Operation Enigma: The Hunt for Alun Kyte and The Murders of Samo Paull and Tracey Turner | Ep. 267

Operation Enigma: The Hunt for Alun Kyte and The Murders of Samo Paull and Tracey Turner | Ep. 267

From British Murders with Stuart Blues by Stuart Blues

August 5, 2026 · 40 min · Episode 267

About this episode

This episode examines the murders of Samo Paull and Tracey Turner, and the investigation that led to the conviction of Alun Kyte.

In December 1993, 20-year-old Samo Paull disappeared after working in Birmingham's Balsall Heath red-light district. Three weeks later, her body was discovered in a water-filled ditch beside a quiet Leicestershire lay-by, almost 40 miles from where she'd last been seen. Just three months later, 30-year-old Tracey Turner vanished after leaving Hilton Park Services on the M6. Within hours, she too had been murdered, her body abandoned just a few miles from the scene where Samo had been found. At first, detectives didn't realise the two women had been targeted by the same killer. What followed was a complex murder investigation spanning multiple police forces and several years. As investigators began comparing the cases, striking similarities started to emerge, but identifying the person responsible proved far from straightforward. It would ultimately take advances in DNA technology, a nationwide review of unsolved murders and one violent mistake for detectives to finally uncover the truth. Even then, the investigation raised disturbing questions about how many other women may have crossed paths with the same predator. In this episode of British Murders with Stuart Blues , we…

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