A decapitated body, cracked skulls and charred limbs strewn everywhere: WHO were the 37 young men dumped in a pit beneath a prestigious Oxford college? New podcast from The Crime Desk lays bare the sinister secrets of the St Brice’s Day massacre

A new podcast from The Crime Desk forensically unpacks historic crimes, working to solve the unanswered questions that still linger over them centuries later.

Hosted by historian Rebecca Rideal and Time Team archaeologist Professor Raksha Dave, Buried Evidence will take you inside the lives of victims of the most barbaric crimes whose names have been mostly forgotten by time.

In the first episode, available on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts, Rideal and Dave dissect the St Brice’s Day massacre and its connections to a sinister archaeological discovery.

In January 2008, a routine dig at St John’s College, Oxford, carried out so new

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