Once Upon A Crime
Esther Ludlow
Podcast
The Monday Night Revue
Corinna Harrod
True crime, weird stories, unexplainable happenings - we cover it all here on Monday nightsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support.
Episodes
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The Krays - A-Z of London Tubes (Bethnal Green)
· 1 h 17 min
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 episodesBecome 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 themondayn...
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The Disappearances of Hannah Upp
· 1 h 20 min
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 monthBro...
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The Manila Film Centre Tragedy
· 1 h 15 min
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...
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Tony Parsons the Vanishing Cyclist
· 51 min
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. Th...
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The Killer Clown of Chicago - A-Z of US States (Illinois)
· 1 h 06 min
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...
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Jack Underweger, the murder poet
· 45 min
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 journali...
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The Dyatlov Pass Incident
· 1 h 17 min
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...
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The Incredible Survival of Harrison Okene
· 41 min
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...
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The Worlds Strangest Lakes
· 46 min
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 m...
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The Lipstck Killer (A-Z of US States - Illinois)
· 47 min
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 IllinoisBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support.Don't miss an episode - follow, co...
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The desecration of Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos
· 28 min
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 themondaynightrevue@gmail.com.Explore our p...
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The Family Business
· 50 min
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 alm...
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Eric Edgar Cooke - The Night Caller
· 42 min
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.Th...
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The Disappearance of Jennifer Kesse
· 53 min
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.Tw...
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D is for Digitalis
· 20 min
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 revol...
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Mia Zapata
· 39 min
In this episode I explore the murder of Mia Zapata — lead singer of Seattle punk band The Gits — and one of the most haunting crimes connected to the 1990s grunge music scene.In July 1993, Seattle was becoming the centre of the music world. Grunge had exploded into mainstream culture, underground clubs were packed every night and bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden were transforming the...
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What happened to Joshua Maddux?
· 55 min
A boy goes out for a walk and never comes home. Horrible for the family but maybe he had gone to start a new life, follow his dream of playing music. Or perhaps he had perished in the woods around his home in Colorado. For seven years his family were in a state of 'grieving on hold'.But then a body is discovered in a cabin just 2 blocks from the family home, and the story becomes so strange that i...
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The Great Basin Murders (A-Z of US States - Idaho)
· 52 min
In this episode we explore the terrifying mystery known as the Great Basin Murders — a series of killings connected to isolated highways stretching across Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho during the 1980s and 1990s.Women began disappearing along remote truck routes and desert highways before their bodies were discovered in abandoned terrain miles away from civilisation. Investigators initially beli...
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Marilyn Monroe; The Death that Shook Hollywood
· 1 h 14 min
‘Few personalities from the twentieth century - or from any era - have inspired as much enthusiasm, analysis and worship…', the 'undying icon of femininity'. In a world when we have perhaps become so used to the image of Marilyn Monroe that we don't really see her let's talk about what sets her a part and what really happened on the night of the 4th of August 1962.Become a supporter of this podcas...
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The Wednesday Strangler
· 33 min
Seven women go missing over a decade, their bodies found at strange locations. All of them vanish on a Wednesday? Coincidence? Let's dive into the Wednesday Strangler Don't miss an episode—follow, comment, like, and share!Connect with us on social media @themondaynightrevue or email at themondaynightrevue@gmail.com.Support the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: BookshopFor ad-free episo...
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Brian Jones (27 Club)
· 53 min
He created one of the biggest bands in the world but paid the ultimate price. What really happened to Brain Jones?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 themondaynightrevue@gmail.com.Explore our podcast merc...
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The Bermondsey Horror (A-Z of London Tubes - Bermondsey)
· 33 min
A true Victorian crime classic and this one it's the woman who takes centre stage as the baddie. 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 themondaynightrevue@gmail.com.Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSuppo...
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The Unsolved Death of Zac Brettler
· 47 min
A young man jumps off a balcony in London. Tragic but not unsually in a country where men make up 75% of all suicides. But the story of why Zac Brettler was on the balcony in November 2019 and who he was with makes it apparent that he did not go there intending to end his life. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-monday-night-revue--4921180/support.Don't miss a...
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The Yodogo Hijacking
· 30 min
Ned is back! March 1970 and a domestic flight in from Tokyo does not go to planBecome 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 themondaynightrevue@gmail.com.Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy M...
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Derek William Bentley. A Victim of British Justice
· 43 min
Perhaps one of the most important cases in UK legal history in terms of finally ending the death penalty though it would be a good few years before that happened. A crime is committed, a man dies but is justice served?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...
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The Casanova Killer
· 44 min
He confesses to over 35 murders and then the tapes disappear. Will we ever know all the confirmed victims of the Casnova Killer, John Paul Knowles? 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 themondaynightrevue@...
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Billy the Kid
· 29 min
Cold-blooded murderer or charming scapegoat? 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 themondaynightrevue@gmail.com.Explore our podcast merch: Shop HereSupport the show: Buy Me a CoffeeDiscover curated reads: ...
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The 200th Episode
· 2 h 52 min
To celebrate hitting 200 episodes I have invited some of my friends and family to share true crime stories, spooky tales and a real life. Thanks to Jessica Holmes for covering the Hungerford Massacre, Joe and Mark for their personal stories and Matt Oakley for taking us behind the scenes of fire forensics.Thank you to everyone who has listened and joined the patreon.Here's to the next 200 (!!)Beco...
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The Honolulu Strangler (A-Z of US States; Hawaii)
· 33 min
Hawaii in the 1980s and it's not all lei's and laid back life. They experience their first ever serial killer. 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 themondaynightrevue@gmail.com.Explore our podcast merch: ...
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The Dark Side of the Mountain
· 44 min
Two men disappear from the same town a few years apart - but was it coincidence, foul play or are they even linked at all? Let's take a trip to Silver Plume 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 themondayni...
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