How a SNAIL in a Drink Would Change the World
In 1928, May Donoghue was drinking ginger beer at a café in Paisley when a friend poured the last of an opaque bottle into her glass. Out came the decomposed remains of a snail, something she could no...
26 Aug 25min
The SENSELESS Murder of Joanna Yeates : Detectives Thought a PIZZA BOX Could Solve Crime
In December 2010, 25-year-old landscape architect Joanna Yeates vanished after a night out in Clifton, Bristol. CCTV showed her buying a Tesco pizza on the way home but when detectives searched her fl...
24 Aug 35min
The Mystery of the Princes in the Tower
In 1483, 12-year-old King Edward V and his nine-year-old brother, Richard, Duke of York, were placed in the Tower of London by their uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, while Edward awaited his corona...
21 Aug 30min
The Day that Changed America: The Oklahoma City Bombing
At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a rented Ryder truck packed with explosives detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The blast destroyed much of the building, killed 1...
19 Aug 53min
THE Teacup Poisoner : Graham Young
Graham Young was only 14 when he began secretly slipping poison into his family’s food and tea, treating their sickness like a private scientific experiment and recording the effects in his diary. His...
17 Aug 30min
The Last Woman to Be Hanged in England : Ruth Ellis
On Easter Sunday in 1955, Ruth Ellis waited outside a Hampstead pub for her lover, racing driver David Blakely, then shot him dead in the street as he walked toward his car. She confessed almost immed...
14 Aug 39min
Fred the Head: British MURDER Victim Unidentified for 52 Years
In 1971, an off-duty constable walking near an abandoned flint mill beside the River Trent in Burton upon Trent found what he first thought was a piece of cement, until he saw it was part of a human s...
12 Aug 29min
The City That Rioted Over CHEESE
At Nottingham’s Goose Fair in 1766, cheese became a symbol of something much bigger: hunger, profiteering, and a town pushed too far. After failed harvests sent food prices soaring, locals watched Lin...
10 Aug 14min
