S1 Ep3: Joanna Dennehy, England’s most dangerous woman

Devils in the Dark

True Crime, Comedy

4 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Helen Anderson and Danni Howard delve into the life and crimes of England’s most dangerous woman, Joanna Dennehy. With the help of criminologists, forensic psychologists and journalists from the scene, they’ll learn how Joanna Dennehy became one of Britain's most frenzied and dangerous murderers. Expect sad wannabe Bonnie and Clyde vibes, deranged behaviour, the story of the worst burglar in history, and a VERY annoying key suspect. Devils in The Dark contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence and is not intended for all audiences. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

00:00 - Introduction
03:08 - Where Joanna’s story begins
06:45 - Joanna’s erratic and violent past
10:41 - Joanna Dennehy vs John Chapman
12:33 - Joanna seduces landlord Kevin Lee
16:19 - The murder of Lukazs Slaboszewski
19:54 - Introducing Gary Stretch, the world’s crappest burglar
21:40 - The murder of John Chapman
23:32 - The murder of Kevin Lee
30:27 - Joanna Dennehy and Gary Stretch are on the run
36:12 - The arrest
39:58 - The trial of Joanna Dennehy
46:36 - Outro

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Devils in the Dark with me Helen Anderson and me, Danny Howard.
0:05.7	In every episode, we're going to be turning back the clock and looking at some of the worst murder cases in history.
0:11.6	In this episode, we're looking into the most dangerous women in British history.
0:16.2	It's Joanne Denahue. How have you.
0:32.5	How have you been?
0:39.9	Well, you know, now we just have to accept that we live in a world where Ed did his thing last time.
0:41.4	So that's fine.
0:42.7	Apart from that, you good?
0:43.6	Yeah, Mickey.
0:45.0	Did you have any nightmares?
0:47.5	It doesn't take much, to be fair.
0:51.4	I was considering getting a new set of lamps.
0:52.3	Yeah?
0:55.5	What shade? lamps. Yeah? What, what, what, uh, what shade?
0:56.5	Skin.
1:04.1	In this episode, we're going to be looking at the most dangerous women in British history,
1:06.5	which is Joanne Denehy.
1:10.2	So it's not as gruesome as our previous episode, but I think it is provoking.
1:14.1	After doing my research on Joanne, I genuinely felt enraged.
1:18.9	Like if I was to create a dartboard, or if, you know, in more recent times, axe throwing board,
1:25.2	because that's real fun in it.
1:26.8	Yeah.
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