S12 Ep13: The Spree Killer
Blood Ties Podcast
Peter Shevlin
4.4 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2023
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Summary
In their final episode, Geoffrey and Molly Wansell dive into the chilling story of Mark Richard Hobson — the ruthless spree killer who shocked Britain in 2004. Four innocent lives were taken in just a few days, leaving the country horrified.
Why did Hobson kill? How did the police finally catch him? And what lasting scars did his crimes leave behind?
Geoffrey and Molly tell the story with gripping detail, fearless questions, and unforgettable insight. If you care about true crime, you won’t want to miss this dramatic finale.
CREDITS:
Presenters: Geoffrey and Molly Wansell
Artwork: George Leigh
Music: Dan Wansell
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Molly Wansall and I'm Geoffrey Wansall and for the last 16 years or thereabouts we have been having lunch every Saturday and often our conversation turns to murder and that's what's prompted us to launch this true crime podcast called blood ties. |
| 0:20.2 | Hi everyone, welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm Molly Wansel and I'm here with my father, Jeffrey Wansel. |
| 0:25.8 | Hello everyone, welcome back. |
| 0:27.9 | Welcome back to what will be the last Blood Ties podcast |
| 0:30.7 | because Molly and I are gently slipping over the horizon. |
| 0:40.5 | Into wherever podcasts go to die. |
| 0:42.4 | I like the idea of that. |
| 0:45.7 | We're just walking over the hill together into the sunset. |
| 0:50.2 | Into the sunset and waving gently as we depart. |
| 0:58.1 | But it's been an absolute honour, a thrill, a privilege to broadcast for you all for all these years five and a half years of it and well it's a it's an astonishing and a privilege to do it so thank you |
| 1:08.8 | all for listening thank you for being there. |
| 1:17.0 | Thank you for taking the trouble and time and for writing to us, which we are all immensely grateful for both Molly and I. Yeah, thanks everyone. Thanks, Dad. It's a pleasure. You're the one who's |
| 1:23.9 | made it all, made it happen. Well, not made it happen, not the right. No, you made it happen. |
| 1:28.2 | But, you know, you're the one who does it. |
| 1:30.8 | I just turn up. |
| 1:32.2 | Well, I think it's wonderful. |
| 1:35.5 | So I'm going to bow out with a story, which is suggested to us by one of our very kind |
| 1:41.1 | listeners and with suggesting a few books. and I'm going to try and make an |
| 1:46.9 | appearance on Instagram but I have to learn how to do it so that's the sort of next |
| 1:52.5 | that's my next learning curve we'll put something up on the blood size Instagram |
| 1:56.0 | today yes and saying thank you and sorry to say goodbye, but we are. |
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