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 descriptions of crimes and events, involving children, involving injury detail, and involving descrip...
Sep 12, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 7Ep. 25
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 detail, and involving descriptions of a sexual nature involving children, that some listeners may fi...
Sep 05, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 7Ep. 24
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, yet it's a story I am compelled to try and do justice to, as best I can. And I begin it right here, wi...
Aug 27, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 7Ep. 23
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 detail, that some listeners may find offensive, disturbing, and or highly distressing, so discretion is adv...
Aug 18, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 7Ep. 22
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, i'm sure you'll agree. If you don't know it - then come it's end, you'll think - how fortunate it i...
Aug 02, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 7Ep. 21
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 describe those responsible. I'm sure the tales will justify themselves, when you hear them. The episo...
Jul 24, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Season 7Ep. 20
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 back fairly recently, to 2020, and to the county of Worcestershire this time around on The True Crim...
Jul 14, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 7Ep. 19
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 March 1994. I bring you Nikki's story here. The episode contains details and descriptions of events, inv...
Jun 30, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Season 7Ep. 18
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 listeners may find offensive, disturbing, and or distressing, so discretion is advised whilst listening....
Jun 20, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 7Ep. 17
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 events, involving children and injury detail, that some listeners may find offensive, disturbing, and o...
Jun 09, 2022•53 min•Season 7Ep. 16
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, right? See what you think. The episode contains details and descriptions of events, including crimes agai...
May 27, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Season 7Ep. 15
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 in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io...
May 19, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Season 7Ep. 14
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 unthinkable. The events you will hear within are simply that. Unthinkable. The episode contains details and de...
May 12, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 7Ep. 13
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 of my favourite tales to have covered, and is a tale you won't believe. The episode contains details ...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Season 7Ep. 12
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, involving descriptions of injury detail, that some listeners may find offensive, disturbing, and or distr...
Apr 20, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 7Ep. 11
At some point in our lives, we all tell a lie or two. Mostly little ones, embellishments. This time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, in a bit of deja vu, we are back down in Surrey to the mid 2000's, to hear the unbelieveable tale of an individual whose whole life seemed to be carried on lies. The most callous lies you can imagine. But, can lies get you away with cold blooded murder? Some people would think so. The episode contains details and descriptions of a crime and events, invo...
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 7Ep. 10
We head back to the late 1990's, and to the town of Warrington, in Cheshire, this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, for a sordid tale of sex, deceit - and brutal, pre-meditated murder. In fact, it's a tale that could almost be a television drama, certainly something scripted - and indeed, it has it's genesis in the theatre. It's one you likely won't forget in a hurry, either. The episode contains details and descriptions of a crime and events, involving details of a sexual nature...
Mar 31, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 7Ep. 9
This episode brings the second and concluding part of the story of Abigail Witchalls on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, where this time around we shall hear the reasons that by November 2005, Surrey Police had declared the case closed. Except that there had been no arrests, no charges brought, and no trial. How so? The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving details of injury description, that some listeners may find disturbing, and or distressing, so discret...
Mar 24, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 7Ep. 8
We head back to 2005, and to the Surrey village of Little Bookham this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, for the first of a two part tale in which we hear the terrible events, and the aftermath, of what happened to mother of one Abigail Witchalls, walking home with her toddler son one pleasant April afternoon.... The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving details of injury description, that some listeners may find disturbing, and or distressing,...
Mar 17, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Season 7Ep. 7
A truly horrific tale comes this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, as we are off back to 2015 and to the West Midlands town of Walsall, to hear of a trusting, vulnerable young woman who did nothing except see the good in the world. Sadly, for all the good that there is - there is evil also. And sometimes, that evil may come from somewhere you feel safe, and from someone you trust. The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving crimes of a sexual nat...
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Season 7Ep. 6
A pair of tales come this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, where we first head up to a town in Greater Manchester to learn of the exploits of a horrific and depraved sex attacker - one who made the jump to savage sex killer. And following that, the crimes of another individual who, well, who knows how best to label that one? Serial killer could be a good one - the self styled "Angel Of Mercy" Both tales are unforgettable ones. The episode contains details and descriptions of cri...
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Fire - the most consuming, most destructive of all the elements. This time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we look at a pair of tales where this most destructive element was used to horrific consequences. Out of misguided rage, and unfathomable revenge. The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving descriptions of events involving children, that some listeners may find disturbing, and or distressing, so discretion is advised whilst listening. Music us...
Feb 14, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 7Ep. 4
The tranquility of a North East village was shattered one morning back in April 1989, with a series of events that brought the North Tyneside village of Monkseaton the darkest day in it's history. This time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we look back at the events that unfolded. The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, including that of a sexual nature, that some listeners may find disturbing, and or upsetting, so discretion is advised whilst listening. M...
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 7Ep. 3
The concluding part to the opening tale of series 7 of The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast drops here, where last time, we were left with a face and the name of the individual who had struck such terror across the north and north - west of the UK, in an apalling campaign of sex attacks, that he had earned himself the title of "Britain's Most Wanted" An individual named Andrew Longmire. Dangerous enough as he was, he added another element to this by arming himself with a shotgun, and a large quanti...
Jan 27, 2022•59 min•Season 7Ep. 2
A warm welcome back to the new series of The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, where we open up Series 7 with the first part of a look back at an unfamiliar, long forgotten case from the 1980's. Which is a surprising description, because the events concerned within the tale are truly horrific ones - and were to lead to the individual bestowed with the title of "Britain's Most Wanted" It's good to be back. Paul (TTCE) The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, including that...
Jan 24, 2022•47 min•Season 7Ep. 1
Once again, I've sat down with a spare half an hour, and have gone back through the tales that have made up Series 6 of the show, and once again like the shit DVD Extras and 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 rough as a badgers arse, totally unscripted manner - even Peaks features in it. I thank you all for your very kind support this...
Jan 03, 2022•35 min
The concluding part of the Series 6 finale tale from The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast drops here, continuing from the events we heard in the first part - where we met a young woman named India Eve Chipchase - who sadly, back in 2016, never made it home from a Friday night out in Northampton. So let's meet the man - India's Good Samaritan - who stood accused of her rape and murder, for his trial - and I'm sure you won't believe the account he was to give. The episode contains details and descrip...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 6Ep. 35
On a night out, we can all enjoy ourselves - and we can all sometimes have that bit too much to drink. Usually, we have our mates there to help us out, to stick by us. But occasionally we get separated - I'm sure it has happened to most of us in our lives. So occasionally then, we may need to rely on the kindness of others - a Good Samaritan if you like. And most of the time, this is what they are. For the first part of the Series 6 finale episode of The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we hear ju...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 6Ep. 34
No crime should ever happen, but for the penultimate episode of Series 6 of The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we head back to 2016 and to the West Midlands market town of Bilston, to hear of a horrendous - a truly horrific crime, that really shouldn't have. Because it could have been prevented. The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, including that of a sexual nature, that some listeners may find disturbing, and or upsetting, so discretion is advised whilst listening...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Season 6Ep. 33
We began a two part tale last time here on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, which looked at an armed robbery in a small post office in a rural North Yorkshire village. The second such robbery in almost a year, in what could have been a carbon copy of the first. Except this one ended in the brutal murder of the postmistress, Diana Garbutt. Or did it? The tale is courtesy of Jess Carter, host of the Outlines Podcast, and takes us back to 2011, for this part covering the trial of the person polic...
Nov 18, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Season 6Ep. 32
