Crime Most Scots
Bi-weekly podcast about crimes committed in Scotland.
Episodes
Episode 24: Archibald Hall, A Rubbish Raffles Who Turned His Hand To Murder
Episode 24: Archibald Hall, A Rubbish Raffles Who Turned His Hand To MurderIn this episode we'll be calling for lights, camera, action and following the career of a wee Glaswegian boy from a broken home,  with tinsel town stars in his eyes,…
Episode 23: Two Weddings, Two Funerals and a whole lotta drugs
Episode 23: Two Weddings, Two Funerals and a whole lotta drugsIn this episode we’ll be digging out our wedding outfits, twice, whilst following the criminal career of Donald “Ginger” Forbes, a true illustration of a psychopath. A guy who s…
Episode 22: The Fawziyah Javed Case; Babymoon Disaster or Honour Killing?
Episode 22: The Fawziyah Javed Case; Babymoon Disaster or Honour Killing?At the time we’re recording this episode  the Fringe Festival is in full swing in Edinburgh, so I thought I’d look at a case that involves tourists visiting the capita…
Episode 21: Have (someone else’s) Card, Will Travel
Episode 21: Have (someone else’s) Card, Will TravelSo, here we are the podcast has come of age, it’s 21, so for this episode I thought we’d look back on a thief’s career that started just after he left school, until his early twenties. As …
Episode 20: The Highland Fling: The Renee and Andrew MacCrae Case
Episode 20: The Highland Fling: The Renee and Andrew MacCrae CaseIt’s a cold November night in 1976, we’re in Inverness, and driving on the A9 road, we see two cars in a remote layby. There’s a person pushing a pram, the person turns and l…
Episode 19: Takin’ The High Road, The Helen Torbet Case
Episode 19: Takin’ The High Road, The Helen Torbet CaseIt’s holiday season, and the B&Bs up and down Scotland are no doubt doing a roaring trade. Rural homes fling open their doors to strangers, and get to live in bucolic splendor, who does…
Episode 18: 3 Women and Scottish Law Enforcement, Handy To Have Around
Episode 18: 3 Women and Scottish Law Enforcement, Handy To Have AroundIn this episode I’ll not be running you through a case from start to finish, but we’ll be looking at the three different ladies, and how they reached the headlines. They …
Episode 17: The Deadly Game of Dominos - The Mary McLaughlan Case
Episode 17: The Deadly Game of Dominos: The Mary McLaughlan CaseIn this episode we’re in Glasgow, well Partick to be precise. Wee Mary’s not been seen in a week, and the normal chap on the window to get Mary to the door isn’t getting an ans…
Episode 16: The John Barclay Smith Case, You Can’t Outrun the Hands of Time
Episode 16: The John Barclay Smith Case, You Can’t Outrun the Hands of TimeIn this week’s episode we’re back in the North East, and the tartan time machine will be throwing us back to the Edwardian era. We’re in the tiny village of Lhanbryd…
Episode 15: Dr and Mrs Wood, The Doctor Won’t See You Now, Murder He Wrote
Episode 15: Dr and Mrs Wood, The Doctor Won’t See You Now, Murder He WroteIn this episode we’ll be stopping off in Scotland’s 4th biggest city, and calling in at an infamous house, so much so that locally it’s referred to as The Murder Hous…
Episode 14: The Brenda Page Case, A Scientist Waiting for Science Advances
Episode 14: The Brenda Page Case, A Scientist Waiting for Science AdvancesIn this episode we’re back under the northern lights of Old Aberdeen again, right in the heart of the city. We’re in the west end, and a street that’s filled with sta…
Episode 13: Spirited Away, The Arlene Fraser Case
Episode 13: Spirited Away, The Arlene Fraser CaseThis case sees us standing at the school gates waiting for Mum to come and collect us, it’s Tuesday the 28th 1998. Mum’s normally home from college and doing the house work, she’s never misse…
Episode 12: Peter Tobin, The Scumbag With A Thousand Names
Episode 12: Peter Tobin, The Scumbag With A Thousand Names In this week’s case we’ll start off in the holiest of places, and finish in a Kent seaside town. Three young women will have their lives cut short, a national operation will be open…
Episode 11: Scumspotting - The Murder of Caroline Glachan
Episode 11: Scumspotting - The Murder of Caroline GlachanIn this episode we’ll be discussing a seemingly motiveless murder of a 14 year old girl, a horrible start to a person’s forties and a murder trial with our youngest ever witness. But…
Episode 10: Lynda Spence, Grifting The Wrong People
Episode 10: Lynda Spence, Grifting The Wrong PeopleIn this episode I outline the case of a woman who gets herself in very hot water, stealing from the wrong kind of people that result in her being kidnapped, tortured and murdered. I think …
Episode 9: Heart of Glass, The Stephen Donaldson Slaying
Episode 9: Heart of Glass, The Stephen Donaldson SlayingIn this episode we’ll be heading to never land, but sadly this story sees us with two Captain Hooks and an evil tinkerbell. This case rocked a tiny town with such a savage murder, and …
Episode 8 - The Narcissistic Nurse
Episode 8: The narcisstic nurseIn today’s episode we’ll be racking up the air miles, seeing one woman lose her life, and three who all had a lucky escape. This man, in the caring profession, only cares about one thing, and that’s himself. H…
Episode 7: The Ardlamont Murder: A hunting accident, or Murder?
Episode 7: The Ardlamont Murder: A hunting accident, or Murder?In this episode’s case we’ll be popping on our Sunday best, jumping in the time machine and heading off to the remote location of Adrlamont House, a Georgian country house, loca…
Episode 6: The World’s End Murders, A Long Road to Justice
Episode 6: The World’s End Murders, A Long Road to JusticeIn this episode we’re in Auld Reechie!! We’ll start in an Edinburgh’s old town institution,and go through to Glasgow. This case was a shadow over Scotland for a long time, and it too…
Episode 5: The Shamsuddin Mahmood Murder
Episode 5 : Spicy Food, Indian Bullet and an Protective Father: The Shamsuddin Mahmood MurderThis episode sees us getting our feet wet as we leave Lanarkshire behind, and head up North, and I mean north. We’re leaving the mainland and warp…
Episode Four: Manhattan to Lanarkshire, the Beast of Berkinshaw
Episode Four: Manhattan to Lanarkshire, the Beast of BerkinshawThis week’s episode finds us South of Glasgow, in Lanarkshire, in the 1950s.  We'll start with a triple homicide, a family brutally murdered in their homes, in their beds. But…
Episode 3: Karen Buckley
Episode 3: Karen BuckleyAn international flavour to this episode’s case, an Irish nurse goes missing after a night out in Glasgow, a thankfully short search is started, but what the police discover will make your blood run cold. The warnin…
Episode 2: The Jodi Jones Case
Episode 2: The Judi Jones CaseOn a late summer’s afternoon a teenager sends a text to her boyfriend that she’s just leaving the house to come and see him. It should have been a short, picturesque jaunt through a wood, but tragically it wou…
Episode 1: The fishy love triangle
Episode 1: The Fishy TriangleFor our inaugural episode we’re looking at a crime that’s a landmark in Scotland, and like a lot of murder cases involves matters of the heart. When a lonely fisherman’s wife seeks warmth in the arms of another,…
Crime Most Scots - Episode 1 trailer
Episode 1: The Fishy TriangleFor our inaugural episode we’re looking at a crime that’s a landmark in Scotland, and like a lot of murder cases involves matters of the heart. When a lonely fisherman’s wife seeks warmth in the arms of another,…