Scottish Murders Podcast
Scottish Murders is an award shortlisted victim focused podcast, dedicated to solved and unsolved murders carried out on people from or living in Scotland, and is hosted by Dawn, and occasionally Dawn's sister, Cole.
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Lady Killers
Trigger Warning – This episode covers the topic of child murders.
In Scotland, from 2016 to 2021, females accounted for 9% of homicide accusations. In this episode we tell you about two women, who, in different times and for very different reasons, harmed and murdered very young children; Jean Barclay Waddell in 1961 and Mary Ann Anderson in 1891.
Eliza Connolly
In April 1981, 74-year-old Eliza Connelly was found dead in her home in a quiet residential area in Broughty Ferry in Dundee. She had 12 wounds to her head, two on her hands, fractured ribs, and blood was found everywhere from the floor to the ceiling. The initial assumption was murder, but with no evidence or witnesses, an accidental death theory was posed.
Scottish Murderer – Jason Downie
This week Dawn gets to sit back for this away episode, as Effie from the podcast Mums, Mysteries and Murder tells her about the Scottish Murderer, 20 year old Jason Downie, who, in November 2010, brutally murdered 16-year-old Chantelle Rowe, and her father Andrew and mother Rose at their house near Adelaide in Australia.
What could have led Jason Downie to have so viciously murdered his friend's girlfriend and her parents?
John Cremin
In 1959, teenagers James Denovan and Anthony Miller devised a scheme to rob homosexual men in Queen’s Park Recreation Ground in Glasgow. They exploited the fact that homosexuality was illegal, knowing their victims would be unlikely to report the crimes. This continued until April 1960, when one of their victims, John Cremin, was killed. Initially, his death was thought to be accidental, but a post-mortem revealed that John had been murdered.
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"I'm glad justice occurred. So very emotional and sad though. We think life is difficult now but really much better than those times. Thanks for sharing a very difficult story."
"The way people went to visit the murder scene in great numbers back then ,and other murders before and since , we have alway had a morbid fascination for the macabre . Really well presented and narrated, these shows deserve a wider audience ,Radio Scotland ,bbc radio 4 or 5 live , would make good night time listening could be part of phone in shows. thanks."
"Good informative ,well researched and narrated as always , thank you ,part 2 beckons."
"Tragic horrific case , I think your narration is very professional and never becomes "tabloid" or sensational, "oh what a tangled web ......." etc , thank you ."
"The 1st story, without knowing the why, is simply tragic. The 2nd story, is a head shaker! All the women who put up with men who won't work, would be happy with one who worked a night shift. But then after Owen's actions: was that just a poorly crafted story to get out of a relationship with an unstable man? We'll never know the answer to that one either..."
"Speechless. I imagine there is something about the first story we'll never know."
Thanks for another great podcast. Truly a horrific man.
well researched and narrated ,no nonsense sensitive reporting as always ,Sandra did her best ,such a shame that when he confessed to his father he didn't say were Moira was hidden , so sad for the family 64 years of not knowing.
Thanks for sharing this one. I'd heard of this story but never in detail. The truth really is that the family members pay the greater price in death penalty cases.