The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Podcast details

Technical and general information from the podcast's RSS feed.

The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

True Crime

Frequency: 1 episode/10d. Total Eps: 292

Welcome to The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, which started off life as a weekly written blog in 2016, and has now 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 Ireland - 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)

Site

RSS

Apple

Recent rankings

Latest chart positions across Apple Podcasts and Spotify rankings.

Apple Podcasts

🇬🇧 Great Britain - trueCrime
30/07/2025
#81
🇬🇧 Great Britain - trueCrime
29/07/2025
#62
🇬🇧 Great Britain - trueCrime
28/07/2025
#52
🇬🇧 Great Britain - trueCrime
27/07/2025
#50
🇬🇧 Great Britain - trueCrime
26/07/2025
#64
🇬🇧 Great Britain - trueCrime
25/07/2025
#94
🇬🇧 Great Britain - trueCrime
24/07/2025
#76
🇬🇧 Great Britain - trueCrime
23/07/2025
#63
🇬🇧 Great Britain - trueCrime
22/07/2025
#50
🇬🇧 Great Britain - trueCrime
21/07/2025
#48

Spotify

No recent rankings available

Shared links between episodes and podcasts

Links found in episode descriptions and other podcasts that share them.

See all

https://filmmusic.io/
2028 shares
https://www.betterhelp.com/get-started/?go=true&amp
1438 shares
http://freemusicarchive.org/
760 shares

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1973169242968995/
452 shares
https://www.facebook.com/TheTrueCrimeEnthusiast/
428 shares
https://www.facebook.com/TheTrueCrimeEnthusiast/?ref=bookmarks
66 shares

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCImXAV3Qq-ssUqV0jGtJbtA?view_as=subscriber
292 shares
http://youtube.com
117 shares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7bY_X6llE
10 shares

RSS feed quality and score

Technical evaluation of the podcast's RSS feed quality and structure.

See all

RSS feed quality

Good

Score global : 73%

Publication history

Monthly episode publishing history over the past years.

Year

Episodes published by month in

Latest published episodes

Recent episodes with titles, durations, and descriptions.

See all

S9 Ep14: Text "M" For Murder

Season 9 · Episode 14

mardi 20 août 2024 • Duration 01:25:48

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 elaborate murder plot.

In 2007, a court in South Wales was to hear it's very own version, and just how life imitated art...

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, including descriptions of a sexual nature, that some listeners may find disturbing and or distressing, so discretion is advised whilst listening.

Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Playlist Tracks

City Parking - It's Mad Round Here
Githead - Take Off

The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support

References

Follow/Contact/Support The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

Remembering Jaspal. This episode is dedicated to her.

S9 Ep13: Killer In Uniform

Season 9 · Episode 13

dimanche 11 août 2024 • Duration 01:16:34

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 one thing - the execution each faced for the heinous crimes they committed, not as an act of war, but as a case of murder. This time around, I bring you the tales of two of these.

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events that some listeners may find disturbing and or distressing, so discretion is advised whilst listening. There is also a racial slur used within the episode, and it should be stated categorically that the use of this does not reflect the views of myself or the show, it is featured merely because it is relevant to the tale in question.

Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Playlist Tracks

Cardinals - Nineteen
Father John Misty - I Guess Time Just Makes Fools Of Us All

The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support

References

Assorted newspaper articles available via Newspapers.com and British Newspaper Archive

Follow/Contact/Support The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

Remembering Lily, Dorothy, and her unborn child. This episode is dedicated to them.

S9 Ep4: My Brother, My Killer

Season 9 · Episode 4

samedi 6 avril 2024 • Duration 01:13:59

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 their mind - sometimes, it borders on paranoia.

The tale this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, a horrific tale from Manchester back in 2016, shows just what horrific consequenses paranoia can bring.

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving descriptions of injury detail, that some listeners may find disturbing and or distressing, so discretion is advised whilst listening.

Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Show Sponsor - Surfshark - Enjoy the ultimate privacy protection service with the best VPN. Get 3 months FREE HERE

Playlist Tracks

Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
SUUNS - Images du futur

The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support

References

Follow/Contact/Support The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

Remembering Julie, and her family. This episode is dedicated to them.

S6 Ep22: Thriller - Part 5: Profile

Season 6 · Episode 22

samedi 7 août 2021 • Duration 01:08:47

As we pass the midway point of the Thriller arc, this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, with countless rapes and two, but a suspected three murders linked to Operation Trinity, by this stage, police turned to an as yet untested, ground-breaking new investigative tool in the hunt for the two individuals we have come to know as Taller and Shorter.

The results of it were to prove astonishing.

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving crimes of a sexual nature, that some listeners may find disturbing and/or upsetting, so discretion is advised whilst listening.

Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Playlist Tracks

Alice In Chains - Bleed The Freak
Sleaford Mods - Mork N Mindy FT Billy NoMates

The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support
Crimecon - Tickets available now - quote "ENTHUSIAST" for a 10% discount

References to be produced upon request, but will be added in full at the arc's end.

Follow/Contact/Support The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

Remembering those affected, and their loved ones.

S6 Ep21: Thriller - Part 4: The Lost Bride

Season 6 · Episode 21

jeudi 29 juillet 2021 • Duration 01:23:35

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 was a newly-wed, having been married for just four weeks.

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving crimes of a sexual nature, and describing injury detail, that some listeners may find disturbing and/or upsetting, so discretion is advised whilst listening.

Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Playlist Tracks

Stone Sour - Through Glass
Happy Mondays - Bob's Yer Uncle

The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support
Crimecon - Tickets available now - quote "ENTHUSIAST" for a 10% discount

Crimewatch UK - July 1986 - Lead Appeal
References to be produced upon request, but will be added in full at the arc's end.

Follow/Contact/Support The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

Remembering Anne, and her loved ones.

S6 Ep20: Thriller - Part 3: Operation Bluebell

Season 6 · Episode 20

jeudi 22 juillet 2021 • Duration 01:13:00

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 five months later, they struck again, this time managing to add a new predatory dimension to their campaign.

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving crimes of a sexual nature, involving a child, that some listeners may find disturbing and/or upsetting, so discretion is advised whilst listening.

Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Playlist Tracks

Suede - Film Star
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum

The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support
Crimecon - Tickets available now - quote "ENTHUSIAST" for a 10% discount

Show Sponsor:

BetterHelp: Claim 10% off your first month of professional counselling now at betterhelp.com/tce
Best Fiends - The five star rated puzzle game that EVERYONE'S talking about - BEST Fiends! Download free now from the Apple App Store, or Google Play

References to be produced upon request, but will be added in full at the arc's end.

Follow/Contact/Support The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

Remembering Maartje, and her loved ones.

S6 Ep19: Thriller - Part 2: Alison's Story

Season 6 · Episode 19

samedi 17 juillet 2021 • Duration 01:03:51

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 reason, sexual assault just wasn't enough - a step further was wanted, or needed. So with just two days of 1985 remaining, the line from rapist to killer was crossed by each.

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving crimes of a sexual nature, that some listeners may find disturbing and/or upsetting, so discretion is advised whilst listening.

Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Playlist Tracks

Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
Queens Of The Stone Age - The Vampyre Of Time And Memory

The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support
Crimecon - Tickets available now - quote "ENTHUSIAST" for a 10% discount

Show Sponsor:

Killer Psyche - Wondery - When a shocking crime occurs, people ask “Why?” Was it about power, ego, or revenge? On Killer Psyche, retired FBI agent Candice DeLong draws on her decades of experience to reveal why these murderers and criminals committed these acts. She will reveal fascinating new details about what drove these people, including cases she was close to. Candice will share specific psychological methods and profiling techniques that experts use to understand the deepest part of the most complex, fascinating, and twisted minds, from the Unabomber to Dr. Death to El Chapo.

References to be produced upon request, but will be added in full at the arc's end.

Follow/Contact/Support The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

Remembering Alison and her loved ones.

S6 Ep18: Thriller - Part 1: Two Bodies, With One Brain

Season 6 · Episode 18

jeudi 8 juillet 2021 • Duration 01:06:10

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 become a reality....

The tale is a truly unforgettable one.

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving crimes of a sexual nature, that some listeners may find disturbing and/or upsetting, so discretion is advised whilst listening.

Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Playlist Tracks

Utah Saints - Something Good
The Go! Team - Mayday

The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support
Crimecon - Tickets available now - quote "ENTHUSIAST" for a 10% discount

Show Sponsor:

BetterHelp: Claim 10% off your first month of professional counselling now at betterhelp.com/tce
Best Fiends - The five star rated puzzle game that EVERYONE'S talking about - BEST Fiends! Download free now from the Apple App Store, or Google Play

References to be produced upon request, but will be added in full at the arc's end.

Follow/Contact/Support The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

Remembering the many women.

S6 Ep17: Annihilator

Season 6 · Episode 17

jeudi 17 juin 2021 • Duration 01:24:03

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 family meant to one individual.

The tale is an unforgettable one.

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving in part crimes against children and descriptions of animal cruelty/slaughter, that some listeners may find disturbing and/or upsetting, so discretion is advised whilst listening.

Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Playlist Tracks

James Brown - Get Up Offa That Thing
The Joy Formidable - Whirring

The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support
Crimecon - Tickets available now - quote "ENTHUSIAST" for a 10% discount

Show Sponsor:

BetterHelp: Claim 10% off your first month of professional counselling now at betterhelp.com/tce

References/Further Reading

Petition · Life To Mean Life In Prison · Change.org

Documentaries: "Britain's Most Evil Killers" - Series 5 Episode 5
"Killer In The Family: The Family Annihilator" (2008)

Follow/Contact/Support The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

Remembering Claire, Kieren, and Jade

S6 Ep16: The Airman, And The Commander

Season 6 · Episode 16

jeudi 10 juin 2021 • Duration 01:16:23

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 surprising, because the events are horrific.

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 this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Playlist Tracks

Seasick Steve - Cut My Wings
Kingmaker - Really Scrape The Sky

The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support
Crimecon - Tickets available now - quote "ENTHUSIAST" for a 10% discount

Show Sponsor:

BetterHelp: Claim 10% off your first month of professional counselling now at betterhelp.com/tce
Best Fiends - The five star rated puzzle game that EVERYONE'S talking about - BEST Fiends! Download free now from the Apple App Store, or Google Play

References/Further Reading
Napoleon Green

Neil Rutherford

The Red Gables Before Demolition
The Red Gables
"Murder By The Sea" – Series 5 Episode 4 (CBS Reality 2020)

Follow/Contact/Support The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast