Halfway between Peru and New Zealand is a tiny volcanic island, a little known British Territory. The community of Pitcairn is home to 37 people and a terrifying scandal. In The Pitcairn Trials, British Journalist Luke Jones uncovers a story of historic abuse in a remote place where prosecuting secrets and challenging centuries of power has left deep scars on generations of women and girls, and brought a unique, lonely, pacific island to the brink of extinction.The Pitcairn Trials is a chilling lesson in what human beings can be capable of when they think no one is watching them.

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In Kent, UK, Police Officer Peter George is asked to investigate an alleged serious crime: the rape of a child. The crime is not in England but on the remote Pacific Island of Pitcairn, and what Peter and his colleague find is a complicated story. They decide that modern British ... Show More

Kent WPC Gail Cox is chosen as the woman to bring law to Pitcairn. She sets off to Pitcairn to teach the locals how to Police themselves. At a drunken Pitcairn party, one evening, another girl makes an allegation of rape. Detective Peter George returns to Pitcairn and a distressi ... Show More

What is the history of the Island of Pitcairn, its myths and realities? Born from the 1789 Mutiny, the mutineers, led by Fletcher Christian stumble across Pitcairn. Handily wrongly located on maps, this is their opportunity to escape the British Navy and disappear, today all Pitc ... Show More

In this special bonus episode, Grace from the excellent REDRUM Podcast joins me as we discuss a story from Torquay in the south-west of England.Rosemary Windle and Maurece Smith, both 71, both had business interests in the Middle East and when they saw a local business operating ... Show More

Hello, it's Adam. The bonus episode today, is the seventh of my regular monthly conversations with my good friend Stuart, the host of the British Murders Podcast. Once again, we sat down to chat about local, national and international crimes which have really made an impression w ... Show More

The bonus episode today, is the second of my monthly conversations with my good friend Stuart, the host of the British Murders Podcast. Once again, we sat down to chat about local, national and international crimes which have really made an impression with us. I hope ... Show More

Send us a textIn this podcast we're going to dig into the background on a disturbing murder on live television that took place on the morning of August 26, 2015. News reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward, both employees of CBS affiliate WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia, ... Show More

Send us a textOne day in April of 2013, 2 young radicalized brothers put together some homemade weapons of mass destruction and headed out to the Boston Marathon. They weren't there to cheer on the runners, but rather to seek revenge, revenge for American military action in the M ... Show More

In 2012 the sleepy mining town of Krugersdorp, South Africa was put on the map when a murderous satanic cult went on a revenge-seeking killing spree. The murderers had pledged an allegiance to a woman by the name of Cecelia Steyn, the self-proclaimed 'Bride of Satan' ... Show More

This is the macbre story of a weathly mother, Sheila von Wiese, her spoiled and deeply troubled daughter, Heather Mack, and what was meant to be a peaceful mother/daughter vacation in paradise that ended in a grizly murder in Bali. Heather Mack was a problem child, and despite al ... Show More

Send us a textThis is such a sad story of a salt of the earth retired couple in search of their dream car. In 2015, Bud and June Runion of Georgia had placed an ad on Craigslist looking for a1966 Red Mustang convertible, just like the one Bud had many years before. They got a rep ... Show More

Last week was the latest in our occasional True Crime Podcaster's Roundtable chats. I spent ah hour with Naomi (REAL True Crime), Dawn (Scottish Murders) and Paul (True Crime Enthusiast) talking all things true crime and true crime podcasting for just over an hour. ... Show More

Introducing: The Pitcairn Trials