On The Case

Welcome to On The Case. From the team that brought you the chart-topping, award-winning series The Trial, On The Case is the home for the Daily Mail’s stellar crime reporting beyond the courtroom… now in audio for the very first time.  Each series, a Daily Mail journalist takes us to the heart of a story they’ve been covering, featuring new details, exclusive interviews and behind the scenes insights from the biggest crime stories making headlines around the world. To be the first to find out when we launch a new series, follow this feed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Scarlett West was 13 years old, she was a normal, horse-mad girl doing well at school with dreams of becoming a police officer until an incident that happened on Halloween where she was viciously attacked and set on fire changed everything. This event was the catalyst that saw her gradually drawn into the murky world of grooming gangs and the beginning of a nightmare for both her and her father Marlon. Hosts: James Tozer and Liz Hull Producer: Osk Petursdottir Sound Design: John ScottProduction Manager: Vittoria CecchiniExecutive Producer: Bella Soames Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For early ad-free access to every episode of On The Case as well as all our other incredible true crime shows, subscribe to The Crime Desk now. Visit thecrimedesk.com to become a member.When Ellie Baxter’s mum and dad wanted help setting up their new business, they called in a young local said to be a whizz with computers.Ten years later they were found dead - and Ellie was accused of her parents’ murder…Now, with the real culprit behind bars, she tells a story with more plot twists than any TV drama…In this episode, Ellie exclusively tells Katie Knight how her parents’ killer Luke D’Witt, who they treated like a son, wove an extraordinary web of lies and deceit so that he could control and ultimately take their lives by secretly overdosing them on the prescription medicine promethazine. Host: Katie Knight Producers: Bella Soames and Òsk Petursdottir Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini Studio Manager: Sam ChisholmExecutive Producer: Jamie East  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2003, a man named Urfan Sharif arrived in the UK on a student visa after leaving his home in Jehlum, Pakistan.  Sharif spent the next 20 years terrorising and abusing the women and children in his life.  In this episode, Andy tracks these 20 years by speaking to other journalists that have covered this case.  We also have an exclusive interview with Angelika, the woman who Sharif dated when he was 26 and she was still only a teenager.  She recounts the controlling behaviour that eventually led to her being held captive and violently attacked. Finally we look at the missed opportunities that authorities had to stop Sharif, who would eventually go on to murder his 10-year-old daughter Sara in 2023.

Early in the morning of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were found brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho. The victims were Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Maddie and Kaylee, both asleep in Maddie’s bed, were killed first. It was just after 4am but Xana was still up having ordered a food delivery; he stabbed her next before moving onto kill Ethan where he slept. There were no signs of forced entry - the lock of the door he slipped through was broken - and two other roommates inside the house survived. Weeks later, after an investigation shrouded in secrecy, authorities arrested the then 28-year-old Washington State University criminology Ph.D. student Bryan Kohberger at his family home in Pennsylvania. On July 2nd, Kohberger pled guilty to the murders, as part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. His sentencing has been set for Wednesday July 23rd, and he will spend the rest of his life in prison. In this episode On The Case, Laura Collins, an editor and investigative reporter at the Daily Mail in New York, sits down with Howard Blum, whose latest work When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders has become an instant bestseller, to discuss the story so far and get into some of the questions that still remain unanswered.