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Hosted by former Scotland Yard homicide detective Steve Keogh, Murder Unpacked explores murder investigations to understand how detectives think and work.
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English
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12 episodes
since Aug. 22, 2026
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As I approached the car I gestured for the driver to join me on the pavement.
In the UK, the police don’t normally speak to you through the window, it’s much safer to both be standing. That way you can see their hands, and they’re not able to suddenly speed away in the car.
This was early in my car…
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Four months after the death of Emma Smith, another woman was murdered in Whitechapel.
Her name was Martha Tabram.
And although her murder would later become tangled up in the story of Jack the Ripper, I want to resist doing what history so often does with these women: reducing them to a name on a l…
Mention the Yorkshire Ripper investigation to almost anyone and several things will come to mind.
Most will think first of the murders. The crimes were truly abhorrent.
Others will remember the mistakes made during the investigation.
But for me, as someone who investigated murders years after Sutc…
Jack the Ripper is probably the most famous unidentified murderer in history.
More than 130 years after his crimes, books are still being written about him. Documentaries are still being made. And people still walk the streets of Whitechapel trying to work out who he was.
But that’s not where I wa…
I investigated many murders during my career, more than I can count. But very few sent ripples much further than the communities in which they took place.
Occasionally, though, I found myself at the centre of the country’s biggest news story.
When your investigation dominates the headlines, the pr…
As I sat there on the sofa, sitting across from me was what I could only describe as a broken family.
Two parents who moments before had their whole world come crashing down around them.
It was the message no parent ever expects to hear.
I’m so sorry to tell you this but your son has died as the r…
I can’t begin to imagine how many broken families I’ve sat opposite.
People whose world has just been shattered by the news a loved one was murdered.
If you hear me speak often enough, you will know I found this one of the hardest parts of being a murder detective.
We all lose loved ones at some p…
As I was running, I could feel my lungs burning and the lactic acid was starting to make my legs scream with pain. But there was no way he was getting away.
For the last five minutes I’d been gaining on him, but each shot he fired back at me made me duck for cover.
Then came my chance.
As he sprint…
As we made our way through Great Ormond Street Hospital, it took a while to find the place we were looking for.
It always did.
No matter which hospital I visited, the mortuary always seemed hidden away.
And for good reason.
It’s the last department anyone wants to think about.
Especially here.
As …
If I look back over the murders that have shaped modern Britain, few victims are as immediately recognisable as Rachel Nickell.
As I write this, I immediately picture that image of a happy, loving mother.
More than three decades have passed since Rachel was murdered. In that time, tens of thousand…
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