True Crime Live

It’s 2013, a summer’s day, when Ann Marie Anastasi is confronted by an ugly scene... her husband had moved his mistress into the family home in Maryland. Ann Marie seemed cool about it, some said, even joined in the sex games. She was cool, too, when she made a 9-1-1 call.
Had she stumbled across the classic murder-suicide? Had her husband killed his lover and then shot himself? Or was it the other way round...?
Or was Ann Marie Anastasi hiding something...? Join us as we unpick the truth of a Maryland Murder.

Jack Whomes was convicted in 1998 of the triple murder of Pat Tate, Tony Tucker and Craig Rolfe, 3 local drug dealers. It’s alleged that he held a grudge against these men for the tragic death of Leah Betts in 1995 - something which made national headlines at the time as she died after taking ecstasy provided by the murder victims.

It can be proved Whomes was in the area at the time, and there’s even a witness who accused him of the crime. However, to this day he maintains his innocence. He believes phone data proves he was at a pub nearby when the murders took place. The so-called witness, Darren Nicholls, had good reason to accuse Whomes. Nicholls had acted as the getaway driver, but he claimed he knew nothing of the plan to murder. Join us as we unpick the evidence with defence barrister, Matt Stanbury and former Met police detective, Colin Sutton.

“Ben Geen is walking into work and is called by one of his supervisors to one side...”. A police investigation has been started into the deaths and respiratory arrests of 18 patients in his care. When his supervisor speaks to him, he’s found with a syringe in his pocket containing a muscle relaxant called vecuronium bromide. He’s arrested and eventually convicted, but many people still argue that he’s innocent. They suggest that due to the, at the time, recent case of Harold Shipman, there was a hysteria around these kinds of deaths. Join us as we work through the case with expert contributions from defence lawyer Matt Stanbury and former Met Police Senior Detective Colin Sutton. This time, you’re in the jury - do you think Ben Geen is guilty?

This Maryland murder mystery twists and turns in ways you won’t expect. We found out in the last episode that Ann Marie’s husband of around 2 decades had moved his much younger lover into their family home. Hear her voice when she calls 9-1-1, is this the voice of a murderer? Find out in part 2 of the Anastasi Mystery.

Oki was walking home from a nightclub in Bournemouth in July 2002 when she was attacked from behind without warning. She was stabbed in the back 3 times, she bled to death. She was still alive when the emergency services arrived, and in her broken English, she explained she’d been attacked by a masked man.

Eventually, Omar Benguit would be tried and convicted for her murder. A known drug user, Benguit had already racked up 60 convictions, including one for stabbing a man in the chest and threatening another with a syringe.

The main evidence used to convict him came from another known drug user with a history of false allegations. She started drip feeding information to the police about the murder of Jong-Ok Shin - Oki, as she was known. The witness was to become part of a story which led to 3 trials, 2 appeals and the involvement of a magazine and hugely popular TV programme (BBC Three’s Unsolved: The Man With No Alibi). Listen to the facts of the case, would you convict Omar Benguit of murder?