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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 into – but for Simon, there was an...
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 callous of crimes against a...
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...
“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 tune of the soap claimed. But...
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 country as a whole. How he was...