The Outlines Podcast: UK True Crime

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On Sunday December the 19th 1948, the body of a man was discovered in the shadow of Sopwell Nunnery in St Albans, Hertfordshire. He had been savagely beaten and left without his trousers or jacket. An extensive police investigation yielded plenty of sightings of the man, and of potential suspects and yet no one was ever caught and the case remains unsolved.    PATREON www.patreon.com/theoutlinespodcast [http://www.patreon.com/theoutlinespodcast] PAYPAL DONATION theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com [theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com] iTunes itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-o…ast/id1325180386 [https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fpodcast%2Fthe-o%E2%80%A6ast%2Fid1325180386&token=ab9a94-1-1641916390365] Instagram @theoutlinespodcast [https://soundcloud.com/theoutlinespodcast]   SOURCES USED   https://www.mynewsmag.co.uk/crime-chronicles-story-of-a-man-who-was-brutally-murdered-in-1940s-st-albans/ 22nd Octover 2023 https://www.whtimes.co.uk/news/22340468.tragic-brutal-unsolved-murder-stephen-varley/ 14th June 2022 www.ancestry.co.uk  https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-77433 Tuesday 21st December 1948, Daily Herald, pg 1 Tuesday 21st December 1948, Daily News, pg 1 Wednesday 22nd December 1948, Torbay Express and South Devon Echo, pg 1 Wednesday 22nd December 1948, Dundee Courier, pg 3 Thursday 23rd December 1948, Torbay Express and South Devon Echo, pg 1 Thursday 23rd December 1948, Daily Herald, pg 1 Friday 24th December 1948, Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, pg 1 Tuesday 28th December 1948, Nottingham Journal, pg 1 Friday 14th January 1949, Shields Daily News, pg 12 Wednesday 16th February 1949, Coventry Evening Telegraph, pg 9  https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/visit/sopwell-ruins [https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/visit/sopwell-ruins] Various articles: Herts Advertiser & St Albans Times Watford Observer

This is the second part of my look into the death of 15 year old Yvonne Laker, who was found with her throat slit in a train toilet on June 29th 1964. Today’s episode looks at the life, trial, and death of Derek Pye, the man accused and later acquitted of Yvonne’s murder.    PATREON www.patreon.com/theoutlinespodcast [http://www.patreon.com/theoutlinespodcast] PAYPAL DONATION theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com iTunes itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-o…ast/id1325180386 [https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fpodcast%2Fthe-o%E2%80%A6ast%2Fid1325180386&token=ab9a94-1-1641916390365] Instagram @theoutlinespodcast [https://soundcloud.com/theoutlinespodcast]

On the 29th of June 1964, fifteen year old Yvonne Laker was murdered as she travelled home from her grandparents, with whom she had been staying for the weekend. Despite the case receiving nationwide coverage at the time, 60 years on, Yvonne and the mystery of who was responsible for her death has been almost forgotten. PATREON www.patreon.com/theoutlinespodcast [http://www.patreon.com/theoutlinespodcast] PAYPAL DONATION theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com iTunes itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-o…ast/id1325180386 [https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fpodcast%2Fthe-o%E2%80%A6ast%2Fid1325180386&token=ab9a94-1-1641916390365] Instagram @theoutlinespodcast [https://soundcloud.com/theoutlinespodcast] SOURCES * https://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/yvonne-laker-the-15-year-old-school-girl-fo- und-nachrichtenfoto/807545512 [https://www.gettyimages.de/detail/nachrichtenfoto/yvonne-laker-the-15-year-old-school-girl-found-nachrichtenfoto/807545512] * https://imsvintagephotos.com/products/yvonne-laker-murder-vintage-photograph-1604449  * ancestry.co.uk * https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2205806.brutal-railway-murder-that-shocked-a-nation/ [https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/2205806.brutal-railway-murder-that-shocked-a-nation/] 17th April 2008 * Great Train Crimes: Murder and Robbery on the Railways, Oates, Jonathan [https://bookreadfree.com/authors/Oates,%20Jonathan.html] * https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/b8c1e335-5233-4b6f-bd2b-41e47ef5f796/downloads/updated_StrongMinds.pdf?ver=1612954010044 [https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/b8c1e335-5233-4b6f-bd2b-41e47ef5f796/downloads/updated_StrongMinds.pdf?ver=1612954010044] * https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/issue/straitstimes19640702-1 [https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/issue/straitstimes19640702-1]    Wednesday 1st July 1964, Coventry Evening Telegraph, pg 1 Wednesday 1st July 1964, Birmingham Evening Post, pg 17 Friday 3rd July 1964, Nottingham Guardian, pg 1 Friday 3rd July 1964, Liverpool Echo, pg 13 Friday 3rd July 1964, Nottingham Evening Post, pg 1 Monday 6th June 1964, Daily Herald, pg 5 Wednesday 8th July 1964, Daily Herald, pg 1 Wednesday 8th July 1964, Liverpool Echo, pg 23 Thursday 9th July 1964, Birmingham Daily Post, pg 29 Monday 14th September 1964, Staffordshire Sentinel, pg 1 Monday 14th September 1964, Gloucester Citizen, pg 6 Tuesday 15th September 1964, Birmingham Daily Post, pg 11 Tuesday 15th September 1964, Leicester Daily Mercury, pg 13 Wednesday 16th September 1964, Daily Mirror, pg 26 Thursday 17th September 1964, Nottingham Guardian, pg 6 Friday 18th September 1964, Nottingham Guardian, pg 5 Friday 27th November 1964, Daily Mirror, pg 8 Friday 27th November 1964, Nottingham Evening Post, pg 1 Wednesday 2nd December 1964, Birmingham Daily Post, pg 1 Wednesday 2nd December 1964, Western Daily Press, pg 1 Friday 4th December 1964, Aldershot News, pg 20  Wednesday 10th March 1965, Daily Mirror, pg 2 Thursday 24th August 1967, Reading Evening Post, pg 2 Thursday 9th November 1967, Reading Evening Post, pg 6 Friday 27th November 1970, Reading Evening Post, pg 4

At around 6pm on Thursday the 14th of November 1996, 47 year old Vera Holland from Shinfield in Berkshire disappeared during what should have been a five minute walk to the local KFC. Two days later, her body was found dumped in a fly tip by the side of road. She had been beaten, strangled, and finally, in a bid to dispose of her body, set fire to. 28 years later, who killed Vera Holland, still remains a mystery.  SUPPORT THE SHOW PATREON www.patreon.com/theoutlinespodcast [http://www.patreon.com/theoutlinespodcast] PAYPAL DONATION theoutlinespodcast@gmail.com iTunes itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-o…ast/id1325180386 [https://gate.sc/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fpodcast%2Fthe-o%E2%80%A6ast%2Fid1325180386&token=ab9a94-1-1641916390365] Instagram @theoutlinespodcast [https://soundcloud.com/theoutlinespodcast]   Sources Used https://youtu.be/474cJNOjQjk?si=6U9xvuRp2I8me4yT [https://youtu.be/474cJNOjQjk?si=6U9xvuRp2I8me4yT] Monday 18th November 1996,  Reading Evening Post, pg 1 Wednesday 20th November 1996,  Reading Evening Post, pg 3 Thursday 21st November 1996, Reading Evening Post, pg 1&3  Friday 22nd November 1996,  Reading Evening Post, pg 7 Monday 25th November 1996,  Reading Evening Post, pg 1&3  Tuesday 17th December 1996, Reading Evening Post Thursday 19th December 1996, Reading Evening Post, pg 3 Tuesday 4th February 1997, Reading Evening Post, pg 1 13th February 1997, Reading Evening Post Wednesday 24th February 1997, Reading Evening Post, pg 3 Thursday 25th February 1997, Reading Evening Post pg 1 & 3 Wednesday 12th March 1997, Reading Evening Post, pg 3 Monday 23rd June 1997, Reading Evening Post, pg 3 Wednesday 23rd July 1997, Reading Evening Post, pg 5 Friday 17th October 1997, Reading Evening Post, pg 1&3 https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/14882976.vera-holland-was-found-dead-20-years-ago/ [https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/14882976.vera-holland-was-found-dead-20-years-ago/]  https://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/14908226.vera-holland-murder-police-review-case-into-callous-killing-of-mum-in-1996/ [https://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/14908226.vera-holland-murder-police-review-case-into-callous-killing-of-mum-in-1996/]  https://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/14908226.vera-holland-murder-police-review-case-into-callous-killing-of-mum-in-1996/ [https://www.bracknellnews.co.uk/news/14908226.vera-holland-murder-police-review-case-into-callous-killing-of-mum-in-1996/]  https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/people-come-forward-information-20-12512965.amp [https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/people-come-forward-information-20-12512965.amp]