About this episode

This episode explores the chilling confession of Anne-Marie Burrows regarding the murder of Paul Knowles and the subsequent investigation.

In October 2023, a woman repeatedly called 999 with a chilling confession: she said she had killed someone. But there was a problem. She wouldn’t say who the victim was. She wouldn’t reveal exactly where the murder had happened. And despite calling emergency services multiple times over a period of weeks, police were left trying to piece together fragments of a story that barely made sense. The woman was 52 year old Anne-Marie Burrows. At first, officers had no body, no confirmed crime scene, and no clear way of knowing whether the calls were genuine, intoxicated ramblings or the confession of a real killer. But when Anne-Marie finally phoned police again and revealed the name of the victim - 56 year old Royal Navy veteran Paul Knowles - investigators would uncover a scene so violent that even seasoned professionals struggled with the brutality of what had happened inside a flat in Peterborough. Paul had served more than two decades in the Royal Navy, including during the Gulf War. He was a father, a brother, and someone described by loved ones as dependable, kind and deeply loved. So how did a night spent drinking with someone he considered a friend end in tragedy? Anne-Marie…

People in this episode

Host: Grace

Topics covered

• murder case
• self-defense
• forensic evidence
• true crime
• investigation
• violence
• legal proceedings

Keywords

• Anne-Marie Burrows

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Royal Navy

Places: Peterborough

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