The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast
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The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast
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 -...
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338 episodes
The Curse Of The Cup - Part 2: When Pickles Got FIFA Out Of A Pickle..
Football fans from the UK - and across the world - held their breath for a week in March 1966 when the Jules Rimet trophy, more commonly known as the...
The Curse Of The Cup - Part 1: Jules Rimet's Still - Missing!
Some people can't wait for it to finish, some people perhaps never want it to end, but we have upon us the culmination of the 2026 World Cup. It's a t...
A Sense Of Entitlement
A gift of £100,000 to buy a house, and £1,000 living allowance a month. The stuff the majority of us can only dream of, isn't it? But it's never enoug...
The Murder On Monkey Hill
We head back to May 2010 and to the area of Wishaw, near Glasgow in North Lanarkshire for the tale this time around. It was the hottest weekend of tha...
Firestarter
You should be able to leave your children for a sleepover, safe as houses, with someone who loves them so deeply she calls them her 'kidlets', shouldn...
Undressing - Undressing - Jack The Stripper
He's the London serial killer you may never have even known existed - from the late 1950's to the mid 1960's, West London was shocked by the deaths of...
Undressing 'Jack The Stripper' - Part 4
He's the London serial killer you may never have even known existed - from the late 1950's to the mid 1960's, West London was shocked by the deaths of...
Undressing 'Jack The Stripper' - Part 3
He's the London serial killer you may never have even known existed - from the late 1950's to the mid 1960's, West London was shocked by the deaths of...
Undressing 'Jack The Stripper' - Part 2
He's the London serial killer you may never have even knew existed - from the late 1950's to the mid 1960's, West London was shocked by the deaths of...
Undressing 'Jack The Stripper' - Part 1
He's the London serial killer you may never have even knew existed - from the late 1950's to the mid 1960's, West London was shocked by the deaths of...
Cold Water
Open water is, for many people, their greatest fear, and being trapped within it must be terrifying - especially if you cannot swim to safety, to face...
The 'Werewolf' Of Tibnin Bridge
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, has since its establishment in 1978 assisted Lebanese forces along the country's border with I...
The Man Who Touched Muscles
He was for many years a folk devil, almost an apparition, whispered about in playgrounds and used as a threat by parents, in the North West of England...
Introducing - Paranormia
I'm thrilled to today be sharing an episode with you from a sister True Crime podcast of the Enthusiast from the Always True Crime Network - Paranormi...
Failings
The Justice and Mental Health services in the UK are, as much as they are supposed to for the benefit of the patient concerned, supposed to act dillig...
Best Laid Plans - Part 4
I bring the Best Laid Plans story to a conclusion this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast, where we hear the outcome of the trial of Arkan Ali,...
Best Laid Plans - Part 3
It is unamaginable losing a family member in an explosion - let alone three family members - nut in November 2018, that is exactly what Leicester Crow...
Best Laid Plans - Part 2
The horrific explosion in Leicester, on 25th February 2018, which claimed the lives of five people, would have been terrible enough were it a tragic a...
Best Laid Plans - Part 1
The quiet evening of Sunday 25th February 2018 in the Hinckley Road area of the city of Leicester was an unremarkable one - it was a cold night, and f...
Death Is In The Air
Love is supposed to be in the air on Valentine’s Day — roses, proposals, appreciation and hearts everywhere you look. It’s supposed to be the most rom...
The Luck Of The Irish
Up to the mid 1960’s, capital punishment was in force in the UK for the crime of murder, and many a soul watched in fear as the presiding judge placed...
Death Comes To Derlwyn Farm
We head back to the 1950’s, and to rural West Wales this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, where I bring you an account of a couple wh...
New Year's Evil - A Killer Downstairs
I round off this Horrors Over The Holidays selection of tales with a senseless story from New Year's Day in 2020, for which we head to the Stockbridge...
New Year's Evil - Firestarter
The Hogmanay Party had been a great success, and returning to his parents home in Milngavie, in East Dunbartonshire, all then 23 year old Cameron Loga...
New Year's Evil - A Tale Of Two Brothers
The Horrors Over The Holidays: New Year’s Evil this time around takes us back to New Years Eve 2013, and down to the county of Hampshire, to the start...
New Years Evil - Horror On The Seafront
Sticking with this Horrors Over The Holidays season of daily tales, I now move onto those tales that take place over the turn of the year, beginning w...
Horrors Over The Holidays - The Tale Of Jake And Chloe
This time around, for the last of the Horrors Over The Holidays to take place this year over the Christmas period, I bring perhaps the most tragic of...
Horrors Over The Holidays - Can A House Be Cursed?
We head back to the Christmas of 1972 for this Horrors Over The Holidays episode, where I account a strange, yet tragic story in which the question is...
Horrors Over The Holidays - Part 3
The only unsolved tale of this Horrors Over The Holidays season I have curated drops here with a tale of tragedy, cruelty, and an account of a truly h...
Horrors Over The Holidays - Part 2
The Horrors Over The Holidays season continues here with a tale from Christmas 2021 that highlights just how evil, violence and tragedy don't take a C...
Horrors Over The Holidays - Part 1
I bring a selection of tales of Horrors Over The Holidays this festive season, each day bringing a different tale, and beginning here with the tale of...
Patrick Mackay: The Two Sides Of A Psychopath - Bonus Chat
Psychopath - The Two Sides Of Patrick Mackay, my collaboration with Mike from the fabulous Murder Mile, is now out in its full 10 parts. A few weeks a...
Patrick Mackay: The Two Sides Of A Psychopath - Part 4
My final offering of Psychopath: The Two Sides Of Patrick Mackay comes this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, where I bring my side of...
Patrick Mackay: The Two Sides Of A Psychopath - Part 3
In the penultimate episode of my contribution to the ten part crossover series that myself and my friend Mike of the Murder Mile Podcast have joined f...
Patrick Mackay: The Two Sides Of A Psychopath - Part 2
Continuing the ten part crossover series that myself and my friend Mike of the Murder Mile Podcast have joined forces to bring you, the two sides to t...
Patrick Mackay: The Two Sides Of A Psychopath - Part 1
One of Britain’s most infamous serial killers is a man you may never have heard of, he's spent fifty years behind bars, holding the distinction of bei...
Trailer - Patrick Mackay - Two Sides Of A Psychopath
One of Britain’s most infamous serial killers is a man you may never have heard of, he's spent more than fifty years behind bars, he may never be rele...
Manhunt Across The Midlands
2020 was a dark year for all of us, with the COVID pandemic in full force, but for two Midlands families in particular, and the lives of so many other...
The Horrors Belief Can Bring
We head out of the UK for this time around on TTCEP, firstly to Belgium, and then to the Canary Island of Tenerife for two accounts of pure Gothic hor...
Birthday Bonus Tale - More Snippets Of The Strange And Stupid
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...