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Over a MacDonald’s Happy Meal two teenagers, Kim Edwards, 14 and Lucas Markham also fourteen, plotted the brutal murder of Kim’s mother Liz and her younger sister Katie.Kim’s mother, alarmed at the intense and toxic relationship her daughter had quickly developed with a fellow school pupil, had banned Lucas Markham from the family home.   From a violent background herself, Kim’s mother knew all the dangerous abusive signs she was seeing in her teenage daughter’s boyfriend.Why did the dreadful planning and slaying of two sleeping people come so easily to them both?  And what was in their troubled backgrounds that led them down this murderous path? In this episode of Why Killers Kill – Analysis of Murder With Dr. Jane I’ll to look into the mind set of both Edwards and Markham to try to offer a psychological explanation and give some answers to this shockingly callous family double murder.  LINK TO DR. JANE McCARTNEY YOUTUBE CHANNEL. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCAicPW7VACiyc4fMY-rU6w

WARNING – THIS PODCAST RELATES TO THE DEATH OF A CHILD:“You will have blood on you hands”  The words of a loving grandfather who, having been order by a single judge to relinquish his granddaughter, who he had cared for since she was a baby, into the brutal and ultimately murderous hands of her own father Ben Butler.Ellie Butler, was a sweet little six year old, who as her devoted grandparents would say was their absolute shining light.  The same grandparents who would care for, nurture and bring little Ellie up for the first six years of her life.  Ellie was placed into the care of her maternal loving grandparents after, as a new-born, she had been found with unexplained injuries whist in the care of her own father Ben Butler.    A harrowing mixture of a barely believable judicial decisions, a technically of law and Ben Butler’s rampant unabated narcissism, which would involve the notorious and jailed PR guru Max Clifford.  All of which culminated in a young defenceless child being placed at the vicious and cruel hands of her known to be highly volatile and violent father. As Ellie’s grandfather said to the judge and authorities who had made the disastrous order to make Ellie go back to her parents “You will have blood on your hands”         What could make a grown man brutalise and callously take the life of his own six year old daughter?  And why was Ellie’s mother Jennie Gray so completely unwilling to see any flaw or fault in anything Ben Butler did?  Which would include abusing, humiliating and threatening her on multiple occasions.  In this episode of Why Killers Kill – Analysis of Murder With Dr. Jane I’ll to look into the mind set of an angry and brutal father in an attempt to offer a psychological explanation of his vicious attitude towards his six year old daughter, Ellie Butler. 

Family secrets can be dangerous things – especially when they are a secret about murder.  In the West family of Gloucester, UK, it was an open secret - perversely called a family joke - that Fred and Rosemary’s eldest child, Heather had been disobedient to them and had paid the ultimate price – her life.   The younger West children would be told that they would end up under the patio, like Heather if they displeased their parents, a story that would be often repeated to friends and at school.Both Fred West and Rosemary West (Letts as was) came from highly abusive backgrounds.  Both of them are said to have been sexually abused by their parents and family members as children.  Between them they would kidnap, torture and murder up to 12 women and children from 8 years to 21.   In this episode of Why Killers Kill I will analyse the motives and behaviours of Fred and Rosemary West answering the question - what could have led to such a prolonged killing spree in the quiet market city, and surrounding countryside, of Gloucester by what would seem to be a nondescript couple? 

In the winter of 1983 when a resident of a block of flats in North London couldn’t flush their toilet properly they called a drain clearing company.  The operatives would find suspicious and unusual material blocking the drains. This, it would turn out, would be human remains.  The address the drain blockage company was called to was Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill, the address of Dennis Nilsen the British serial killer. In Cranley Gardens and Nilsen’s previous address in Melrose Avenue Nilsen would kill 12 men between 1978 and 1983. He would cruise the gay bars of London’s West end to locate his victims.  He would also pick up vagrants and male prostitutes off the streets.   In this Series 1 final episode of Why Killers Kill Dr. Jane psychologically analyses what motivated Nilsen to undertake his murderous spree, in other words what made this killer kill.Listener caution is strongly advised. Subscribe now so you don’t miss season 2 of Why Killers Kill which will be back in a little while.

In this True Crime Podcast Dr. Jane answers the question all true crime enthusiasts want to know......Why A Killer Kills?Dr. Jane is a licensed Psychologist with a special interest in Criminal Behaviour.  Dr. Jane has worked for many years in the NHS, in secure units and for the court system in the UK and brings her years of experience to give listeners a unique insight into the mind of a killer. 

Eighteen year old Brian Blackwell was clearly a gifted student, he would sail through his education with ease, getting top marks for his final school exams, which would, under normal circumstances have earned him his longed for place at medical school.  However normal circumstances were not on Blackwell’s agenda. Because while he was on an end of school celebratory first class holiday to the States with his 18 year old girlfriend, funded fraudulently on his father’s credit cards, Blackwell’s parents were lying bludgeoned and stabbed to death in the opulent family home in a quiet village near Liverpool.Blackwell was a very bright individual, but he was also an indulged one, and when the holiday of a lifetime, that would include stays in presidential hotel suites, was costing over £30,000 it was just one fraudulent expense too many for his well-off parents to indulge. Blackwell’s sense of entitlement and grandiosity took over and he killed his father, Sydney, 73 and mother Jacqueline, 6. The following day would fly first class with his girlfriend to New York.Blackwell would make British legal history by being the first person in the UK to rely on a diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder to answer the charge of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility rather than a murder charge.In this episode of Why Killers Kill - Analysis of Murder with Dr. Jane you’ll hear what happened on that fateful night in July 2004 when he was finally challenged by his ever doting parents and what likely led to Blackwell’s state of mind culminating in his killing of his mum and dad.  

For 30 years, residents in a variety of south London properties, although curious and suspicious about their odd and secretive neighbours had no idea they were living right next to a Maoist cult run with an iron fist by a self proclaimed Marxist revolutionary calling himself Comrade Bala.  For decades Bala, the leader and only male in the cult was sexually and physically abusing the seven female members, seizing their wages, and making them cook and clean for him while bullying, threatening and preventing them from leaving with the use of mental and physical coercion, whist all the time subjecting them to his deranged and tyrannical teachings. The sect was so secret that nobody realised that the women, apparently free to come and go at will, were seemingly emotionally and mentally shackled in all that time to their brutal leader by invisible handcuffs.Two cult members would die in suspicious circumstances, one falling out of a window and breaking her neck on Christmas Eve whilst taking a bath.  The other being hit in the head by a cupboard door.And Bala would father a daughter with a cult member, making his daughter's birth mother deny responsibility or any attachment with her baby. This child would spend nearly 30 years denied education, health care, company of other children or any freedom.  It was only when she was gravely ill that another cult member would arrange for them both to be rescued, which in a heat stopping plan they were able to achieve.Download now to listen to the fascination story of the Brixton Cult and quite how the tyrannical Comrade in charge got away with what he did for so long.  

In the early summer of 2010 a Spanish hotel receptionist was told by one of his English guests that she had deliberately killed her own two children in the hotel room and could the police be called. When the police arrived to the hotel in Lloret del Mar on the Spanish Costa Brava, they did indeed find the bodies of Becky aged 5 and baby Daniel, 11 months exactly where their mother said they would be. In this episode Dr. Jane explores exactly what, and more importantly who, happened to Lianne Smith that she took the lives of her youngest children in May 2010.The story involves a sadistic failed TV hypnotist, child cruelty, sexual assault and rape of a child and a mother devoted not to her children, but only to one man.Lianne Smith, who even to the very end would see no wrong in the evil Svengali that had been searching for someone like her on the dating agencies of the UK.Due to the distressing nature of this episode listener caution is advised.  

A passing motorist on their way to work on a Monday morning in September 1994 discovered the carefully placed dead body of building society manager Carol Wardell by a main road in the Midlands, UK.About the same time staff at Carol’s offices were reporting a break-in and robbery. The police immediately went to Carol’s house to find her husband Gordon Wardell, stripped to his underpants, drowsy and bound on the floor.  Wardell would quickly tell police that when returning home the previous evening he was set upon and drugged by a gang of clown masked, boiler suited men. He would say that seeing Carol being kidnapped and dragged away at knife point was the last time he would see her alive.It didn’t take the police too long to start to suspect Wardell, from the start his elaborate story just didn’t add up.From reconstructions to a disaster of a press conference, the investigating police gave Wardell a metaphorical spade and he just kept digging.Download now to hear exactly what was going in Wardell's mind when he thought he had come up with the most elaborate and fool-proof plan to kill his wife and get some much needed money at the same time. Dr. Jane examines his motivations and behaviours for killing his wife, but also gives a fascinating insight into his give-away body language.Dr. Jane is a licenced psychologist with a specialist interest in Criminal Behaviour. 

In the summer of 2017 Joshua Stimpson was yet again scrolling through Tinder in the hope of finding another girlfriend. Perhaps this time Stimpson thought she'd appreciate him more, understand him, not question his funny little ways and most importantly this girlfriend was not going to suddenly end it, like so many of his previous attempts at finding a long lasting relationship had.Stimpson was looking for the perfect match, not too experienced in life, trusting, naive and most of all vulnerable.  And it was Molly McLaren's misfortune that summer to swipe the wrong way on the dating app.Not long into their fledgling relationship Stimpson's narcissistic character would show itself.  He would turn up uninvited to Molly's family home, where Molly lived with her parents, Stimpson would want to know what she was doing at all times.  He would secretly record and video her. And when student Molly finally had enough of him, like so many of the previous girlfriends had also done she ended the relationship.  This time his damaged ego had to show not only Molly, but the rest of the world how badly he believed he had been treated.Download now to hear exactly what was going through Stimpson's mind when he savagely stalked and murdered the 23 year old student a little under a year after their first fateful Tinder contact.Dr. Jane is a licenced psychologist with a specialist interest in Criminal Behaviour. 

When new teenage Royal naval rating Nicholas Wright suddenly disappeared just before his planned trip home for a family Christmas in December 1997 after his very first naval manoeuvres.  Most of Nicholas’ shipmates were mystified, except his training supervisor Petty Officer Allan Grimson.Predatory sexual abuser Grimson had identified and targeted the young rating as someone potentially vulnerable to his secret homosexual advances.  When Nicholas rejected Grimsom’s approach he would pay with his life.  And a year later Petty Officer Grimsom was repeating the same twisted scenario with another younger former naval rating Sion Jenkins. But were these two young Royal Navy recruits the only victims of his twisted sexual urges?      Dr. Jane is a clinical scientist and chartered psychologist specialising in the field of criminal behaviour. Details about the Why Killers Kill – Analysis of Murder with Dr. Jane can be found at whykillerskill.com Spread the Word: Please don’t forget to subscribe, follow, share and rate Why Killers Kill - Analysis of Murder With Dr. Jane so other True Crime Enthusiasts can get to know why a killer kills.  

A KILLER OF A FAMILY: ROBERT MOCHRIE ANNIHILATOR OF HIS OWN FAMILY On a hot summer’s night in July 2000 former civil servant and sometime nightclub owner Robert Mochrie systematically killed his entire sleeping family. His two teenage sons, James and Luke. His two daughters, Sian and Bethan, his wife of 23 years, Catherine and finally himself. Robert Mochrie would take over 24 hours to complete his deadly tasks and would go to huge lengths to ensure that the slaughtered family would lay undiscovered for nearly two weeks.Download now to hear the details, of the Mochrie family annihilation and crucially what were the reasons Robert undertook his deadly mission to kill his whole family.  Was this a planned killing or a spontaneous act?  What could possibly be going through his mind at the time of the killings? Why did he do this to his beloved family.Dr. Jane is a qualified and licensed psychologist, with a special interest in the field of criminal behaviour. Dr. Jane has worked for for the NHS, in secure units and for the courts and legal departments in the UK.Please note that some distressing scenes are described in this episode of the Why Killers Kill podcast.  Listener caution is advised. 

A FAMILY OF KILLERS: THE CAPTURE, TORTURE & KILLING OF RACHEL HUDSON BY HER HUSBAND & IN-LAWS.On a spring day in the early 2003 the battered and unrecognisable body of what police initially thought to be a small adult male was discovered in the grounds of Newstead Abbey, the ancestral home of Lord Byron, in Nottinghamshire, UK.  It would turn out be the brutalised and mutilated body of a young mother – Rachel Hudson who had 18 months earlier married into a notorious and extremely violent local family, the Hudsons, having only met her husband a few weeks earlier.In this episode of the True Crime Podcast Why Killers Kill – Analysis of Murder Dr. Jane will look into not only the circumstances of the hunting down, torture and murder of Rachel Hudson. Dr. Jane will also psychologically scrutinise the deadly Hudson family group dynamics which allowed this killing to take place, but also the savage family subculture which actually encouraged Rachel’s systematic abuse and death from the moment she set foot in the chaotic and toxic family home with a young baby in her arms. Dr. Jane is a trained, qualified and experienced chartered psychologist specialising in the field of criminal behaviour. Show details for this and all previous podcast please visit the Why Killers Kill webpage at whykillerskill.com  - where you’ll also find a advice and help for domestic abuse and violence issues – Please do not suffer in silence.  

Just before Christmas of 1998 a young mother of two, Lynsey Quy would abruptly and mysteriously disappear from her home in Southport in the UK. Her family and friends were totally stunned by her departure and were adamant that Lynsey, who was devoted to her two young children, would never have simply just upped and left them.   However, Lynsey’s husband of a few short years, Mitchell Quy was more frank about his wife’s sudden absence. In this episode I discuss about how he engineered, manipulated and almost became addicted to the media attention surrounding his missing wife. I’ll also explore the circumstances that led up to that fateful December over 20 years ago when Lynsey seemed to vanish without a trace.  Why no one reported her disappearance for nearly seven weeks and who, the police had in their sights  for the missing mum.  And how simple greed would eventually be the downfall for detective’s number one suspect in the disappearance and murder of Lynsey Quy.          Dr. Jane is a trained, qualified and experienced chartered psychologist specialising in the field of criminal behaviour.For show notes for this and all previous podcast please visit the Why Killers Kill webpage at whykillerskill.com  - where you’ll also find a advice and help for domestic violence issues – Please do not suffer in silence.  

In this final part of A Vengeful Lover Spurned - The Callous Murder of Sadie Hartley Criminal Behavioural Expert Dr. Jane examines the psychological behaviours and profiles of the two prime suspects, Sarah Williams & Katrina Walsh.  Exactly who was throwing who under the bus by implicating the other for the murder. And did this strategy pay off for either Williams or Walsh?    

SEASON 1 EPISODE 5In January 2016 successful business woman Sadie Hartley was viciously attacked and murdered by her own partner’s secret lover, Sarah Williams.  Consumed with jealousy and resentment, Williams plotted with her best friend Katrina Walsh to eliminate the one person standing in the way of having her lover all to herself - Sadie Hartley.  

In January 2018, wanting a life free of parental responsibilities - Young mother Louise Porton undertook the ultimate betrayal of her two infant daughters, hoping to regain her former alcohol and sex fuelled party girl lifestyle free from the burden of motherhood - After careful research to cover her tracks, one by one she ended their short lives. Psychological Analysis By Dr. Jane 

In the summer of 1986 drifter and petty burglar Kenneth Erskine became one of the UK’s most notorious serial killers. In four months he burgled, sexually assaulted and strangled to death seven frail pensioner. In this episode Dr. Jane examines why Erskine went on his murderous rampage.  

In this episode of Why Killer Kill - Analysis of Murder Dr. Jane examines the case of 17 year old Emily Longley who was found dead in the bed of her ex boyfriend, fellow teenager Elliot Turner, 19.  Not only had Turner murdered Emily in a jealous uncontrolled rage, his murderous crime was sanctioned by his ever doting parents, who found themselves in court at the same time as their killer son.Please Don't Forget To Subscribe & Leave a RatingShow notes:Music: Laid Back Guitars  ncompetech.comIf you think you might be in danger, call the police immediatelyHelplinesUK Women's Aid womensaid.org.ukNational Domestic Violence 0808 2000 247  refuge.org.uk/get-help-nowUSANational Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233  thehotline.orgAustraliareachout.comNew Zealandareyouok.org.nz

In the first Why Killers Kill Podcast, Dr. Jane explores in psychological detail the case of Steven Wright also known as the Suffolk Strangler. In Ipswich on the east coast of England, in the late Autumn (Fall) of 2006 a local dock worker, Steven Wright, suddenly abducted, killed and dumped the bodies of five young women, all of whom had been selling sex in exchange for money to fund their long term drug addictions.Starting with the murders themselves, Dr Jane examines what actually happened to the five women, who they were.  Then importantly how their bodies were found and what clues there were to the killer and how he was caught.    Dr Jane then examines the details of Steven Wright's background, his early life, family and relationships to gain an understanding of his psychological state of mind that would lead to the deaths of five young women.Dr Jane then looks at Steve Wright's mind set in both police interviews and at his subsequent trial to get an insight to his thoughts, emotions, behaviours and his attitude towards his victims and ultimately why he became a serial killer.