Beware Book
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Podcast Overview
<p>Beware Book shines the light on a spate of vicious murders which shocked Glasgow between 1991 and 2005. Eight women involved in prostitution were killed, and at least four of those cases remain unsolved to this day. Many of these women were left defenceless in a more ruthless city than the one we know today - one grappling with unemployment, crime and the growing grip of heroin. Distrustful of authorities and fearing for their safety, they turned to each other for protection, sharing warnings about their most dangerous clients in a tattered leather journal they called the “Beware Book”. This series features deeply personal interviews with the victims’ families — many speaking publicly and at length for the first time. Also a brand-new interview with a former investigating officer about where he thinks the Beware Book is now. While Emma Caldwell’s murder was recently solved, and a man – Iain Packer – jailed, it took 19 years for justice to be served. Hear from some of his other victims and officers who worked on Emma's case - who think there will have been more attacks. Perhaps even another murder. Can we, two Glasgow-based journalists, finally get the answers these families deserve?</p>
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April 27, 2026
7. Beware Book
<p>This is the concluding chapter of an investigation that has taken more than one year. </p><p>Join us as we finally sit down with police to ask the questions that have built up over the stacks of interviews, door knocks, calls and emails. </p><p>The questions that the families we’re working with have waited decades for answers to. </p><p>We ask two senior serving Police Scotland officers what they can tell us about these murders? How they were examined and why so many have never been solved. </p><p>We also challenge them about the Beware Book. Its pages contained details of the most violent clients stalking Glasgow’s red-light district in the 1990s and early 2000s – did that include names of men in the police and legal professions as some allege? </p><p>Hear from two key voices in this book’s story – one has written in it, the other is the last person on record to have seen it. </p><p>Why is it now missing and where could it be? Join us in the final episode of Beware Book to find out. </p><p>-</p><p>If you’ve been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast and need mental-health support or want to talk about your feelings, visit the Hub of Hope to find services in your area. </p><p>If you think you might have information about any of the people we’ve mentioned you can get in touch with us at <a href="mailto:bewarebook@bauermedia.co.uk">bewarebook@bauermedia.co.uk</a> </p><p>Written, created, presented and produced by Collette McGonigle </p><p>Presented and produced by Callum McQuade </p><p>Executive Producers - Laurence Bassett & Henrietta Harrison </p><p>Sound Design - James Stodd & Michelle Homan </p><p>Designer - Ben Watkins </p><p>Production Manager - Sarah Nicholls </p><p>Legal Counsel - Jonathan McNaul for Bauer Media Group and Caroline Marshall for Reviewed & Cleared </p><p>Head of Production - Cat Moran </p><p>Chief Creative Officer, Podcasts - Lucie Cave </p><p>Director of News and Sport, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Lorraine Herbison Hollinshead </p><p>Beware Book is a Rayo Original podcast by Bauer Media </p>
April 20, 2026
6. The Drag
<p>This is The Drag – a handful of streets in Glasgow city centre which made up the red-light district in the 1990s and early 2000s. We make a visit with an experienced local crime reporter asking what life would have been like for the women who stood there on cold, dark nights all those years ago? Waiting to be picked up by one of the circling drivers, not knowing how the encounter might end. Heroin culture was still ravaging the city – pushing some women involved in prostitution into perilous liaisons to feed their habit. We hear from a charity worker who gave her time and care to many of these women, facing down threats of violence to protect them from predators. She tells us of the fear and pain this nighttime community went through as more and more women involved in prostitution were murdered. Eight women killed in less than 15 years. We want to visit The Drag in person to see what it’s like now and find out what are police doing to crack down on on-street prostitution? We join officers on patrol, who lift men for kerb-crawling – an offence now punishable by law in Scotland. We also hear from someone who lives on Glasgow’s streets who paints a vivid picture of the fear, addiction and violence that still blights the area now. </p><p>-<br>If you’ve been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast and need mental-health support or want to talk about your feelings, visit the Hub of Hope to find services in your area. </p><p>If you think you might have information about any of the people we’ve mentioned you can get in touch with us at <a href="mailto:bewarebook@bauermedia.co.uk">bewarebook@bauermedia.co.uk</a> </p><p>Written, created, presented and produced by Collette McGonigle </p><p>Presented and produced by Callum McQuade </p><p>Executive Producers - Laurence Bassett & Henrietta Harrison </p><p>Sound Design - James Stodd & Michelle Homan </p><p>Designer - Ben Watkins </p><p>Production Manager - Sarah Nicholls </p><p>Legal Counsel - Jonathan McNaul for Bauer Media Group and Caroline Marshall for Reviewed & Cleared </p><p>Head of Production - Cat Moran </p><p>Chief Creative Officer, Podcasts - Lucie Cave </p><p>Director of News and Sport, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Lorraine Herbison Hollinshead </p><p>Beware Book is a Rayo Original podcast by Bauer Media </p>
April 13, 2026
5. Iain Packer
<p>Iain Packer lived in freedom for almost 20 years after killing Emma Caldwell in 2005. Despite strangling her and discarding her body in remote woods about 40 miles outside Glasgow, he was able to live a seemingly normal family life. Also to attack dozens of other women. We explore the decisions taken during the initial police investigation which allowed him to escape justice for almost two decades – but could he have been stopped even before Emma’s murder? We hear from his first known victim who he attacked in her family home at the age of 15. What might have happened had her cries for help been believed earlier? By the adults in her life or by the police? She also thinks Packer’s offending is much wider than we know - that he would have attacked other women while on family holidays in the US and Spain. Even alerting the FBI and trying to hire a Private Investigator. We hear from former police officers who don’t think Emma’s is Packer’s only murder, those who worked tirelessly to bring this ‘forgotten suspect’ into the dock. Come with us into the courtroom, hearing from the witnesses – and victims - whose damning evidence eventually put this murderer, and serial rapist, behind bars for good. </p><p>-<br>If you’ve been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast and need mental-health support or want to talk about your feelings, visit the Hub of Hope to find services in your area. </p><p>If you think you might have information about any of the people we’ve mentioned you can get in touch with us at <a href="mailto:bewarebook@bauermedia.co.uk">bewarebook@bauermedia.co.uk</a> </p><p>Written, created, presented and produced by Collette McGonigle </p><p>Presented and produced by Callum McQuade </p><p>Executive Producers - Laurence Bassett & Henrietta Harrison </p><p>Sound Design - James Stodd & Michelle Homan </p><p>Designer - Ben Watkins </p><p>Production Manager - Sarah Nicholls </p><p>Legal Counsel - Jonathan McNaul for Bauer Media Group and Caroline Marshall for Reviewed & Cleared </p><p>Head of Production - Cat Moran </p><p>Chief Creative Officer, Podcasts - Lucie Cave </p><p>Director of News and Sport, Scotland and Northern Ireland - Lorraine Herbison Hollinshead </p><p>Beware Book is a Rayo Original podcast by Bauer Media </p>
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<p>Beware Book shines the light on a spate of vicious murders which shocked Glasgow between 1991 and 2005. Eight women involved in prostitution were killed, and at least four of those cases remain unsolved to this day. Many of these women were left defenceless in a more ruthless city than the one we know today - one grappling with unemployment, crime and the growing grip of heroin. Distrustful of authorities and fearing for their safety, they turned to each other for protection, sharing warnings about their most dangerous clients in a tattered leather journal they called the “Beware Book”. This series features deeply personal interviews with the victims’ families — many speaking publicly and at length for the first time. Also a brand-new interview with a former investigating officer about where he thinks the Beware Book is now. While Emma Caldwell’s murder was recently solved, and a man – Iain Packer – jailed, it took 19 years for justice to be served. Hear from some of his other victims and officers who worked on Emma's case - who think there will have been more attacks. Perhaps even another murder. Can we, two Glasgow-based journalists, finally get the answers these families deserve?</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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