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Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

The Murder of Alex Rodda: Cheshire’s Teenage Killing

Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast

Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman

True Crime

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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FLASH PATREON SALE! Help us hit the ONE THOUSAND mark! Get 50% off your first month or YEAR, when you sign up by Sunday 29th March. www.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast Use code AC7E3 if it asks for one! This week on Seeing Red, we head to Cheshire to look at the heartbreaking murder of 15-year-old Alex Rodda. Found dead on a quiet country lane in December 2019, Alex’s case would expose a grim story of teenage violence, control, and a killing that shocked the local community. We unpack who Alex was, what happened in the lead-up to his death, and how the investigation pieced together the final movements of a boy whose life ended far too soon. It’s a devastating case with some deeply unsettling details, and one that left a family, a school, and a town asking how this could happen. Listen to Chalkboard & Chill on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/chalkboard-chill/id1820815026 Listen to Chalkboard & Chill on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/show/6LadgbBGW8MtkgmE6d2HnX?si=BWk1gYMORgydcM0F_ZAbeA www.patreon.com/seeingredpodcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/seeingredtw⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.seeingredpodcast.co.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Theme music arranged and composed by Holly-Jane Shears: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.soundcloud.com/DeadDogInBlackBag⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ www.justthrivehealth.com/CX Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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slash CX. Be the best you with Just Thrive. Hello and welcome to Seeing Red. Fuck off.

1:43.2

Fuck off. Someone's getting their podcast. I'm Bethan.

1:45.4

Someone's getting their own back and I'm Mark. It's a good job we didn't just hit record like

1:49.4

two minutes ago. We're not going to talk about that. We do not discuss that. I won't discuss it,

1:53.9

but the conversation we've just had is utter fucking filth. It was beyond filth, wasn't it?

1:59.3

It was not appropriate for the fact that we're recording this on a Monday morning. Not great. At fucking 20 past 8. 20 past 8 on a Monday morning. Should have been quarter past 8, but somebody was very late. I think that's where it all started when you said good evening to me. I'm joking. I'm joking. There's a few little things we want to do.

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