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A couple of years ago, the pioneering documentarian Errol Morris said in jest that he felt he had to apologise for his hugely influential The Thin Blue Line. This was as, in his words, “you solve a murder mystery and then people think…

Season 2 of Crimeland is a go!  On the first episode of the new season Julie chats with Emma Doran about the disappearance of Philip Cairns. Philip Cairns disappeared on the afternoon of 23 October 1986 while walking back to school…

On the first episode back for 2021, Julie Jay chats with Blaithín de Burca about Marilyn Rinn. ‘The guards switched off a long time ago and that’s just my dad’ In the early hours of 22nd December 1995 Marilyn Rinn of…

In 1998, Sheryl Sheppard’s year had supposedly gotten off to an exciting start. She had just accepted a wedding proposal from her boyfriend, Michael Lavoie, on New Year’s Eve 1997 during a live TV broadcast. The following day, she spoke…

Mary Boyle was a six-year-old Irish girl who disappeared on the County Donegal-County Fermanagh border on 18 March 1977. To date, her disappearance is the longest missing child case in the Republic of Ireland. Find out more on the latest…

Aaron Lilly, Hannah Palmer and Christopher Stout were camping with 21-year-old Lauren Agee at a cliff-side campsite on Center Hill Lake in DeKalb County. The next morning she was found dead in the lake. The DeKalb County Sheriff's…

Jeff Wheatley was a Coast Guard veteran looking to start a new life in California when he moved in with Drew Payett in early 2010. However within a few months he would meet what would go down as one of the most bizarre and brutal deaths…

The latest  episode of Crimeland is out now The Death of Julie Kibuishi with Gordon Rochford from Those Conspiracy Guys. ‘This is why I distrust anyone who is into musical theatre’ May 22, 2010, Costa Mesa California: police…

Barbara Walsh, a mother of seven, was last seen by one of her daughters lying on a couch in the family home in Rusheenamanagh, near Carna, in the Connemara Gaeltacht in the early hours of June 22, 1985. Barbara was 34 at the time.…

Murdered child factory worker, Mary Phagan worked in a pencil factory in Atlanta, Georgia in 1913. She was found murdered in the basement of the factory at around 3 a.m., on April 27th, the middle of the night after "Confederate Memorial…