This week, Dee turns the piano up to eleven for a wild ride through the life of Jerry Lee Lewis - the rock’n’roll prodigy known as The Killer.

A piano-pounding genius who inspired Elvis and scandalised the world, Jerry Lee’s story is one of gospel and guilt, sin and salvation - and enough scandal to fill a dozen tabloid front pages.

We trace his meteoric rise from the cotton fields of Louisiana to Sun Records, the hits that shook the 1950s ('Great Balls of Fire' and 'Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On'), and the personal chaos that almost destroyed him.

Was Jerry Lee Lewis a rock’n’roll pioneer or a walking cautionary tale? As he once said himself, 'There’s a difference between a sinner and a criminal. I might be both.'

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📚 Sources

• Los Angeles Times – 'Jerry Lee Lewis Dies at 87' (2022)
  

• The Guardian – 'Jerry Lee Lewis: A Life of Sin, Salvation, and Scandal' (2022)
  

• Rolling Stone – 'The Untold Story of Jerry Lee Lewis’s Fifth Wife’s Mysterious Death' (2014)
  

• Rick Bragg, Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story (HarperCollins, 2014)
  

• BBC News – 'Jerry Lee Lewis – Rock’n’Roll’s Wildest Star' (Obituary, 2022)
  

• New York Times Archive – 'Singer’s Teenage Wife Rocks Britain' (1958)
  

• People Magazine – 'The Killer’s Trail of Tragedy' (1984)
  

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Just before Christmas 1988, 22-year-old photographer Lorraine Benson vanished after leaving her work party in South London. The next morning, her body was found near Raynes Park station - beaten and strangled.

As police raced to catch a killer, they uncovered chilling links to a string of sexual assaults along the same commuter line. What followed would make history: Lorraine’s murder became the first ever solved by DNA profiling in the Metropolitan Police.

In this Dee-Brief, Dee revisits the case that changed forensic science forever - from the night Lorraine disappeared to the evidence that finally trapped her killer, 17-year-old John Dunne.

We explore the investigation, the impact on Lorraine’s family, and how one brutal crime reshaped policing in Britain.

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📚 Sources

• The Times (Feb 1989): Full text via Archive.org
  

• Mirror Online – Devastated dad of murdered photographer warns her killer will strike again if he is moved to open prison https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/devastated-dad-murdered-photographer-warns-8528418
  

• Office of Justice Programs – Murder in South London: A Novel Use of DNA Profiling https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/murder-south-london-novel-use-dna-profiling
  

• They Walk Among Us podcast (2023): Season 8, Episode 34
  

• Crime+Investigation UK – When Missing Turns to Murder https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/videos/devastating-moment-they-realised-their-daughter-was-dead-when-missing-turns-murder
  

• History by the Yard – DNA https://www.historybytheyard.co.uk/dna.htm
  

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Ramon Abbas - better known as Hushpuppi - was one of Instagram’s flashiest influencers. Private jets, designer clothes, luxury cars... but behind all that Gucci was a global network of cybercrime.

In this Dee-Brief mini-episode, Dee traces Hushpuppi’s astonishing rise from poverty in Lagos to superstardom in Dubai - and his spectacular fall, when U.S. investigators and Dubai police uncovered that his fortune came from massive international fraud and money-laundering schemes.

By the time the 'Billionaire Gucci Master' was sentenced to 11 years in prison, his downfall had become a cautionary tale about greed, image, and the blurred lines between online fantasy and real-world crime.

Sources:

• U.S. Department of Justice (Central District of California), Nigerian Man Sentenced to Over 11 Years in Federal Prison for Conspiring to Launder Tens of Millions of Dollars from Online Scams justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/nigerian-man-sentenced-over-11-years-federal-prison-conspiring-launder-tens-millions

• U.S. Department of Justice (Central District of California), Nigerian National Brought to U.S. to Face Charges of Conspiring to Launder Hundreds of Millions of Dollars from Cybercrime Schemes justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/nigerian-national-brought-us-face-charges-conspiring-launder-hundreds-millions-dollars
  

• Al Jazeera, Nigerian Influencer ‘Hushpuppi’ Jailed in US for Money Laundering aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/8/hushpuppi-gets-prison-term-for-money-laundering-conspiracy
  

• Business Insider, The Instagram-Fueled Rise and Fall of Nigerian Influencer Hushpuppi businessinsider.com/hushpuppi-instagram-rise-fall-nigerian-influencer-cyber-crime-ramon-abbas-2022-12
  

• VICE, ‘He Got Burnt’: How One of Instagram’s Biggest Fraudsters Was Brought Down vice.com/en/article/hushpuppi-ramon-abbas-jailed
  

• BET News, Nigerian Influencer ‘Ray Hushpuppi’ Gets 11 Years In Prison For Money Laundering bet.com/article/4etxi2/nigerian-influencer-ramon-abbas-gets-prison-sentence-money-laundering

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