Kate Thornton & The Lady in the Spotlight

In today's ep, comedian Chelsea Birkby popped in to flex her crime solving muscle, as she helps our hosts wrestle with a case involving the world's first working class pirate (probably), as well as telling us about the time she marked the card of a particularly prolific thief. Th ...  Show more

Happy Friday! Today our guest, the hilarious Candace Bryan, tells us about a scammer who was feeline pretty lucky to be taken in by her. The team then go down to the woods for a big surprise, unfortunately, it IS a man rather than a bear, but at least he's quiet!But perhaps the b ...  Show more

Annie Lederman drops by to discuss her fascinating life in which she starred on multiple TV shows in between stints of homelessness. Doing mushrooms at a medieval renaissance fair, working at a modeling agency run by a drag queen, living with unprogrammed Quakers, and doing ayahu ...  Show more

Laurie Taylor explores the fascination for true crime stories. He's joined by Jennifer Fleetwood, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at City, University of London, whose latest work considers the remarkable rise in the number of people who speak publicly about their experience of cri ...  Show more

Weirdos! Today we are joined by legendary crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, the mastermind behind the Kay Scarpetta series and one of the pioneers of the forensic thriller genre! Whether you’re a longtime Scarpetta stan or newly forensic-curious, this episode is packed with mo ...

In the past few months Kat Denkinson and Sue Perkins have uncovered all kinds of evidence from victims of Carrie Jade’s antics, but there are still some stories which have not yet been told. In episode 8 they take a deeper look at her past and fill in some of the blanks in the st ...  Show more