The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

This time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, in a continuation of this series' Thriller arc, the horrendous campaign of rape and then murder carried out by the two individuals we have come to know for now as Taller and Shorter took another turn - for with the case of a missing Hertfordshire woman, police who were hunting them soon had the very real fear that they had struck again. She wa...

Continuing this series Thriller arc, the two individuals we have met so far throughout the tale had soon gravitated from the appalling catalogue of sexual assaults they had carried out in the North London area over a period of three years. At the very end of 1985, they had crossed the thin line from rapist to killer with the appalling murder of a 19 year old secretary named Alison Day. And almost...

In the opening episode of this series Thriller arc, we were introduced to two individuals who from the middle of 1982 onwards, carried out an appalling catalogue of sexual assaults in the North London area. The attacks gained in proficiency and frequency, then at least one of the men branched out and began attacking women alone - as well as in tandem with his partner. And finally, for whatever rea...

The long promised, long awaited series multi episode arc begins this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, for a tale that really does have the lot - horror, evil, groundbreaking investigative tools, and legal firsts. We shall get to all of those in time as the arc progresses, but to begin with, we go back to June 1982 to North London, where a chilling, abhorrent fantasy was about to b...

Family is supposed to mean everything to a person, it's what we are raised in and grow with, it's what we go on to have ourselves, what we nurture, and what we are supposed to love and protect with our all. But not everybody feels this, do they? This time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, there comes a tale of true horror from the turn of this century - where you'll see just how little...

Whilst mass shootings are almost sadly commonplace in other countries, they are thankfully not so in the UK. Sure, there will be those that the tragic events are etched in your mind so much that just a single word conjures them up - Hungerford, Dunblane, Cumbria. This time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, I bring you two accounts of ones that you may never have even heard of - which is...

Two of the most horrific crimes that I have encountered in my time doing the Enthusiast are brought to you this time around, where we head back to 1995, to South Yorkshire and to Devon, to hear the tragic tales of Annie Saxton, and Jessie Hurlstone. Two names that I hope by the episode ends, will be ones you'll never forget. The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, inclu...

A pair of tales this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast that take us from the south to the north of the UK, that among several common themes and coincidences between the two accounts - which have led to the unusual title - one thing stands out more than anything. Some people really will do anything in the name of love - however misguided and horrific that anything may be, too. The ep...

Regional unsolved case time rolls around this series here this time on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, as for this look, we head over to Greater Manchester to examine a pair of unsolved cases that range from the 1970's, to the 2000's. The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events that some listeners may find disturbing and/or upsetting, so discretion is advised whilst liste...

A terrifying and tragic case of revenge - the most misguided, unwarranted case of revenge that you can imagine - is the focus of the tale this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast; as we head back to the early hours of a Saturday morning in 1998, in the London area of Chingford, to hear just how much carnage delusion and paranoia can create... The episode contains details and descripti...

Our Monsters Of Ayrshire trilogy concludes this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, where, alongside the horrific murder of Mhairi Julyan, we learn of some of the other evil acts that Gavin McGuire is responsible for, and the reasons why I considered that one word befitting of him over so many others: Monster. The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, includ...

Continuing this series Monsters Of episodes - which has now become a trilogy - this second part of the tale continues off from the horrific account of the murder of 16 year old Mhairi Julyan, a young woman walking home from a Christmas pantomime in December 1995 who was abducted, raped and murdered - just 150 yards from her home. Previously, we heard of the crime and the investigation - and then p...

This time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, in the first part of a trilogy, I'll introduce you to someone whose nature and crimes are so horrific, they were a perfect fit to this series' Monsters Of episodes. But the trilogy begins with the terrible and tragic case of a 15 year old girl, Mhairi Julyan, who one winter's evening, was simply walking home from a pantomime... The episode con...

Back for the second and final part of a two part tale here, where we take up the stories of Walter "Angel Face" Probyn, and John Roger McVicar - "The Muscleman". We've heard in the previous episode the exploits of each individually, and the various scrapes and escapes that led to both of them looking at a number of years longer than a DFS sale. Those exploits are as unbelieveable as anything - so...

The first of a two part tale - there is so much to this one a single episode wouldn't do - this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, as we are off back more than 50 years, to meet two determined criminals. Not too successful at their chosen profession, due to the amount of times each was caught and imprisoned, each had a determination that prison wasn't to be for them, and resolved to...

We are off back to 2015 and down to the city of Swansea, in South Wales, for a tale of greed, lies, deception, and senseless murder for gain this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast. Senseless murder indeed. The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events that some listeners may find disturbing and/or upsetting, so discretion is advised whilst listening. Music used...

In a dip into the back catalogue of the show's Patreon episodes, this week on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast brings a horrific tale of completely pointless double murder - including one of the most callous acts you will ever hear of - as we head back to the late 1970's, and to a small but affluent Cheshire village back.  The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events that so...

A truly horrendous crime is the focus of the episode this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, as we head back to 1985, to the city of Preston, in the county of Lancashire, to see how a case of a missing child became a murder enquiry, at the time, one of the biggest ever undertaken by Lancashire Police. One that would span almost a quarter of a century in total. And one that no police...

This time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, just imagine a person's whole life changing forever in the blink of an eye, in the most horrendous and callous of circumstances, by someone hell bent on causing unimaginable suffering? Horrendous enough a thought, isn't it? Then imagine if it's a case of mistaken identity. The episode contains details and descriptions of a crime and events, in...

The concluding part of the 6th series opener of The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast comes this time around, as we hear of the events following the horrific double murder of two innocent children - victims of a "feud" that had been taken to an unimaginable level. A tale that spans several years. The episode contains details and descriptions of a crime and events, involving children, that some listene...

Back for a 6th series of The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we open the series with a complex tale, told over two parts, that shows the horrific consequences of a feud - as one way to describe it - that got way out of hand. Leading to two innocents dying in the most horrific of circumstances. The episode contains details and descriptions of a crime and events, involving children, that some listene...

As a short bonus to cap off the year, I've sat down and gone back through the tales that have made up Series 5 of the show, and like the shit DVD commentary that no one ever really listens to, have given my own thoughts and feelings, perhaps a bit of an aside here and there also, to each case we have covered this year on the regular show in a very rough and ready totally unscripted manner. I thank...

This episode brings the concluding part of what became the "Margaret" trilogy on the show - in which the host of The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast looks at and recaps the case as described in Parts 1 and 2, looks at the evidence involved, and then offers some personal theory and challenges to it.  The episode contains details and descriptions of a crime and events that some listeners may find dist...

Continuing the multi-parter we began last time on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, where this time around, we hear of the continuing investigation into the horrific murder of grandmother Margaret Wilson in East Yorkshire in 1995, senselessly slaughtered on a country lane near her lifelong home - for no apparent reason whatsoever. And the identification of a suspect - but was it the killer? The e...

Time for another multi-parter this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, as we head back to East Yorkshire, and to the mid 1990's for a horrific, and controversial, case of motiveless murder. The episode contains details and descriptions of a crime and events that some listeners may find disturbing or upsetting, so discretion is advised whilst listening. Music used in this episode: "Th...