Murder by Remote Control
Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast
Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm Mark. |
| 0:37.4 | And I'm Mark. |
| 0:41.5 | And I'm Bethen. Welcome back, everybody. And thank you for joining us once again. |
| 0:49.1 | We're back fresh from CrimeCon Birmingham when you listen to this. So I'm sure we will have put lots of stuff on social media. |
| 0:53.9 | But obviously, we are recording this just in advance, which is always a little bit weird. And that's |
| 0:55.0 | why we have no Patreon thank yous this week. So this week, we're going to be talking about two |
| 1:00.4 | cases. They are linked, though. And we have an unsolved string of murders from the early 1980s, |
| 1:07.8 | and then a case from the late 1980s. And we're going to head to the US of A mark. |
| 1:13.3 | The reason I've chosen to talk about these cases is because the aftermath of these saw huge |
| 1:18.7 | changes to packaging and security for us all. It also enhanced the law in the US and what happened |
| 1:25.2 | completely changed how medicine is sold in America. |
| 1:29.2 | It's also a really chilling reminder to us all, how much trust we put into the purchases that |
| 1:34.8 | we make being safe for us to consume. |
| 1:38.9 | If you have a headache, you may turn to the bottle or the box of medicine that sat in your |
| 1:43.6 | bathroom cabinet, pop a couple of pills and turn to the bottle or the box of medicine that sat in your bathroom cabinet, |
| 1:44.7 | pop a couple of pills and hope to feel better shortly. And we all know, Mark, that is definitely |
| 1:50.7 | you, whereas I'm more likely to go, I will keep drinking some water until the headache gets so |
| 1:55.8 | bad that I have to take a couple of tablets. But it's not unusual, is it? That is completely |
| 2:00.4 | normal in our society. Yeah. Headache tablets. But it's not unusual, is it? That is completely normal in our society. |
| 2:02.4 | Yeah. Headache tablets. I am. Sometimes it's not even tablets, Beth. And I've been known to |
| 2:07.4 | swig morphine if a headache has been particularly bad. So that's how I roll in this house. |
| 2:13.1 | The first thing you said to me when I said I'd really, really hurt my back was what pills you |
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