Glasgow Crime Stories

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Glasgow Crime Stories is a weekly podcast that brings together the city’s biggest cold cases and most shocking crimes in packed 20-minute episodes. Narrated by Taggart star Alex Norton, and featuring detailed reports with fresh interviews, the podcast...

Episodes

#51 The mystery behind the sniper attack that killed a notorious Glasgow gangster

#50 The former gangster and convicted murderer who became a sculptor

#49 The tale of deadly Glasgow-born doctor Thomas Cream

#48 How IRA Brighton bomber Patrick Magee was caught in Glasgow

#47 How an 'emotionless' double killer trapped himself

#46 The murder of Tracey Wylde and how her killer was caught after two decades

#45 The story of the last criminal to be executed in Barlinnie

#44 Glasgow crime story of gangland figure murder 'The Gerbil'

#43 From the Gorbals to America's most famous private detective

#42 The 'evil' killer who took the lives of a brother and sister

#41 The Glasgow drug boss who was once 'one of Britain’s biggest criminals'

#40 A look back at five Glasgow crimes that shocked the city

#39 The story of Scotland's first known serial killer Peter Manuel

#38 The dedicated Glasgow police chief who would would 'jail his own granny'

#37 The safe-cracker at the centre of Scotland's most infamous miscarriage of justice

#36 The brutal spree of two escapee Carstairs patients

#35 The gangster described as Scotland's most hated criminal

#34 The Glasgow CID head known as the 'Big Fella'

#33 The Glasgow's most notorious street gang The Bridgeton Billy Boys

#32 The 'Big Hoose' where some of Glasgow's most notorious criminals served time