The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

For the penultimate tale of Series 7 of The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we head over to Ireland's capital, Dublin, and back to the early 1990's, for a horrific tale of a savage killing that was to shock the country, and bore the argument: Was it a moment of madness?  The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, and with descriptions of injury detail, that some listeners m...

We are off to the county of Norfolk, on the east coast of the UK, and back to the mid 1980's, to hear two accounts of absolute horror this time on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast. When you've heard them, I'm sure you'll see why they made the cut for this series "Monsters Of" episode. No other word will suffice.  The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving offenc...

We are off to the town of Birkenhead, in Merseyside, and back to the early noughties this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, for an incredibly sad tale in which you will undoubtedly be struck by the question: How much grief can one family possibly have?  The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving involving injury detail, and depicting drug use, tha...

The Lost Boys series arc comes to a close this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, looking at developments that have happened concerning the events mentioned within the arc over the subsequent years, right up to the present day. It's also time for me to vent, too.  The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving children, involving injury detail, and inv...

The penultimate part of The Lost Boys comes here this time around, and following the terrible crimes we've heard of, the lost boys that we've come to know, and the tireless and remarkable investigations you've heard me recount to bring some semblance of justice for Jason, Barry, and Mark - I started last episode bringing you the monsters behind the tale. And whilst all offenders involved throughou...

We've been through the truly horrific crimes, and we've heard of the complex and remarkable investigations that ultimately brought a semblance of justice for Jason Swift, Barry Lewis, and Mark Tildsley. This time and next on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, it's time to meet the monsters behind the tale. The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving children, invo...

Continuing with the series arc of The Lost Boys, and following on from the revelations of Leslie Bailey that led to the creation of Operation Orchid, it seems he just couldn't stop talking. Aside from Jason and Barry, he had begun to mention another boy too - a name that was all too familiar to Thames Valley Police, the name of a boy who had been missing for more than half a decade. This is his st...

Happy to share this for International Podcast Day - bit of a bonus.    Earlier this month, I took part in Crimecon Glasgow - a tremendous day was had by all, and one of the highlights was getting to sit down with some of the most talented, independent podcasters on the UK True Crime Podcast circuit - the likes of UK True Crime, Lady Justice Podcast, The Troubles Podcast, Murder Mile, The Cult Vaul...

A massive thank you to all who have listened, shared and supported and have gotten the show into year 6 now - what a ride it has been to do, and i have loved every second of it.  As we always do on the show's birthday - I share here one of the subscriber episodes for all to hear, and it's my pleasure to bring you one of my favourite Patreon tales - The Exploding Dad.  Thanks again all - I look for...

The midway point of the series arc of The Lost Boys comes right now in the latest episode of The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, and whilst over the arc we have heard the background, the build up to and ultimately some semblance of justice for Jason, police now turned their attention to other lost boys, and the one at the top of their list? Barry Lewis. The justice Barry so deserved was to come, bu...

 The Lost Boys arc continues here, and though the cases of Jason Swift and Barry Lewis, those that made up Operation Stranger were growing ever colder, by 1987, detectives were about to get the break they so needed that was to smash the case wide open - through a completely unconnected enquiry. One that showed just how much of a murky world they were dealing with. The episode contains details and...

Continuing here with The Lost Boys arc, following on from the murder of Jason Swift that was covered in the opening tale, the second episode looks at the second case that was to be linked to Jason's, that was to create Operation Stranger. A heartbreaking tale of a six year old boy named Barry. The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving children, involving injury...

The start of this series' multi episode story arc drops right now on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast - it will be a tale that countless of you may already know of, and if you aren't familiar with it, then come the tales' end, it will be one you will never forget, I can promise you. I know it is one that will horrify and disturb many - it should everybody, of course - for it is truly horrific, ye...

Two tales from the early to mid 1980's come this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, where we are off back to Bristol to hear a tale of one of a certain cancelled tv show's earliest successes; and then to Essex - where no other word will suffice to describe the events depicted than senseless.  The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving  injury detai...

How often have you been in a nightclub, a bit drunk, and become separated from your friends? A bit more of a familiar tale comes this time around on the Enthusiast, where we head back to the early 1990's, and to the county of Hampshire, to hear the exploits of an individual that the crime committed makes them stand out in the annals of British crime.  If you know the tale as the episode progresses...

Despite what you may have thought from childhood, they really arent. For this episode of The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, I bring you two tales that I believe strengthen that no - they really exist. We are off back to Greater Manchester, and then Merseyside, to hear two tales of such savagery that no other word will suffice, i'm afraid. Actually, i'm not afraid. I stand by my use of monster to d...

Have you ever had that one person in your life that you aren't just in love with - but you become obsessive over? That person that just gets under your skin? That person that you think you would do anything for? What if that person rejects you - because of your own flawed personality? Do you accept it and move on, fixing yourself so it doesn't happen again? Or do you blame another for it? We head...

Violence in schools is sadly something we see all too often - perhaps more so in other countries, but it is a very real problem here in the UK. Today, Middlesborough girl Nikki Conroy would have been 41 years old - perhaps married, perhaps with a family of her own. Sadly. she never got that chance to do any of that, due to 9 minutes of mayhem, carnage, pure horror, back on a Monday morning in Marc...

The concluding part of the tale that covers the terrifying and tragic events that rocked the Cardiff suburb of Ely, one Friday afternoon back in October 2012, is brought to you this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, where we look at the aftermath: Who had done it - and why? The episode contains details and descriptions of events, involving children and injury detail, that some list...

This time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, in the first of a two part tale, we look at how one Friday afternoon back in October 2012, within a 29 minute period, a western suburb in the South Wales city of Cardiff would become the scene of pure, unadulterated, unaimed carnage that would leave so many scarred. Physically, and mentally. The episode contains details and descriptions of eve...

Bit of a reach into the back catalogue of the show's Patreon tales comes this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, for a somewhat reworked tale that brings the listener a pair of disturbing and horrific crimes, the work of the same individual - and at least one of which could, indeed, should, have been prevented.  Because people are only paroled when it is safe for them to be so, righ...

I'm thrilled to bring a long awaited return of the Listener penned episode this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, the work of listener Karen Mcleod, for a puzzling story that's fairly local to her, and one that poses the question: Can someone simply vanish into thin air, on an afternoon walk? Perhaps - but then again, perhaps not.... With massive thanks to Karen Mcleod. Music used...

The roles of a parent are to love and guide their children, to protect them, and unquestionably - to never harm them. For the episode that drops this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we are back to the start of the 2000's, and to my home area of North Wales, for a tragic and horrifying tale that shows that sometimes, a parent disregards these simple roles - and does the unthinkabl...

One of the strangest cases I have ever come across comes your way this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, for which we head down to East Sussex and back to the 1980's, to see just what happens when you chuck a plausible character, an enthusiastic rector, mind control discs, and wealth of very very cash happy Christians with deep pockets into a mix.  Oh yes - and Satan too. It's one...

This first a a regular series feature going forward comes here this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, as - living up to the title - we head back to 2017, and down to the picturesque Cornwall town of Marazion, for a tale of savage and callous butchery. Some people really will post anything online, won't they? The episode contains details and descriptions of a crime and events, invol...