369: The Car in the Garage: The Dark Secrets of Lesley Howell and Trevor Buchanan
Serialously with Annie Elise
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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In the early 1990s, a quiet night in Northern Ireland ended with a discovery that would haunt a community for decades. Inside a closed garage sat a car with a man lifeless in the driver’s seat and another body hidden in the trunk, the scene eerily composed, almost too orderly to question. At the time, many believed they understood what had happened and tried to move forward. But beneath that calm exterior lay a web of affairs, deception, manipulation, and calculated violence that would slowly begin to surface…
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| 0:00.0 | For almost 20 years it was believed to be suicide. |
| 0:03.0 | Two people devastated by the breakdown of their marriages. |
| 0:07.0 | So they had a dysfunctional relationship. |
| 0:09.0 | It wasn't a relationship. |
| 0:10.0 | This was a massive story. |
| 0:12.0 | It had sex. |
| 0:14.0 | It had drugs. |
| 0:15.0 | It had greed. |
| 0:16.0 | It had betrayal. |
| 0:18.0 | I would suggest that anybody who has an affair will always think they'd be better off of their partner. Hey, true crime besties, welcome back to an all new episode of serialously with me, Annie Elise, |
| 0:57.7 | your true crime bestie, here to break down another case. And I will say this is a case that came |
| 1:03.2 | directly from one of you listeners, a request. We get requests all the time, but this request for |
| 1:09.5 | this case, I don't know, it just instantly grabbed me. |
| 1:12.9 | Like, I felt like there was so much to it that I had not only never heard about this case, but I felt like there were a lot of twists and turns in it as well. |
| 1:20.7 | And so I knew I was like, yeah, okay, we need to like talk about this on the podcast and I need to share it with everybody. |
| 1:25.9 | Because today's case takes place in |
| 1:28.7 | Northern Ireland also back in the early 90s. However, there are new developments that have |
| 1:34.8 | happened in 2025. So it kind of makes it still feel like, you know, current event, |
| 1:41.3 | new age case today. It's about two entire families whose lives were turned |
| 1:45.7 | completely upside down by a horrific discovery one day in May. However, the details surrounding this |
| 1:53.2 | tragedy, they really only brought up more questions than answers. And for years, everyone kind of |
| 1:59.7 | just settled with what they thought they knew to be |
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