A Dangerous World of Fantasy: Episode 351

UK True Crime Podcast

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4.3 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Firefighters were called to a house fire in a small village, just north of Nottingham. They quickly extinguished the blaze but inside the house, tragically they found the body of mum of two, Jacqueline Bartlam. But Jacqueline had not succumbed to the flames or smoke inhalation, she had been brutally beaten and murdered before the house was set on fire.

If that wasn’t shocking enough, detectives soon realised that the person who had killed Jacqueline was her own 14 year old son, Daniel...

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0:21.0	Hello and welcome to episode 351 of the UK True Crime Podcast. I'm Adam.
0:28.0	How's your week being so far then? Living the dream yet?
0:31.0	Oh well, there's always tomorrow.
0:34.0	A huge thank you to Megan Grant for researching and writing the episode this week.
0:39.0	Thank you Megan.
0:41.0	Do you remember how during the late 2000s the character John Stape, played by Graham Hawley,
0:47.0	terrorised the residents living in the fictional British soap opera drama Coronation Street?
0:54.0	John was a cheat, a kidnapper and a serial liar before he escalated to murder taking the lives of two characters.
1:02.0	He was eventually killed off in 2011.
1:05.0	However, as we hear today, fact is often indeed much stranger than even a soap opera script.
1:15.0	So before we start, let us set some context for our story today.
1:19.0	At number 8 in the UK charts were the black eyed peas we just can't get enough.
1:24.0	In the US, rolling in the deep from Adele was at number 6 in the charts.
1:29.0	And in Australia at number 3 in the singles chart was moves like Jagger from Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera.
1:39.0	In the news this month, the gunman murdered five people, injured 11 and committed suicide in a mole in the Netherlands.
1:47.0	Fido Castro resigned his position of first Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba after 45 years of holding the title.
1:57.0	At least 300 people were killed in the deadliest tornado outbreak in the southern US since the 1974 Super Outbreak.
2:06.0	It was, I'm sure you'll agree, a sad day for UK journalism.
2:10.0	As the daily sport and the Sunday sport newspapers sees publication and enter the administration.
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