" Edgar Lustgarten used to open his hugely popular True Crime BBC programme in the 1950s with the words ""Have you ever murdered anyone? Perhaps you'd rather not say"". Up to six million listeners tuned in every week to hear Lustgarten drily recount the details of major trials. It is probably fair to say that he invented the True Crime audio genre.

The Chiron True Crime series was recorded by Lustgarten in a London studio in Dolby quality in 1976. Lustgarten’s voice is austere but not without wit, gripping yet somehow addictive. The voice of a top Barrister presenting the facts of the case with the hangman's noose waiting silently in the shadows.

"Dismemberment of a human body to facilitate its disposal after an act of murder, can, says Edgar Lustgarten, peculiarly, arouse more revulsion in us than the killing itself. The cutting up of the body of Emily Kaye, the girl friend of one Patrick Mahon at a bungalow he had rented for a ‘love experiment’ at Eastbourne, was exceptionally horrifying and revolting. So much so that Bernard Spilsbury, the famous pathologist, described the butchered remains as the most gruesome he had ever seen.The accused did not deny that he had effected."" the dismemberment. Dismemberment, however, is not proof of murder, and Mahon fought stoutly for his life at a trial where Henry Curtiss-Bennett prosecuted, J. D. Casscls defended, and Mr. Justice Avory (‘The Hanging Judge’) presided in awesome and chilling detachment."