S01E04 | John Cooper | The Murders of Richard Thomas, Helen Thomas, Peter Dixon and Gwenda Dixon

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

I tell the story of John Cooper in this episode.

In December 1985, John Cooper killed siblings Richard and Helen Thomas in their farmhouse at Scoveston Park before burning the property.

Four years later, John took part in a recording of the UK gameshow Bullseye as a contestant on May 28, 1989.

John then murdered Peter and Gwenda Dixon a month later, in June 1989, as they walked along the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in southwest Wales.

John was handed a whole life order for the murders in May 2011 and has also been linked with several other murders.

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0:00.0	Welcome to British murders, a true crime podcast with a focus on British murder cases.
0:17.7	My name's Stuart Blues, and I'm excited for you to join me on this journey of
0:21.1	morbid discovery. I'm by no means an expert on the subjects of homicide and serial killers.
0:26.8	However, I have always had a sick fascination with them. Together, we will learn about some of the
0:31.9	lesser-known British murderers, as well as glimpsing occasionally at some of the more notorious
0:36.3	ones. The bite-sized presentation of this podcast is intentional,
0:40.8	as we look to cover an overview of the respective timelines of each case succinctly.
0:51.4	In the late 1980s, Britain's TV sets were blessed with game shows. Mastermind, Family Fortunes,
0:58.7	catchphrase, and Wheel of Fortune instantly come to mind. However, there was one show in particular
1:04.4	that was not only popular, but it unknowingly featured the subject of this episode on the show as a guest
1:10.2	in May 1989.
1:12.8	That guest was 48-year-old Welshman, John William Cooper.
1:18.7	The show I'm referring to is Bullseye, a darts-themed game show whereby three pairs of contestants,
1:25.6	each consisting of an amateur darts player and a quizer,
1:29.2	competed in darts games and quizzes to win cash and prizes.
1:34.6	Throughout the show, Cooper would often look down and avoid eye contact with the show's host
1:39.1	Jim Bowen, something which would have initially been put down to nerves. However, as his story unfolds throughout this episode,
1:46.7	watching the footage back will be truly chilling.
1:50.5	When the episode was filmed, Cooper had already murdered two people four years earlier,
1:55.5	and within three weeks of filming, he would go on to murder two more.
2:00.6	John Cooper was born on September 3, 1944, in Milford, filming, he would go on to murder two more.
2:07.5	John Cooper was born on September 3rd, 1944 in Milford Haven, a town in the county of Pembrokeshire,
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