On Sunday 14th July 1918, my grandad's war diary states he was wounded during fighting in Palestine. The following day he was in Jerusalem Hospital then on to Gaza Hospital.
The War To End All Wars.
His story is here: mapperleypeople.co.uk/a-great-war-st…
Welcome to Psycho Killer, a fast growing UK Podcast that I am pleased to be working with.
If you’re obsessed with authentic true-crime stories you’ve come to the right place. Psycho Killer is a podcast made by real homicide investigators for true-crime connoisseurs.
Psycho Killer combines a detective’s powers of investigation with a journalist’s nose for a story to bring you insights and exposés from the darkest corners of the human psyche.
So go ahead. Get closer. We'll see you on the dark side.
Mapperley Golf Club in Nottingham receives one of their old medals from 1912. It was discovered in a house in Warrington by Robin Phillips who kindly got in touch with the club. Full story here. 🏌♂️⛳️
It started as a family outing to pick juniper berries.
It ended with the discovery of a charred body on a wooded mountainside near Bergen in Norway.
The Norwegian police ruled out foul play and and the coroner recorded a verdict of suicide, but speculation about the grisly discovery refused to go away.
It was 1970, the height of the Cold War. Stories of espionage started circulating.
The more amateur sleuths probed the mystery the more baffling the story became.
Psycho Killer decided to unravel the case of the so-called Isdal Woman.
Dr Sam Shepphard had it all – a brilliant career, a beautiful wife, a young family, and a gorgeous house overlooking Lake Eerie. Then, on Independence Day 1954, his dream life came tumbling down.
A bushy-haired burglar broke into the Sheppard residence and beat pregnant Marilyn Sheppard to death while she slept. At least, that was Dr Sheppard's story, and he stuck to it.