Steve Keogh: Murder Unpacked
Steve Keogh, a former Scotland Yard homicide detective, hosts this true-crime podcast. Each episode unpacks real murder investigations to reveal how detectives think, make decisions, and solve cases. The show offers insight into the methods and psychology behind criminal investigations.
Episodes
Meet the Murder Team: Family Liaison Officer
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 result of an assault.Murdered.Not even out of his teenage years.Less than an hour after he left the house
The Idaho Murders: Why?
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 point in our lives. The pain is awful.But if that person has been taken by the actions of someone else, I
Meet the Murder Team: The Senior Investigating Officer
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 sprinted across the next road, he failed to see the oncoming car.I saw him spin in the air like a cartwheel, l
The Soham Murders: The Ones You Carry
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 many times as I’d walked similar corridors, this felt different.It was different.When I entered the room, th
Rachel Nickell: The Detective's Trap
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 thousands of other people have lost their lives to homicide in the UK. Yet Rachel’s case remains one of the few
Harold Shipman: Something Not Quite Right
Harold Shipman: Can We Rule It Out?Every six weeks, we became the on-call murder team for South London.For seven days, twenty-four hours a day, we would respond to all murders in our area.That didn’t mean we were sat in a car, ready to put the lights and sirens on.We’d be getting on with our existing investigations.Gathering evidence, preparing for court, doing whatever was needed to progress our
Murder Unpacked: The Learning Curve
Everywhere you look today, there’s murder.I don’t mean literal crimes taking place, I mean some kind of media.Be it documentaries, crime fiction, books, podcasts, even Substack.So, we must know all there is to know, right?That’s definitely how I felt about murders.Until I started investigating them.I’d been a police officer for eighteen years, most of that time as a detective, investigating virtua
