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Crime Analyst
If you are curious about the ‘who dunnit’ and the ‘why dunnit’ and how and why victims become footnotes in their own murders, Crime Analyst is for you. Hosted by world renowned and award-winning Criminal Behavioural Analyst Laura Richards.
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Ep #359 Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche - Murder or Manslaughter? with Linda Westcarr
In April 2024 25-year-old Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche was a social media marketer and mother from East London who was found dead in her car being havin...
Ep 358: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 20
In this remastered episode, Laura highlights key events, witnesses and evidence in the timeline and sequence of events, revisiting Gabby and Brian’s I...
Ep #357 The $176,500 Contempt Order & The Never Ending Murdaugh Saga with Mandy Matney Part 1
Investigative journalist Mandy Matney is best known for doggedly pursuing and unraveling Alex Murdaugh's financial crimes against his 100-year-old fam...
Ep 356: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 19
In this remastered episode, Laura concludes her analysis of the 99-page Moab City Police Investigative Review by detailing and breaking down Captain R...
Ep #355 Inside the Landmark Cases of Sally Challen and John Worboys with Harriet Wistrich
In this episode, Laura interviews pioneering human rights lawyer and CEO of the Centre for Women's Justice, Harriet Wistrich, whose groundbreaking wor...
Ep 354: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 18
In this remastered episode, Laura continues to analyze the police report filed by Officer Pratt and Officer Robbins and the 99-page Moab City Police I...
Ep #353 Psychopathy and Coercive Control: Why British Airways Killer Robert Brown Remains High Risk with Hetti Barkworth-Nanton CBE, Part 8
Joanna Simpson was brutally killed by her estranged husband, British Airways pilot Robert Brown, just one week before their divorce was due to be fina...
Ep 352: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 17
In this remastered episode, Laura shares new reflections and analysis about how and why Moab police got it so wrong.
Laura outlines ho...
Ep #351 Judge Rowland's Egregious Misjudgement: Jazmine’s Parents Demand Accountability. Hampshire Serial Gang Rape Case, Part 4
In this exclusive interview Laura is joined by Jazmine’s parents following the Court of Appeal's decision to overturn the unduly lenient sentences han...
Ep 350: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 16
In this remastered episode, Laura continues to analyze the police report filed by Officer Pratt and Officer Robbins and the 99-page Moab City Police I...
Ep #349 British Airways Killer Robert Brown’s Parole Board Hearing with Diana Parkes, Part 7
Mother of two, Joanna Simpson, was brutally killed by her estranged husband, British Airways pilot Robert Brown, on 31 October 2010. Brown smuggled a...
Ep 348: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 15
In this remastered episode, Laura analyzes the police report filed by Officer Pratt and Officer Robbins and answers a number of burning questions incl...
Ep #347: Analysing Judge Rowland's Sentencing Remarks in the Hampshire Gang Rape Case, Part 2
Three teenage boys were convicted of 17 sexual offences, including 11 rapes of two separate girls, one at knifepoint. They were sent home with a £26 f...
Ep 346: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 14
In this remastered episode, Laura continues to deconstruct Officer Pratt’s footage of the police stop of Gabby’s van with startling revelations inclu...
Ep #345: Analysing Judge Rowland's Sentencing Remarks in the Hampshire Gang Rape Case, Part 1
Three teenage boys were convicted of 17 sexual offences including 11 rapes of two separate girls, one at knifepoint. Despite this, Judge Nicholas Rowl...
Ep 344: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 13
In this remastered episode, Laura reflects on information shared by Brian Entin, particularly regarding whether there was a planned and co-ordinated s...
Ep 343: Convicted Serial Rapists Walk Free With £26 Fine
Two separate girls were raped by three boys, one at knifepoint, in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, in November 2024 and January 2025. The three teenagers f...
Ep 342: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 12
In this remastered episode, Laura discusses a significant update in Gabby Petito’s case. On Monday 8th August 2022, almost a year to the date of the M...
Ep 341: Outsmarting My Psychopath Ex-Husband, Dirty John Meehan with Tonia Bales
When Tonia Bales married John Meehan, she had no idea that the charming man she fell in love with would later become known to millions as "Dirty John....
Ep 340: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 11
In this remastered episode, Laura continues her fascinating interview with Brian Entin, senior National Correspondent for NewsNation and discusses how...
Ep 339: Breaking the Terror: Bringing a Sadistic Abuser to Justice with Miriam Lake, Part 2
Laura asks Miriam about Michael Egan’s abuse of her brother and mother and Miriam shares how she broke through the terror and fear to hold Egan accoun...
Ep 338: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 10
In this remastered episode, Laura interviews Brian Entin, senior National Correspondent for NewsNation, who covered Gabby’s case from the start. Laura...
Ep 337: Terror Behind Closed Doors: A Sadistic Coercive Controller with Miriam Lake, Part 1
Miriam Lake was terrorized as a little girl by Michael Egan, a coercive controller who groomed the family through charm and love bombing before subjec...
Ep 336: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 9
In this remastered episode, Laura discusses the other police body worn cameras and highlights new key information available from Officer Pratt’s foota...
Ep 335: Con Men and Coercive Control: The Psychology of Deception with Sarah Ferris, Part 2
Laura continues her interview with Sarah Ferris moving beyond the initial deception to unpack the deeper patterns, behaviours, and mindset of a conman...
Ep 334: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 8
In this remastered episode, Laura continues to break down Gabby and Brian’s behaviour using the police body worn camera footage from the Moab City Pol...
Ep 333: Con Men and Coercive Control: The Psychology of Deception with Sarah Ferris, Part 1
We all like to think we would know a conman when we see one – that’s what savvy Sarah Ferris thought when her sister Emma introduced her to the man sh...
Ep 332: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 7
This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive control are understood. It’s the difference between life and death...
Ep 331: Australia’s Landmark Coercive Control Conviction with Sam Bouffler, Part 2
Laura continues her in-depth analysis of the landmark case Police v Callum Fairleigh with survivor Sam Bouffler, moving beyond the initial conviction...
Ep 330: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 6
This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive control are understood. It’s the difference between life and death...
Ep 329: A Line in the Sand: Sam Bouffler and the Landmark Coercive Control Conviction, Part 1
In a landmark moment for justice in Australia, New South Wales has seen its first full-time prison sentence handed down for the crime of coercive cont...
Ep 328: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 5
This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive control are understood. It’s the difference between life and death...
Ep 327: Analysing Life’s Namaste Motherf*cker Moments, with Cally Beaton
Laura interviews comedian and author Cally Beaton and together they explore and analyse the gift of female empowerment, midlife reinvention, and “Nama...
Ep 326: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 4
Gabby would have been 27 last month. This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive control are understood. It’s t...
Ep 325: Coercive Control: A Child’s Unthinkable Journey with David Challen, Part 2
In part 2 David speaks candidly about his experience, excavating the patterns he now recognises, the behaviours that were normalised at the time, and...
Ep 324: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 3
Gabby would have been 27 last month. This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive control are understood. It’s t...
Ep 323 The Unthinkable Revisited: Coercive Control, Advocacy and Change with David Challen
Laura and David Challen, son of Sally Challen and author of The Unthinkable, unravel the insidious and lifelong harm coercive control causes a child. ...
Ep 322: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 2
Gabby would have been 27 last week. This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive control are understood. It’s th...
Ep 321: Sexual Abuse Signs, Trauma, Recovery and Healing with Ella McCrystal, Part 2
Laura and survivor, clinical psychotherapist and hypnotist Ella McCrystal share the signs of grooming, as well as what happened to the family when Ell...
Ep 320: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 1
Today March 19 2026 would have been Gabby Petito’s 27th birthday. This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive c...