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True Crime

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Season 2, Episode 1

462 Days: Kidnapped in Somalia P1

In August 2008, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan travelled to Somalia on assignment. It would be the last decision he made as a free man for nearly a year and a half. Within days of arriving, Nigel and Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were ambushed on the outskirts of Mogadishu and taken captive by members of a militant group. What followed was 462 days of unimaginable physical and psychological torment, starvation, isolation, beatings, and a desperate will to survive in conditions that would break most people within weeks. But this is not just a story about captivity. It is a story about what happens to a human being when everything is stripped away. The fear, the negotiation, the impossible decisions made by families on the other side of the world trying to bring their loved ones home. The moments of dark humour and unexpected humanity in the most inhuman of circumstances. And the daring escape attempt that changed everything. Then there is the question that haunts every survivor, who do you become on the other side? How do you rebuild a life, a sense of self, a relationship with the world, after 462 days in hell? In this series Jack Laurence sits down with Nigel Brennan for an extraordinarily candid conversation spanning the months before the kidnapping, the ordeal itself, and the long and difficult road to recovery. It is one of the most remarkable survival stories ever told. Nigels book is avaliable here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 1, Episode 208

Two Days Before Christmas: The Murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier

The murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in December 1996 is one of the most infamous unsolved crimes in Irish history, and one of the strangest legal sagas in modern Europe. Sophie Toscan du Plantier was a 39-year-old French film producer who had bought an isolated holiday cottage in West Cork, near the village of Schull, as a private retreat. Two days before Christmas, she was found beaten to death near the gate of that cottage, in her nightclothes, on a lonely Irish hillside. The investigation that followed became infamous, both for what went wrong in its earliest hours and for the man it fixed upon: an English journalist named Ian Bailey, who was arrested twice, never charged in Ireland, and always maintained his innocence. And there the case entered genuinely extraordinary territory, because a single murder came to be answered by two countries in two opposite ways. In this episode of Crime at Bedtime, we tell the full story of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier: the killing on the West Cork hillside, the flawed investigation, the chief suspect who was never convicted in Ireland but was tried and found guilty in France in a court he never attended, the three separate Irish refusals to extradite him, and a mystery that his death has now sealed, perhaps forever. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of two days before Christmas. Become a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now for ealry and ad free access from as little as $1.69 a week. All the details here Subscribe to Crime at Bedtimes Youtube channel HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 2, Episode 16

Getting Jnr Home - P1

Evaristo Salas was accused of firing two shots into Jose Arreola’s head in Sunnyside in November 1995. He was tried as an adult and convicted by a jury of first-degree murder three days after his 16th birthday and was sentenced to nearly 33 years in prison. The gun used in the murder was never recovered and there was no physical evidence linking Jnr to the killing. His conviction was based on the testimony of a police informant, Bill Bruhn, and Arreola’s girlfriend, Ofelia Cortez (formerly Gonzalez), who was there when her partner was shot. Many TV shows have uncovered horrific truths about the so called 'evidence' in this case, yet Jnr still remains incarcerated. This is his story, as told by him. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 1, Episode 207

The Wrong Man: The Murder of Rachel Nickell

The murder of Rachel Nickell in July 1992 is one of the most notorious crimes in British history, and one of the most catastrophic miscarriages of justice British policing has ever produced. Rachel Nickell was a 23-year-old former model and devoted young mother when she was attacked and killed on Wimbledon Common in southwest London, in broad daylight, in front of her two-year-old son, who was the only witness. Under enormous public pressure, the police fixed on a local dog walker named Colin Stagg and, with no forensic evidence against him, mounted one of the most controversial undercover operations in British history, a so-called honeytrap that a judge would later condemn as deceptive conduct of the grossest kind. Colin Stagg was innocent. And while the police pursued the wrong man, the real killer, Robert Napper, remained free, and took two more lives before he was stopped. In this episode of Crime at Bedtime, we tell the full story of the murder of Rachel Nickell: the killing on the common, the disastrous profiling and the honeytrap, the collapse of the case at the Old Bailey, the terrible cost of pursuing the wrong man, and the tiny speck of DNA that finally, sixteen years later, identified the true killer and cleared an innocent man's name. We tell it with care, and we keep Rachel, and every life this failure touched, at its heart. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the wrong man. Become a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now for ealry and ad free access from as little as $1.69 a week. All the details here Subscribe to Crime at Bedtimes Youtube channel HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 2, Episode 14

Hollys Hell P1

Holly Deane-Johns grew up in a comfortable suburb of Perth, Western Australia. But beneath the surface of a privileged childhood lay a darkness that would shape the entire course of her life. When her mother became addicted to heroin, the drug found its way into their home — and into Holly's life — before she was old enough to fully understand what it would cost her. By her mid-twenties, Holly found herself in Bangkok facing a sentence that would take her breath away. Caught attempting to traffic heroin out of Thailand, she was sentenced to thirty one years in Lard Yao Women's Prison — one of the most notorious and brutal correctional facilities in the world. A place so far removed from anything she had ever known that she struggled to find the words to describe it. This is the story of how a girl from Perth ended up behind bars in a foreign country, what surviving seven years inside a Thai prison actually looks like, and how Holly Deane-Johns found a way not just to endure — but to come back. What I Survived is available on all major podcast platforms. get Hollys book here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 1, Episode 206

The Carnegie Secret: The Great Con of Cassie Chadwick

The great con of Cassie Chadwick is one of the most audacious frauds in American history, and it was built on a single, brilliant lie: that she was the secret illegitimate daughter of Andrew Carnegie, the richest man in the world. Born a poor railway worker's daughter in rural Canada, Cassie Chadwick reinvented herself a dozen times before arriving in Cleveland as the wife of a respectable doctor. Then she staged her masterpiece. She had herself driven to Andrew Carnegie's New York mansion, went inside on a pretext, and let a banker "accidentally" glimpse a forged promissory note for millions, signed in Carnegie's name. She swore him to secrecy, confident he would do exactly the opposite, and soon the bankers of Ohio were falling over themselves to lend her a fortune, certain they held a private claim on the wealth of Andrew Carnegie himself. The genius of it was that Carnegie had never met her, never signed a thing, and had no idea she existed. In this episode of Crime at Bedtime, we tell the full story of the great con of Cassie Chadwick: how the scheme worked, why the greed of America's bankers became the very thing that protected her, the small-town bank she brought crashing down, and the single question no one thought to ask until it was far too late. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the Carnegie secret. Become a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now for ealry and ad free access from as little as $1.69 a week. All the details here Subscribe to Crime at Bedtimes Youtube channel HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 1, Episode 10

Sean Langan: Kidnapped by the Taliban | P1: meeting the Taliban

Kidnapped by the Taliban: How Documentary Filmmaker Sean Langan Was Taken Hostage in Pakistan British documentary filmmaker Sean Langan had covered war zones for years—Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria. He was no stranger to danger. But in 2008, when he set out to make contact with the Haqqani Network in Pakistan's tribal regions, he was walking into something far more dangerous than he realized. This is the story of how Sean Langan was kidnapped by Taliban militants while trying to film a documentary about one of the world's most feared terrorist organizations. We explore his journey into Pakistan's lawless frontier, the role of fixers in war journalism, the deadly landscape for Western journalists between 2001 and 2008, and the moment everything went wrong. From Daniel Pearl to Nick Berg to Margaret Hassan—Western journalists, aid workers, and contractors were being kidnapped and executed at an alarming rate. Sean knew the risks. He'd seen the headlines. He'd reported on the stories. And he went anyway. This is Part 1 of Sean Langan's survival story: his life before his capture, how he became a war journalist and the psychology of taking risks in war zones. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 2, Episode 2

462 Days: Kidnapped in Somalia P2

In August 2008, Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan travelled to Somalia on assignment. It would be the last decision he made as a free man for nearly a year and a half. Within days of arriving, Nigel and Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were ambushed on the outskirts of Mogadishu and taken captive by members of a militant group. What followed was 462 days of unimaginable physical and psychological torment, starvation, isolation, beatings, and a desperate will to survive in conditions that would break most people within weeks. But this is not just a story about captivity. It is a story about what happens to a human being when everything is stripped away. The fear, the negotiation, the impossible decisions made by families on the other side of the world trying to bring their loved ones home. The moments of dark humour and unexpected humanity in the most inhuman of circumstances. And the daring escape attempt that changed everything. Then there is the question that haunts every survivor, who do you become on the other side? How do you rebuild a life, a sense of self, a relationship with the world, after 462 days in hell? In this series Jack Laurence sits down with Nigel Brennan for an extraordinarily candid conversation spanning the months before the kidnapping, the ordeal itself, and the long and difficult road to recovery. It is one of the most remarkable survival stories ever told. Image Credit: Nigel Brennan Nigels book is avaliable here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 2, Episode 15

Hollys Hell P2

Holly Deane-Johns grew up in a comfortable suburb of Perth, Western Australia. But beneath the surface of a privileged childhood lay a darkness that would shape the entire course of her life. When her mother became addicted to heroin, the drug found its way into their home — and into Holly's life — before she was old enough to fully understand what it would cost her. By her mid-twenties, Holly found herself in Bangkok facing a sentence that would take her breath away. Caught attempting to traffic heroin out of Thailand, she was sentenced to thirty one years in Lard Yao Women's Prison — one of the most notorious and brutal correctional facilities in the world. A place so far removed from anything she had ever known that she struggled to find the words to describe it. This is the story of how a girl from Perth ended up behind bars in a foreign country, what surviving seven years inside a Thai prison actually looks like, and how Holly Deane-Johns found a way not just to endure — but to come back. What I Survived is available on all major podcast platforms. get Hollys book here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Season 1, Episode 14

The tiktok Fugitive Part 1

First of all, thank you so much for the incredible support of the new series What I Survived. I'm currently working hard on Season 2 with some incredible survival stories on the way. For those of you who are new to my work, I thought I'd introduce you to another series I created a few years ago. 'Wanted' tells the stories of men and women who are, or who have been, wanted by authorities. From international kidnapping and FBI and Interpol watch lists, to cartel hitmen, MI5 and even a prison escape. Welcome to wanted! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is part one of the TikTok fugitive. I was alerted to Chad's story when I was tagged in his TikTok, the TikTok fugitive. I was intrigued by his story and just had to know more, so after getting InTouch we arranged to sit down for an interview. Chad is a former high level Microsoft employee and a WANTED man, wanted by the FBI for apparent international kidnapping. He's accused of kidnapping his son and taking him overseas, this was a custody battle like no other. Chad and his former wife separated in early 2000's and so began a lengthy and strained legal battle that would go on for years, until eventually things would take an incredible turn. So out of control would it become that in 2009 Chad would be arrested in Bulgaria by agents acting on an Interpol red noticed sparked by the FBI and placed in a Bulgarian prison where he would have to fight against a US extradition order. Millions of dollars and countless government resources would be put into trying to get Chad back in to the Us, three failed extraditions and an apparent kidnap attempt but why? Chad's son, now 27, has always said he was never kidnapped, in fact he's been on many TV shows, as an adult to explain as much, yet Chad is STILL wanted. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What I Survived is a true survival podcast featuring extraordinary first-hand stories from people who survived kidnapping, hostage situations, disasters, accidents and other extreme life-or-death ordeals. Each story takes you back to who these people were before everything changed, then inside the moment their lives were pushed to the edge — shipwrecked at sea for weeks, held captive by terrorists, falling 15,000 feet from a plane after a parachute failure, and other extraordinary fights for survival. Through intimate first-hand accounts, we follow the ordeal as it happened, the decisions made under unimaginable pressure, and the resilience and will it took to survive. Then we explore what came after — the physical and psychological recovery, the impact of trauma, and the process of rebuilding a life forever altered. What I Survived is hosted by Australian podcaster Jack Laurence, creator of the award-winning podcasts One Minute Remaining, Wanted and more. Follow What I Survived for remarkable true stories of survival, resilience and the human instinct to stay alive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Crime at Bedtime is a true crime podcast for listeners who love fascinating murder cases, unsolved mysteries, disappearances, strange crimes and extraordinary stories — told in a calm, relaxed style designed for listening as you drift off to sleep. Each episode explores a different true crime story, from notorious murders and mysterious disappearances to unsolved cases, historical crimes and some of the strangest cases from around the world. There are no loud sound effects or over-the-top dramatics. Just compelling true crime storytelling delivered in a slower, relaxed style for those who like to unwind with a fascinating story at the end of the day. So get comfortable, take a minute, unwind and let me tell you a story. Crime at Bedtime is written and hosted by Australian podcaster Jack Laurence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Mysteries at Bedtime is a mystery podcast exploring the world's strangest unsolved mysteries, unexplained disappearances, UFO sightings, paranormal encounters, government secrets and bizarre historical events — told in a calm, captivating style for late-night listening. From the creator of the chart-topping Crime at Bedtime, each episode takes you deep into a fascinating true story of the strange and unexplained — from missing persons and mysterious disappearances to UFO encounters, paranormal events, strange historical mysteries and cases that continue to defy explanation . Each week, journalist and storyteller Jack Laurence guides you through the story in a relaxed, immersive style designed for listeners who love mysteries but also want something they can unwind to at the end of the day. So relax, take a minute, unwind and let me tell you a fascinating story. Mysteries at Bedtime is created and hosted by Australian podcaster Jack Laurence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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One Minute Remaining is a true crime and prison podcast featuring first-hand stories from inmates serving lengthy sentences inside prisons across the United States. From murder and attempted murder to robbery, arson and claims of wrongful conviction, these are criminal cases told from behind prison walls. Hosted by Jack Laurence, One Minute Remaining gives prisoners the opportunity to tell their stories in their own words. We examine the crimes, the evidence and the cases that led to their incarceration, while hearing directly from the people serving the sentences. Some maintain their innocence. Others admit exactly what they did. Some are serving life sentences or decades behind bars. The purpose isn't to prove them innocent or guilty — it's to hear their account, examine the case against them, and let you decide what you think. From murder cases and disputed convictions to extraordinary stories from inside the American prison system, One Minute Remaining takes listeners beyond the headlines and into cases they may never otherwise have heard. Hosted by Australian podcaster Jack Laurence. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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