S13 Ep 22: Hannibal the Cannibal
Blood Ties Podcast
Peter Shevlin
4.4 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Geoffrey and Molly Wansell confront Britain’s most chilling killer, Robert Maudsley, the man the tabloids dubbed Hannibal the Cannibal. Locked away in a glass cell beneath Wakefield Prison, Maudsley has spent decades in near-total isolation after a string of murders so brutal they shocked even hardened detectives. But who is the man behind the monster?
With Geoffrey’s trademark precision and Molly’s probing curiosity, Blood Ties digs into Maudsley’s tragic childhood, his descent into violence, and the media myth that turned him into a British bogeyman. Was he born evil or made by a system that failed him?
This is Blood Ties at its most provocative: a gripping, fearless look at one of Britain’s darkest souls and the uncomfortable truths that lie behind the nickname Hannibal the Cannibal.
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Presenters: Geoffrey and Molly Wansell
Producer: Peter Shevlin https://pod60.com/
Artwork: George Leigh
Music: Dan Wansell
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Blood Ties. |
| 0:08.0 | He was working as a rent boy, doing his best to survive. |
| 0:14.0 | There were a number of psychiatric episodes. |
| 0:16.0 | He attempts suicide. |
| 0:18.0 | He's a terribly, terribly disturbed adolescent. |
| 0:29.6 | He is by now, after various psychiatric interventions, he's claiming to hear voices. |
| 0:46.3 | Thank you. interventions, he's claiming to hear voices. Maudsley once said, and I think it was chilling, |
| 0:49.6 | if I'd killed my mother and father, none of this would have happened. |
| 0:53.3 | And I'd be walking around a free man now. |
| 0:55.5 | And he never resolved that hatred, that rage that he felt for his treatment by his parents. |
| 1:09.8 | Hi there, Peter the producer here from Pod 60. |
| 1:13.5 | If these conversations matter to you, we'd love your support. |
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| 1:42.1 | And keep us on the path to the next season of Blood Ties. |
| 1:44.6 | Now here's the next episode. |
| 1:52.2 | Hi, I'm Molly Wonsall. And I'm Geoffrey Wonsall. We're a father and daughter, |
| 1:56.6 | as those of you who listened to Blood Ties in the past will remember, and we meet every week, |
| 2:02.1 | and often our conversation has turned to murder, which is why we originally launched Blood Ties and why we've now decided to bring it back in its new, fresher form. |
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