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07/09/2025

Episode 24: Archibald Hall, A Rubbish Raffles Who Turned His Hand To Murder

In this episode we'll be calling for lights, camera, action and following the career of a wee Glaswegian boy from a broken home, with tinsel town stars in his eyes, who becomes very used to seeing the inside of a prison, and by the time he dies he’s one of the UK oldest inmates. We’ll be doing a lot of motorway miles, so make sure you go for a p*e before we leave. Also, wear your Sunday best as we’ll be visiting some fancy lodgings on the way.

https://crimemostscots.com/2025/09/07/episode-24-archibald-hall-a-rubbish-raffles-who-turned-his-hand-to-murder/

24/08/2025

Episode 23: Two Weddings, Two Funerals and a whole lotta drugs

In this episode we’ll be digging out our wedding outfits, twice, whilst following the criminal career of Donald “Ginger” Forbes, a true illustration of a psychopath. A guy who spent the bulk of his adult life in prison, and did the unthinkable, he got the last minute reprieve and managed to dodge the feel of the noose around his neck. He was once dubbed Scotland’s Most Dangerous Man, so it's not surprising he died in a hospital, handcuffed to the bed.

https://crimemostscots.com/2025/08/24/episode-23-two-weddings-two-funerals-and-a-whole-lotta-drugs/

10/08/2025

Episode 22: The Fawziyah Javed Case; Babymoon Disaster or Honour Killing?

At the time we’re recording this episode the Fringe Festival is in full swing in Edinburgh, so I thought I’d look at a case that involves tourists visiting the capital. We’re going back to September 2021, and this was supposed to be a “babymoon”, the young couple doing the touristy thing before 2 becomes 3, but in a tragic accident only the young groom comes off of one of Edinburgh’s natural beauty spots alive. The question is did the expectant mother slip and fall, or did she have a hand in falling to her death, killing not only her, but also the life of her unborn baby. And, who had the phone that took the selfies?

https://crimemostscots.com/2025/08/10/episode-22-the-fawziyah-javed-case-babymoon-disaster-or-honour-killing/

13/07/2025

Episode 20: The Highland Fling: The Renee and Andrew MacCrae Case

It’s a cold November night in 1976, we’re in Inverness, and driving on the A9 road, we see two cars in a remote layby. There’s a person pushing a pram, the person turns and looks at you, his eyes are intense, so you feel uncomfortable, and look away. There’s a wee body lollying out of the pushchair, but given the guy’s stare you don’t think anymore about it. A train driver spots a car on fire on the A9, in the same layby, and calls it in. It’s a blue BMW, it’s on its own, no sign of the lady owner, Renee McCrae, or her younger son Andrew. Where are they, and why does her house have some packed boxes kicking around? This is a very sad case, with little in the way of resolution, or justice.

https://crimemostscots.com/2025/07/13/episode-20-the-highland-fling-the-renee-and-andrew-maccrae-case/

29/06/2025

Episode 19: Takin’ The High Road, The Helen Torbet Case

It’s holiday season, and the B&Bs up and down Scotland are no doubt doing a roaring trade. Rural homes fling open their doors to strangers, and get to live in bucolic splendor, who doesn’t love a cozy trip away, staying in a B&B. In this episode we’ll be out in the wilds of the highlands, this is the case of an experienced walker going missing out in landscape she knew and loved well. Are we really sure she’s taken a tumble, lost and alone? Pack your simmet, it can get really cold out on them there hills.

https://crimemostscots.com/2025/06/29/episode-19-takin-the-high-road-the-helen-torbet-case/

15/06/2025

Episode 18: 3 Women and Scottish Law Enforcement, Handy To Have Around

In this episode I’ll not be running you through a case from start to finish, but we’ll be looking at the three different ladies, and how they reached the headlines. They all have hands, big, strong shovel hands, hands that were accused of being where they weren't, and metaphorical hands that think hands are a lot more than just finger and palm prints.

We discussed Wee Mary in the last episode, and we’ll stay in Partick, but go back a 150 years to a giant of a lady. Then travel back 15 or so years to a perjury case that ruined one police woman’s career, and finally we’ll take a look at one of my personal heroes, Scotland’s own answer to Fox TV’s Temperance Bones Brennan, should we be calling her McBones?

https://crimemostscots.com/2025/06/15/episode-18-3-women-and-scottish-law-enforcement-handy-to-have-around/

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01/06/2025

Episode 17: The Deadly Game of Dominos - The Mary McLaughlan Case

In this episode we’re in Glasgow, well Partick to be precise. Wee Mary’s not been seen in a week, and the normal chap on the window to get Mary to the door isn’t getting an answer when one of her grown-up kids pops round to see her. And I think you’ve been listening to the podcast long enough to know the end of that part of the story. Mary’s inside, sadly passed away. Was it one of the family who throttled their Mum, or perhaps she attracted the attention of a strange man on the way home from playing dominos at the pub. This is a long journey for justice, and unlike the case in the previous episode, it’s got a whole lotta of science.

https://crimemostscots.com/2025/06/01/episode-17-the-deadly-game-of-dominos-the-mary-mclaughlan-case/

18/05/2025

Episode 16: Episode 16: The John Barclay Smith Case, You Can’t Outrun the Hands of Time

In this week’s episode we’re back in the North East, and the tartan time machine will be throwing us back to the Edwardian era. We’re in the tiny village of Lhanbryde, near Elgin, in Morayshire. A neighbour smells something out of the ordinary coming from the downstairs flat, and the occupant’s not been seen for a few days. Time to call the rozzer’s in to investigate.

https://crimemostscots.com/2025/05/18/episode-16-the-john-barclay-smith-case-you-cant-outrun-the-hands-of-time/

04/05/2025

Episode 15: Dr and Mrs Wood, The Doctor Won’t See You Now, Murder He Wrote

In this episode we’ll be stopping off in Scotland’s 4th biggest city, and calling in at an infamous house, so much so that locally it’s referred to as The Murder House. We’ll be investigating the case of a retired doctor and his wife’s brutal death, and the fact that this double murder has seen no one in the docs answering the case of this savage attack, and that’s despite the fact that there’s a written confession out there.

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https://crimemostscots.com/2025/05/04/episode-15-dr-and-mrs-wood-the-doctor-wont-see-you-now-murder-he-wrote/

20/04/2025

Episode 14: The Brenda Page Case, A Scientist Waiting for Science Advances

In this episode we’re back under the northern lights of Old Aberdeen again, right in the heart of the city. We’re in the west end, and a street that’s filled with starter flats for first time buyers, and for those that are starting again. It’s also a road I know well as I lived in the next street, albeit 30 years later. We’re with a couple of work colleagues from Aberdeen University, they’re just about to discover Brenda Page, dead in her bed, and sadly this super bright lady didn’t die peacefully in her sleep, she died a violent death. But who would want to kill a recently divorced scientist, yes, the husband obviously, but there’s a longer list than you’d expect for an academic in a small, yet booming city.

https://crimemostscots.com/2025/04/20/episode-14-the-brenda-page-case-a-scientist-waiting-for-science-advances/

30/03/2025

Episode 13: Spirited Away, The Arlene Fraser Case

This case sees us standing at the school gates waiting for Mum to come and collect us, it’s Tuesday the 28th 1998. Mum’s normally home from college and doing the house work, she’s never missed a day of picking us up. Back at the Fraser family home we find the door open, but the house is deserted mid house cleaning, it’s like the Mary Celeste. Where is Arlene, and why is her estranged husband so distraught and helpful? Is it all crocodile tears, and a well constructed alibi? This case will leave you frustrated, and sees us back in court twice. It’s a case with a very recognisable face for those that live in that area, a face that has two sides.

https://crimemostscots.com/2025/03/30/episode-13-spirited-away-the-arlene-fraser-case/

16/03/2025

Episode 12: Peter Tobin, The Scumbag With A Thousand Names

In this week’s case we’ll start off in the holiest of places, and finish in a Kent seaside town. Three young women will have their lives cut short, a national operation will be opened, and a slippery handyman will be caught after being lazy when putting carpeting back down in a chapel. And are we to believe that this man has only done this three times. Sadly we’re back in serial killer territory, so you may need a wee dram to go along with this one.

https://crimemostscots.com/2025/03/16/episode-12-peter-tobin-the-scumbag-with-a-thousand-names/

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