Skinwalker: True Crime Podcast

Skinwalker True Crime

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Evil walks among us. A true crime podcast based in Scotland.

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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Patient case reconstruction connects crimes to their geography, investigative record and consequences for the people left behind.

Skinwalker: True Crime Podcast builds cases through patient, chronological narration, often beginning with the geography and social texture surrounding a crime before moving into evidence, suspects and legal outcomes.

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The doctor reaches the gallows before you hear the poison evidence.

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  • to sit with a Perthshire farmhouse murder after the jury returns 'not proven' in 11 minutes
  • to weigh a Lockerbie identification against a witness's fading memory and mismatched age estimate
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Lockerbie BombingNov 20, 2021

A clear, chronology-first account of Lockerbie, the inquiry, and the long search for responsibility.

The episode opens in Lockerbie at Christmas, then moves through the blast, the investigation, and the later effort to pin down responsibility.

Le GreleOct 9, 2021

A cold, careful case study of a predator, the investigation around him, and the damage he left behind.

Le Grele presents a grim, steady account of a Paris predator whose violence escalated from sexual assault to murder, and it keeps its attention on how investigators pieced the case together through witness accounts and forensic links.

The Murderous DoctorsSep 8, 2021

A poison case that keeps spectacle tied to the crime.

Skinwalker: True Crime Podcast treats the case of Dr Edward Pritchard as a grim mix of poison, public spectacle, and scandal. It moves cleanly from Glasgow Green's last public execution in Scotland back through Pritchard's background, the deaths of his wife and mother-in-law,…

Karen BuckleyAug 18, 2021

A sober account of a Glasgow disappearance and the police case that followed.

This account of Karen Buckley's disappearance after a night out at Glasgow's Sanctuary Nightclub has a strong pull. It moves through a city shaped by student life and a busy West End, then follows a police investigation that starts with a missing-person report and ends with the…

Constable John MacLeod and PC Lewis Fulton (Double Minisode)Jul 28, 2021

A Glasgow gunfight turns on a policeman's hat, while a later loss traces the cost of unarmed policing.

A 1952 Glasgow shooting is framed as a close, street-level account of how ordinary ground can turn deadly in seconds. Edwin Finlay, from Hindland and carrying three pistols, shoots Constables MacLeod and MacDonald at close range before PC Charles Hill pursues him into Westburn…

Harris BinottiJul 14, 2021

A Rangoon murder case follows Harris's disappearance to a reported Glasgow sighting with Elsie.

Gary Ferguson's death opens on a late-night disturbance in Rangoon, with Supatchaya beside their sleeping four-year-old son, Jeremy, before Elsie brings word that Gary and Harris are fighting.

Unknown BairnJun 9, 2021

A restrained account of a child whose grave was known while his name remained out of reach.

A small grave above the river gives this single-episode review its quiet center. It follows the discovery of a very young boy on the beach at Tayport, then the funeral where plainclothes police watched mourners for a flicker of recognition.

Thomas Neill CreamMay 26, 2021

A Victorian poisoner, a life-insurance scheme, and a coroner's error anchor this grim true-crime episode.

This PlayNext episode tracks Thomas Cream from the panic around Jack the Ripper into the poisonings later tied to the Lambeth Poisoner. Its sharpest section is Daniel Stott's death, where anti-epilepsy medicine, a life-insurance policy, and strychnine come together while the…

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Episodes

  1. 1

    The Mount Stewart Murder

    In 1866 Perthshire, tenant farmer William Henderson returns home from market to find his sister Janet murdered with an axe in the farmhouse he had left in her care.

    ·36m·2 clips
  2. 2

    Christine Lee

    This episode recounts the 1990 murder of 10-year-old Christine Lee in Glasgow's Castlemilk housing scheme.

    ·27m·2 clips
  3. 3

    Lockerbie Bombing

    Skinwalker: True Crime Podcast covers the Lockerbie bombing, beginning with Pan Am Flight 103 breaking apart over Lockerbie on December 21, 1988.

    Nov 20, 2021·49m·3 clips
  4. 4

    Le Grele

    Hidden gem

    Skinwalker: True Crime Podcast’s "Le Grele" tracks the Paris attacks later linked to François Virove, starting with Cécile Bloch’s disappearance from 116 Rue Petit on May 5, 1986.

    Oct 9, 2021·42m·3 clips
  5. 5

    The Murderous Doctors

    Skinwalker: True Crime Podcast's "The Murderous Doctors" follows Dr Edward Pritchard and Eugene Chanterelle, two 19th-century doctors tied to poison deaths in Scotland.

    Sep 8, 2021·34m·2 clips
  6. 6

    Karen Buckley

    Hidden gem

    Karen Buckley, a Cork student studying occupational therapy in Glasgow, disappeared after leaving the Sanctuary Nightclub in the West End on April 11, 2015.

    Aug 18, 2021·37m·2 clips
  7. 7

    Constable John MacLeod and PC Lewis Fulton (Double Minisode)

    Hidden gem

    Skinwalker links Edwin Finlay’s 1952 Glasgow bank theft and Lewis Filton’s 1994 Gorbals death through two cases involving Scottish police officers.

    Jul 28, 2021·25m·1 clip
  8. 8

    Harris Binotti

    Hidden gem

    Skinwalker: True Crime Podcast examines Gary Ferguson's 2013 killing in Rangoon after he was found dead in Harris Binotti's flat.

    Jul 14, 2021·35m·2 clips
  9. 9

    Unknown Bairn

    Hidden gem

    Ian Robertson found a young boy's body floating near Tayport while his five-year-old son Neil watched from shore.

    Jun 9, 2021·35m·2 clips
  10. 10

    Thomas Neill Cream

    Thomas Neil Cream's 1890s London story begins amid Jack the Ripper fears in Whitechapel and new poisonings in Lambeth.

    May 26, 2021·35m·2 clips
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    Kevin McLeod

    May 12, 2021·47m
  12. 12

    Malcolm Webster

    Apr 28, 2021·1h 31m
  13. 13

    The House of Blood

    Apr 14, 2021·31m
  14. 14

    Andrew Ramsay

    Mar 31, 2021·38m
  15. 15

    Netta Fornario

    Mar 17, 2021·40m
  16. 16

    Theresa Riggi

    Mar 3, 2021·44m
  17. 17

    Gary McKinnon

    Feb 17, 2021·55m
  18. 18

    Margaret McOnie and Jack Shuttleworth

    Feb 3, 2021·38m
  19. 19

    Thomas McCulloch and Robert Mone

    Jan 20, 2021·50m
  20. 20

    Willie McRae

    Jan 6, 2021·55m
  21. 21

    BONUS: The Rise and Fall of the Billy Boys

    Dec 31, 2020·24m
  22. 22

    Arlene Fraser

    Dec 16, 2020·55m
  23. 23

    Helga Konrad

    Dec 2, 2020·37m
  24. 24

    Margaret McLaughlin

    Nov 18, 2020·59m
  25. 25

    Helen Torbet

    Nov 4, 2020·41m
  26. 26

    Helen Torbet

    Nov 4, 2020·41m
  27. 27

    Barry Oldham and Barry Wallace

    Oct 20, 2020·50m
  28. 28

    Dean Jamieson

    Oct 8, 2020·39m
  29. 29

    Frank McPhie

    Sep 23, 2020·37m
  30. 30

    Bella Ruxton and Mary Rogerson

    Sep 9, 2020·1h 5m
  31. 31

    Stuart Nicol and the Black Widow

    Aug 26, 2020·47m
  32. 32

    Dr Brenda Page

    Aug 12, 2020·41m
  33. 33

    Marion Gilchrist and Oscar Slater

    Jul 29, 2020·1h 1m
  34. 34

    Margaret Fleming

    Jul 14, 2020·53m
  35. 35

    Vikki McGrand

    Jun 30, 2020·46m
  36. 36

    Moira Anderson

    Jun 16, 2020·56m
  37. 37

    Shamsuddin Mahmood

    Jun 2, 2020·1h 1m
  38. 38

    The Doyle Family

    May 19, 2020·1h 27m
  39. 39

    Asad Shah

    May 5, 2020·54m
  40. 40

    Burke and Hare

    Apr 21, 2020·1h 22m
  41. 41

    Jodi Jones

    Apr 7, 2020·1h 10m
  42. 42

    Bible John

    Mar 24, 2020·1h 19m
  43. 43

    Robert Black

    Mar 10, 2020·52m
  44. 44

    Archibald Hall, Discussion (Bonus Episode)

    Mar 4, 2020·43m
  45. 45

    Kriss Donald

    Feb 25, 2020·51m
  46. 46

    Alistair Wilson, Howard Wilson Discussion (Bonus Episode)

    Feb 19, 2020·59m
  47. 47

    Renee and Andrew MacRae

    Feb 11, 2020·46m
  48. 48

    Peter Manuel

    Jan 28, 2020·48m
  49. 49

    Dunblane Massacre

    Jan 14, 2020·36m
  50. 50

    Archibald Hall, the Monster Butler (Part Two)

    Jan 4, 2020·31m
  51. 51

    Archibald Hall, the Monster Butler (Part One)

    Dec 24, 2019·36m
  52. 52

    Howard Wilson

    Dec 10, 2019·28m
  53. 53

    Alistair Wilson

    Nov 27, 2019·35m