Manchester Murders is a true crime podcast uncovering the city’s darkest stories — from infamous cases that shocked the nation to hidden tragedies that never made the headlines.
November 1940. The blackout has put Bolton's lights out, and at seven minutes to midnight a constable's lamp finds a seventeen-year-old girl lying strangled in a garage yard off Bradshawgate.
Minnie Stott, Peggy to everyone who loved her, had told her mother she was going to the pictures.
What follows is one of the strangest cold cases in Greater Manchester's history: a soldier traced and cleared, a photograph of somebody's children lying unclaimed beside her body, her picture projected onto the town's cinema screens, a girl in a red scarf who was never identified, and a woman at a bus stop whose story the coroner called wicked.
Nobody was ever charged. Eighty-six years on, it is said to be the oldest unsolved killing on Greater Manchester's books.
25 Sept 2026
Ep 40: The Man in the Moss (Worsley Man)
In August 1958, a peat cutter working the great bog west of Manchester kicked what he took for a white ball. It was a human head, so well preserved that police opened a murder hunt, searched 252 acres of moss, and checked missing persons files as far away as London.
The inquest could only record an open verdict on an unknown person, and the head spent decades in a museum box. Then came Lindow Man, and a new science of the bog dead.
Four investigations later, we know the truth: a man in his prime, cut down by sword and axe and beheaded around eighteen centuries ago. The murder squad had been right all along.
This is the story of Worsley Man, Greater Manchester’s oldest unsolved killing.
18 Sept 2026
Episode 39: Stuart Everett
Salford, April 2024. A walker in the woods at Kersal Dale finds a package wrapped in plastic near a ruined bunker. Inside is a human torso, and Greater Manchester Police face a question few murder inquiries ever meet: who is the victim, when no one has been reported missing?
The answer is Stuart Everett, a retired civil servant of sixty-seven, a kind and jolly Derby man of Polish heritage who taught English to new arrivals, and whose housemate had been answering his texts, spending his pension and signing his birthday cards for three weeks after his death.
This is the story of a murder for money in a quiet house in Winton, of the man with the heavy bag who crossed the city by bus, and of the CCTV investigation, among the largest in the force’s history, that gave a forgotten man back his name.
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