S4 Ep17: S04E17: The Bullseye Killer

Blood Ties Podcast

Peter Shevlin

Society & Culture, 415885

4.4 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

John Cooper appeared on ITV gameshow "Bullseye". Three weeks later he killed his first victims: Peter and Gwenda Dixon. He would eventually kill four people between 1985–1989. Strangely, footage from the show was later used to match him to witness descriptions. CREDITS: Producer: Poppy Damon Artwork: George Leigh Music: Dan Wansell CONTACT: Twitter: @BloodTies_Pod Instagram: bloodties_pod Email: [email protected] BOOK: "The Long Call" by Ann Cleeves

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Molly Wansall.
0:03.0	And I'm Geoffrey Wonsle.
0:04.3	And for the last 16 years or thereabouts, we've been having lunch every Saturday,
0:08.3	and often our conversation turns to murder.
0:10.7	Which is what prompted us to start this true crime podcast called Blood Ties.
0:16.7	Hi everyone, welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast. I'm Molly Wansel and I'm here with my father, Jeffrey Wansall.
0:21.9	Hello everyone. Welcome back. Thank you for listening.
0:25.8	Hope the stories don't get too dark.
0:28.3	I was talking to my friend Megan about this. She said that I'm right and that you don't need to say that anymore.
0:34.3	Okay.
0:34.6	Because people who like true crime podcast don't mind.
0:37.4	Okay. Well, the true crime fans. The true crime podcast don't mind. Okay. Well,
0:38.2	the true crime fans. The true crime aficionados. They're up for the grit. The grit. Well, I'm
0:44.3	always a bit worried because later today I'm doing a speech at the Graham Green International Festival.
0:50.4	And I'm talking about the line between true crime and crime fiction. And fact it's very blurred indeed and green himself blurred it in Brighton Rock
0:58.7	we talked about that we did about when we did peekie blinders
1:03.6	which is I'm going to talk about again because I think it's so interesting
1:06.3	and then you can tell them all the people in the audience listen to our podcast
1:09.8	well we hope so we can get our listeners up. We hope so. We encourage more listeners. And we're a very good piece of news this week. My friends at CBS Reality are going to plug the podcasts on their Facebook and Twitter feeds. Great. Well, hopefully that will help. Which we think will help a bit.
1:30.3	And we're looking at all sorts of other ways to get the listeners up.
1:30.9	Yeah.
1:35.7	I did recommend someone to someone that they listened to it the other day.
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