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Martine Vik Magnussen's body was found hidden under rubble in the basement of a block of flats in Great Portland Street, Marylebone, London, on 16 March 2008. She had been raped and murdered and died as the result of strangulation. Farouk Abdulhak, her one-time friend and who she was last seen with on the night of her death, is the son of billionaire and one of Yemen's wealthiest men Shaher Abdulhak. He is the only suspect in the case. In our inaugural episode, host Alex Matthews is joined by Piri Thirunimalan, senior reporter for The Crime Desk who travelled to Norway to speak exclusively to Matine’s father Petta in their family home to talk about his decades long campaign for justice.


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Presenters: Alex Matthews & Piri Thirunimalan
Producer: Philip Wilding
Editor: Chelsey Moore
Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
Executive Producer: Jamie East

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Launching on Thursday 9th July.

On The Case is back with a new, weekly podcast which investigates the real stories behind the crimes that made the headlines.

Hosted by the editor of The Crime Desk, Alex Matthews.
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Early in the morning of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were found brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho. The victims were Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin.

On Wednesday – in a sentencing hearing at Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho – Bryan Kohberger received four life terms as well as ten years for felony burglary. Those sentences will run consecutively and Kohberger has waived both any right to appeal or any chance of parole as part of a plea deal that sees him avoid the death penalty.

On today’s episode of On The Case, to go through that sentencing and what we’ve learned in the days since, editor and investigative reporter Laura Collins is joined again by acclaimed journalist Howard Blum, whose latest work When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders has become an instant bestseller, and by forensic and clinical psychologist Dr. Gary Brucato, a visiting scholar at Boston College and co-author of The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime.

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Early in the morning of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were found brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus rental home in Moscow, Idaho. The victims were Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. Maddie and Kaylee, both asleep in Maddie’s bed, were killed first. It was just after 4am but Xana was still up having ordered a food delivery; he stabbed her next before moving onto kill Ethan where he slept. There were no signs of forced entry - the lock of the door he slipped through was broken - and two other roommates inside the house survived. Weeks later, after an investigation shrouded in secrecy, authorities arrested the then 28-year-old Washington State University criminology Ph.D. student Bryan Kohberger at his family home in Pennsylvania. On July 2nd, Kohberger pled guilty to the murders, as part of a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. His sentencing has been set for Wednesday July 23rd, and he will spend the rest of his life in prison.

In this episode On The Case, Laura Collins, an editor and investigative reporter at the Daily Mail in New York, sits down with Howard Blum, whose latest work When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders has become an instant bestseller, to discuss the story so far and get into some of the questions that still remain unanswered.

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In December 2024, Urfan Sharif along with his wife Bainash Batool and brother Faisal Malik went to prison for their roles in the murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif.
This followed a 10-week trial at the Old Bailey where jurors and journalists were in tears when they heard in horrifying detail the abuse Sara suffered at the hands of her family members. In this episode Andy Jehring is joined by the Daily Mail’s crime and security editor Rebecca Camber who covered the trial for the paper. Together Andy and Rebecca go through every twist and turn of this highly unusual trial.

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