Murder Under the Sun

Andy Allen and Phil Kurthausen take a deeper look into the notorious case of the Alcasser Girls,  murders that rocked Spain and led to allegations of a snuff movie conspiracy amongst the higher echelons of Spanish society and feature an escape straight from the pen of Alexandre Dumas.

Murder in BarcelonaA woman's dead body was found naked in a tourist apartment in Barcelona with a plastic bag neatly sellotaped around the head and evidence that some kind of orgy had taken place. Had a sex game gone wrong? Or did someone just very badly want Barcelona police to think that it had...

In 1992 three teenage girls were kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed in a case that would become one of Spain's most shocking crimes. Yet many people still believe the real killers of the Alcasser Girls were highly-placed establishment figures who formed part of a gang of snuff movie makers and who were never brought to justice. In part 2 of the Alcasser Girls, Andy Allen investigates the conspiracy theories around the murder and tell us about one of the most daring escape attempts of modern times.

In 1992 three teenage girls were kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed in a case that would become one of Spain's most shocking crimes. Yet many people still believe the real killers of the Alcasser Girls were highly-placed establishment figures who formed part of a gang of snuff movie makers and who were never brought to justice.Join Andy Allen as he takes a look at the case of the Alcasser Girls.

Johann "Jack" Unterweger, journalist, playwright, playboy and literary sensation, a model of prison rehabilitation, became the subject of a police investigation into the notorious murders committed by the serial killer known as ´The Courier'.His story is soon to be the subject of a major movie starring Michael Fassbender, 'Entering Hades'.

From conflict-averse policewoman to prison inmate – the puzzling journey of Raquel Gago The tale of the Isabel Carrasco case – subject of Murder Under the Sun podcast 1  is that of three middle class Spanish women plotting to shoot dead another woman – a senior politician no less. None of the women looked remotely like killers, but one in particular, Raquel Gago, the pacific, gun-hating local policewoman who ended up keeping a still-warm murder weapon in her car for two days, looks even less like a murderer than the other two.

Issei Sagawa (佐川 一政, Sagawa Issei) AKA The Cannibal is a Japanese killer notorious for murdering  and then eating Renée Hartvelt in Paris.

Author Phil Kurthausen and journalist Andy Allen talk introduce their new true crime podcast, Murder Under the Sun.