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The most famous gangsters in Britain and the trail of destruction they left in their wake.  Join the patreon free for one month and get over 100 extra episodes Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

A woman goes out for a jog and disappears for three weeks. Though she is seen in an Apple store and a Starbucks when she returns home she has no memory of what had taken place. Then 5 years later it happens again this time she is found after two days. But then in 2017 in between two major storms, she vanishes and hasn't been seen since. What happened to Hannah Upp? Try Patreon free for one month Brownies by Kit Limpopo Biltong Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

On 18 January 1982, Imelda Marcos walked up a red carpet in peacock feathers to open the first Manila International Film Festival. Hollywood stars were there. Champagne flowed. The Greek-style temple on Manila Bay was supposed to make the city the Cannes of the East. Two months earlier, in the middle of the night, part of the building had collapsed on the workers racing to finish it. Rescuers weren't allowed in for nine hours. Some say well over a hundred men died, and that some were never recovered. The architect said seven. Nobody has ever published a list of names. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

A 63 year old starts on a 100 mile charity bike ride through the Highlands of Scotland. It was a big undertaking but Tony Parsons had done epic charity events before having walked Hadrian's Wall and the West Highland Way. Somewhere between the Bridge of Orchy hotel and Tyndrum he vanishes, no sign of him or his bike or any evidence that Tony was even there.Three years go by and there is nothing. Then in 2020 a meeting on Tinder would unravel the whole case. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

A case I swore I would never do because it's just so awful but when you visit Illinois on a tour of the US States by true crime and paranormal cases it's sort of hard to avoid.  This episode comes with all the trigger warnings though I do try to avoid the gory detail it is not for the fainthearted - for lack of a better word, there is no judgement that comes with having to skip this episode.  Before he was known as one of America's most notorious serial killers, John Wayne Gacy was a respected local contractor, an active member of Democratic politics, and a familiar face at children's hospitals — where he performed in a clown costume he'd made himself. In this episode of our A-Z of the United States series, we land on Illinois and the case that came to define it: the disappearance of fifteen-year-old Robert Piest, the investigation that followed him back to an ordinary house in Norwood Park Township, and the twenty-nine bodies eventually recovered from beneath it. We go back through Gacy's childhood, the six years of murders that preceded his arrest, and the warning signs — neighbours, employees, a survivor's own detailed report to police — that were there long before anyone connected them. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

In 1990, a convicted murderer walked out of an Austrian prison to a hero's welcome — celebrated by novelists, praised by a future Nobel laureate, held up as proof that even a killer could be remade into an artist. Five months later, women started disappearing again. This episode traces the double life of Jack Unterweger: the "Poet of Death" who charmed Austria's literary elite, worked as a journalist covering the very murders he was committing, and left a trail of victims across four countries before a single, distinctive knot finally connected all of it back to him. We're telling this one the way it should have been told the first time — with the women at the center of it, not the man who got the bestseller. 🔞 Discussion of violent crime, sexual assault, and murder. Listener discretion advised. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

One of the world's most intriguing mysteries, and though it's technically closed the official explanation doesn't seem to fit - lets get into The Dyatlov Pass incident, Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

A tugboat is hit by a huge wave at 4am while Harrison Okene is in the bathroom. As the boat sinks to the bottom he is thrown down an alley away from his colleagues and what happens over the next 60 hours is incredible.  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

Lake's freak me out, I have always assumed this was a universal thing, but maybe its not. In case you enjoy your time in a boat or wild swimming here are some of the strangest lakes the planet has to offer.  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

Three people are murdered, a man is arrested is put in prison for life. Hurrah. Or in fact are the three murders unrelated and the wrong man put in prison? Lets go to Chicago in 1945 and talk about one of the most infamous murders from the state of Illinois Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

A man falls in love with a dying woman, half his age, steals her corpse and is... deemed a romantic. This one is pretty grim  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

For over fifty years, if someone was going to be hanged in Britain, chances were it would be a Pierrepoint holding the lever. Henry, Thomas and Albert Pierrepoint were Britain's most extraordinary family of state executioners — three generations who between them hanged approximately nine hundred people, including Nazi war criminals, British traitors, serial killers, and at least one man who was almost certainly innocent. Albert alone carried out between 435 and 600 executions, perfecting a method so precise he could complete a hanging in under twelve seconds. He hanged thirteen Nazi SS guards in a single day at Hameln Prison in 1945. He hanged the last woman ever executed in Britain. He hanged a man he sang duets with in his own pub. He hanged Timothy Evans — later found to be innocent — and three years later hanged the man who actually committed the crime. In 1956, Britain's most prolific executioner resigned over a dispute about expenses. And in his autobiography, he concluded that capital punishment had never deterred a single murder. This episode covers the full Pierrepoint story — the craft, the dynasty, the cases that shook Britain, and the question of what it means to spend a lifetime perfecting something that turns out to be wrong. Content warning: execution methods, capital punishment, wrongful conviction. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

On the night of 27th January 1963, five people were shot across the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. Four attacks. One night. No apparent connection.It would take months before police understood what they were dealing with. Years before the full truth came out. And decades before two innocent men — wrongfully convicted of crimes committed by the same killer — finally had their names cleared. This is the story of Eric Edgar Cooke. Known as The Night Caller. Australia's last serial killer to be executed. A man whose crimes didn't just take lives — they destroyed them, long after he was gone.In this episode: the victims, named and remembered. The murders that shocked a city. The wrongful convictions of Darryl Beamish and John Button. The rifle left in a bush. And the question of how a quiet, sun-baked city at the bottom of the world lost its innocence in a single night — and never quite got it back. Content warning: this episode contains detailed discussion of murder, wrongful conviction, capital punishment, and violence. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

On the morning of the 24th of January 2006, 24-year-old Jennifer Kesse left her Orlando condominium for work and seemingly vanished without a trace.Jennifer was ambitious, successful and excited about the future. She had recently returned from a holiday with her boyfriend, was thriving in her career and had just purchased her first home. Then, in the space of a single morning, everything changed.Two days later, her car was discovered abandoned less than a mile from her apartment. Security cameras captured an unknown person parking the vehicle before calmly walking away. Yet in one of the most frustrating twists in true crime history, every image of the person's face was obscured by fence posts, leaving investigators with a suspect they could see but could not identify.In this episode,  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).

In this episode, I explore the dark and fascinating history of digitalis, the powerful toxin derived from the foxglove plant. For centuries, foxglove has been admired for its beauty, growing wild across the British countryside and in cottage gardens, but hidden within its distinctive purple flowers is a substance capable of disrupting the human heart and causing death. From its discovery as a revolutionary heart medication to its reputation as the perfect murder weapon, digitalis occupies a unique place in both medical history and true crime. I examine how the poison works, why it became so attractive to killers, and how its symptoms could easily be mistaken for natural illness, making murder incredibly difficult to detect. This episode also explores the mysterious death of medieval ruler Cangrande della Scala, the notorious Foxglove Murders, healthcare killers who exploited access to medication, and the unsettling possibility that many victims of digitalis poisoning were never identified as murder victims at all.Was digitalis one of history's most effective poisons? And how many deaths attributed to heart failure may have been something far more sinister? Join me as I uncover the history, science, folklore and true crime surrounding one of the world's most beautiful and deadly plants. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support. Don't miss an episode - follow, comment, like, and share! Connect with me on social media @‌themondaynightrevue or email at [email protected]. Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episodes, minisodes, and exclusive perks, join us on Patreon: Support on PatreonWritten and edited by Corinna Harrod with Holly Clarke. Artwork by Jessica Holmes. Music: "The Mooche" by Duke Ellington (1928).