It’s the Bad People finale. In this last ever episode, Julia and Sofie dig into the ethics of the media... more

In December 2010, the UK media became fixated with the disappearance of 25 year-old Joanna Yeates. When her body was... more

Daniella Isaacs, the creator of the new BBC Sounds audio drama, People Who Knew Me, joins Dr Julia Shaw in... more

Convicted child sex offender Mark Sutherland has arranged to meet a 13 year-old boy at a bus station, but when... more

In 2010 Pramila Krishnan, a journalist for the Deccan Chronicle, filed a story about a little-known practice called Thalaikoothal. The... more

It’s 2001 and 14-year-old Anthony Haynes has died. He was one of some 50 kids who participated in a military-style,... more

The Central Park Five confess on video to police and appear on every front page in America. But why did... more

It’s 9pm in New York City. More than thirty young men have gathered on the corner of 110th Street and... more

In 2015 a woman in Saskatoon was strangled by a belt. Did her friend do it? She has been strangled... more

For her role in the Moors Murders, Myra Hindley was for many years described as ‘‘the most hated woman in... more

In Winson Green, Birmingham a category B prison is fit to burst, and on the 9th of October 2018 it... more

In 2015, fifteen-year-old Shamima Begum left the UK with two of her friends on a flight bound for Turkey. But... more

In 1861 William Mumler claims to capture a spirit of dead on camera and offers grieving people the chance to... more

It’s 1992 and Barry Kingston, a man with admitted paedophilic tendencies, is accused of indecently assaulting a child. The police... more

It’s 2007 in Perugia Italy. A body has been found, but the American suspect maintains her innocence. Amanda Knox spent... more

In April 2018, a sealed plastic bag is found tossed next to a dumpster in Coachella, USA. In it, seven... more

Bobbie was eight months pregnant and shared the good news with her online community. But because she met Lisa Montgomery,... more

There was international outcry in 2011 when the celebrated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at Beijing airport and imprisoned.... more

Presenter and journalist Sam Holder speaks to Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen about his new BBC podcast, Please Protect... more

The only murderer in the family? When serial killer Robert Spahalski admitted to murder in 2005, police not only discovered... more