Carolyn Pickles retraces the true story of how 11 people came to be brutally cut with a deadly sharp implement, in a spate of attacks that left a town in a state of fear and police mystified about the identity of the attacker.
Halifax, West Yorkshire, 1938. The hunt is on for a razor-wielding attacker, possibly a murderer. The papers name him 'The Halifax Slasher'. A huge reward is offered for leads to his arrest. Vigilante groups form, and innocent men are set upon. Baffled, police argue with each other about how to catch the suspect.
This real-life whodunnit is told in the voices of victims, police officers, newspapers, townsfolk and historians.
The evidence is all here. Can you guess the Slasher's identity?
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I really enjoy true crime podcasts and Audible have offered some really good ones in the past. This wasn't as enjoyable as other's I've listened to, but I really enjoyed it anyway. I didn't realise until I started to listen that the events took place in 1938 as it sounds like something that would take place a lot more recent. Like other similar podcasts there are a range of narrators such as the police and victims and these work really well to build a picture of what happened. The story took an unexpected turn towards the end which I didn't see coming.
