Blood Ties Podcast

Peter Manuel was Scotland's first serial killer. He accounted for one third of all the killings in Scotland at the time, potentially murdering up to 18 people. He was born in 1927 in New York City but the family eventually returned to Scotland, where he carried out his crimes. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com.

On 10 August 2017, Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall boarded a home made submarine with the intent of interviewing its owner, entrepreneur Peter Madsen. She was never seen alive again. Today we tell her story. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com.

Donald Neilson, alias the "Black Panther", was a British armed robber, kidnapper and murderer. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com.

BTK stands for 'bind them, torture them, kill them'. It was a name the killer gave himself. Between 1974 and 1991 Dennis Lynn Rader killed ten people. Why did it take so long for him to face justice? CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com.

This is a heartbreaking story of the most monstrous act imaginable. David McGreavy has been dubbed the "Monster of Worcester" for the murders he committed, aged 21, on Friday 13th April 1973. He killed three children. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com.

Theresa Knorr subjected her offspring to a variety of physical and mental tortures. This is the true story of a family unit twisted beyond recognition by a mother who committed the most evil of crimes. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com.

The murder of James Bulger in 1993 shocked the nation, but 27 years on there remain unanswered questions. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com.

Paul Knowles has become known as The Casanova Killer. He was an American serial killer tied to the deaths of 20 people in 1974, though he claimed to have taken 35 lives. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com.

Pedro Alonso López is a Colombian serial killer, who was sentenced for killing 110 girls, but who claimed to have raped and killed more than 300 girls across Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com.

Madeleine McCann is on of the most famous victims of crime in the world. She disappeared on the evening of 3rd May 2007 from her bed in a holiday apartment at a resort in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve region of Portugal. Police now believe they may finally have an idea of who was responsible. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: bloodties.podcast@gmail.com.