 170 year old East Anglia murder case. They were made by skilled German craftsman Lorenz Beha, who came to England to set up his watchmaking business in Norfolk. On a cold November day in 1853, Beha was found murdered on a quiet country road by a local labourer who happened to be one of his customers. The timepieces are not the only reminders of this forgotten piece of history, as the killer’s death mask survives as a gruesome relic of this tragic case.
Subscribe to my YouTube channel for video versions of the podcast:
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https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap
💰 One-off contributions
☕ Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/prashsmurdermap
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🙏 Thank You!
Your support means the world to me and helps keep Prash’s Murder Map alive. I truly appreciate it!
Music:
"Long Note Two" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License "Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) - ending Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
"Long Note Three" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) - Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Sources:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gmr362p53o
A Brief History of Tittleshall People Compiled by Robert Box
Morning Advertiser - Friday 25 November 1853
Norfolk News - Saturday 26 November 1853
Norfolk Chronicle - Saturday 26 November 1853
Worcester Journal - Saturday 26 November 1853
Norwich Mercury - Saturday 25 March 1854
Evening Mail - Monday 27 March 1854
London Evening Standard - Monday 10 April 1854
Lynn Museum, https://www.lynnmuseum.norfolk.gov.uk
Norwich Castle Museum, https://www.norwichcastle.norfolk.gov.uk
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21 AUG 2025 · Just days before Christmas 1959, the Edencroft Hostel in Birmingham became the scene of a shocking murder. Stephanie Baird, 29, was brutally killed by 27-year-old Patrick Byrne, a man hiding a history of stalking and violent sexual fantasies. The case revealed the terrifying progression from secret obsession to murder, leaving investigators to confront one of Britain’s most disturbing true crimes.
👉 For further information about my upcoming book, Wartime London’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’: The Crime Spree of Betty Jones and Karl Hulten https://prashganendran.com/the-cleft-chin-murder/
Subscribe to my YouTube channel for video versions of the podcast:
📺 https://www.youtube.com/@prashsmurdermap
💡 Support me on Patreon to get ad-free audio episodes
https://www.patreon.com/prashsmurdermap
💰 Make a one-off contribution
Every little bit helps! If you'd like to make a one-time donation, you can do so via PayPal here: https://www.paypal.me/prashsmurdermap
🎧 Listen to my new podcast Curious Britain
Explore the mysteries, folklore, and forgotten stories of Britain. Listen now: https://linktr.ee/curiousbritainpodcast
🙏 Thank You!
Your support means the world to me and helps keep Prash’s Murder Map alive. I truly appreciate it!
Sources:
Ancestry
Belfast News-Letter - Thursday 25 February 1960
Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 11 February 1960
Birmingham Evening Mail Wed, 23 Mar 1960
Birmingham Daily Post - Thursday 24 March 1960
Daily Mirror - Thursday 24 March 1960
Daily News (London) - Friday 25 March 1960
Newcastle Journal - Friday 25 March 1960
Sunday Express - Sunday 27 December 1959
Birmingham Weekly Mercury - Sunday 05 December 1999
Birmingham Murder Hunt, British Pathe
Prash’s Murder Map is a true crime podcast created and hosted by British true crime author Prash Ganendran. Each episode explores real murder cases from history and around the world...
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Prash’s Murder Map is a true crime podcast created and hosted by British true crime author Prash Ganendran. Each episode explores real murder cases from history and around the world through original, in-depth research that uncovers overlooked facts and forgotten details. Told objectively and without sensationalism, the series places every case in its true historical and social context, offering thoughtful, evidence-based storytelling.
show less
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| Author | Prash Ganendran |
| Organization | Prash Ganendran |
| Categories | True Crime , Documentary |
| Website | www.spreaker.com |
| prashsmurdermap@gmail.com |
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