In 2024, a village in Hampshire woke up to a scene that would make even the most hardened horror movie fan wince. A mound of dead animals - about 20 carcasses including rabbits, hares, pheasants, a fox, and a muntjac deer with its head severed - had been dumped outside a school, with blood oozing onto the streets before children arrived. The village was dumbfounded, and the biggest question was: why?

Enter Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor, the husband-and-wife investigative journalist duo behind the award-winning BBC podcast series (and forthcoming documentary) Buried. Their new 10-part podcast, Buried: Dead Rabbit, dives headfirst into this grizzly mystery, plunging them into the shady world of illegal bloodsports - specifically hare coursing, where dogs hunt hares to kill them, banned in the UK since 2005 - and its links to organised crime, the dark web, and Line of Duty-esque rumours of police corruption. One interviewee, whose house was car-bombed, summed up the stakes: 'They car-bombed my house - there’s not much more they can do.' Chris Packham lends a helping hand, because nothing says 'investigative journalism' like a wildlife presenter. Buried: Dead Rabbit is on BBC Sounds now.