13 O’Clock Episode 528: Britain’s Wakefield Prison, aka Monster Mansion

1 Oct 2026 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Wakefield Prison in West Yorkshire is one of Britain’s most notorious high-security prisons, known by the tabloid nickname “Monster Mansion” because of the number of infamous killers, sexual offenders and other high-risk prisoners who have been held there. Its history stretches back more than 400 years, from an Elizabethan house of correction to a modern long-term prison housing men serving some of the country’s harshest sentences. Over the decades, inmates have included Harold Shipman, Robert Maudsley, Levi Bellfield, Ian Huntley, Roy Whiting, Robert Black and atomic spy Klaus Fuchs. Beyond its notorious population, Wakefield also reflects the wider history of British punishment, including Victorian prison reform, political prisoners, extreme isolation, aging inmates and the challenges of managing dangerous and vulnerable prisoners within an aging institution.

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13 O’Clock Episode 527: Murderer Audrey Marie Hilley

24 Sep 2026 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Audrey Marie Hilley was an Alabama murderer whose crimes involved arsenic poisoning, elaborate deception, and a bizarre attempt to assume a new identity. In 1975, she poisoned her husband, Frank Hilley, whose death was initially attributed to natural causes. Four years later, she began poisoning her teenage daughter, Carol, who survived after doctors discovered arsenic in her system. As investigators uncovered evidence of Audrey’s crimes, she fled Alabama, eventually resurfacing under an assumed identity and later pretending to be her own fictional twin sister. Her extraordinary scheme unraveled when she was recognized and arrested in Vermont in 1983. Convicted of her husband’s murder and the attempted murder of her daughter, Hilley received a life sentence plus 20 years. In 1987, she escaped while on a brief pass from prison and was found dead several days later after suffering from exposure to the elements.

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13 O’Clock Episode 526: Serial Killer Maury Travis

17 Sep 2026 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Maury Travis was a St. Louis-area serial killer believed to have murdered multiple women between 2000 and 2002, primarily targeting vulnerable women involved in sex work or struggling with drug addiction. Investigators connected a series of killings in Missouri and Illinois through DNA evidence, but Travis remained unidentified until he mailed a taunting letter and computer-generated map to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, directing authorities to another victim’s remains. Investigators traced the online map activity back to Travis, leading to his arrest in June 2002. A search of his Ferguson, Missouri, home uncovered restraints, apparent blood evidence, newspaper clippings, and disturbing videotapes documenting the captivity and abuse of women. Travis claimed that one body was his seventeenth victim, although his true victim count remains uncertain. Just three days after his arrest, he died by suicide in jail, preventing a trial or full confession. Decades later, forensic advances have continued to identify previously unnamed women believed to have been among his victims, leaving the Maury Travis case an unsettling example of serial murder, digital forensics, and the long struggle to restore identities to forgotten victims.

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13 O’Clock Episode 520: The I-70 Killer

6 Aug 20267 Aug 2026 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

For 29 terrifying days in the spring of 1992, an unidentified gunman traveled through Indiana, Kansas, and Missouri, targeting employees inside small retail stores near major interstate highways. Armed with a distinctive .22-caliber pistol, the man known as the I-70 Killer murdered six people—Robin Fuldauer, Patricia Magers, Patricia Smith, Michael “Mick” McCown, Nancy Kitzmiller, and Sarah Blessing—while stealing only small amounts of money. Witnesses described a thin, reddish-haired man with heavy or drooping eyelids, but despite composite sketches, ballistics evidence, possible links to later crimes in Texas and Indiana, and a renewed multiagency investigation, his identity remains unknown. More than three decades later, the I-70 Killer case remains one of America’s most disturbing unsolved serial-murder mysteries.

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13 O’Clock Episode 517: Joanna Dennehy – The Peterborough Ditch Murders

16 Jul 2026 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Joanna Dennehy is one of the UK’s most notorious female serial killers, responsible for the 2013 Peterborough Ditch Murders in Cambridgeshire, England. Over the course of just ten days, Dennehy fatally stabbed three men—Lukasz Slaboszewski, John Chapman, and Kevin Lee—before dumping their bodies in roadside ditches around Peterborough. After fleeing the area with an accomplice, she traveled to Hereford, where she randomly stabbed two more men who survived their injuries. During the investigation, it emerged that Dennehy had spoken about killing for excitement and described murder as becoming “moreish,” shocking both investigators and the public. She pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder, and in February 2014 she received a whole-life order, ensuring she will never be released from prison. The case remains one of Britain’s most disturbing modern serial murder investigations because of the apparent lack of conventional motive, Dennehy’s chilling lack of remorse, and the calculated disposal of her victims’ bodies.

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13 O’Clock Episode 515: The Stockholm Porn Murders

2 Jul 2026 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

The Stockholm Porn Murders (Swedish: Porrmorden) refer to a series of three unsolved knife murders that occurred in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1989, all targeting men who worked at porn video shops. The victims were Rajandran “Chris” Chinakaruppan (35, murdered March 22 outside his home after closing a sex shop in Tensta), Francisc Kiraly (stabbed inside the XXX Rated store while customers were present), and Mats Engström (stabbed while closing Lunda Video late at night in December). The attacks were brutal, with no signs of robbery or sexual assault, and the lack of a clear motive—possibly linked to anti-porn sentiment—left the case unsolved despite the fear it spread across the city.

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13 O’Clock Episode 514: Trucker Serial Killer Wayne Adam Ford

25 Jun 2026 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Wayne Adam Ford (born December 3, 1961), a former U.S. Marine and long-haul truck driver from California, murdered at least four young women between October 1997 and October 1998. He targeted vulnerable victims—often hitchhikers or sex workers around age 25—raping and killing them by strangulation or stabbing before dismembering three of the bodies and scattering parts along highways, creeks, aqueducts, and remote areas across multiple counties. His confirmed victims were Kerry Ann Cummings (identified in 2023 via genetic genealogy after 25+ years as the “Torso Girl” found in Humboldt County’s Ryan Slough), Tina Renee Gibbs, Lanette Deyon White, and Patricia Anne Tamez (whose severed breast Ford carried as evidence). Suffering from prior traumatic brain injuries, borderline personality disorder, and deep resentment from a custody battle with his ex-wife, Ford dramatically turned himself in on November 3, 1998, at the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office alongside his brother, confessing out of remorse and fear of killing again or orphaning his young son. Convicted in 2006 on four counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances, he received a death sentence and remains on death row at San Quentin. His rare self-surrender and the 2023 victim identification highlight themes of mobile serial offenders, mental health impacts, and advances in forensic genealogy.

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13 O’Clock Episode 513: Satanist Killer Pazuzu Algarad

18 Jun 2026 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Pazuzu Algarad, born John Alexander Lawson on August 12, 1978, in San Francisco, was a self-proclaimed Satanist whose descent into severe mental illness and substance abuse turned a quiet suburban home at 2749 Knob Hill Drive in Clemmons, North Carolina, into a notorious “house of horrors.” Legally changing his name in 2002 to invoke the Mesopotamian demon from The Exorcist, Algarad embraced extreme body modifications—including filed teeth and homemade facial tattoos—while living in squalor amid occult symbols, drugs, and rumors of rituals. He was linked to the 2009 murders of Joshua Fredrick Wetzler and Tommy Dean Welch, whose skeletal remains were discovered buried in the backyard in 2014, along with an accessory role in the 2010 shooting death of Joseph Emmrick Chandler. Arrested alongside accomplices Amber Burch and Krystal Matlock, Algarad died by suicide in prison in October 2015 before standing trial for the murders. His case highlights failures in mental health intervention, probation oversight, and community response, captivating true crime audiences through documentaries like Vice’s The Devil You Know.

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13 O’Clock Episode 509: Rapist and Murderer Oba Chandler

21 May 2026 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Oba Chandler Jr. (October 11, 1946 – November 15, 2011) was an American convicted mass murderer, rapist, robber, and fraudster executed by lethal injection in Florida for the brutal 1989 triple murder of Joan Rogers and her teenage daughters Michelle (17) and Christe (14). The Ohio family, on vacation in Florida, was lured onto Chandler’s boat; the victims were bound, gagged, raped, and thrown into Tampa Bay while still alive, with concrete blocks tied to their necks. Their bodies were discovered floating days later. Chandler, an aluminum siding contractor with a long criminal history including prior rapes and robberies, was linked to the crime years later through his distinctive handwriting on a tourist pamphlet found in the victims’ car, which police publicized on billboards; a neighbor recognized it. He was also connected to the rape of Canadian tourist Judy Blair weeks earlier using a similar modus operandi, and later to the 1990 rape and murder of Ivelisse Berrios-Beguerisse. Convicted in 1994 and sentenced to death, Chandler maintained his innocence until his execution.

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13 O’Clock Episode 505: Child Killer Colin Pitchfork – First Killer Caught with DNA

23 Apr 2026 / Jenny Ashford / Leave a comment

Colin Pitchfork is a British child murderer and rapist born on March 23, 1960, who became infamous as the first person in the world convicted of rape and murder using DNA profiling. A baker from Leicestershire, England, he raped and strangled two 15-year-old girls—Lynda Mann in Narborough in November 1983 and Dawn Ashworth in Enderby in July 1986—both attacks occurring along secluded footpaths near his home. Pitchfork had a history of sexual offenses, including indecent exposure, and even coerced a colleague into providing a fake blood sample during the initial DNA mass screening of local men. His eventual arrest in 1987 and conviction in 1988 marked a landmark in forensic science, pioneered by geneticist Alec Jeffreys. He received a life sentence and has been repeatedly denied parole or recalled to prison after brief releases due to ongoing public safety concerns.

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