Every episode is a real trial.
Every verdict is yours.
Restored period voices perform real London murder trials, 1674–1913. Part One rests the Crown's case. Part Two brings the defence. You lock in your verdict before the court rules. Then Part Three delivers the jury's decision, and what happened next.
London, July 1864. Thomas Briggs, a seventy-year-old City banker, boards a first-class carriage on the North London Railway. Ten minutes later the carriage is empty, the cushions are soaked in blood, and a battered hat sits on the seat, a hat that is not his. Briggs is found dying on the line. The man the evidence points to has already sailed for New York.
An empty first-class carriage on the 9.50 from Fenchurch Street. A pool of blood, a bag, a stick, and the wrong hat. The first murder on a British train, and a chase across the Atlantic to catch the man who did it.
Heard exactly as the court heard it in 1864: the indictment, the witnesses, the accused answering for their life. Then the question falls to you, before the jury of 1864 gives their answer.
How do you find?
You are the jury.
The Crown's case
A full-cast performance of the real courtroom record: judge, witnesses, and the accused in their own words. The Crown rests. No verdict. Not yet.
The defence
The accused answers for their life. Then the case is yours: guilty or not guilty? Cast your verdict below or in the app, before the court rules.
The verdict
The jury's decision, the sentence, how London voted, and the part the courtroom never heard: what happened next, from the archives.
The case file, in your pocket.
Everything the episode can't say out loud: synced transcripts, the cast, the map of a vanished city, and your standing record as a juror.
Case dossiers
Nine cases and counting. Each opens as a sealed file: the accused, the charge, the hook, before a word of audio plays.
Synced transcript
The court record scrolls with the audio, line by line. Tap any archaic term, house of office, night man, the Compter, for a plain-English gloss.
The verdict game
Seal your verdict in wax, then see the reveal: the real jury's decision, live stats from every other listener, and your running record as a juror.
Cast & period maps
Who's lying? The witnesses, the victim, the accused, and the crime pinned on a map of a vanished London, with a toggle to today.
The case, in short.
Every week we cut a short of the case for Facebook: a real true-crime miniseries in a few minutes. The crime, the evidence, and the verdict you get to cast, free for the whole gallery to argue over.
Follow the page, weigh in from the comments, and bring a friend to the jury. A fresh mini lands alongside every weekly case.
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One letter a week: the new case, the evidence to weigh, and the verdict you missed.