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The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

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Welcome to The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, which started off life as a weekly written blog in 2016, and soon made the jump into a regular one man and his mic, matter of fact straight talking podcast. In it, the host Paul looks at and recounts in-depth true crime cases from the UK and worldwide - both solved or unsolved crimes, but more often than not the lesser known and obscure ones. Follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/TheTrueCrimeEnthusiast/) , Twitter (https://twitter.com/tc_enthusiast) , Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/truecrimeenthusiast/) Wordpress Blog (https://truecrimeenthusiast.wordpress.com) and contact us on truecrimeenthusiast@gmail.com. Also, you can support the show at Patreon for extra content and offers: The True Crime Enthusiast Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thetruecrimeenthusiast)

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  1. Birthday Bonus Tale - More Snippets Of The Strange And Stupid

    · 1 h 19 min · Bonus

    As a massive thank you for getting the show into it's 9th year now, on it's birthday, I'd love to share an episode from the show's back catalogue just to say thank you - you each are the reason I'm at this point with…

  2. Jigsaw: Stephen Marshall

    · 1 h 13 min · S10 E10 · Explicit

    For Hertfordshire farmer Roger Kingsley, the afternoon of Sunday, March 22nd 2009 was one that he would remember for the rest of his life. Working the fields of his farm, he came across a green 'Gullivers' holdall, the…

  3. Wall Of Silence - Part 2

    · 1 h 10 min · S10 E9 · Explicit

    Concluding the two part tale accounting one of Scotland's most notorious crimes this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, for which we are back to the summer of 1996, to the area of West Dunbartonshire in…

  4. Wall Of Silence - Part 1

    · 1 h 06 min · S10 E8 · Explicit

    The first of a two part tale accounting one of Scotland's most notorious crimes comes this time around and next on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, for which we head back to the summer of 1996, to Scotland's West…

  5. 'Bigfoot's 96 Hours Of Carnage: Phillip Smith

    · 1 h 18 min · S10 E7 · Explicit

    Four days – almost a full working week for the majority. 96 hours, for some, it will fly by, for others, it may feel like the clock may go backwards. Over one such period back in the autumn of 2000, Worcestershire and…

  6. The Offfering Of Sundown And Allegra

    · 1 h 13 min · S10 E6 · Explicit

    Satanism, Black Magic, and Devil Worshipping are terms that have been around since the Middle Ages. In the majority of cases today, people who follow this do so somewhat out of boredom, it drawing something in their…

  7. A Homage To The Loved Ones

    · 1 h 20 min · S10 E5 · Explicit

    The girl, dressed in a pretty pink dress, poses for a photograph sat on the knee of a young man, smartly dressed in a tuxedo. They could be any young couple, but are not, for whilst she smiles broadly, he cannot,…

  8. Lying Brian: Brian Blackwell

    · 1 h 19 min · S10 E4 · Explicit

    Have you ever had someone you’ve fallen for so much that you would want to do ANYTHING to impress them, to give them the world? How about, pretending to be something, someone that you aren’t then, where you back up the…

  9. Lucy's Story - Part 3

    · 1 h 04 min · S10 E3 · Explicit

    Concluding the sad tale of 13 year old Southampton girl Lucy McHugh - and would Stephen Nicholson be convicted of her rape and murder? We look at this, and developments in the case following here. One of the saddest…

  10. Lucy's Story - Part 2

    · 1 h 07 min · S10 E2 · Explicit

    Continuing the opening Series 10 tale of The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast with the tragic case of 13 year old Southampton teenager Lucy McHugh, killed most brutally one July morning back in 2018. Police soon had a…

  11. Lucy's Story - Part 1

    · 1 h 09 min · S10 E1 · Explicit

    The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast returns for Series 10 with a tale from back in 2018, a dive into the tragic case of 13 year old Southampton teenager Lucy McHugh, who set out to keep an appointment one warm July…

  12. Peter The Confessor - Part 2

    · 1 h 13 min · S9 E40 · Explicit

    Back in the early 1980's, Peter Alan Fell was several things: Falklands and Northern Ireland war hero, Army Boxing champion - so how then did he, in July 1984, come to be stood in the dock of Winchester Crown Court…

  13. Peter The Confessor - Part 1

    · 1 h 08 min · S9 E39 · Explicit

    On a cold spring day in May 1982, two friends, Ann Lee and Margaret Johnson, set off for what would be their final dogwalk together around a familiar area of common land to them in the town of Aldershot, in Hampshire.…

  14. The Sad Death Of 'The Ruddles Man'

    · 1 h 17 min · S9 E38 · Explicit

    Cruelty is never far away from some homes - some people suffer largely in silence, and when that cruelty begins to show, they will come out with allsorts of reasoning. 'I fell. I bumped into this or that'. It's a very…

  15. The Lost Girls: Part 10 - The Aftermath

    · 1 h 15 min · S9 E37 · Explicit

    The Lost Girls multi-parter comes full circle this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast, as for the final part I housekeep the tale of Susan, Caroline, Sarah, Theresa and Jennifer. We look at the years following…

  16. The Lost Girls: Part 9 - Jennifer

    · 1 h 35 min · S9 E36 · Explicit

    The new red bicycle had fast become her pride and joy, all of her friends had seen it, and one sunny afternoon in August 1981, nine year old Jennifer Cardy set off from her home in Ballinderry to cycle the short…

  17. The Lost Girls: Part 8 - The Driver In The Dock

    · 1 h 13 min · S9 E35 · Explicit

    In April 1994, Robert Black, laid bare in all of his foulness, was to face trial charged with the abductions of Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg, Sarah Harper and Teresa Thornhill, and the murders of the former three. Was…

  18. The Lost Girls: Part 7 - The Soul That Matches The Surname

    · 1 h 18 min · S9 E34 · Explicit

    On 1st April 1992, ten court summonses for crimes including multiple murder, abduction, prevention of a proper and lawful burial and kidnap were served on a 43 year old prisoner serving life at HMP Peterhead in…

  19. The Lost Girls: Part 6 - Paper Chase

    · 1 h 17 min · S9 E33 · Explicit

    'That's our man. I'd bet my life on it' These are the words of Assistant Chief Constable Hector Clark back in July 1990, moments after the initial, briefest of meetings with the man he was describing here, who just…

  20. The Lost Girls: Part 5 - The Survivor

    · 1 h 03 min · S9 E32 · Explicit

    It was a simple, quick detour to avoid prying eyes - and it was fortunate that it was just that too, a quick detour, for if it wasn't, then perhaps Teresa Thornhill wouldn't be here today. That evening in Nottingham…

  21. The Lost Girls: Part 4 - Just Two Minutes Walk

    · 1 h 08 min · S9 E31 · Explicit

    The corner shop was just 150 yards away from her home, and the journey was one that ten year old Sarah Harper had made countless times before - just two minutes walk away. Yet, on a cold and wet evening in March 1986,…

  22. The Lost Girls: Part 3 - A Fatal Five Minutes Last Play

    · 1 h 12 min · S9 E30 · Explicit

    Continuing with The Lost Girls series arc, and in the summer of 1983, almost a year to the day, the fear that Susan Maxwell's at large killer could strike again was suddenly realised, when on a warm Friday evening in…

  23. The Lost Girls: Part 2 - Susan's Story

    · 1 h 10 min · S9 E29 · Explicit

    Continuing The Lost Girls Arc on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we now go back to Northumbria in 1982, and a chance walk home for a young girl after a game of tennis... The episode contains details and…

  24. The Lost Girls: Part 1 - The Day The Roof Caved In

    · 1 h 02 min · S9 E28

    The 9th Series multi episode arc begins this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, through which we shall timejump over a long period, and in which I bring you the full, in depth tale of who is/was very…

  25. Clown Masks And Crocodile Tears - Part 2

    · 1 h 29 min · S9 E27 · Explicit

    Completing the two part tale concerning the murder in September 1994 of 38 year old Carol Wardell - abducted from home by a gang of raiders, who, after beating and drugging her husband Gordon, forced her to open the…

  26. Clown Masks And Crocodile Tears - Part 1

    · 1 h 03 min · S9 E26 · Explicit

    The discovery of a woman's body in a rural Warwickshire layby in September 1994 was the start of what would become to detectives one of the most complex investigations in Warwickshire Police history, and would…

  27. Houses Of Blood - Bloodbath On A New Year's Day

    · 1 h 10 min · S9 E25 · Explicit

    "I have just murdered my wife in her bed. I have just stabbed them, and slit their throats. His name is Martin Griffiths. There is blood everywhere. This has just happened. My children are safe at my mother's house"…

  28. The Failing Of Danielle Reid

    · 1 h 26 min · S9 E24

    We head up to the Scottish Highland city of Inverness, and back to the early 2000's this time on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, for a harrowing tale of a crime that shocked Scotland to the core, a definition of…

  29. The Beast Of Farley Mount

    · 1 h 12 min · S9 E23 · Explicit

    The Hampshire beauty spot of Farley Mount Country Park, located near the city of Winchester, is a popular destination in daylight hours for families, joggers and dog walkers, whilst of the evening, it takes on a…

  30. Revenge

    · 1 h 20 min · S9 E22 · Explicit

    There is a saying, Revenge is a dish best served cold. For the tale this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we head back to 1983, and over to Ireland's capital city of Dublin, for a bleak tale where…

  31. Captain Hogwash

    · 1 h 13 min · S9 E21 · Explicit

    Pilot, Cruise Ship Captain, successful businessman, gifted salesman, entrepreneur, property renovator, heir to a massive fortune, able to drop claims of rubbing shoulders with political figures, all whilst living a…

  32. You Deserve A Medal For That!

    · 1 h 23 min · S9 E20 · Explicit

    Rememberance Day - a day where we should each give thanks, respect and thoughts to those who through their sacrifices are why we have the freedoms we do today. To be proud. The countless former and serving members of…

  33. Are You Sure You're Legal?

    · 1 h 17 min · S9 E19 · Explicit

    I used to watch a great sci-fi show back in the 90's called The Pretender, about a genius who could become anything he wanted to be, fit into any walk of life, which he used to do to help people. The people we will…

  34. The Farmer Wants A Better Wife

    · 1 h 06 min · S9 E18 · Explicit

    "E AH A DE OH - The Farmer Wants A Wife" goes the old nursery rhyme. This time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we head to Hertfordshire and back to 2018, where we will hear the tragic tale of a farmer who,…

  35. A Nightmare On May Street

    · 1 h 01 min · S9 E17 · Explicit

    We head to the East Yorkshire city of Hull this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, where one bright April evening in 2016, the resident of number 9 May Street got the shock of her life as she peered into…

  36. Blood Feud

    · 58 min · S9 E16 · Explicit

    If a person makes an enemy, the chances are that the circumstances or events that has led to such a thing will not extend further than a series of harsh words exchanged, occasionally a physical confrontation, and a…

  37. Man With A Past

    · 1 h 00 min · S9 E15 · Explicit

    Evil, once it is inside a person, never really goes away - it may remain dormant for many years, but it is always there. To the horror of a Peterborough family back in 2018, the evil that was dormant in one such…

  38. Text "M" For Murder

    · 1 h 26 min · S9 E14 · Explicit

    Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic Dial M For Murder is a celebrated work that has been remade for both the big and small screen, and the stage, and which concerns the tale of a cheating wife, a scheming husband, and an…

  39. Killer In Uniform

    · 1 h 17 min · S9 E13 · Explicit

    There are countless memorials to the brave personnel of the Armed Forces scattered around the UK, but one of these, in Surrey, contains the names of several service personnel whose military service is overshadowed by…

  40. The Girl In The Ground - Part 2

    · 1 h 33 min · S9 E12 · Explicit

    Concluding the horrifying and tragic story of 10 year old Ursula Herrmann this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, the girl snatched whilst cycling home in Germany in 1981, only to be found 17 days later…

  41. The Girl In The Ground - Part 1

    · 1 h 08 min · S9 E11 · Explicit

    It was supposed to be a simple 10 minute cycle ride home, like she had done countless times before that late September evening of 1981 - but it was never to be. This time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, in…

  42. Last Ride.

    · 1 h 24 min · S9 E10 · Explicit

    Hitchhiking brings with it countless dangers, as we have seen on screen countless times and with the exploits of killers such as the West's, but for many years it was a commonplace thing to do, the dangers not thought…

  43. The Girl Who Loved Horses

    · 1 h 17 min · S9 E9 · Explicit

    Back in 1983, 14 year old Gillian Atkins had one love in her life - her horses, she was horse mad from a young age. Devoting her life to them, there were even rumblings of Gillian having a possible Olympic shot in her…

  44. Prey

    · 1 h 25 min · S9 E8 · Explicit

    Christine Lakinski, Brent Martin, and David Atherton. The accounts you will hear in this episode concern three people who never knew one another, and indeed, lived many miles apart, but who in the space of just a year,…

  45. Cruelty Of The Cuckoo

    · 1 h 23 min · S9 E7 · Explicit

    We head back to 2005, and to the town of St Austell in the beautiful UK county of Cornwall this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, for a disturbing tale that shows just how perverse and barbaric the…

  46. A Misplaced Sense Of Shame.

    · 1 h 24 min · S9 E6 · Explicit

    The loss of a child must be heartbreaking, devastating, surreal all at once - how can you even begin to define it? One morning back in November 2007, it was a nightmare that North Wales father Simon Hill was thrust…

  47. Monsters Of Greater Manchester

    · 1 h 21 min · S9 E5 · Explicit

    This series' Monsters Of episode comes this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, where in a reach into the archives of Patreon, we head to Greater Manchester to meet two individuals capable of the most…

  48. My Brother, My Killer

    · 1 h 14 min · S9 E4 · Explicit

    All families have squabbles from time to time - it's human nature. But sometimes, a squabble exists only in the mind of one family member, and when they become obsessed that they are right, wild horses cannot change…

  49. Neighbour From Hell

    · 1 h 21 min · S9 E3

    "Everybody needs good neighbours" noted the theme tune of a popular 1980's Australian soap opera, and indeed, the majority of us do go on to have those good neighbours, that do become good friends - again, as the theme…

  50. Triangle Of Terror: Part 2 - Snared

    · 1 h 31 min · S9 E2 · Explicit

    Concluding the opening tale of Series 9, with the account of "The Fox" - how back in 1984 one man brought a wave of terror with his horrific crimes, not just to his hunting grounds in the South of England - but to the…

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