12. A Deadly Affair

Murder They Wrote with Laura Whitmore and Iain Stirling

BBC

Comedy, True Crime

4.3 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week, Laura’s case – set in 1950s Cincinnati – involves a complicated love triangle between ex navy man Bill Bergen, his wife Louise and his mistress Edythe Klumpp. When Louise’s body is found in a park, police must figure out whether Bill and Edythe had anything to do with her death. But the deeper they dig, the more confusing the story becomes.

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0:00.0	Encro chat was used by 60,000 criminals around the world.
0:04.2	In summer 2020, police reveal they've penetrated an encrypted phone network favoured by criminals.
0:10.8	Encro chat.
0:12.6	Suddenly, the police were reading millions of messages being sent from inside the world of organised crime.
0:19.0	Corruption, money laundering.
0:20.8	Firearms.
0:21.9	It was like being in a room with them and they are talking freely.
0:25.2	At a time when the Met is in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
0:28.7	Do you trust the Metropolitan Police?
0:30.7	It's a rare story of something that has actually gone right.
0:34.5	Wow, this is quite major, isn't it?
0:37.1	Catching the Kingpins. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:43.7	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. Hello Ian Sterling. Hello, Laura Whitmore. Hello, listeners.
0:52.8	How are you? I just realised I was going to try and go lower energy on this podcast.
0:57.2	But YouTube by surprise and I forgot and went in quite high energy.
1:00.3	But I've had a lovely, I've had a love a few days.
1:02.4	How are you feeling?
1:03.4	Good.
1:04.0	Can I just share with, we had dinner yesterday.
1:08.2	Yeah.
1:08.5	And we don't have a lot of time.
1:11.2	We're like, let's sit down and have dinner together because we're both kind of like passing each other at the moment.
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