“She laughed at the crime scenes — and smiled through the blood.”

In March 2013, Joanna Dennehy carried out a series of killings later known as the Peterborough Ditch Murders — three men murdered in just ten days, their bodies left in remote Cambridgeshire ditches.

This episode traces the violence from its quiet beginnings to its abrupt end, examining a case defined not by rage or desperation, but by intention. A rare and unsettling insight into a killer who described murder as something she wanted to feel.

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• The Queen v Dennehy, Stretch, Layton & Moore — Sentencing remarks of Mr Justice Spencer (28 February 2014) https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/the-queen-v-dennehy-sentencing-remarks-28022014.pdf
• High Court of England and Wales — Judgment on Joanna Dennehy v Secretary of State for Justice (2016) https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/dennehy-v-ministry-of-justice-1.pdf
• The Guardian — Serial killer loses claim for rights violations over solitary confinement (26 May 2016) https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/may/26/serial-killer-loses-claim-for-rights-violations-over-solitary-confinement

• The Guardian —https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/18/woman-admits-murdering-men-stabbed-ditches?
• BBC News — https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-26124076 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35840866 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25669206

Daily Mail, New York Post, and related tabloids Referenced only to acknowledge post-trial media fascination and public narratives; not treated as primary factual sources.

“For years, the streets of Port Talbot whispered of a killer who vanished with the dawn.”

In the early 1970s, three young women were murdered after nights out in South Wales — attacks that left a community fearful and police without answers. Decades later, new questions would emerge about what truly happened on those Saturday nights… and the man who escaped justice for so long.

This week, the Archive returns to South Wales, where three Saturday nights cast a shadow that lingered for decades.

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The Guardian – Kevin Toolis (18 January 2003) The hunt for the Saturday Night Strangler https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/jan/18/wales.kevintoolis

The Guardian – Kevin Toolis (18 January 2003) DNA profile points to killer https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2003/jan/18/weekend.kevintoolis

The Independent (7 June 2002) DNA evidence ends 30-year hunt for killer and rapist https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/dna-evidence-ends-30year-hunt-for-killer-and-rapist-179326.html

BBC News (2 November 2000) DNA breakthrough in murder case http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1002648.stm

BBC News (29 October 2001) Woodland murders ‘breakthrough’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1626078.stm

BBC News (11 June 2002) Missing girl ‘link’ to murders http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2038433.stm

Wikipedia – Joseph William Kappen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kappen (Used as a tertiary reference only; facts verified against primary reporting.)

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“They prowled the streets of Belfast by night — blades in hand, and hatred in their hearts.”

During the height of the Troubles, a loyalist gang led by Lenny Murphy turned sectarian terror into ritual murder. Their victims were chosen at random, their cruelty unmatched — a reign of blood that left even hardened detectives shaken.

This week, the Archive returns to Belfast in the 1970s, where the line between war and murder was carved in steel.

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