Fifty years ago, on March 26th 1971, the body of a young man was found in a secluded spot, an island in the River Trent with extremely limited access. He was buried in a kneeling position, naked except for socks and a wedding ring. His hands and ankles had been bound. So began one of the UK’s most baffling murder mysteries, a grisly crime that has remained unsolved to this day.
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7 days ago
7 days ago
42 min
We talk to someone who knew Francis Clarke on the inside of the prison system, and what this tells us about the reality of incarceration for an offender facing a life sentence, but also the crime itself.
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Jun 27, 2026
Jun 27, 2026
36 min
DCS Bob Stewart, in charge of the Tina Sellars murder investigation had history. He had been the lead detective a famous case two years earlier and had secured life sentences for those involved. It was lauded as a great success.
So he was the perfect man to lead this investigation. Or was he....
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Jun 14, 2026
Jun 14, 2026
20 min
The jury was certain. Francis Clarke had murdered Tina Sellars. But as we discovered in the last episode, there are serious doubts as to whether the time required to commit the crime tallied with the window of opportunity that Clarke had to commit it.
As as we find out in this episode, there are other reasons to suspect there was a potentially entirely different explanation for the crime.
But what about the scientific evidence? That's incontrovertible surely?
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Jun 6, 2026
Jun 6, 2026
34 min
Francis Clarke has been convicted of the murder of Tina Sellars and starts to serve his life sentence. But something's not quite right about this case.
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Jun 2, 2026
Jun 2, 2026
45 min
For DCS Bob Stewart the pressure to solve the Blackpool Street murder was intensifying, The violent nature of the killing suggest they were dealing with a man who had the potential to murder again. He needed to break the case and he needed to do it fast.
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May 30, 2026
May 30, 2026
29 min
The night of the 15th June 1980 was drizzly and unseasonal. In the Midlands town of Burton upon Trent, an 18 year old student steps off the bus and walks back to her grandparents house.
An hour later she was found murdered and mutilated, but what exactly happened in that next hour? Welcome to the Mysterious Case of the Blackpool Street Murder.
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May 16, 2026
May 16, 2026
22 min
In Part 2 of our deep dive into Anthony Hardy, we're able to establish his exact whereabouts, we speak to those who knew him as a youngster and just maybe there's another Burton murder we need to concern ourselves with.
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Apr 12, 2026
Apr 12, 2026
25 min
In November 1972 a young women is murdered in a bedsit flat in Maida Vale, London. That murder is still unsolved. But how on earth could this be connected to our search for Fred?
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Feb 23, 2026
Feb 23, 2026
27 min
As our research continues along the points we determined where key to moving the case forward, we're met with frustrating responses, but we're making progress in other key areas.
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Jan 24, 2026
Jan 24, 2026
27 min
Fred was found with a plain 9ct ring on his right wedding ring finger. Surely we've found all of the information we possible could about that - Well, maybe not.
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Dec 28, 2025
Dec 28, 2025
26 min
As we finish 2025. there's a lot going on with Fred and maybe we've just taken some more steps forward, but with an unexpected plot twist.
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Nov 23, 2025
Nov 23, 2025
27 min
There's a name that keeps appearing in this investigation - Brian Edge - and he's important, because in the early years of the investigation, he's the prime candidate to be Fred.
And, because we keep discovering more information, we've again narrowed the time window even more - and he's right in it.
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