Crime at Bedtime
av Jack Laurence
From the Vault - The man who bottled a lie
Om den här podden
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.
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- From the Vault - The man who bottled a lie · 24 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 223In the early 2000s, Rudy Kurniawan was the toast of the wine world — pouring $20,000 vintages at elite tastings and selling millions in rare bottles. But when experts began…
- The Murder of Rachel McLean: The Boyfriend Who Appealed for Her Return · 27 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 222The murder of Rachel McLean sent a chill through Britain in 1991. Rachel, a nineteen-year-old Oxford University student, vanished from her home, and her boyfriend, John Tanner…
- The Shag Harbour Incident: Canada's Roswell · 27 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 82The Shag Harbour incident is one of the best-documented UFO mysteries in the world. On the night of 4 October 1967, at least eleven people, police among them, watched a large lit…
- The Murder of Arlene Fraser: The Rings That Gave Him Away · 30 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 221The murder of Arlene Fraser is one of Scotland's most remarkable "no body" cases. In April 1998, Arlene, a thirty-three-year-old mother of two, vanished from her home in New…
- The Murder of Lynette White: The Cardiff Three and the Cellophane Man · 27 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 220The murder of Lynette White is one of the most troubling cases in British criminal history, a crime that went wrong twice over. On Valentine's night in 1988, the twenty-year-old…
- The Disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh: The Mystery of Mr Kipper · 28 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 81The disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh remains one of Britain's most enduring mysteries. On 28 July 1986, the twenty-five-year-old estate agent left her Fulham office to show a house…
- The World's End Murders: The Case That Changed Scottish Law · 29 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 219The World's End murders haunted Scotland for nearly four decades. In October 1977, two seventeen-year-old friends, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, left the World's End pub in…
- The Golden State Killer: The Family Tree That Caught Joseph DeAngelo · 30 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 218For more than a decade, the Golden State Killer terrorised California, committing at least thirteen murders and more than fifty rapes before vanishing without a trace. For forty…
- The Disappearance of Harold Holt: The Prime Minister the Sea Swallowed · 27 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 80On the seventeenth of December 1967, Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt walked into the surf at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria, and was never seen again. Despite one of…
- The Man Next Door: The Murder of Joanna Yeates · 30 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 217The murder of Joanna Yeates gripped Britain over Christmas 2010. Jo, a twenty-five-year-old landscape architect, walked home to her flat in Clifton, Bristol, with a pizza and a…
- The Murder of Tupac Shakur: Thirty Years to Justice · 28 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 216The murder of Tupac Shakur is one of the most famous unsolved crimes in the history of popular culture, and after thirty years, it finally has a verdict. In September 1996, the…
- Titu Singh: The Boy Who Named His Own Killer · 28 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 79Titu Singh was barely more than a toddler when he began insisting he was not who his family thought he was. He was not a little boy, he said, but a grown man named Suresh Verma…
- Herb Baumeister: The Fox Hollow Farm Murders · 30 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 215Herb Baumeister looked like the American dream: a respectable Indianapolis businessman, a married father of three, the owner of a successful chain of thrift stores, and the…
- The Murder of Anni Dewani: The Honeymoon Killing · 28 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 214The murder of Anni Dewani in Cape Town in 2010 became one of the most sensational and bitterly contested cases of the decade. Anni was a bright 28-year-old bride, just two weeks…
- The Hexham Heads: The Cursed Stones and the Werewolf · 25 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 78SIGNAL AWARDS 2026 VOTE HERE 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…
- The Killing of Ken McElroy: The Town That Kept a Secret · 31 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 213The killing of Ken McElroy remains one of the most extraordinary unsolved cases in American history, and an entire town knows the answer. For more than twenty years, McElroy…
- The Securitas Depot Robbery: The £53 Million Tiger Kidnap · 28 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 212The Securitas depot robbery of 2006 was the largest cash robbery in British history, and it was built on terror. A gang led by a professional cage fighter stole almost £53…
- The Disappearance of Brandon Lawson: The 911 Call in the Dark · 27 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 77The disappearance of Brandon Lawson is one of the most haunting missing-persons cases of the modern age, and it is captured, in part, on a chilling 911 call. In August 2013, the…
- The Murder of Julie Ward: A Father's Fight for Justice in Kenya · 31 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 211The murder of Julie Ward in Kenya's Maasai Mara in 1988 became one of the most notorious cover-ups in modern criminal history. Julie was a 28-year-old British wildlife…
- The Murder of Hae Min Lee: The Adnan Syed Case · 29 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 210The murder of Hae Min Lee and the conviction of Adnan Syed became a global phenomenon through the Serial podcast. In 1999, the 18-year-old Baltimore student was strangled and…
- The Ilkley Moor Alien: The 1987 UFO Photograph Mystery · 29 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 76The Ilkley Moor alien case is one of Britain's most famous UFO photographs. In December 1987, a retired police officer photographed a small green figure on a Yorkshire moor, then…
- The Claremont Serial Killings: Perth's DNA Breakthrough · 32 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 209The Claremont serial killings are the most infamous murders in Western Australian history. Between 1996 and 1997, three young women, Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer, and Ciara Glennon…
- Two Days Before Christmas: The Murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier · 25 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 208The 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…
- The Man Who Walked Off Camera: The Disappearance of Steven Koecher · 24 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 75The disappearance of Steven Koecher in December 2009 is one of the most quietly baffling vanishings of the modern age, and more than sixteen years later, not a single trace of…
- The Wrong Man: The Murder of Rachel Nickell · 27 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 207The 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…
- The Solway Firth Spaceman: The 1964 Photograph No One Can Explain · 27 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 71The Solway Firth Spaceman is one of the most famous unexplained photographs in British history, and after more than sixty years, people are still arguing about what it shows. On…
- The Carnegie Secret: The Great Con of Cassie Chadwick · 28 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 206The 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…
- Ninety Flashes in the Dark: The Disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon · 26 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 74The disappearance of Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon in April 2014 is one of the most haunting and hotly debated mysteries of the modern age, and more than a decade later, no one…
- The Man Who Would Not Die: The Murder of Brett Bowyer · 24 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 204The murder of Brett Bowyer in February 2002 is one of the most harrowing crimes in Alabama's history, and it produced one of the most extraordinary acts of survival ever…
- The Acid Bath Murders: The Crimes of John George Haigh · 30 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 204The Acid Bath Murders are one of the most infamous cases in British criminal history, and the man behind them, John George Haigh, believed he had discovered the secret of the…
- The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser: The Boy Who Came From Nowhere · 26 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 73The mystery of Kaspar Hauser has haunted Europe for nearly 200 years, and it began on a spring afternoon in 1828 when a bewildered teenage boy appeared in the streets of…
- The Murder of Kim Wall: The Submarine Killing That Shocked the World · 25 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 203The murder of Kim Wall in August 2017 was one of the most shocking crimes in modern Scandinavian history, and it began with an interview. Kim Wall was a brilliant and fearless…
- The Advocate Who Wasn't: The Case of Brian Mwenda, Kenya's Fake Lawyer · 24 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 202The case of Brian Mwenda captivated Kenya and much of the world in 2023: the story of a confident young man in a well-cut suit who stood up in the High Court of Kenya, argued…
- The Unread Message: The Ciphers of the Zodiac Killer · 27 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 72The Zodiac Killer ciphers are among the most famous unsolved codes in the world, and after more than fifty years, two of them have still never been cracked. Between 1969 and…
- Maximum John: The Assassination of Judge John Wood by Charles Harrelson · 29 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 201The assassination of Judge John Wood on the 29th of May 1979 was the first killing of a sitting United States federal judge in the 20th century, and the man who pulled the…
- The Assassination of Gianni Versace: Andrew Cunanan's Killing Spree · 35 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 200The assassination of Gianni Versace on the 15th of July 1997 was the shocking end of one of the deadliest killing sprees in modern American history. On that summer morning, the…
- The Attack on Nancy Kerrigan: The Tonya Harding Olympic Scandal · 32 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 199The attack on Nancy Kerrigan on the 6th of January 1994 became one of the most notorious scandals in the history of the Olympic Games, and it involved one of the most famous…
- If It Doesn't Fit: The O.J. Simpson Case · 34 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 198At approximately 12 minutes past midnight on the morning of Monday the 13th of June 1994, in the leafy Los Angeles neighbourhood of Brentwood, a group of residents on South Bundy…
- The Thing on the Hill: The Mothman of Point Pleasant · 31 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 70Shortly after midnight on the morning of Tuesday the 15th of November 1966, in the small Ohio River town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the county of Mason, two young…
- Listen in app The Firing Squad: Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran · 34 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 197At approximately 12:35 in the morning on Wednesday the 29th of April 2015, in a small clearing in the jungle of a prison island called Nusa Kambangan, off the southern coast of…
- The Woman Who Took the Cartel's Mother: Yadira Guillermo García · 29 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 196On the morning of Tuesday the 13th of December 2016, a video began to circulate on Mexican social media that would, within 48 hours, be seen by millions of people around the…
- The Fishermen and the Craft: The Pascagoula Abduction · 32 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 69At approximately 11 o'clock on the evening of Thursday the 11th of October 1973, two men walked into the Jackson County Sheriff's Office in the small Gulf Coast city of…
- The Elf Cleric: The Menhaz Zaman Murders · 32 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 195At approximately 10 o'clock on the evening of Saturday the 27th of July 2019, a 23-year-old man in the Toronto suburb of Markham, Ontario, logged in to a private chat server on…
- The Family Court Bomber: Leonard Warwick · 32 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 194On the morning of Wednesday the 29th of July 2015, New South Wales Police homicide detectives arrested a 68-year-old retired firefighter at his home in the south-western Sydney…
- Wow!: The Signal from Sagittarius · 26 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 68On the evening of Monday the 15th of August 1977, in a field outside the small town of Delaware, Ohio, a radio telescope the size of three football fields was listening to the…
- The Boot on the Beach: The Killing of Antonio Neill · 24 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 193On the afternoon of Tuesday the 1st of January 2019, a group of beachcombers walking along Jetty Island, a small sandy island in the estuary off Everett, Washington, found a…
- Missing: Madeleine McCann · 28 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 192On the evening of Thursday the 3rd of May 2007, a British couple on holiday in the resort of Praia da Luz on Portugal's Algarve coast finished dinner with friends at a tapas…
- The Thing on the Hill: The Flatwoods Monster · 29 min · Säsong 2 Avsnitt 67At approximately 7:15 in the evening on Friday the 12th of September 1952, three young boys were playing in the schoolyard of Flatwoods Elementary School, in the small…
- The Biggest Lie: Bernie Madoff · 36 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 191On the morning of Thursday the 11th of December 2008, two FBI agents knocked on the door of a penthouse apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The man who answered the door…
- The Taxi Driver: Sian O'Callaghan and Becky Godden · 28 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 190At just before three in the morning on Saturday the 19th of March 2011, a 22-year-old woman named Sian O'Callaghan left a nightclub in the centre of Swindon, Wiltshire, and began…







