56. The Mary McElroy Kidnapping

Iain digs into the mystery of D.B. Cooper’s famous 1971 plane hijacking and unravels some of the theories around his identity.Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected].

Laura and Iain dive into the Murder They wrote inbox and read out some of their favourite emails.If you want to be in with a chance of featuring in our next mailbag episode, email us at [email protected].

When Daisy Keeton goes missing from her home in Laurel, Mississippi, the last person anyone suspects is her daughter. Her golden child. But little do they know that, beneath her perfect exterior, Ouida Keeton is harbouring a deep, dark secret.Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected].

Iain dives into a Glaswegian case involving some very curious love letters. Plus, Laura looks at two ‘crime’ cases involving oblong-shaped food!

Iain looks at the crimes of Claude Dallas, a folkloric figure from southwest Idaho known as the “last mountain man”. In January 1981, Claude found himself in a deadly skirmish with two officers from the state’s Fishing and Game Department, named Bill Pogue and Conley Elms. Hear how Claude evaded the authorities for months on end and lived off the land as an outlaw in Idaho, Oregon and Nevada.Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected].

This week, Laura looks at the chilling story of cinema owner and serial killer Peter Howard Moore, which was sent in as a case suggestion from three separate listeners in North Wales. For much of the 1990s, Peter operated with impunity, carrying out vicious – and, eventually, deadly – attacks across LGBTQ nightclubs and hang-out spots while the authorities looked the other way. Alongside this case, Iain will lighten the mood with some other North Wales true crime stories and a lovely email from listener Will, who’s a secret CBBC fan!Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected].

Laura looks at a 1930s kidnapping case that’s been retroactively fitted with the ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ label. This case – involving the daughter of a wealthy City Manager in Missouri – appears to turn the narrative of ‘victim and perpetrator’ on its head.Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected] Details of help and support with suicide and feelings of despair are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.

Kim from Durham has sent in the legendary local case of Mary Ann Cotton. Iain takes us through Mary’s many poisonings and explores the origins of THAT nursery rhyme.If you want to see the massive hole that the Rathkeale Rover thieves drilled into the side of Durham University Oriental Museum, click here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35667130And for the picture of the crime-fighting cat, click here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-35934206Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected]

In May, 1934, an anonymous letter arrives at Horncastle Police Station in Lincolnshire. The letter tells detectives that they need to investigate the death of Arthur Major, a local lorry driver who was reported to have died of natural causes. “In the name of the law, I beg you to analyse the contents of his stomach,” it says.Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected] Details of help and support with domestic abuse, suicide and feelings of despair are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline.

In the first ever episode of Murder YOU Wrote, we visit Hull to have a look at a particularly shocking case sent in by a listener. Plus, we explore some other true crimes from the area, and go through some lovely listener emails.Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling is available twice a week on BBC Sounds. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode. Email us at [email protected]