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CROWN V COLONY — Remember, Remember: How Guy Fawkes Tried to Blow Up Parliament and Became a Legend Anyway

The finale of CROWN V COLONY, and on the eve of Independence Day, Garret Fisher ends the week with a bang — literally. In 1605, a band of English Catholics packed thirty-six barrels of gunpowder into a cellar beneath the House of Lords, planning to blow King James I and the entire British government to splinters at the State Opening of Parliament. The man left to light the fuse was a Yorkshire soldier named Guy Fawkes — not the ringleader (that was Robert Catesby), but the explosives man, and the one caught red-handed in the cellar at midnight. This episode traces the desperation behind the plot — what it meant to be a Catholic under brutal persecution in Jacobean England — and why their answer was nonetheless an act of mass terror that would have killed hundreds. The anonymous Monteagle letter that gave it away, Fawkes's torture in the Tower, the conspirators' last stand, and the gruesome traitor's death he partly cheated. And how a man who failed at everything, killed no one, and blew up nothing became the most famous symbol of rebellion on earth — the perfect note to send you into the Fourth. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! [https://www.facebook.com/groups/1309939807262443] Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578797265205] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/celebrity_trials_podcast/] by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

CROWN V COLONY — Let Him Have It: How Britain Hanged 19-Year-Old Derek Bentley for a Murder He Didn't Commit

Day four of CROWN V COLONY, and the story turns. Garret Fisher leaves the killers behind for a young man who killed no one at all. On a Croydon rooftop in November 1952, 19-year-old Derek Bentley — illiterate, epileptic, with a reading age assessed at around four and a half — was already restrained by police when his 16-year-old friend Christopher Craig shot and killed Police Constable Sidney Miles, 42, a husband and father. Craig, as a juvenile, was too young to hang. Bentley was not. On the strength of five disputed words — "Let him have it, Chris," which the defense argued meant hand over the gun, and which serious doubt suggests Bentley may never have said at all — and a trial widely judged unfair, Bentley was convicted under the joint-enterprise law of the time and executed in January 1953, against his own jury's recommendation for mercy. It took 45 years and a fight carried by three generations of his family before the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction in 1998 — and the state finally admitted it had hanged an innocent man. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! [https://www.facebook.com/groups/1309939807262443] Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578797265205] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/celebrity_trials_podcast/] by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

CROWN V COLONY — The Man Who Killed for Company: How Dennis Nilsen Murdered Lonely Men Until the Drains Gave Him Up

Day three of CROWN V COLONY. Garret Fisher trades the House of Horrors for something quieter and somehow worse: a soft-spoken Scottish civil servant in a north London attic. Between 1978 and 1983, Dennis Nilsen — the "Muswell Hill Murderer" — lured at least fifteen lonely young men back to his flat and killed them, he said, so they could never leave him. He kept the remains at home. He got away with it for five years for one reason: he hunted men the world wasn't watching — the homeless, the drifting, the marginalized — and when survivors escaped and tried to report him, a homophobic era refused to believe them. It ended only when the drains at 23 Cranley Gardens backed up and a plumber found human remains. This episode traces who Nilsen was, the men he killed — including 14-year-old first victim Stephen Holmes and several who have never been identified to this day — and the survivors, Douglas Stewart, Paul Nobbs, and Carl Stottor, who finally took the witness stand at his 1983 Old Bailey trial and were believed. Nilsen was convicted of six murders and two attempted murders, given a whole-life order, and died in prison in 2018. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! [https://www.facebook.com/groups/1309939807262443] Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578797265205] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/celebrity_trials_podcast/] by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

CROWN V COLONY — The House of Horrors: How Fred and Rose West Turned a Gloucester Home Into a Graveyard

Day two of CROWN V COLONY. Garret Fisher leaves the gaslight of Whitechapel for something more modern and somehow darker: an ordinary terraced house at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, where Fred and Rose West murdered at least twelve women and girls across twenty years — including their own daughter Heather, 16, and Fred's stepdaughter Charmaine, 8. The bodies were found beneath the cellar, the bathroom, and the garden. A grim family joke about being "buried under the patio" is what finally brought police to dig in 1994. This episode traces how the Wests targeted vulnerable young women nobody was reliably watching, the 1972 warning the system fined and let walk, and the reckoning: Fred hanged himself on remand in 1995 before he ever faced trial, while Rose was convicted of ten murders at Winchester Crown Court and given a whole-life order. Thirty years on, she still insists she is innocent — and police believe the true toll may be higher than the twelve who can be named, including 15-year-old Mary Bastholm, still missing. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! [https://www.facebook.com/groups/1309939807262443] Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578797265205] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/celebrity_trials_podcast/] by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.

CROWN V COLONY — Jack the Ripper: The Killer London Never Caught, and the Five Women History Forgot

Independence Day week begins where the whole genre began. Garret Fisher launches CROWN V COLONY — five days of the United Kingdom's most notorious crimes — in the gaslit fog of Whitechapel, 1888. Over roughly ten weeks of terror, a killer the newspapers christened Jack the Ripper murdered five women in London's East End: Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly — the "canonical five." This episode walks through the Autumn of Terror, the split-jurisdiction investigation led by Inspector Frederick Abberline, the taunting "Dear Boss" and "From Hell" letters most experts now believe were hoaxes, the bloody Goulston Street graffiti that police scrubbed away before it could be photographed, and the century of suspects from a Polish barber to a member of the royal family. It also takes on the disputed 2007 shawl DNA claim naming Aaron Kosminski — and the descendants now fighting for a new inquest. But the real subject isn't the killer. It's the five women history decided to forget. Join our new FB groups page here. Take the poll! [https://www.facebook.com/groups/1309939807262443] Join the Daily Crime & Justice community on social media! We're building a passionate group of true crime enthusiasts who love diving deep into the most shocking cases in America. Follow us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578797265205] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/celebrity_trials_podcast/] by searching "Daily Crime & Justice" on either platform.  You'll get exclusive behind-the-scenes content, breaking news updates on cases we're covering, and early alerts when new episodes drop. Our social media is where Garret Fisher's hottest takes live, including reactions that don't make it into the show. But more importantly, it's where YOU come in. Share your theories, debate the verdicts, and connect with fellow listeners who are just as obsessed with justice as you are. Did the jury get it right? What questions do you still have? Your comments and insights often shape future episodes. We cover the trials that matter, but our community makes the conversation unforgettable. Come for Garret's signature cynical commentary, stay for the incredible discussions with thousands of true crime fans who get it.