Turned Up Dead

In the morning of December 31 2014, an unknown man started calling the Future Inns hotel in the city of Cardiff, Wales claiming that someone was dead in their hotel. ‘There’s a woman dead in the room 203,’ he told them. The caller didn't give his name but called a total of four times. When asked for more information, he replied, ‘Well the girl, the girl. 28 years old. A Muslim girl, we was together there in hotel and she kill herself.’ Episode sources: https://www.turnedupdead.com/nadine-abruas Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turnedupdead/donations

In May 2013, Lisa Bennett's mother, Janet, was becoming increasingly concerned about her whereabouts. Lisa was Janet's oldest of two daughters and 39 years old at the time. Lisa grew up in the town of Burton-on-Trent in the English midlands and had moved 30 miles away to Birmingham, the UK's second-largest city. In England, the number of homeless people had risen year by year from 2010 - 2013 and that year, Lisa Bennett was one of an estimated 185,000 people without a home, and like a significant number of those 185,000 people, she had struggled with drug and alcohol addiction. Sources: https://www.turnedupdead.com/ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turnedupdead/donations

In June 1992, Katie Rackliff was a 19-year-old apprentice hairdresser at Bumbles Too salon in the southeast of England. Katie had been showing great promise in her career, but she had been experiencing a few difficulties in her personal life... Content warning: brief mentions of domestic abuse, animal abuse and self-harming. Episode sources: turnedupdead.com/katie-rackliff Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turnedupdead/donations

While everyone can agree that the murder of 14-year-old Jodi Jones is inexcusable, the conviction of Luke Mitchell, who was her 14-year-old boyfriend, is polarising. Content warning: Although not in any detail, this episode briefly mentions sexual assault. Petition for an independent review of the case against Luke Mitchell: https://www.change.org/p/the-lord-advocate-the-case-of-luke-mitchell-requires-a-full-independent-review Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turnedupdead/donations

While everyone can agree that the murder of 14-year-old Jodi Jones is inexcusable, the conviction of Luke Mitchell, who was her 14-year-old boyfriend, is polarising. Content warning: Although not in any detail, this episode briefly mentions sexual assault. Petition for an independent review of the case against Luke Mitchell: https://www.change.org/p/the-lord-advocate-the-case-of-luke-mitchell-requires-a-full-independent-review Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/turnedupdead/donations