The Manson Murders: Martin Fido Tells the Chilling True Story of Charles Manson (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

The discovery by a maid 40 years ago, of the brutally mutilated bodies of Sharon Tate and her friends on Cielo Drive in the Hollywood Hills has left an indelible mark on middle America. Led by Charles Manson, an orphaned 5ft 2in petty criminal turned messiah-like guru, the Manson family of hippy drop-outs randomly went about murdering rich people in the most revolting ways imaginable.

'The Manson Murders' tells the true and compelling story of the depraved Manson and his cohorts.

P1 - No Name Maddox & Half Assed Thief
P2 - Forming The Family & Topanya Canyon
P3 - Helter Skelter & Tate LaBianca
P4 - More Busts More Bodies & Trials And Convictions

Running time is about 2hrs

True Crimes : Martin Fido Tells the Chilling True Stories of the Worlds Worst Criminals (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

Martin Fido left Balliol College, Oxford in 1966 where he had been a Junior Research Fellow in English; he then went to the University of Leeds where he lectured in English. He remained at Leeds until 1973. He spent the following year as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Michigan State University in the USA. He continued to travel, spending the next ten years as a Reader in English Literature and Head of the English Department at the University of the West Indies, Barbados. Martin has written a number of books, including biographies of Charlies Dickens, Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. Previous crime titles include Murders After Midnight (based on his highly successful radio series), The Crimes, Detection & Death of Jack The Ripper, Murder Guide to London and, with writing partner Keith Skinner, the critically acclaimed Encyclopaedia of Scotland Yard.

Murders After Midnight Radio Broadcasts

TRUE CRIME STORIES

Prostitute Killers

What do prostitutes have in common with policemen? Both suffer the occupational hazard of risking murder. Simply because they present themselves as sexual objects, prostitutes may attract the vicious attention of sexual inadequate. Like the runty baker Robert Hansen who thought he was a big strong huntsman when he chased naked, kidnapped hookers through the Alaskan wilderness until he could shoot them with his crossbow. Like long-nosed Goosey Connor who killed the elderly whore he wrongly believed to have given him syphilis in the infamous Victorian slums of St Giles's/ And who knows why an unknown punter killed Harriet Buswell in her bed? It was the great murder mystery of 1880, and the police bungled the investigation hopelessly.

Introduction 0'26"
Joseph Connor 6'18"
Harriet Buswell 15'14"
Robert Hansen 12'22"
Playout 1'08"

Total playing time 35'11"

Poisoners

Poison is the woman's weapon - or so they say. Cross-eyed Canadian Dr Neill Cream seemed to disprove that, dishing out strychnine capsules right, left and centre, to the streetwalkers thronging the Lambeth sidewalks in the 1890s. Christiana Edmunds also chose strychnine, and distributed it liberally to the townsfolk of Brighton in chocolated. These two poisoners were both obviously mad. Mrs Merrifield, by contrast, was sane, greedy, and very, very stupid. She used a phosphorus based rat poison to eliminate her employer and activate the will in her own favour, which she had cajoled the old lady into writing.

Introduction 0'28"
Christinana Edmunds 12'02"
Dr Neill Cream 13'09"
Mrs Merrifield 15'04"
Playout 1'13"

Total playing time 42'00"

Child Murders

The murder of a child distresses us more than any other crime. Despite the national anxiety created by murderous paedophiles, the crime is mercifully rare:on average only seven cases a year occur in Britain. But a long and difficult hunt can build enormous tension. It did when Raymond Morris killed two little girls in Cannock Chase. Women do sometimes kill children, however. eighbour's
exasperatingly cheeky kids can drive tired housewives over the top: Jeannie Donald is the classic case. Mothers sometimes kill their own children, either seeking attention, or (as was allegedly the case with Alice Crimmins) for the freedom to purse their own love-lives.

Introduction 0'25"
Jeannie Donald 10'15"
Alice Crimmins 15'10"
Raymond Morris 16'31"
Playout 1'08"

Total playing time 43'33"

Domestic Poisoners
Divorce, in Queen Victoria's day, was difficult and expensive. You had to get a private Act of Parliament passed. No wonder some wives used poison to bring their unhappy marriages to an end. Two who got away with it were Mrs Bartlett and Mrs Bravo. Bartlett baffled science. How could she have given her husband chloroform while she nursed his big toe? Mrs Bravo snoozed through the commotion as her husband screamed that his nightly glass of water was bruning his throat. In our own day, sexy Mrs Barber wanted revenge as much as separation. So she cooked a delicious paraquat pie.

Introduction 0'29"
Susan Barber 18'42"
Mrs Bravo 14'46"
Mrs Bartlett 9'12"
Playout 1'13"

Total playing time 44'26"

Mass Murders in the Family
Resolving family problems by murder often entails killing more than one relative. Sneaky Thomas Cullen Davis donned unconvincing woman's attire and wig to get rid
of his demanding estranged wife, yet he only injured her, killing instead her stepdaughter and her current lover. Jeffrey MacDonald quarrelled with his wife and then killed both their daughters, telling an elaborate tale of hippies coming in to wipe out the family. George Joseph Smith, however, was the classic matrimonial moneymaker who drowned his brides in the bath and led to a change in legal practice.

Introduction 0'26"
Thomas Cullen Davis 19'48"
Jeffrey MacDonald 20'15"
George Joseph Smith 14'21"
Playout 1'08"
Total playing time 56'02"

The Truth About Jack Ripper: Martin Fido Tells the Gruesome True Story of Jack The Ripper (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

Leading criminologist and broadcaster Martin Fido recounts the gruesome tales of this most heinous murderer and takes us into the dimly lit, smog filled streets of London's East End to try and discover his - or her? - true identity. Was he Dr Roslyn d'Onston an alcoholic and drug addict. Montague John Druitt an impoverished barrister or most sensationally of all Queen Victoria's Grandson Prince Eddy. All will be revealed...

P1 - Cops And A Killer & Two Murders
P2 - Double Event & The Clues and The End
P3 - Theories and Medical Murderer or Murderous Magician
P4 - Royal Rippers & Identity of Jack The Ripper.

Running time about 2hrs

The Mob: Martin Fido Tells the Compelling True Story (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

The American film industry has much to thank the Mafia for. But the true story of the violent rise of the world's most powerful crime organisation is far more fantastic than even Scorcese and Coppola's acclaimed celluloid depictions.In these compelling files leading criminologist and broadcaster Martin Fido takes us on a one way ride into the dark and secret world of mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, Bugsy Siegel and Dutch Schultz. He introduces us to drive-by killings and Sicilian handshakes, hit men and showgirls, the St Valentines Day Massacre and the night of the Sicilian Vespers. And he dares us to believe that it is anything but a completely true story.

Moderations:
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Silence of the Lambs - The True Story: Martin Fido Tells the Chilling True Story Behind the Book (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

P2 - Ed Kemper & The Hunters
P3 - Robert Hansen, Leonard Lake & Chris Wilder
P4 - Ed Gien & Albert Fish

10 Rillington Place: Martin Fido Tells the Disturbing True Story (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

John Reginald Halliday Christie killed at least seven women and watched his innocent hapless neighbour, Timothy Evans, go to the gallows, before he himself was caught and hung in 1953. A creepy and repellant character, Christie nevertheless managed to lure a seemingly unending succession of women back to his squalid flat in Notting Hill. Once there the latest victim would be offered 'a nice cup of tea' before being gassed, strangled, raped and buried unceremoniously under the floor-boards or in the garden.

Cults That Kill: Martin Fido Tells the Horrific True Story (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

Screaming headlines over the last fourty years have drawn attention to the increasing violent nature of a number of cults. British criminologist Martin Fido examines this growing phenomenon and recounts the horrific events in Tokyo and Oklahoma as well as the mass suicide in Jim Hones' Jonestown, the death and destruction at David Koresh's Ranch Apocalypse and the Manson Family's infamouse Tate-LaBianca murders.
It is a story that will both fascinate and terrify.

Running time 3hrs and about 60MB in total.

A Passion For Killing: Martin Fido Tells the Terrifying True Story (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

Most murders are straight forward domestic affairs committed in a moment of hate, rage or jealousy and probably regretted ever after. A Passion For Killing however takes us into the truly terrifying world of murder for seemingly it's own sake, a world where mutilation and torture become an esential part of a murderer's enjoyment of his own despicable trade.

A Passion For Killing introduces you to eight such murderers - Dr Crippen, Seddon, Peace, Wainwright, Smith, Heath, Thornton, Cook, - you may not
know all their names but after you have heard their incredible tales you will never forget them...

P1 - Dr Crippin
- Seddon
- Charlie Peace
- Henry Wainwright
P2 - George Smith
- Neville Heathn
- Abraham Thornton
- James Cook

Guilty or Insane Killers: Martin Fido Tells the Fascinating True Story (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

Are all murderers mad? Well, some certainly are. Some have been so obviously demented that it is hard to believe they roamed the street without a keeper. John Nichols Thom, the self-styled Sir William Courtney or King of Jerusalem managed to stand for Parliament, though both major
political parties subsequently accused each other of irresponsibly letting him loose to declare messianic war on society. Archie Prince was sufficiently paranoid to be dubbed 'Mad Archie' by fellow-actors, long before he killed William Terriss. His last years in Broadmoor were brightened by rivalry with the notorious Ronald True for domination of the asylum's entertainments committee. And Prince would also have known the very gracious inmate, Miss Brand, who did not allow her attempt to poison random chocolate purchasers in a south coast town to detract from her dignity.

If mad murderers are bizarre, killers who escape may leave even more extravagant criminal scenes behind them. J, Maundy Gregory, bribe-gatherer
in chief for Lloyd George, taking pains to bury the 'little lady' to whom he was not married so close to the Thames that her coffin would be inundated by the first heavy rains. Weldon Atherstone, found dead in an empty flat that did not belong to him, carpet slippers on his feet, a home-made cosh in his pocket, his books on the mantelpiece. (Oh, and he was certainly not a burglar!)

P1 The Wallace Case, Sir Harry Oakes & Weldon Atherstone
P2 Maundy Gregory & Arnold Walder
P3 Richard Dadd, Mad Archie & John Lennon
P4 John Nichols Thom, Christina Edmonds & Ronald True

The Kennedys: Martin Fido Tells the Compelling True Story (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

In Oliver Stone's Movie 'JFK' Sheriff Jim Garrison's accusations against businessman Clay Shaw and the industrial-military conspiracy to replace
Kennedy with the macho militarist Lyndon Johnson, as revealed by Military Intelligence Officer 'X' are not included in this audio. The latter (played by Donald Sutherland) was a fictional character, devised to put across a theory, unsupported by any concrete evidence. It is true that Vice-President Johnson gained more than any other individual by Kennedy's death. But it is untrue to suggest that right-hand men with such personal interests have normally been behind major assassinations. Presidents Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, for example, were all murdered by assassins who were unknown to their vice-president. Jim Garrison's enquiry proved nothing about Clay Shaw beyond the possibilities that he could have been used to channel legal aid to Oswald; he may have had homosexual associations; and he might have been present at some indiscreet anti-Kennedy conversations. You would never guess from the movie 'JFK' that the main reason Garrison's enquiry seemed discredited was that he was resolutely denied finding any traces of organised crime, going so far as to assert that Carlos Marcello was a legitimate businessman, and there was no organised crime in New Orleans!

1. Death In Dealey Plaza
2. Murder of Patrolman Tippit
3. Jack Ruby
4. Innocence of Lee Harvey Oswald
5. The Communist Connection
6. The Confessions
7. Bobby Kennedy
8. Marilyn Monroe

Running Time: 2hrs 26mins

Hell Hath No Fury Killers: Martin Fido Tells the Fascinating True Story (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

I guess it's masochistic male chauvinism that makes the murderess seem more terrible than the murderer. The peculiar erotic fear that Kipling pinned down in writing, 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male', and melodramatised still more strongly in his poem The Vampire -
('A rag and a bone and a hank of hair').
The dreadful murderesses taking fearful revenge on the men who done 'em wrong may likewise turn out to be merely pathetic. Ruth Ellis -not really striking until her courage after the arrest; Mrs Barney, a pampered lush; Madame Fahmy, an adventuress who miscalculated the advantages of
marrying into Islam.
The great Victorians tend to expose the sensational advantages of a really rigid sexual code to be broken. Though Mrs Maybrick may well have been
innocent; Mrs Bartlett's lover was a comically hypocritical Methodist minister; Mrs Herman, was a poor old prostitute. Madeline Smith rises above these as a truly bad and sexy woman, paving the way for the anti-heroines of out own time, Kim Newell, Pamela Smart & Susan Barber.

01. RUTH ELLIS
02. MRS BARNEY
03. MADAME FAHMY
04. MRS BARTLESS
05. MRS MAYBRICK
06. MADELINE SMITH
07. MARIE HERMAN
08. SUSAN BARBER
09. KIM NEWELL
10. PAMELA SMART
Total Running Time: 3hrs 6mins 'ish

Serial Killers: Martin Fido Tells the Terrifing True Story (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

Most murders are straight forward domestic affairs committed in a moment of hate, rage or jealousy and probably regretted ever after. But for one very callous type of person that first murder seems only to create a desire to kill again... and again. Leading criminologist and broadcaster Martin Fido traces the history of serial killers from Victorian London's Jack The Ripper to mdoern day monsters such as Jeffrey Dahmer and Denis Nilsen.
It is a story that will both fascinate and terrify.

Shady Ladies / Wicked Women: Martin Fido Tells the Fascinating True Story (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

It's a wicked old world women find themselves sharing with men. Terms like "whore" or "slut" wickedly suggest that a woman whose indulgence of her
sexual appetite is comparable with most men's, has thereby forfeited her title to proper human respect. Our two actual commercial harlots, Starr
Faithful and Robin Benedict, were both cruelly murdered. But public attention focussed on the "respectable" men who had fallen to their wiles rather than on their sad fates.

1. Lucrezia Borgia
2. Starr Faithfull
3. Alice Crimmins
4. Robin Benedict
5. Anna Schonleben
6. Lucretia Chapman
7. Belle Gunness
8. Mrs Merrifield

The Krays: Martin Fido Tells the Gruesome But Compelling True Story (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

The 60s saw London gangland achieve a high profile with a touch of glamour. No London mobsters gained a higher profile or were more glamorous than the Krays.

1. What Were They Really Like ?
2. Establishing The Firm
3. The Murder of George Cornell
4. The Mad Axeman
5. Jack The Hat

Yorkshire Ripper: Martin Fido Tells the Gruesome True Story (True Crime Audio) by Martin Fido (Author)

In the late 1970s, a series of women were brutally murdered in and around Leeds and Bradford (England!) Someone seemed to be emulating 'Jack The Ripper', the infamous murderer of prostitutes in London's East End almost a century earlier.When the 'Yorkshire Ripper' extended his range of targets to women who were not prostitutes, public anxiety reached fever pitch. 300 officers, 12,500 statements and hundreds of interviews with potential suspects - including five with Peter Sutcliffe himself - failed to capture the real murderer. The audio tell the true story of the hunt for the "Yorkshire Ripper".

Running Time 2hrs 24mins