Episode 82: What happened to Margaret and Nicola?
REAL
Naomi Channell
4.8 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On the 10th of May 2013, Premier Inn hotel staff discovered the bodies mother and daughter Margaret and Nicola McDonough. They had severe injuries and nobody could figure out why these two kind and harmless women had their lives ended like this.
As the police started their investigation, they uncovered an incredible web of lies and the reality seemed truly unbelievable. But....
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. Please use discretion. |
| 0:07.7 | This episode contains descriptions of suicide. Please take extra care whilst listening. |
| 0:15.1 | Have you fallen for a scam before? I think we would all like to think that we wouldn't, but it would take a sophisticated |
| 0:22.9 | scam artist to get the better of us. But the reality is, we're all at risk. Manipulation is a |
| 0:31.1 | scammers most powerful tool. And in today's case, that manipulation would have fatal results. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm Naomi Channel and this is real. |
| 1:25.9 | I'm If you're a long-term listener of real, then you'll know that I usually put episodes together using a mix of primary source audio, |
| 1:30.4 | so things like news clips, emergency calls or body cam footage or interview footage. |
| 1:36.3 | Despite this case being, possibly one of the most complicated and unbelievable cases that I've ever heard about. |
| 1:46.1 | There is literally nothing in video or audio form online. |
| 1:51.6 | It was barely covered in the media. |
| 1:54.4 | And that has been a real driving factor for me, wanting to tell you about this case. |
| 2:04.3 | I first heard about this case in November, in 2024, so two months ago, and I have not stopped thinking about it since. Today's case |
| 2:12.3 | takes us to Scotland. In August 2011, 31-year-old Michael Madonna was looking for love. He was in the Royal |
| 2:22.7 | Air Force stationed at Lossie Mouth in Murray, which is in the north of Scotland. Being in the |
| 2:30.6 | Air Force made dating a challenge, so he did what a lot of people started to do in 2011. |
| 2:38.3 | He logged on to plenty of fish, one of the world's most popular dating websites. |
| 2:45.0 | He talked to a variety of women, but he hadn't found that someone special. |
| 2:55.6 | But in May 2012, that changed. He received a message from a young woman called Stephanie Wilson. She was beautiful in her early 20s with long blonde |
| 3:03.7 | hair and her profile said she was a student at Edinburgh University. |
| 3:10.7 | I started talking on the phone and Michael became besotted with her. He told her he loved her, |
| 3:18.4 | despite never having met her before. But Stephanie was having some troubles. She told Michael that her sister's ex-boyfriend |
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