He was for many years a folk devil, almost an apparition, whispered about in playgrounds and used as a threat by parents, in the North West of England anyway, to make their chldren behave – ‘Purple Aki’s gonna get you’. He became an almost Bogeyman...
I’m thrilled to today be sharing an episode with you from a sister True Crime podcast of the Enthusiast from the Always True Crime Network – Paranormia. Join host Elizabeth McCaffrey as she takes us back to the late 1970, and recounts the tale of...
Nicola Edgington
Aram Kurd, Hawkar Hassan, Arkan Ali
Aram Kurd, Hawkar Hassan, Arkan Ali
Aram Kurd, Arkan Ali, Hawkar Hassan
The quiet evening of Sunday 25th February 2018 in the Hinckley Road area of the city of Leicester was an unremarkable one – it was a cold night, and families were at home, glad to be in in the warmth. That quiet was to be disrupted, and the lives of...
Darren Gale, Colin Tipping, Zaheer Ahmed, Michael Bryant
Up to the mid 1960’s, capital punishment was in force in the UK for the crime of murder, and many a soul watched in fear as the presiding judge placed the black cap onto his or her head, and pronounced sentence of death upon them. There are...
We head back to the 1950’s, and to rural West Wales this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, where I bring you an account of a couple who mysteriously disappeared one Friday October evening. Throw in details such as buzzards, traps...