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Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

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Award-winning Daily Mail crime writer Stephen Wright talks to top detectives, lawyers, victims and relatives to take an in-depth look at crimes that have shocked Britain (and the world), as well as revisiting some of his landmark stories and campaigns. From serial murderers to child killers, ruthless gangsters to corrupt police, psychopaths to paedophiles, celebrity criminals to audacious conmen, he untangles the mysteries and the secrets behind the headlines.

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Beyond Reasonable Doubt episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Beyond Reasonable Doubt for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Beyond Reasonable Doubt episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

In the first of a two-part True Crime story exclusive to Mail+, award-winning Daily Mail crime writer Stephen Wright revisits one of his first and most horrifying cases, the 'House of Horrors' in Cromwell Street, Gloucester, which led police to the dismembered remains of nine young women. On the 25th anniversary of Fred West's death, Mail+ talks to his biographers, experts and police involved in the case to ask, how could a seemingly normal family perpetrate such evil... and could it happen again? Come back for Part Two next week...

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt - Last Days of Diana: A Note From the Grave
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07/05/21 • 26 min

Princess Diana’s tragic death would prompt a three-year investigation by Scotland Yard - but what crime had been committed... and who was really to blame? In the third episode of a new seven-part Beyond Reasonable Doubt podcast from Mail+, award-winning crime writer Stephen Wright speaks to the people who knew Princess Diana to unravel the conspiracy theories around her death - as a bombshell note from the Princess suggested that someone was plotting to kill her, and that person was, ‘My husband’.

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When dashing Swiss banker (and secret MI6 agent) Mark Conway walked into the Gloucestershire shop she worked in, divorcee Carolyn Woods fell head over heels and they began planning a life together. There was just one problem, she tells award-winning crime writer Stephen Wright: ‘Conway’ was actually notorious conman Mark Acklom, who span a web of lies including taking fake calls from the King of Spain, and slowly tore Carolyn’s life apart, isolating her from her friends and robbing her of £850,000.

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt - Bent cops and cover ups: the axe murder of Daniel Morgan
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06/17/21 • 22 min

In March 1987, private investigator Daniel Morgan was brutally killed in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, with an axe embedded in his skull - but more than three decades later, no one has ever faced justice for his death. Award-winning crime writer Stephen Wright talks to Daniel’s campaigning brother, Alastair, about how the Metropolitan Police repeatedly failed Daniel, and why current Met Chief Cressida Dick should resign ‘as a matter of honour’ over a murky investigation mired in allegations of police corruption.

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt - Fred West's missing 'victim': the Mary Bastholm mystery
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06/03/21 • 28 min

Mary Bastholm vanished from a Gloucester bus stop in January 1968, while en route to visit her boyfriend. She was just 15 years old and her disappearance was completely out of character. Within months, police shelved the investigation after running out of leads – despite detectives believing she had been abducted. A police file on her case was gathering dust for a quarter of a century until 1994, when Fred and Rose West were arrested over the brutal murders of 12 girls and young women. Psychopath Fred West was quickly linked with Mary's disappearance but repeatedly denied being responsible before killing himself. In this exclusive interview, Stephen Wright speaks to ex Det Supt John Bennett, who led the Cromwell Street investigation in the 1990s (and who as a young detective worked on Mary’s disappearance in the late 1960s) to discuss her case and the recent police dig at the site of a former Gloucester cafe in a new bid to find her remains. Why is Bennett convinced Fred West abducted and murdered Mary, and will her body ever be located?

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Ten years after former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath died, he was smeared with vile and bizarre false claims of satanism, child abuse and murder, including using a bear-claw glove to disembowel children. Why did police believe the claims against him - and was it to do with Heath’s sexuality? Award-winning crime-writer Stephen Wright talks to Heath’s godson, Lincoln Seligman (who knew him as ‘Uncle Teddy’), and his former political secretary and biographer, Michael McMannus about how - unlike other establishment figures falsely accused of similar crimes - Heath had no children to defend him, and why police chose to believe the ‘wicked and cruel’ allegations against him. And they explain why Home Secretary Priti Patel should ensure officers are held to account over their shocking blunders.

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt - Last Days of Diana: The crash

Last Days of Diana: The crash

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06/27/21 • 36 min

On August 31, 1997, a Mercedes carrying Diana, Princess of Wales crashed into a pillar in a tunnel in Paris, and the world would never be the same again. A new seven-part Beyond Reasonable Doubt podcast from Mail+ finally reveals what really happened that night - in the words of the people who were there, including an exclusive first interview with surgeon Monsef Dahman, who fought to save Diana's life that night. Presented by award-winning Daily Mail crime writer Stephen Wright, the podcast offers a minute-by-minute breakdown of the events of 1997 - and how it changed the Royal family forever. Produced by Rosie Gillott.

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Police marksman Tony Long was dubbed ‘the Met’s very own serial killer’ by a senior officer after shooting three men dead, including two security van robbers gunned down in seconds in a hail of bullets. In the second part of an interview with award-winning crime writer Stephen Wright, Long describes how he shot gangster Azelle Rodney dead in a car, wrongly believing Rodney was reaching for a Mac-10 submachine gun - and faced trial for alleged murder at the Old Bailey over the killing. Long also explains why he had little doubt he would be acquitted.

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For 25 years, police ‘top shot’ Tony Long served in Scotland Yard’s elite specialist firearms unit, becoming Britain’s most lethal police marksman (and at one point facing trial for murder over a split-second decision to shoot). In Part One of a no-holds-barred interview with Daily Mail crime writer Stephen Wright, Long gives an insider’s view of what led up to the moment two colleagues shot innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes seven times in the head in the wake of the July 2005 terror attacks (and why although the Met was fined over the catastrophic operation, the officers who gunned him down never faced any criminal charges).

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Beyond Reasonable Doubt - Last Days of Diana: No one’s above the law
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07/20/21 • 35 min

Central to the conspiracy theories around Princess Diana’s death was an accusation that Princes Charles and Prince Philip had been involved in a plot to kill her in a staged car crash - fears voiced by Diana herself in a letter to butler Paul Burrell. In the fifth of our seven-part series, award-winning crime writer Stephen Wright talks exclusively to Lord Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner who led Operation Paget, about the moment he had to ask Prince Charles whether he had a hand in murdering his wife... and about a mysterious sum of money found in chauffeur Henri Paul’s bank account.

Produced by Rosie Gillott

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How many episodes does Beyond Reasonable Doubt have?

Beyond Reasonable Doubt currently has 53 episodes available.

What topics does Beyond Reasonable Doubt cover?

The podcast is about News, True Crime and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Beyond Reasonable Doubt?

The episode title 'Fred and Rose West, the serial killers next door: a Mail+ True Crime podumentary' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Beyond Reasonable Doubt?

The average episode length on Beyond Reasonable Doubt is 32 minutes.

How often are episodes of Beyond Reasonable Doubt released?

Episodes of Beyond Reasonable Doubt are typically released every 7 days, 13 hours.

When was the first episode of Beyond Reasonable Doubt?

The first episode of Beyond Reasonable Doubt was released on Mar 10, 2020.

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