Show Notes
A rented Airbnb bedroom. Walls covered in plastic sheeting. And a forensic science student with a terrifying plan.
In December 2025, twenty-four-year-old Maria Saceanu was lured to a property in Tividale, West Midlands, where she was brutally murdered by Benjamin William Day, a nineteen-year-old university student whose preparations bore disturbing similarities to the television series Dexter.
But Day's carefully planned crime began to unravel when an injury to his own hand led to an extraordinary encounter with police.
In this gripping True Crime Now investigation, journalist Erica Voss examines the chilling preparations, the forensic evidence, the bizarre explanation Day gave officers, and his dramatic guilty plea at Wolverhampton Crown Court in October 2026.
How did a student of forensic science believe he could commit the perfect murder — and what finally exposed him?
With sentencing scheduled for December 2026, we will return to this case as further developments emerge.
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