Scottish Murders presents Persons Unknown Podcast - The Ann Heron Murder

Scottish Murders Presents
John from
Persons Unknown
- The Ann Heron Murder

 

Episode Summary

This week Dawn is joined by John from the Persons Unknown podcast, who tells us the story of Ann Heron’s unsolved murder.

This is part one. You can listen to part two straight after by visiting the Persons Unknown podcast.

In the summer of 1990, Ann Heron’s life was tragically cut short. John Dobson from the Persons Unknown podcast tells the story of this unsolved murder, tracing Ann’s early life in Scotland, her move to England, and her marriage to Peter Heron. On a sweltering August day, after shopping in Darlington in the North East of England, Ann returned to Aeolian House. Ann’s body was later found by her husband. With no murder weapon, a questionable sexual motive, and Peter’s affair complicating the investigation, the case grew cold. Key sightings of a blue car and a mysterious jogger yielded no solid leads. Despite extensive efforts, including 5000 interviews and 2700 vehicles being checked, the identity of Ann’s killer remains a mystery, leaving Ann and Peter’s family searching for answers.

 

In this episode we also hear from Ann’s son, Ralph Cockburn.

Thank you to John Dobson from the Persons Unknown podcast for researching and narrating this episode, and to Ralph for speaking with me and giving an insight into his mum, Ann Heron.

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Episode Summary

This week Dawn is joined by John from the Unknown Persons podcast, who tells us the story of Ann Heron’s unsolved murder.

Part Two:
The Unresolved Case of Ann Heron’s Murder

In part two we continue the story of Ann Heron’s murder with an arrest being made in November 2005. However, this person was later released due to insufficient evidence. Despite various leads and suspects, including Christopher Halliwell and others, sadly this case remains open, although Durham Police and Ann’s family continue to seek information, hoping to solve the mystery that has persisted for decades. The case’s complexity is underscored by conflicting theories, the lack of definitive forensic evidence, and the emotional toll on the families involved. The search for justice continues, with the hope that new advances in forensic science will finally provide the answers needed to close the chapter on Ann Heron’s murder.

 

In this episode we also hear from Ann’s son, Ralph Cockburn, and former Journalist, Chris Webber, who spoke with both Anne Marie (Ann’s daughter) and Peter Heron.

Thank you to John Dobson from the Persons Unknown podcast for researching and narrating this episode, and to Ralph for speaking with me and giving an insight into his mum, Ann Heron.

Please Be Advised – This episode may contain content that some may find distressing. As always, we advise listener discretion. This episode it not suitable for anyone under the age of 13.

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Guests – John from the Persons Unknown Podcast

Researched and narrated by John Dobson

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Scottish Murders presents Caitlin and Sam from The Crime Pod

Scottish Murders Presents
Caitlin and Sam from
The Crime Pod

 

Episode Summary

This week Dawn sits back again as Caitlin and Sam from The Crime Pod tell us about the murder of Pauline Reilly. 

 

In 1984, the waiter Shu-Kee Leung, originally from Hong Kong and employed at the Dragonara, faced charges for the heinous murder of Pauline Reilly, aged 19, at Annabel’s disco located in Fountainbridge, Edinburgh. After a trial lasting seven days at Edinburgh’s High Court, Leung received a life sentence. But was there more to this story?

Please Be Advised – This episode may contain content that some may find distressing. As always, we advise listener discretion. This episode it not suitable for anyone under the age of 13.

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George Robertson

George Robertson

 

Episode Summary

Trigger Warning – This episode has some strong language.

In the heart of Edinburgh’s Tron Square, a harrowing tale unfolded where George Robertson, fuelled by unresolved anger and accusations, unleashed a brutal attack on his family.

This episode was a listener request from Steven, who also features on this episode due to his own family’s link to the Robertson family. 

 

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1954: George Robertson, the last hanged in Edinburgh | Executed Today

Lost Edinburgh: Tron Square Murders

Secret Scotland – George Alexander Robertson

Into The Web | Liverpool Echo | Monday 01 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Woman Fined £2o On Car Charge | Aberdeen Evening Express | Wednesday 03 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Stabbed Girl Is Still Critically Ill | Edinburgh Evening News | Tuesday 02 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Tragedy House Murder Charge Forty – Year-Old George Alexander Robertson, Of No Fixed Address, Appeared At Edinburgh To-Day Accused Of | Manchester Evening News | Monday 01 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Did Not Appear: Held On Another Charge The Name Of George Alexander Robertson (40), With An Address In Garrick Knowe | Aberdeen Evening Express | Thursday 04 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Robertson To Die For Double Murder George Alexander Robertson (40) Was Found Guilty At Edinburgh High Court Yesterday Of Murdering | Dundee Courier | Thursday 03 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Murderer Dies | Manchester Evening News | Wednesday 23 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Princess Will Use Closed | Londonderry Sentinel | Thursday 24 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Mother, Son Die: Man Charged | Daily Herald | Tuesday 02 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Man On Double Murder Charge | Bradford Observer | Saturday 22 May 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Murderer Hanged | Birmingham Daily Gazette | Thursday 24 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Double Murderer Executed | Cambridge Daily News | Wednesday 23 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Flat Deaths Charge | Daily Mirror | Tuesday 02 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

No Reprieve For Robertson | The Scotsman | Tuesday 22 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Man Accused Of Killing Former Wife and His Son T Sixteen-Year-Old Girl, Giving Evidence I N Edi N B Urg | Bradford Observer | Wednesday 02 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Round and About | Dundee Courier | Wednesday 02 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

It’s Common Sense To Be Well Dress C6iffe44-Geda Lii | Manchester Evening News | Friday 21 May 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Why Scottish Courts Will Not Accept A Confession Of Murder | Edinburgh Evening News | Thursday 03 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Minister Goes For 130 M.p.h. Ride | Birmingham Daily Gazette | Saturday 22 May 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Girl Tells Of Knife Attack On Mother and Brother | Edinburgh Evening News | Tuesday 01 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Oppenheimer Case May Have More Than Communism | Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer | Thursday 03 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Inquiry To Be Held Into Tay Ferries Fares | Dundee Courier | Tuesday 02 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Diary | Coventry Evening Telegraph | Monday 01 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Jean Tells Of ‘Night Of Terror’ | Daily Mirror | Wednesday 02 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Mental State Of Robertson | Edinburgh Evening News | Wednesday 02 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Scot Hanged For Killing Son and Former Wife | Aberdeen Evening Express | Wednesday 23 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Jute Management Training School At St Andrews New Ground In Management Training Has Been Broken By Jute Industries, Ltd., Dundee. | Dundee Courier | Tuesday 22 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Billy Graham Opens Crusade Audience Of 11,000 More Than 11.000 Persons Went To Hear Billy Graham. The American Evangelist, When | Birmingham Daily Post | Tuesday 02 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Firstback To Work | Dundee Courier | Saturday 22 May 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Guilty Of Murder | Aberdeen Evening Express | Wednesday 02 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Double Murder Charge Man Accused Of Killing Ex-Wife and Son | The Scotsman | Wednesday 02 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Charge | Aberdeen Evening Express | Tuesday 01 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

`Industrial Stagnation In Britain’ | Birmingham Daily Gazette | Tuesday 02 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Fiscal Deserts The Charge | Edinburgh Evening News | Thursday 04 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Plats For Old Folk | Belfast News-Letter | Thursday 03 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Mother, Son Dead: Man Accused | Bradford Observer | Tuesday 02 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Edinburgh Evening News, Wednesday, June 23, 1954—page 7 Retirement Gifts For Dean The Very Rev. Dr R. J. Mackay, Dean | Edinburgh Evening News | Wednesday 23 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Tron Square Man For High Court | Edinburgh Evening News | Friday 21 May 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Councillor’s Explanation Of | Coventry Evening Telegraph | Wednesday 23 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Edinburgh Murder Charge Ex-Husband In Court | The Scotsman | Tuesday 02 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

11 Hours Sun In Edinburgh | The Scotsman | Thursday 24 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Sent For Trial’ | Liverpool Echo | Friday 21 May 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Tron Square Murders Robertson Sentenced To Death Statement To Court | The Scotsman | Thursday 03 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

V 4 Two Charges Of Murder Sequel To Tron Square Deaths | The Scotsman | Saturday 22 May 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

To Hang For Murder Of | Londonderry Sentinel | Thursday 03 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Duke Will Launch | Aberdeen Evening Express | Friday 21 May 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Reporter | Daily Record | Tuesday 02 March 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

The Productions | Edinburgh Evening News | Friday 21 May 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Duke Of Kent Prownsig | Leicester Evening Mail | Wednesday 23 June 1954 | British Newspaper Archive

Pierrepoint (film) – Wikipedia

Executions in Scottish prisons

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Lady Killers

Lady Killers

 

Episode Summary

Trigger Warning – This episode covers the topic of child murders.
In Scotland, from 2016 to 2021, females accounted for 9% of homicide accusations. In this episode we tell you about two women, who, in different times and for very different reasons, harmed and murdered very young children; Jean Barclay Waddell in 1961 and Mary Ann Anderson in 1891.

Please Be Advised – This episode may contain content that some may find distressing. As always, we advise listener discretion. This episode it not suitable for anyone under the age of 13.

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When five children were thrown from a Glasgow flat window | Glasgow Times

Old Glasgow Murders: Toryglen Street, Oatlands, March 28th 1961

Old Glasgow Murders

Two Hurt | Liverpool Echo | Monday 08 May 1961 | British Newspaper Archive

Insanity Plea In Window Fall Murder Charge | Edinburgh Evening News | Friday 28 April 1961 | British Newspaper Archive

Spinster On Murder Charge Found Insane | Edinburgh Evening News | Monday 08 May 1961 | British Newspaper Archive

Woman Appears On 5 Charges Sequel To Children’s Fall From Tenement Remit To Sheriff | The Scotsman | Wednesday 29 March 1961 | British Newspaper Archive

Two Remanded On Murder Charges Inquiries Continue | The Scotsman | Monday 03 April 1961 | British Newspaper Archive

Window: Spinster Accused | Daily Mirror | Wednesday 29 March 1961 | British Newspaper Archive

The Spinster’s Murder Party | Daily Mirror | Tuesday 09 May 1961 | British Newspaper Archive

Lord Amory’s View | Birmingham Daily Post | Wednesday 29 March 1961 | British Newspaper Archive

No Regularity | Birmingham Daily Post | Tuesday 09 May 1961 | British Newspaper Archive

Insanity Plea To Murder Charge | Halifax Evening Courier | Friday 28 April 1961 | British Newspaper Archive

Tenement: Woman Is Accused Of Murder | Leicester Evening Mail | Tuesday 28 March 1961 | British Newspaper Archive

Inside Carstairs: Shocking secrets of notorious psychiatric hospital – The Sunday Post

Patterns of offending and the justice system response – Women in the justice system: evidence review – gov.scot

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Eliza Connolly

Eliza Connolly

 

Episode Summary

In April 1981, 74-year-old Eliza Connelly was found dead in her home in a quiet residential area in Broughty Ferry in Dundee. She had 12 wounds to her head, two on her hands, fractured ribs, and blood was found everywhere from the floor to the ceiling. The initial assumption was murder, but with no evidence or witnesses, an accidental death theory was posed.

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Scottish Murderer - Jason Downie

Scottish Murderer
Jason Downie

 

Episode Summary

This week Dawn gets to sit back for this away episode, as Effie from the podcast Mums, Mysteries and Murder tells her about the Scottish Murderer, 20 year old Jason Downie, who, in November 2010, brutally murdered 16-year-old Chantelle Rowe, and her father Andrew and mother Rose at their house near Adelaide in Australia. What could have led Jason Downie to have so viciously murdered his friend’s girlfriend and her parents?

 

Promo by Missing Magnolias

 

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John Cremin

John Cremin

 

Episode Summary

In 1959, teenagers James Denovan and Anthony Miller devised a scheme to rob homosexual men in Queen’s Park Recreation Ground in Glasgow. They exploited the fact that homosexuality was illegal, knowing their victims would be unlikely to report the crimes. This continued until April 1960, when one of their victims, John Cremin, was killed. Initially, his death was thought to be accidental, but a post-mortem revealed that John had been murdered.

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Barlinnie beasts to be dug up as bodies of executed killers at prison to be reburied – Daily Record

Glasgow teenager hung at Barlinnie in 1960 whose death helped end capital punishment – Glasgow Live

Tony Miller, the last man to be hanged in Glasgow

Barlinnie: The men who were hanged and their crimes: Queen’s Park killer Tony Miller | Glasgow Times

How the hanging of a 19-year-old Scot turned the tide against the death penalty in the UK | The National

Glasgow Crime Stories: Len Murray and his client Tony Miller | Glasgow Times

Scots lawyer on case that convinced him the death penalty was barbaric – Daily Record

Murder Charge | Aberdeen Evening Express | Friday 04 November 1960 | British Newspaper Archive

Two On Capital Murder Charge Special High Court Sitting Fixed Park Incidents | The Scotsman | Saturday 05 November 1960 | British Newspaper Archive

Glasgow Youth To Hang For Murder 16-Year-Old To Be Detained | The Scotsman | Thursday 17 November 1960 | British Newspaper Archive

Appeals Filed By Two Convicted Of Murder | The Scotsman | Saturday 26 November 1960 | British Newspaper Archive

Two Murder Appeals Fail In Edinburgh Miller To Hang On December 22 | The Scotsman | Thursday 08 December 1960 | British Newspaper Archive

Youth Executed For Glasgow Park Murder | Coventry Evening Telegraph | Thursday 22 December 1960 | British Newspaper Archive

County Boy Of 16 On Murder Charge Denies He Intended Violence | Birmingham Daily Post | Wednesday 16 November 1960 | British Newspaper Archive

Anthony Miller (murderer) – Wikipedia

Queen’s Park, Glasgow – Wikipedia

Illegal to be gay – Scotland’s history – BBC News

Crimes that shocked Scotland: Baby-faced killer who robbed gay men last teenager to be hanged in the UK – Daily Record

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Takeover Episode - Book of the Dead Podcast

Book of the Dead Podcast - Spree Killer Andrew Cunanan Part 1 & 2

 

Episode Summary

Part One:

When people hear the name Andrew Cunanan, most people think of the murder of Gianni Versace, but Gianni was not Andrew’s only victim. In Part 1 we discuss Andrew’s life growing up, and some key players in this horrific case. Andrew Cunanan was wicked smart, charismatic, and ridiculously handsome, and he could have had it all until he threw it all away and took 5 innocent lives in the process.

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Episode Summary

Part Two:

In Part One we told you all about the life of Andrew Cunanan leading up to the murders. In Part Two, we tell you about the murders and give you some background on each one of his victims. We may never know the true motive behind why Andrew took the lives of five innocent people, but what we do know, is that they deserve to be remembered and they deserved to live their lives to the fullest, but Andrew took that away from them.

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The Peter Graham Mystery

The Peter Graham Mystery

 

Episode Summary

Peter Graham was found outside a neighbour’s home, collapsed on the pavement and covered in blood. But was it an accident or an attack?

Please Be Advised – This episode may contain content that some may find distressing. As always, we advise listener discretion. This episode it not suitable for anyone under the age of 13.

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Hosted by Dawn

Researched, Written and Produced by Dawn Young

Production Company Name by Granny Robertson

 

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Dawn of the Fairies by Derek & Brandon Fiechter

 

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Scottish Murders and Fiends Halloween Special

Scottish Murders
and Fiends
Halloween Special

 

Episode Summary

TRIGGER WARNING – Spooky Episode – DO listen alone and in the dark!!!

This Halloween Special episode will feature a story by Dawn called Christian’s Coven, as well as hear some personal spooky ghost stories from Scottish Murders Listeners; Tara, Gordon and Amy, and from Yvonne and David from The Scottish Ghost Company.

Please Be Advised – This episode may contain content that some may find distressing. As always, we advise listener discretion. This episode it not suitable for anyone under the age of 13.

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Scottish Murders is a production of Cluarantonn

Hosted by Dawn

Researched and Written by Peter Bull

Produced by Dawn Young

Production Company Name by Granny Robertson

 

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FEATURING:
Scottish Murders Listeners: Tara, Gordon and Amy.
Yvonne and David from The Scottish Ghost Company

 

EPISODE OUTTRO MUSIC:
Dawn of the Fairies by Derek & Brandon Fiechter

 

BACKGROUND MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS:
epidemicsound.com

 

Scottish Murders is a member of the Darkcast Network.