Strange But True Crime

Strange But True Crime

Host: BBC

Dive into a world of bizarre crimes with brazen criminals that will leave you scratching your head for answers.Rima Ahmed explores audacious heists, secret drugs bunkers and stolen identities with reporters who have lived and breathed these criminal cases.Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Written and produced by Luke de Costa. Online Producer: Rachael Smith. Executive Producer: Luke Eldridge. Commissioning Editors: Gareth Hydes and Alistair Miskin.

Episodes

Death Pledge
01November 04, 2025 7:00pm

Death Pledge

Mark Christopher lured followers into his 'anti-establishment cult’ by promising to save them money. The movement quickly took a sinister turn.Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.uk.Presenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Lewis A…

Danger, High Voltage
02June 24, 2025 6:05pm

Danger, High Voltage

A group of workmen dig up roads and pavements to re-connect derelict buildings to the UK power grid. Local residents soon suspect that all is not as it seems and what‘s discovered is greater than they could have imagined.Wanna get in touch?…

The Sausage Factory Hitman
03June 10, 2025 6:05pmExplicit

The Sausage Factory Hitman

A man living in the quiet town of Fakenham, Norfolk is warned a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers a story of obsession and revenge.Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Robby …

Strangers on the Beach
04June 03, 2025 6:05pm

Strangers on the Beach

People living in Newport, Pembrokeshire, start spying on some interesting, wealthy but slightly suspicious visitors. Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Reporter: Matt Murray. Written and produced …

The Swiss Art Heist
05May 27, 2025 6:05pm

The Swiss Art Heist

£3m of Ming Dynasty treasures vanish from Geneva’s Museum of Far Eastern Art. After what was a peculiar heist, suspicion falls on the Ahearne brothers who are being watched by police in the UK and Switzerland.An undercover cop meeting is se…

Unmasking a Fugitive
06May 20, 2025 6:05pm

Unmasking a Fugitive

Arthur Knight claimed he was an Irish orphan during a police interview in a hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.The Police were tipped off that the patient could actually be American fugitive Nicholas Rossi, who was wanted in Utah to face rape ch…

The Great British Takeoff
07May 13, 2025 6:05pm

The Great British Takeoff

The McDonagh’s from Port Talbot in South Wales go out for a steak dinner in Swansea and leave without paying. The restaurant posts to social media to try and track the family down, only to find that this wasn't their first 'dine-and-dash' m…

Missing in Action
08May 06, 2025 6:05pm

Missing in Action

'Army medic' Tanya Nasir’s CV lands her a prestigious job on the neonatal unit at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend, Wales, but all is not as it seems. Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. …

The Treasure Traitors
09April 29, 2025 6:05pm

The Treasure Traitors

Two Welsh metal detectorists make an astonishing discovery in a farmer’s field and try to secretly sell the treasure before the authorities track them down. Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed. Repo…

Dr Nope
10April 22, 2025 6:15pm

Dr Nope

Patrick O’Hara lives a comfortable life with his partner in Newcastle. But a routine visit from a suspicious community nurse is about to put him on life support. Wanna get in touch? Email us at behaveyourself@bbc.co.ukPresenter: Rima Ahmed…

The Man with the Golden Hun
11April 22, 2025 6:05pm

The Man with the Golden Hun

Carolyn Woods starts fresh in the quaint town of Tetbury, Gloucestershire. She falls for the charming Mark Conway, an ‘MI6 spy’. He says he’s not normal. After moving in to his apartment in Bath she finds out what that really means. Wanna g…

Introducing… Strange But True Crime
12April 16, 2025 6:05pm

Introducing… Strange But True Crime

Dive into a world of bizarre crimes with brazen criminals that will leave you scratching your head for answers.Rima Ahmed explores audacious heists, secret drugs bunkers and stolen identities with reporters who have lived and breathed these…