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by Jack Laurence
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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- 3 days ago27 min
The Murder of Rachel McLean: The Boyfriend Who Appealed for Her Return
The 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, wept in front of the cameras as he appealed for her safe return, even taking part in a police reconstruction of her final movements. But Rachel had never left. She was hidden beneath the floorboards of her own home, where Tanner had put her after he strangled her. This is the story of the performance that slowly unravelled, and the detectives who saw through the grieving boyfriend. On Crime at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the murder of Rachel McLean.SIGNAL AWARDS 2026 VOTE HEREBecome a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now for ealry and ad free access from as little as $1.69 a week. All the details hereSubscribe to Crime at Bedtimes Youtube channel HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 4 days ago26 min
The Shag Harbour Incident: Canada's Roswell
The 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 object descend from the sky and settle onto the water off the fishing village of Shag Harbour, in Nova Scotia, Canada. Fishing boats raced out, the Royal Canadian Navy sent divers down for three days, and no wreckage, no missing aircraft and no explanation were ever found. Logged in Canada's own government records as a UFO, the object has never been identified to this day. On Mysteries at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the Shag Harbour incident.SIGNAL AWARDS 2026 VOTE HEREBecome a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now for ealry and ad free access from as little as $1.69 a week. All the details hereSubscribe to Crime at Bedtimes Youtube channel HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 6 days ago30 min
The Murder of Arlene Fraser: The Rings That Gave Him Away
The 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 Elgin, Moray, after taking her children to school, and was never seen again. With no body, no weapon and no confession, the case against her estranged husband, Nat Fraser, came to rest on a single haunting detail: a set of rings that reappeared in the house days after she disappeared. This is the story of that one piece of evidence, a conviction won, quashed by the Supreme Court, and then won all over again. On Crime at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the murder of Arlene Fraser.SIGNAL AWARDS 2026 VOTE HEREBecome a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now for ealry and ad free access from as little as $1.69 a week. All the details hereSubscribe to Crime at Bedtimes Youtube channel HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago27 min
The Murder of Lynette White: The Cardiff Three and the Cellophane Man
The 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 was killed in a flat in the Cardiff docklands, and three innocent men, who became known as the Cardiff Three, were convicted on the strength of a confession forced out of a vulnerable suspect. It took a landmark appeal to free them, and then a pioneering familial-DNA search for an unknown man the forensic team called "Cellophane Man" to finally reveal the real killer, Jeffrey Gafoor, fifteen years after Lynette died. This is a story of wrongful conviction, patient science, and a truth that refused to stay buried. On Crime at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the murder of Lynette White.SIGNAL AWARDS 2026 VOTE HEREBecome a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now for ealry and ad free access from as little as $1.69 a week. All the details hereSubscribe to Crime at Bedtimes Youtube channel HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago28 min
The Disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh: The Mystery of Mr Kipper
The 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 to a client she had written in her diary only as "Mr Kipper", and she was never seen again. Her car was found abandoned that night, her body has never been found, and although police would later name the convicted killer John Cannan as their prime suspect, he was never charged over her disappearance and always denied any involvement. Nearly forty years on, the questions still stand: who was Mr Kipper, and what happened to Suzy? This is the story of a young woman who vanished in broad daylight, and the mystery that has never let go. On Mysteries at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh.SIGNAL AWARDS 2026 VOTE HEREBecome a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now for ealry and ad free access from as little as $1.69 a week. All the details hereSubscribe to Crime at Bedtimes Youtube channel HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago28 min
The World's End Murders: The Case That Changed Scottish Law
The 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 Edinburgh's Old Town and were found murdered in the East Lothian countryside the next day. The case stayed cold for a generation, until DNA finally pointed to a man named Angus Sinclair, and a collapsed trial forced Scotland to tear up its centuries-old double jeopardy law so that he could at last be tried again, and convicted, in 2014. This is the story of two young women, the thirty-seven-year fight for justice, and the case that changed the law of a nation. On Crime at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the World's End murders.SIGNAL AWARDS 2026 VOTE HEREBecome a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now for ealry and ad free access from as little as $1.69 a week. All the details hereSubscribe to Crime at Bedtimes Youtube channel HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 weeks ago30 min
The Golden State Killer: The Family Tree That Caught Joseph DeAngelo
For 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 years he had no name and no face, just a DNA profile that matched no one on earth. Then, in 2018, investigators uploaded that profile to a public genealogy website, traced his distant relatives through an enormous family tree, and finally unmasked him as Joseph DeAngelo, a former police officer who had been hiding in plain sight the whole time. This is the story of the East Area Rapist, the Original Night Stalker, and the forensic breakthrough that changed cold case investigation forever. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the Golden State Killer.SIGNAL AWARDS 2026 VOTE HEREBecome a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now for ealry and ad free access from as little as $1.69 a week. All the details hereSubscribe to Crime at Bedtimes Youtube channel HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 weeks ago27 min
The Disappearance of Harold Holt: The Prime Minister the Sea Swallowed
On 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 largest search operations in the nation's history, no body and no trace were ever found. Was it an accidental drowning, as a coroner would eventually rule, or something stranger: a suicide, a shark, or the extraordinary claim that Holt was a secret agent who faked his own death and slipped away aboard a waiting submarine? This is the enduring mystery of the most powerful man in the country, who went for a swim one summer Sunday and simply vanished. Settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the disappearance of Harold Holt.SIGNAL AWARDS 2026 VOTE HEREBecome a Patreon or Apple + subscriber now for ealry and ad free access from as little as $1.69 a week. All the details hereSubscribe to Crime at Bedtimes Youtube channel HERE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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About Crime at Bedtime
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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