The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

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 [email protected]. Also, you can support the show at Patreon for extra content and offers: The True Crime Enthusiast Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/thetruecrimeenthusiast)

1 hour 56 seconds

A Nightmare On May Street
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 the garden of the neighbouring property.Amongst the various clutter and discarded rubbish in the garden was a duvet.

Out of which, was poking a human leg....

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

Music used in this episode: "TheDescent" by KevinMacleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
- Josh Idehen - Mum Does The Washing
The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support

References - Assorted articles available from the Hull Daily Mail, Hull Live, The Mirror Online, BBC News
- Sentencing Remarks
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Remembering Daniel and Matthew.

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14 October 2024, 2:36 am
57 minutes 44 seconds

Blood Feud
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 years long, perhaps lifelong dislike of that person. This time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, we head to Liverpool and back to 2008 for a tale of a feud that festered over years, and led to the most horrific and tragic of circumstances.

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

Music used in this episode: "TheDescent" by KevinMacleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an AttributionLicence(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
- Declan Mckenna - British Bombs
- The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio
The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support

References - assorted articles from BBC News; Liverpool Echo, Chester Live. "Underworld UK. Women Who Kill" (Vanessa Howard, 2010) - pp 127-150

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Remembering Rachel. This episode is dedicated to her.

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7 October 2024, 5:00 am
1 hour 15 seconds

Man With A Past
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 individual stirred with the most horrific of consequences - at the same time, reactivating the nightmare that a Derbyshire family had spent almost four decades trying to deal with.

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

Music used in this episode: "TheDescent" by KevinMacleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an AttributionLicence(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Playlist Tracks
- Downset - Anger
- Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support

References - Produced upon request, but available via:
- Assorted articles available via the British Newspaper Archive
- BBC News
- Newspapers.com
- The Free Library
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Remembering Lorraine and Faye. This episode is dedicated to them.

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23 September 2024, 5:00 am
1 hour 25 minutes

Text "M" For Murder

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 and used under an Attribution Licence ()

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20 August 2024, 3:49 am
1 hour 16 minutes

Killer In Uniform

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 and used under an Attribution Licence ()

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11 August 2024, 5:57 am
1 hour 33 minutes

The Girl In The Ground - Part 2

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 in the most nightmarish of circumstances. Though it was to take almost 27 years, in 2008 the wheels of justice finally began to turn for Ursula and her family.

Except that once they had, the case became perhaps more controversial than it was before - with no one feeling this more strongly than Ursula's family.

Concluding a tale you'll never forget.

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving a child, and including a description of animal cruelty, 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 and used under an Attribution Licence ()

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28 July 2024, 6:03 am
1 hour 7 minutes

The Girl In The Ground - Part 1

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 the first of a two part story, I venture in a first for the show outside of the UK and Ireland and head to Germany, where I bring you the tragic story of 10 year old Ursula Herrmann.

It's a tale you won't believe...

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving a child, and including a description of animal cruelty, 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 and used under an Attribution Licence ()

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21 July 2024, 6:00 am
1 hour 24 minutes

Last Ride.

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 about, merely the destination.
In the winter of 1995, one such hitcher, a 19 year old French student named Celine Figard, accepted a ride that she was sadly, never to finish.

Her last ride.

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 and used under an Attribution Licence ()

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13 July 2024, 10:49 am
1 hour 17 minutes

The Girl Who Loved Horses

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 chosen field, so capable was she - until one April evening, that came to a crashing halt.

As did Gillian's life.

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving a child, 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 and used under an Attribution Licence ()

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5 July 2024, 8:58 am
1 hour 25 minutes

Prey
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, became part of the same sad and disturbing set of statistics.

Each were vulnerable adults, and each became prey for, the only word that can possibly describe the actions of some individuals, animals.

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving vulnerable adults, 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
- Orlando Weeks - Dig
- Chappaque Wrestling - Full Round Table
The True Crime Enthusiast's Fundraiser For Macmillan Cancer Support

References
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Remembering Christine, Brent and Raymond. This episode is dedicated to them.

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19 June 2024, 10:29 pm
1 hour 23 minutes

Cruelty Of The Cuckoo

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 actions of some are, how they prey upon and use the vulnerable for their own means, even those who have next to nothing.

The cruelty that some people can show - for their own entertainment.

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving a vulnerable adult, 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 and used under an Attribution Licence ()

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9 June 2024, 4:37 am
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