Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

In the summer of 1984, seventeen-year-old Melanie Road had almost everything ahead of her.

Bright, popular and ambitious, she was approaching the end of her A-levels and looking forward to university and the freedom of adult life.

But in the early hours of 9 June, after spending the night out with friends in Bath, Melanie began the short walk home.

She never made it.

Her murder would become one of Britain's most haunting unsolved crimes. Police had evidence. They had witnesses. They had something left behind by Melanie's killer that would one day prove crucial.

But as months became years and years became decades, the person responsible remained free.

For more than thirty years, Melanie's family waited for an answer.

And then, in 2015, something happened that would finally begin to unravel a mystery that had endured for a generation.

This week on Seeing Red, we follow the murder of Melanie Road, the extraordinary investigation that followed, and the breakthrough that finally brought detectives face-to-face with the man they had been searching for since 1984.
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In January 2011, 27-year-old Michaela McAreavey travelled to the tropical island of Mauritius with her new husband, John, for what should have been the happiest holiday of their lives.

Married just eleven days earlier, the young couple were looking forward to beginning their new life together. But behind the luxurious surroundings of their five-star resort, an unimaginable horror was about to unfold.

When Michaela failed to return from a brief visit to their hotel room, John went looking for her. What he discovered would shatter his world and spark an international murder investigation.

How could a young bride be brutally murdered in what should have been the safety of her honeymoon suite? And why, more than fifteen years later, has nobody been brought to justice?

This week on Seeing Red, we uncover the shocking murder of Michaela McAreavey, a case of heartbreak, unanswered questions and a family's enduring fight for justice.
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On 1 October 2017, a gunman opened fire on thousands of people attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, committing the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in modern US history.

Nine years on, we’re returning to one of the most devastating cases we’ve ever covered for the latest instalment of Seeing Red: Second Look.

Originally released in 2022, Mark recorded this episode just days after returning from Las Vegas, where a visit to the Mandalay Bay hotel inspired him to explore the events of that night. In a newly recorded introduction, he reflects on visiting the resort and the strange normality of a place where there was little visible acknowledgement of the horror that had unfolded there just a few years earlier.

The episode also gives a voice to some of those who survived the attack, including stories of extraordinary courage, resilience and, in one particularly tragic case, an almost unimaginable twist of fate.

Whether you heard this episode when it was first released or are discovering the case with us for the first time, this is Seeing Red: Second Look — The Mandalay Bay Massacre.

This episode was originally released in January 2022 and is presented largely in its original form, with a newly recorded introduction.
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In the summer of 2019, 43-year-old Adrian Murphy was found dead inside a luxury apartment in Battersea, South London.

Behind the closed doors of the stylish riverside property, something terrible had unfolded. But who was the mysterious man who had entered Adrian's life in the days before his death, and what secrets had been left behind?

This week, we reconstruct Adrian's final movements and expose a terrifying story of deception, betrayal and a predator hiding in plain sight, in a case that would prove far more disturbing than anyone could have imagined.
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