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Blood Ties Podcast

S13 Ep11: The 'I Heard Voices' Killer

Blood Ties Podcast

Peter Shevlin

415885, True Crime

4.4668 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

After 1994, something in Nicholas Burton’s mind began to unravel. Once seen as bright and promising, he started shouting at himself and became obsessed with religion. Friends noticed the change — but no one imagined how dark things would become. His fixation soon turned toward Rachel McGraa, a woman whose kindness would ultimately cost her everything. In this episode of Blood Ties, we trace Burton’s descent from charm to chaos and uncover how his fractured reality led to Rachel’s tragic death.


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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.

0:14.0

Burton approached her with a knife, with the same knife, presumably still bloodstained.

0:19.0

He said, give me your money and get into the car, please.

0:22.6

Which I'm afraid she did.

0:30.6

Burton then persuades her to drive to North Wales, about a hundred miles.

0:49.9

And poor girls obviously terrified, who wouldn't be.

0:54.1

At one point they stopped in Snowdonia for quite a long time.

0:59.5

And she kept talking to him to a divert him.

1:17.5

Hi. Hi there, Peter the producer here from Pod 60.

1:21.3

If these conversations matter to you, we'd love your support.

1:24.7

Following the show and leaving a review might seem small,

1:28.1

but it's the reason we can keep growing this community.

1:34.4

You can leave a review by tapping our show's artwork, scrolling down past all the recent episodes and hitting writer review. It only takes a few seconds and it would mean everything to Molly,

1:40.6

Jeffrey and me. And keep us on the path to the next season of Blood Ties.

1:49.1

Hey, it's Theo, Luke and Joe from the Waffling podcast, and our podcast is currently sponsored by Audible.

1:55.2

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1:56.6

Check out the dropouts, the debut novel by screenwriter Liv Parkinson.

2:00.8

Kaylee Morris is just trying to survive her first year at uni.

2:03.2

A blur of social anxiety and parties.

2:05.3

But when she becomes the talk of the campus, Kaylee retreats and shuts herself away.

2:09.3

That is until she is chosen for a new module to try a new psychedelic drug,

2:14.0

believed to cure anxiety.

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