Blue Murder Club

This month we cover the sad case of the murder of Tia Sharp, the 12 year old London schoolgirl who was murdered by her step-grandad, Stuart Hazell. The hunt for Tia was huge and coverage in the days following her disappearance was front page news. Little did anyone realise that they were looking in the wrong place outside of the home and that poor Tia never left her grandparents house. In fact it would take the police a week and four separate searches before they found her. Please join us in learning about this unbelievable sad case.Support the showFor one time support Buy Me a Coffee:Blue Murder ClubLink to all things Blue Murder Club including all of the Socials - We look forward to hearing what you think about usbluemurderclub | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | LinktreeArtwork by Stuart WhiffenPhotography by Jessica GeorgeWritten and Presented by Carol Hughes Whiffen & Lauren Strutt

This episode is brought to you lovely people by Carrie. It is kind of a mind control episode as it covers the famous Pavlovian experiment - fascinating stuff, about the scientist who measured the triggered responses of his dogs to various stimulus.  This is followed by the case of the young McDonald's employee, Louise Ogborn, who at the age of 18 suffered a 4 hour ordeal at the hands of an anonymous 'police officer Scott' who instructed, by phone the adults around her to carry out the most unimaginable crimes. What would you have done in that situation?For one time support Buy Me a Coffee:Blue Murder ClubLink to all things Blue Murder Club including all of the Socials - We look forward to hearing what you think about usbluemurderclub | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | LinktreeArtwork by Stuart WhiffenPhotography by Jessica GeorgeWritten and Presented by Carol Hughes Whiffen & Lauren Strutt

Please join us as we have a chat with Mike from the Murder Mile podcast. Murder mile is TRIPLE NOMINATED at the True Crime Awards 2025 and nominated for the Best True Crime Podcast at the British Podcast Awards. Murder Mile UK True Crime is a unique London-based true-crime podcast, focused on Soho, the West End and West London, presented as a guided walk of 300+ untold, unsolved and long-forgotten murder cases. Praised as one of the best London, British, English and UK True Crime podcasts.

On the morning of Monday 17th February 2014 a call was made to emergency services in Essex by 18 year old Lewis Daynes. In this call Lewis requested police assistance, admitting he had just stabbed his friend to death in the bedroom of his flat. This was the the horrific end to what had been a years worth of on-line manipulation and grooming of 14 year old schoolboy, Breck Bednar.Every parents nightmare, when Breck's mum felt something was amiss with her son's new online friend, she made Breck break off the friendship with this man who no one had ever seen in real life. She even reported him to the police...Breck's family did everything possible to keep him safe from this on-line predator but ultimately it wasn't enough and Breck's young life, so full of promise was snatched away that awful February day.With the current focus of child on child crime we decided to cover this case and bring some attention to the charity that Breck's mum, Lorin has set up in his name, which provides information and support in child safeguarding.Online Safety | Breck FoundationHere is Breck's story 💙💙Support the show!Blue Murder club 💙 | creating True crime podcast | PatreonFor one time support Buy Me a Coffee:Blue Murder ClubLink to all things Blue Murder Club including all of the Socials - We look forward to hearing what you think about usbluemurderclub | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | LinktreeEvents:CrimeCon London 2025 - Get a tasty discount using our code BLUE and Crimecon even do a payment plan to spread the cost! Come and see your girls in London this year 💙💙Artwork by Stuart WhiffenPhotography by Jessica GeorgeWritten and Presented by Carol Hughes Whiffen & Lauren Strutt

Welcome to the new episode of Blue Murder Club. Today we are going to be discussing the case of Ariel Castro and his Cleveland house of horrors. This is a case that shocked and horrified the world, revealing the depths of human cruelty and the resilience of the human spirit.Ariel Castro, a former school bus driver, committed heinous acts that would ultimately lead to his arrest and the liberation of three women who had been held captive for a decade. Your favourite true crime podcasters discuss the abductions and crimes against 20 year old Michelle Knight, 17 year old Amanda Berry and 14 year old Gina DeJesus all committed by 40 year old Ariel Castro who happened to be the father of his victims school friends.Castro used his relationship with his teenage daughters to make the young women trust him enough to get into his van and ultimately into his house at 2207 Seymour Avenue, where they were bound, beaten and savagely abused from 2002 until Amanda bravely broke free in 2013.Amanda wasn't alone on her escape for during her captivity she had conceived and had a child. A schoolgirl on abduction and a mother of a 6 year old when she escaped.We hope you enjoy our coverage of this remarkable case.Support the show!Blue Murder club 💙 | creating True crime podcast | PatreonFor one time support Buy Me a Coffee:Blue Murder ClubLink to all things Blue Murder Club including all of the Socials - We look forward to hearing what you think about usbluemurderclub | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | LinktreeEvents:CrimeCon London 2025 - Get a tasty discount using our code BLUE and Crimecon even do a payment plan to spread the cost! Come and see your girls in London this year 💙💙Artwork by Stuart WhiffenPhotography by Jessica GeorgeWritten and Presented by Carol Hughes Whiffen & Lauren Strutt

This week's case is the infamous case of Edmund Kemper, the Co-Ed Killer.Brought to by your girls Carrie and Lozza, Ed Kemper was a serial killer who was convicted of murdering seven women and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. However this wasn't Kemper's first murder spree as years earlier, at the age of just 15, Kemper had murdered his grandparents and sent to an adult psychiatric hospital where he honed his skills as a master manipulator, managing to get released on his 21st birthday. Believing Kemper was fully rehabilitated and no longer a danger to himself or others he was free to roam the streets of Santa Cruz, picking up hitch hikers, trying to push down the his homicidal feelings until one day it became too much. For almost a year he stalked and terrorised the area, especially the young female students of the nearby colleges. Who knows how long he would have got away with it if he hadn't of handed himself in to the police.Kemper is still alive today and has been studied by many law enforcement and psychiatric professionals, assisting with offender profiling for the FBI. We hope you enjoy our show and that we manage to bring some little known facts to this famous case.Source material for the research of this case include the excellent website Edmund Kemper Stories - Documenting the Co-Ed Killer caseAnd the superb documentary First Blood. Support the show!Blue Murder club 💙 | creating True crime podcast | PatreonFor one time support Buy Me a Coffee:Blue Murder ClubLink to all things Blue Murder Club including all of the Socials - We look forward to hearing what you think about usbluemurderclub | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | LinktreeEvents:CrimeCon London 2025 - Get a tasty discount using our code BLUE and Crimecon even do a payment plan to spread the cost! Come and see your girls in London next year 💙💙Artwork by Stuart WhiffenPhotography by Jessica GeorgeWritten and Presented by Carol Hughes Whiffen & Lauren Strutt