Please enjoy this previously Patreon exclusive episode of Outlines. I'll hopefully be back properly soon. On the evening of the 9th of July 1982, 27 year old artist Keith Church was killed during a street knifing attack on the High Road in Hoddesdon. Hertfordshire. Despite the public nature of the incident- it occurred just meters from a police sta…

This case was previously released on Patreon in September 2022. As Patreon is on hold until after my maternity leave, if you are enjoying the bonus episodes then please consider donating via theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com on Paypal. I can’t stress enough how much your contributions help towards ongoing show costs at the moment. On March 29th 1967, 14…

This case was previously released on Patreon in March 2022. As Patreon is on hold until after my maternity leave, if you enjoy these bonus episodes and wish to donate you can do so by giving to theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com via Paypal. Today’s episode recounts the case of 21 year old mother Karen Hales from Ipswich in Suffolk who was repeatedly stab…

Today's episode was previously released on Patreon in July 2022. As Patreon is on hold until after my maternity leave, if you enjoy these bonus episodes and wish to donate you can do so by giving to theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com via Paypal. Today's episode is part 3 of 3. In the early hours of September 23rd, the body of a woman in her twenties was …

Today's episode was previously released on Patreon in June 2022. As Patreon is on hold until after my maternity leave, if you enjoy these bonus episodes and wish to donate you can do so by giving to theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com via Paypal. Today's episode is part 2 of 3. In the early hours of September 23rd, the body of a woman in her twenties was …

Today's episode was previously released on Patreon in May 2022. As Patreon is on hold until after my maternity leave. If you enjoy these bonus episodes and wish to donate you can do so by giving to theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com via Paypal. Today's episode is a case told in three parts. In the early hours of September 23rd 1900, the body of a woman i…

This is a bonus episode, first released as a Patreon exclusive in January 2022. For those who were wondering where I've been- the short story is that I'm pregnant, (due in July if all goes well), panicked about being able to afford a baby and since the morning sickness eased I've been focusing on paid work. Sadly I've had to pause Patreon as of thi…

On the evening of Sunday the 24th of January 1993, 7 year old Stacey Queripel reportedly slipped out of the home she shared with her mother and young sister in the town of Bracknell in Berkshire. Three hours later she was discovered in nearby woodland where she had been strangled with her own necklace. Almost 30 years later, what happened to Stacey…

On Wednesday 16th October, 1985, 63 year old Cyril Martin, a coma patient, died 7 weeks after being brutally attacked while he slept in an abandoned hut in Maidenhead, Berkshire. While news coverage of Cyril’s death revealed little in the way of clues as to whom might have killed him, a deeper look revealed a long forgotten tragedy. One which began…

On the 12th of June 1982, 50 year old Brenda Haines was found unresponsive in a bath at her home on Longleat Gardens in Maidenhead. By May of the following year, her husband, Michael, was on trial for her murder. The story that emerged was one of violence, mental illness and alcoholism and the circumstances surrounding Brenda’s case remain as relev…

On the 1st June 1984, 7 year old Mark Tildesley visited the Frank Ayres funfair in Wokingham. That evening, he failed to return home and has never been seen again. In this collaborative episode of Outlines, myself and Paul take you through the events of that day and the years following Mark's disappearance. For more information on the circumstances…

With David Burgess finally under arrest for the murders of Jeanette Wigmore and Jacqueline Williams, information began to emerge about him, his life, and his version(s) of what happened that day, as well as what could have occurred in the case of Yolande Waddington. SUPPORT VIA PAYPAL DONATION: theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com iTunes itunes.apple.com/g…

In April of 1967, no sooner had the dust settled on the failed investigation into Yolande Waddington’s murder when the village of Beenham would be stunned by two more killings, when nine year olds Jeanette Wigmore and Jacqueline Williams were found dead in a disused gravel pit. This time though, one suspect would stand out from the rest and for thi…

On October 28th 1966, the small village of Beenham in Berkshire was rocked by the murder of 17 year old au pair Yolande Waddington. The following investigation saw the pioneering use of mass blood testing, intended on identifying whether or not the killer was someone local to the village. With the community fearful for their safety, the blood of ov…

Today's episode is a little bit different. In collaboration with The Unseen Podcast I tell you about the case of Mary Woolley who died mysteriously on the railway tracks near Earley in Berkshire on Monday the 6th of December 1954. Following this, I hand over to Caprice who has researched another mysterious death, this one of Ruth Brockstead, who di…

This episode was first released as a Patreon exclusive in April 2022. In the late afternoon of Saturday the 3rd of May 2003 in the town of Great Yarmouth, seven year old Daniel Entwistle disappeared near his home on Copperfield Avenue. His red BMX bike was found the next day in an industrial area next to the River Yare but no trace of Daniel, eithe…

This episode was first released as a Patreon exclusive and is now being made generally available to encourage you too to sign up. On the 3rd of January 1961 the body of twenty year old Jean Constable was found in a ditch near the village of Ridgewell in the heart of Essex. The subsequent investigation quickly led police to the man responsible for J…

On Sunday the 9th of December 1984, 24 year old Peter Miller was found stabbed to death on the kitchen floor of the home he shared with his brother Tony, and Tony’s wife Paula at 10 Camden Place, Great Yarmouth. Despite two unusual findings at the crime scene and several intriguing sightings of the same unidentified mystery man, a premature disposa…

At 8:20pm on the evening of Thursday 28th March 2002, 22 year old Michelle Bettles was captured on CCTV as she walked down St Benedict’s Street in Norwich in the direction of the red light district. Three days later on the morning of Sunday 31st March her body would be discovered by a dog walker 20 miles outside of the city in a rural area of Norfo…

Today’s episode takes a slightly different format as I look into two unsolved disappearances in East Anglia. The first is the case of 26 year old Amanda (Mandy) Duncan who vanished from Portman’s Walk in Ipswich, part of the area’s red light district on Friday 2nd of July 1993. Second is that of 28 year old Kellie Pratt, who went missing 7 years la…

In the early hours of Friday November 20th 1992 the body of sixteen year old Natalie Pearman was discovered in a layby at Ringland Hills on the outskirts of Norwich in Norfolk. Natalie, who had been working in the city’s red light district on the night she was murdered had been strangled and left half dressed by the side of a remote road. Police in…

On the 26th of December 1992, the body of 14 year old Johanna Young from Watton in Norfolk was found face down in a secluded, water filled marlpit on the edge of town. Despite the high profile nature of the investigation and the uncomfortable spotlight it threw on the local community, the person or persons responsible for Johanna’s death remain fre…

Late in the evening of the 30th of August 1974, 22 year old Pamela Exall, a visitor to Diglea Campsite in Norfolk decided to take an evening walk along nearby Snettisham beach. She bid her companions goodbye and stepped out alone into the moonlit night, never to be seen again. What followed was an investigation made challenging by an overstretched …

Yvette Watson was just 17 years old when she apparently walked out of the David Rice Hospital near Norwich, Norfolk where she was being treated for depression. It was the 30th of March 1979 and Yvette was just days away from returning to her family home. At first her parents assumed she would contact- she always had before. But the weeks turned to …

On Tuesday September 2nd 1969, 11 year old Steven Newing spent the morning and early afternoon playing outside his home at Lee Warner Avenue in Fakenham, Norfolk. Sometime after 3pm that afternoon he vanished, never to be seen again. SUPPORT VIA PAYPAL DONATION: theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com iTunes itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-o…ast/id1325180386 …

On the afternoon of the 8th of April 1969, thirteen year old April Fabb of Metton in Norfolk set out to visit her sister and brother-in-law. Along the way, she vanished, leaving only her bicycle behind. This is the first in a series of episodes focused on historic missing person cases across the county of Norfolk. SUPPORT VIA PAYPAL DONATION: theou…

On the night of the 10th of March 1970, eighteen year old Susan Long alighted from a bus in her hometown of Aylsham. From there it should have been a seven minute journey to her doorstep. Instead, she would never been seen alive again. Audio Production: https://www.fiverr.com/soundguy1990 SUPPORT VIA PAYPAL DONATION: theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com iT…

On June the 2nd 1967, 52 year old solicitor Herbert Wilkinson left his home in the Cheshire town of Middlewich. Four months later his body would be discovered half buried on the banks of the Trent and Mersey Canal, three miles from his home. What happened to Bertie remains a mystery to this day. SUPPORT VIA PAYPAL DONATION: theoutlinespodcast@gmail…

On July the 15th 1912 the body of a young woman was found on the sands of Great Yarmouth’s South Beach. The resulting investigation would reveal that eighteen year old Dora Gray was far more complex than those who knew her day to day had imagined. SUPPORT VIA PAYPAL DONATION: theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com iTunes itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-o…ast…

On the afternoon of the 16th of January 1967 near the village of Tattingstone in Suffolk, the dismembered body of a young man was found discarded in two suitcases underneath a hedge. The subsequent police investigation would identify the victim but never the killer or killers. In Part 1 of this special episode of Outlines; the second collaboration …

In the early hours of September the 19th 1999 seventeen year old Vicky Hall and her friend Gemma parted ways on the High Road of their village, Trimley St Mary in rural Suffolk. They had been out for an evening of dancing at a nearby club and when they separated Vicky was only a three minute walk from her family home. She never made that journey. I…

On the 2nd of February 1989 at around 7:15 in the evening, 31 year old Jeanette Kempton from Brixton in London left The Loughborough Hotel where she had been drinking with friends. She was never seen alive again. Just over two weeks later her body was discovered 118 miles away in a ditch beside a remote road in Suffolk. Almost thirty years on her k…

It was the 1st of September 1979 when 25 year old teacher and PhD student Alison Morris decided to go for a short after dinner walk to the River Stour not far from her parents home in Ramsey, Essex. She made it no more than 70 yards down a small country path when she was approached from behind and savagely stabbed to death. There were no witnesses,…

On July the 11th 1979, 22 year old Sally Ann McGrath went missing from Peterborough city centre at around 2:45 in the afternoon. Initially police assumed her a runaway but 8 months later her body was found partially buried in a shallow grave in Castor Hanglands Nature Reserve, just a few miles away from where she was last seen. For the next 30 year…

On September the 11th 1983, solicitor Janice Weston was murdered in a lonely lay-by on the side of the A1 in Cambridgeshire. Killed 70 miles away from her home in affluent Notting Hill in London, Janice had been beaten about the head with a car jack. As police investigated her death, they discovered a baffling timeline of events and unusual occurre…

On December 30th 1957, 17 year old Anne Noblett failed to return to her home in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire after attending dance classes in the nearby town of Harpenden. 32 days later her neatly clothed body was discovered in Rose Grove Woods, 7 miles away from where she was last seen. Unusually, when she was found, her body was in a relatively …

On the afternoon of September 7th 1956 Diana Suttey spent a while in the Crow's Nest Cafe near Markyate in Hertfordshire. She drank a cup of tea, played on the jukebox and then hitched a lift just a few miles down the A5 to a nearby lay-by. 30 minutes and 10 witnesses later, her strangled body would be found under a bush just a few short miles away…

On Valentines Day 1976, according to her husband, 31 year old Helen Hooper walked out of her rural home in Broken Green, Hertfordshire to go early morning shopping. She hasn't been seen or heard from since and her body has never been found. Eight months later her husband would be acquitted of her murder and Helen's case remains unsolved to this day…

On October 29th 1974 at 6:15 pm, 39 year old wife and mother of three Josephine Backshall from Maldon in Essex left her home to meet with an unknown photographer. Josephine had met him via a newspaper ad for part time work that she'd placed in the Maldon and Burnham Standard that February. The advert read Lady, late thirties, seeks part time employ…

On the 16th of January 1961, 12 year old Linda Smith of Earls Colne in Essex vanished while out running an errand for her great grandmother. Four days later she was found strangled in a field fifteen miles away near the remote village of Hadleigh Heath. In this final episode on Linda’s case, Jess examines the suspect, evidence and motive and asks y…

On the 16th of January 1961, 12 year old Linda Smith of Earls Colne in Essex vanished while out running an errand for her great grandmother. Four days later she was found strangled in a field fifteen miles away near the remote village of Hadleigh Heath. In part 2 of Jess’s look into Linda’s murder she covers the start of the police’s investigation,…

On the 16th of January 1961, 12 year old Linda Smith of Earls Colne in Essex vanished while out running an errand for her great grandmother. In this episode of Outlines Jess Carter begins part one of her investigation into Linda's case by taking a look at what happened that day and the police search that followed... SUPPORT VIA PAYPAL DONATION: the…

On this episode of The Outlines Podcast, host Jess Carter looks at the murder of 37 year old Kay O’Connor. Kay, a shorthand typist from Colchester in Essex was beaten, stabbed and strangled to death in the kitchen of her home on Wickham Road, Colchester on the 1st of March 1974. Despite massive police effort, her killer remains at large. SUPPORT VI…

On this episode of The Outlines Podcast Jess talks about the 1958 murder of Mary Kriek a nineteen year old Dutch au pair living in Eight Ash Green, Essex. Mary disappeared on January 5th after getting off of a bus and starting to walk the 300 yards to her home. The next day her body was found in a ditch a 20 minutes drive away. Her murder would spa…

In this two part look into the life and death of Diane Jones, Jess Carter looks at the disappearance and murder of 35 year old pregnant housewife Diane Jones. Vanished from the gates of her driveway on the evening of July 23rd 1983 doctor's wife Diane's body was discovered three months later hidden in a dense copse almost an hours drive away from h…

In this two part investigation into the life and death of Diane Jones, Jess Carter looks at the disappearance and murder of 35 year old pregnant housewife Diane Jones. Vanished from the gates of her driveway on the evening of July 23rd 1983, doctor's wife Diane's body was discovered three months later hidden in a dense copse almost an hours drive a…