Podcasts
BBC, Spring 2024
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Who are the citizen investigators taking justice into their own hands?
An unidentified murder victim, a schoolteacher's suicide, the brutal dismembering of animals. The police have investigated these cases, but our sleuths aren’t content with the answers.
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Over five episodes, Home Sleuth examines the role that citizen detectives play in investigating crimes and mysteries - from the original internet sleuth in the 1990s through to present-day true crime YouTubers.
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Listen here.
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Spotify, Winter, 2022
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In 2005 Olivia Newton John's ex-boyfriend Patrick McDermott vanished without a trace. He was last seen taking a fishing trip off the coast of LA. When he failed to show up to a family gathering 10 days later, he was finally reported missing.
Then, in 2006, sightings of him were reported in Mexico. Did he fake his own death? This is a story about stardom, the media and a mystery that continues to fascinate.
Poppy Damon and Alice Fiennes investigate this case over six parts. Listen here.
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Spotify, Spring 2021
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Pseudocide is the podcast series about faking your own death. Over nine stories, a bomb explodes in a Sydney suburb; murder is afoot in Texas; a spy is buried with secrets; and a nun goes on the run. What’s it like to live twice?
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In each episode of this series we dig into a different act of death fraud - but we also examine what lies behind that fakery.
In the process, we meet a cast of intriguing characters - including a Ukrainian hitman, a prankster who is out for revenge and an early internet sleuth. Listen here.
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Audible, Autumn 2019
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Some people amass artwork. For others, it's stamps. But why would you want to collect the possessions of a serial killer?
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In this series, we travel from New York to Scotland to probe one of the internet’s strangest subcultures – the people from all over the world who can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on so-called “murderabilia”. From Dennis Nilsen to Charles Manson, we explore a grisly yet lucrative trade in everything from handwritten letters to prisoners' hairbrushes.
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We examine society's seemingly insatiable appetite for the macabre, and ask if there's a link between the market for serial killer collectables and the true crime podcasting boom. Listen here.
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