Unexplained Death In Glasgow: The Suspicious Case of Mikhail Ackrim
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🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In August 2024, Mikhail Ackrim was found dead and undressed in a Glasgow flat. Street valium and alcohol were in his system, along with suspicious bruising and four stab wounds to his body, inflicted after he died. Police Scotland concluded no criminality. His mother disagrees…
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains distressing themes and descriptions of violence. |
| 0:12.8 | This podcast is intended for a mature audience. |
| 0:17.4 | Listener caution is advised. |
| 0:22.5 | Police entered a first-floor flat in Glasgow's Parkhead District on a summer's evening. |
| 0:29.2 | They were expecting to assist the victim of a robbery who had reportedly been attacked with a knife. |
| 0:35.9 | In one of the bedrooms, officers found something far worse, |
| 0:40.7 | a 37-year-old man who was undressed and had been dead for some time. |
| 0:48.8 | Welcome to They Walk Among Us, a podcast dedicated to UK true crime. |
| 0:56.4 | This is the 58th in a series of bonus episodes. |
| 1:16.7 | Springfield Road was tinted with a blue hue when officers from Police Scotland arrived at the scene on the evening of Thursday, August 15th, 2004. |
| 1:23.5 | What they found was tragic and confusing. |
| 1:27.6 | A semi-naked man with pale skin and light hair was lying face down on the floor. |
| 1:33.9 | He was not moving. |
| 1:36.3 | Upon closer inspection, it was clear he had passed away hours earlier. |
| 1:42.5 | Officers didn't yet know that this case would become one of Glasgow's most |
| 1:46.8 | perplexing mysteries, involving suspicious injuries and unexplained circumstances. |
| 1:53.5 | The deceased was identified as 37-year-old Mikael Akram, though he had been born Michael Murray. |
| 2:02.9 | For more than a year, |
| 2:08.6 | his name would not appear in press reports. To the public, he was simply described as the body found in Parkett. For his loved ones, this would become yet another source of anguish |
| 2:15.1 | in their search for answers about what happened to Mikkel. |
| 2:22.8 | Mekyll Akram had been a mature student. He was studying to become a nurse, but in the months leading |
| 2:29.9 | up to his death, he seemed to have changed his mind and left the course unexpectedly. |
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