I am not a detective, nor a police officer, just a photojournalist based in The Oxfordshire Cotswolds. I have a desire to see those responsible for the heinous crime of murder be brought to justice for their callous acts and their victims receive the justice they have been denied. This podcast is not glorifying violence or murder, it’s an appeal show.

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Ever since the BBC cancelled their flagship true-crime appeal show, Crimewatch. I have been aware that murder victims are not getting the coverage I believe they should, when their cases go cold.

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Still at Large was born out of the frustration of the current news-cycle, where the initial burst of coverage about a murder is a mere blip in the rolling tide of events, if it’s even reported at all. Too often the murder of women working as prostitutes barely makes the pages of the local press.

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If the case isn’t solved within a few days, as per the excellent work of Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull in Ipswich, when he caught multiple murderer Steve Wright, or the intense and costly strategic decision making of former Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher when he captured multiple murderer Christopher Halliwell, the press soon loses interest and the stories, all too often unsolved, go unreported.

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I want to keep these stories in the public consciousness.

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The true crime renaissance in the wake of Serial has given many people the opportunity to bring these stories back to the fore. Social media allows for the rapid global dissemination of the stories so that there’s no place for these awful people to hide.

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The stories I tell are sombre and sad affairs, people have died and their families have been devastated by their deaths. I treat the victims with compassion whilst trying to put as much information across as I can. Often these details are graphic and upsetting. Still at Large is not a podcast for children, those of a fragile disposition or those upset by graphic descriptions of violence and sexual violence.

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Every uncaught murderer makes our country a little less safe. Every sadistic killer needs a conspiracy of silence to protect them.

 

We need to tear down that silence.