True crime with sharp Scottish banter.
Square Mile of Murder covers murders, disappearances, poison scandals, bombings, and old unsolved mysteries with a conversational true-crime-comedy rhythm. The show balances case detail with tangents, bad jokes, and a visible concern for victims not being reduced to footnotes.
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Square Mile of Murder is a Scottish true-crime comedy show with a loose, lived-in rhythm. The cases are serious, but the delivery is conversational, skeptical, and quick to swerve into jokes when the evidence gets especially strange. Episodes cover serial crime, forensic genealogy, historic panic, poison scandals, bombings, missing people, and unresolved mysteries. The show is not polished into a cold documentary voice. It keeps the coughs, the interruptions, the research detours, and the occasional admission that an episode has gone long because the story demanded more space. That looseness is part of the texture. A Bear Brook discussion leads naturally into a deeper episode on Terry Rasmussen because the speakers do not want victims flattened into background details. The Terry Rasmussen story follows aliases, abandoned children, prison records, resurfacing identities, and the case of Eunsoon Jun with clear attention to how little is known about some victims and how much remains unanswered. Historical episodes stretch into different kinds of unease. The Axeman of New Orleans brings citywide fear, witnesses, door panels, axes, and speculation. The Mad Bomber episode lingers on bomb-disposal methods, theater scares, and the almost surreal details of old police equipment. La Voisin brings 17th-century Paris, alleged poison networks, aristocratic scandal, witch-hunting fear, and blunt commentary on power and abuse. Spooky-season entries shift toward mysteries such as Jeanette DePalma and the Flannan Isles Lighthouse, where atmosphere matters as much as answers. The show works best for listeners who want facts, but not reverence for the genre’s stiffest conventions. It is curious, sarcastic, and openly messy in the way long-running podcasts often are. It can be sharp. It can be rambling. It keeps circling back to the human cost behind the odd details.
Made for: For listeners who like detailed true-crime cases, historical mysteries, and forensic twists, but prefer conversational humour over solemn narration. It suits people comfortable with dark material presented through sarcasm and tangents.
What sets it apart: Square Mile of Murder stands out for its mix of victim-conscious case coverage and informal comic back-and-forth. The show can follow a dense trail of aliases, evidence, and historical panic without pretending the details are not strange.
Square Mile of Murder is a true crime podcast recorded and produced in Glasgow, Scotland. Join Taylor and Kat as they describe lesser known, famous, and infamous crimes and make sarcastic comments and bad puns along the way!
A nine-ton bomb basket gets a joke; you get the case details and the detours.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A measured account of Terry Rasmussen's aliases, victims, and the questions left open after his death.
Terry Rasmussen's story turns on the harm made possible by a changing name. Square Mile of Murder follows the aliases Gerald Mockerman, Gordon Jensen, Curtis Kimball, and Larry Vanner, moving from the child-abandonment charge that put him in prison to his later relationship with…
A scientific trail links four victims to Lisa, a five-year-old left at a California mobile home park.
The episode works best as a steady account of an investigation that keeps widening, even as the science begins to narrow the map. Isotope testing places four victims somewhere in the United States, with possibilities clustering around the upper Midwest and New England, before…
A bloodied axe, two witnesses, and a fearful city give this historical case its sharpest edge.
The Axeman of New Orleans takes shape through the attack on Joseph Romano, where his nieces saw an intruder flee and a bloodied axe was found near a chiseled door panel.
A woven-steel bomb truck and a pocket knife bring out the case's strangest practical details.
The Mad Bomber case sharpens around the practical evidence at a theater bomb site. Taylor and Kat linger on the bomb disposal truck used to carry explosives out of the city: a nine-ton vehicle built around a huge woven steel cylinder, almost like a traveler caravan in…
True crime with cocktails and chaos.
True crime with table-talk bite.
True crime with rough-edged comic detours.
Alphabetized true crime with dark, talky edges.
True crime with chaotic spooky banter.
Square Mile of Murder returns to Terry Rasmussen, the chameleon killer, after the Bear Brook murders coverage rushed past several victims.
["Square Mile of Murder episode 118, \"Bear Brook & Forensic Genealogy,\" follows the Bear Brook murders in New Hampshire and the rise of forensic genealogy.", "Taylor says July disappeared because Kat lost her voice after her July 4 birthday and Taylor got COVID for the second or third time, which paused recording.", "The main case follows John Cody, Ronda Randall, and Scott Randall as they reworked missing-person records, local park maps, DNA evidence, and isotopic analysis to narrow the identities of the victims.", "The episode also turns to California, where Lisa, Gordon Jensen, Curtis Kimball, Gerald Mockerman, and Unsun Jun show how fingerprints and paternity testing complicate identity cases."]
["Square Mile of Murder's Axeman of New Orleans episode follows a 1918-1919 serial killer tied to 12 known victims and a newspaper letter about jazz.", "Taylor and Kat host the show, and Taylor says July disappeared because Kat lost her voice and Taylor got COVID, which delayed new recordings.", "The attacks move from Joseph and Catherine Maggio above Upper Line and Magnolia to Louis Bessemer, Harriet Lowe, Ann Schneider, Joseph Romano, and Mike Pepitone.", "The episode weighs the Axeman letter, the Giordano false accusation, the Black Hand theory, Joseph John Devia's jazz song, and the possibility of copycats."]
Taylor says July disappeared after Kat's July 4 birthday and both hosts got sick, so August will use older Patreon bonus episodes and September recordings.
Square Mile of Murder's episode 115 examines Catherine Deshaies, known as La Voisin, a 17th-century Paris fortune teller who expanded into potions, abortions, black masses, and alleged poison services.
Two hosts introduce their true crime podcast with sarcastic banter and bad puns, set in Glasgow, Scotland.
Two hosts introduce a 120-year-old unsolved murder mystery with sarcastic commentary and bad puns.
Two hosts discuss lesser-known and infamous crimes with sarcastic comments and bad puns.
The hosts introduce a bonus episode from their Patreon, explaining a new format they are trying for future content.