The Vintage Murders Podcast
Exploring the crimes & misdemenours committed in the West Country of England in bygone days, there causes, reasons and eventual outcomes., that affected families as well as communities for many years after the unspeakable events took place. These episodes cover murderous acts committed between 1900 and 1950.
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Episodes
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
Wednesday Dec 21, 2022
’Death Of A Moneylender’. A kindly old lady who helped out with small loans from time to time is found slain in her home. Narrowing down suspects proves far from easy.
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
Wednesday Dec 14, 2022
‘A Box Of Matches’. The death of the local pubs landlady starts a search for the killer. Suspicion falls on a nearby resettlement camp where the intricate causes of this crime could be revealed.
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
Wednesday Dec 07, 2022
‘Violets Dilemma’. An interfering mother in law and marital strife lead to murder. However, this case literally changed the course of English criminal law to this day.
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
‘A Families Shame’. During a bitterly cold winter, a schoolgirl is discovered to be pregnant. Who is the father and who is the murderer.
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
Wednesday Nov 23, 2022
‘Wilful Tragedy’. They say lightening never strikes in the same place twice. But it did in a sleepy rural village with the death of a local family.
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
A reclusive farmer in Cornwall is taunted and victimised by two local louts. It ends badly for all those involved.
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
Sunday Oct 16, 2022
The discovery of two dead children in some nearby woods puts fear into the parents of the locality. A desperate and relentless hunt starts, the scope of which had not been seen for a generation, in order to find the culprit before he or she strikes again.
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
Saturday Oct 15, 2022
The death of an elderly lady; was it a mercy killing or was it a witch being saved from herself so that she could get to heaven. Exorcism normally involves prayers and incantations to rid the body of evil spirits. It does not involve more extreme measures, usually.
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Avarice, stupidity and a wheelbarrow, as well as a love interest, come together in the far South West of England as the hunt for a double murderer shifts from the wilds of Cornwall all the way to London.
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Friday Oct 14, 2022
A bigamous marriage, two wives and a child. Would you like to see your ex partner wandering around with the new love interest? Probably not, but would you actually kill that person? There was only one wrong solution in the eyes of the perpetrator. But in this case who was the victim to be.