Cruelty is never far away from some homes – some people suffer largely in silence, and when that cruelty begins to show, they will come out with allsorts of reasoning. ‘I fell. I bumped into this or that’. It’s a very real thing is domestic...
The Lost Girls multi-parter comes full circle this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast, as for the final part I housekeep the tale of Susan, Caroline, Sarah, Theresa and Jennifer. We look at the years following Black’s crimes for their...
The new red bicycle had fast become her pride and joy, all of her friends had seen it, and one sunny afternoon in August 1981, nine year old Jennifer Cardy set off from her home in Ballinderry to cycle the short distance to show the first friend she...
In April 1994, Robert Black, laid bare in all of his foulness, was to face trial charged with the abductions of Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg, Sarah Harper and Teresa Thornhill, and the murders of the former three. Was justice in sight for the Lost...
On 1st April 1992, ten court summonses for crimes including multiple murder, abduction, prevention of a proper and lawful burial and kidnap were served on a 43 year old prisoner serving life at HMP Peterhead in Aberdeenshire – a prisoner serving...
‘That’s our man. I’d bet my life on it’ These are the words of Assistant Chief Constable Hector Clark back in July 1990, moments after the initial, briefest of meetings with the man he was describing here, who just over a month later, was serving a...
It was a simple, quick detour to avoid prying eyes – and it was fortunate that it was just that too, a quick detour, for if it wasn’t, then perhaps Teresa Thornhill wouldn’t be here today. That evening in Nottingham in April 1988, she very certainly...
The corner shop was just 150 yards away from her home, and the journey was one that ten year old Sarah Harper had made countless times before – just two minutes walk away. Yet, on a cold and wet evening in March 1986, on that two minute walk back...
Continuing with The Lost Girls series arc, and in the summer of 1983, almost a year to the day, the fear that Susan Maxwell’s at large killer could strike again was suddenly realised, when on a warm Friday evening in July, a five year old girl...
Continuing The Lost Girls Arc on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we now go back to Northumbria in 1982, and a chance walk home for a young girl after a game of tennis… The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, including...