If you love listening to true crime stories played out step by step, then you are in the right place! Join the hosts of Infraction each week as we discuss everything, from crimes that shocked the world, to mysteries you have never heard of. Sit back, relax and let us do the talking...
Episodes
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
Wednesday Jan 13, 2021
On June 2nd 2010, the close knit communities in West Cumbria, England, were rocked when a gunman shot and killed 12 people during a terrifying killing spree.
The gun-wielding man was 52 year old Derrick Bird, a local taxi driver. Derrick Bird had no previous history of violence and everyone who knew him was convinced the police had got it wrong.
This episode discusses the massacre as it unfolded and explores what might have caused Derrick Bird to snap and commit the most horrendous crime Cumbria has ever seen.
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Sources used in this episode:
Evil Up Close - Massacre In The Lakes: Derrick Bird
https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/how-kent-mums-holiday-brought-4182753
https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bird-derrick.htm
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gun-victim-slashed-killer-s-tyres-2232368.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-12612352
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jun/02/derrick-bird-profile-cumbria-gunman
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-12595177
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10259982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZoIHSiS8Nw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW8oj_gzhjo
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Wednesday Dec 16, 2020
Between June 2011 and January 2012 Stepping Hill Hospital in Manchester, England, was plagued by a string of unexplained deaths and poisoning attacks on the patients being treated there. The attacks seemed to happen at random and patients were falling ill at all times of the day and night. The staff were confused as to why these patients were falling ill, but then they found a contaminated bag of saline…
This episode explores the attacks that happened at Stepping Hill Hospital and goes into detail about each of the victims of this crime. We discuss what happened when the police first made an arrest and the subsequent investigation that followed.
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Sources used in this episode:
Documentary: Crimes That Shook Britain - Ep 4 Stepping Hill
https://medlineplus.gov/pulmonaryhypertension.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-32497173
https://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d4707
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-32795255
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/wrongly-accused-stepping-hill-murders-5792562
https://medlineplus.gov/pulmonaryhypertension.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-18779799
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-14199024
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-14181961
https://psychowatcher.wordpress.com/tag/arnold-lancaster/
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/r-v-chua-sentencing.pdf
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-21577696
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
Wednesday Dec 09, 2020
On Valentine’s day 1975, 16 year old Dinah Peterson snuck out of her house to visit a boy her parents disapproved of. Tragically, Dinah never made it to her boyfriend’s house and the next morning Dinah’s father found her lying lifeless on the ground, having been murdered in their own back garden.
This episode discusses the original investigation and explores this case that stayed unsolved for over 30 years.
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Sources used in this episode:
Documentary: Killer in Plain Sight - Teenage Rage
https://www.leagle.com/decision/inwaco20110912a43
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/man-charged-with-murder-of-teen-after-30-plus-years/
https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Prosecutor-asks-jury-to-correct-police-mistakes-1303887.php
https://www.bookscool.com/en/Fatal-Friends-Deadly-Neighbors-and-Other-True-Cases-556589/31
https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/archive/index.php/t-178053.html
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/man-50-guilty-in-1975-cold-case-murder/
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6648212/diana-marie-peterson
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/1975-murder-case-goes-to-trial-in-seattle/
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
In 1981, 13 year old Mary Day went missing from her home in Seaside, California. Her family never reported her missing and her siblings were told to never speak about Mary to anyone.
In 1994, 12 years after the last time Mary had been seen alive, her disappearance was finally reported to the police. Nothing happened in this case until November 2003, when a routine traffic stop in Arizona uncovered something nobody had ever expected to find.
This episode looks into the police interviews conducted with Mary’s parents and explores what happened when police made that shocking discovery in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Our theme music is the work of the very talented Joseph McDade.
Sources used in this episode:
48 Hours: Whatever Happened to Mary Day?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mary-day-suspected-murder-victim-back-dead-dna-48-hours/
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/mary-day-missing-teen-photos/2/
https://heavy.com/news/2020/05/mary-day-disappearance/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Louise_Day
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
On Sunday August 15th 2010, just outside Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavík, a young 23 year old woman entered the home she shared with her fiancé, Hannes, having spent the night out with a friend. Inside the house she found Hannes laying dead on the floor in a pool of blood.
This episode explores how the police caught his killer, despite there being no evidence at the crime scene. We discuss what led his murderer to commit this crime and we talk about how the initial trial left Hannes’s family without the justice they wanted.
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Sources used in this episode:
https://www.icenews.is/2010/08/16/icelandic-business-man-found-murdered-in-own-home/
https://www.icenews.is/2011/03/01/icelandic-businessmans-murderer-escapes-trial-on-medical-grounds/
https://www.icenews.is/2010/09/05/hannes-thor-helgasons-killer-confesses/
https://www.icenews.is/2010/08/28/man-charged-over-iceland-businessman-murder/
https://www.icenews.is/2010/09/06/iceland-businessman-murder-weapon-found/
https://www.icenews.is/2010/08/16/icelandic-business-man-found-murdered-in-own-home/
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/murder-victim%E2%80%99s-family-dissatisfied-with-verdict/
https://popprock.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/mordid-a-hannesi-helgasyni/
True Nordic Crimes - Crazy in Love
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
An update on changes to the laws discussed in Jill Meagher's episode and a look at the #LetUsSpeak campaign and how the driving force behind this campaign, Jaime Lee Page, fought hard to change the law.
Video discussed: https://www.facebook.com/TheProjectTV/videos/699680690926285/
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
On the 22nd September 2012, Jill Meagher left a bar less than a kilometre away from her home in Melbourne, but she never made it home.
This episode follows the case as it unfolded and the horrendous individual who committed this violent and abhorrent crime. We explore the past crimes of the perpetrator and discuss the litany of police failings in this case.
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Our theme music is the work of the very talented Joseph McDade.
Sources used in this episode:
Documentary: Conviction - The Jill Meagher Story
Documentary: Crimes That Shook Australia - Jill Meagher - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHNtfB8zEJM
CCTV Footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiBck13rpcA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXAI6k-rMPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPH8cjBmmbQ
Articles:
https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bayley-adrian.htm
Research Paper: “The Death of Jill Meagher: Crime and Punishment on Social Media” researched and written by Sanja Milivojevic and Alyce McGovern (University of New South Wales, Australia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joYAs2TAxt8
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-27/conviction-inside-the-hunt-for-jill-meaghers-killer/7864120
Tom Meagher’s Blog Posts: https://whiteribbonblog.com/2015/11/02/when-we-use-the-abusers-voice/
https://whiteribbonblog.com/2014/04/17/the-danger-of-the-monster-myth/
Change in law:
https://www.lmfm.ie/news/lmfm-news/mother-of-jill-meagher-slams-new-airbrusing-laws/
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
On May 2nd 2005, the police in Aigues-Mortes, a city in the south of France, received a strange phone call from a man claiming that he knew a kidnapping of a young woman was about to take place at a lively Bar in the city centre.
The police were quick to rush to the Bar, but they didn’t see any crime take place and so the investigation was closed.
This episode explores the events that unfolded when a man walked into a police station 130km away in Marseille, claiming that his wife had disappeared. We discuss the disappearance of Élodie Morel as it unfolded and talk about how the perpetrators in this crime were eventually caught.
Names of the people in this case (if you want to Google, but cannot decipher my French accent...):
- Dominique Tarasco
- Guillaume Mingaud
- Richard and Francine Lignier
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Sources used in this episode:
Documentary - Amazon Prime: Real Stories - “Trapped by the Internet - The Elodie Morel Case”
https://www.tonycomiti.com/catalogue/productions/the-internet-trap-the-case-of-elodie-morel/?lang=en
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Guillaume_Mingaud
http://telescoop.tv/browse/421987/3/enquetes-criminelles-le-magazine-des-faits-divers.html
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
On March 25th 2008 in Gaines County Texas, Rocky Bryant was found badly beaten in the warehouse at the dry fertiliser plant where he worked. His murder sparked a lot of questions but with no physical evidence, the case went cold.
This episode explores the events that unfolded when this case was reopened in 2013 and we discuss what happened when the police started to look at old suspects in a new light.
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Sources used in this episode:
Amazon Prime: Cold Justice: Blind Love
http://archives.etypeservices.com/sentinel1/Magazine31245/Publication/Magazine31245.pdf
https://en.calameo.com/read/0045592195721faff9b8f
http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/play/4926702/patricia_graves_plea
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth786752/m1/1/
https://www.mylife.com/martell-graves/e4369247174130
https://www.mylife.com/patricia-graves/e333217837098
https://legaldictionary.net/deferred-adjudication/
https://www.kcbd.com/story/8075463/newschannel-11-learns-more-about-beating-death-victim/
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
On Thursday February 19th 2015, Becky Watts, a 16 year old from Bristol, England, went missing from her family home without a trace. Her father put out appeal after appeal, begging for his daughter to come home. Unfortunately for her family, Becky was closer than they could have ever imagined.
This episode takes a deep dive into Becky’s life growing up and the relationship she had with her family. We discuss the events that occurred around her death, how her family coped during the investigation into her disappearance and how they coped with the subsequent trial that followed.
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Our theme music is the work of the very talented Joseph McDade.
Sources used in this episode:
Book: The Evil Within - Darren Galsworthy
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/tv/who-is-nathan-matthews-watts-13878628
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/becky-watts-murder-trial-schoolgirl-6597897
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/traumatised-juror-becky-watts-trial-1257208
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-35491862
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-35491862
https://news.sky.com/story/becky-co-accused-talked-about-moving-packages-10342321