This week in The Guardian, the excellent Nancy Jo Sales, tried to answer the question "Why do women like true crime so much?" In it Sales suggests that possibly one of the reason is the rise in dating apps, and the challenges in navigating a dating world where women still fundementally feel as though there …
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There are some crimes which are so horrible to think about, we have not, as a society been able to deal with them well collectively. Child sexual abuse is most firmly in that category. It was only really in the 1970s that society started to acknowledge that child sexual abuse was something that happened, and …
Hallie Rubenhold broke into the true crime scene and riperology in 2019, and caused quite the stir. What was so shocking about Hallie's take on the ultimate cold case? Had she found definative proof that connected Jack the Ripper to the royal family or the Masonic Lodge? Was there a whole new theory about who …
Continue reading Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper. A True Crime Podcast
Everybody knows that if you chose a life in the armed forces, you are going to need to be ready to face some serious situations, ones that could end up with you losing your life. Joining up is never an option that should be taken lightly given all the risk that are part and parcel …
Continue reading Death at Deepcut: A True Crime Podcast About Crime in the British Army
When you peruse the myriad of reviews of The Bigmaist many readers admire Turner-Thompson for her bravery of telling her story in public. A similar amount of people finish the book wondering why on earth she went so far, and so deep into the relationship with Jordan when there were so many red flags. It is a natural thing to wonder, but we also fool ourselves if we think we will not be so easily taken in. A huge amount of people fall foul every year to scams sometimes romantic, often monetary, in person, online and over the phone. None of the people who are caught out ever thought before they would be the kind of person who would fall foul of such duplicitousness. Don't we all like the think, to hope, that we would be the one who would turn the tide and be far too clever for those kinds of schemes.
It is in the public interest to get to the bottom of what happened during the investigation and trial. In a country who's government has declared it wants to be the "best country in the world for children to grow up," we appear to have easily forgotten who is a child, when their rights don't fit the narrative we have chosen, before all the evidence is in.
Genre cross-overs in most entertainment can work incredibly well, such as horror comedy. The reason that this works so well is that is that horror and comedy are two sides of the same coin, they both rely on the unexpected for their big pay off, and so mould well together. Not so much true crime and romance. Sure there are couples in true crime, Bonnie and Clyde, Starkweath and Fugate who Natural Born Killer's Micky and Mallory was based on, and later Iain Brady and Myra Hindley. While there are a few big names, couples where both are active in a crime tend to be the exception rather than the rule, but even more rare are couples where one is a criminal, and the other is a serving police officer.
The trails of Oscar Wilde, compiled by Giles Brandreth and performed by Martin Jarvis is a detailed and loving recreation, using original transcripts, of two trials in which Oscar Wilde was a central player. In the first trial Wilde was suing the Marquess of Queensbury, whoes family is responsible for one of Edinburgh's most gruesome …
Continue reading Pride Bonus Episode: From Oscar Wilde to the Grndr Killer
It is unfortunately a story that we are familure with, from crime fiction and true crime. A body is found, an investigation is started, and then it goes... nowhere. It is one of the most poingant of all crime narratives because nobody wants to be in the horrible limbo of waiting to find out if …
Continue reading The Forgotten Dead: A True Crime Podcast about Nameless Victims
In Relentless Persuit Edwards shows us that one person with enough tenacity can work against forces much larger and more powerful than himself. However it is not in everybodies gift to do that kind of work, and not every victim will be lucky enough to have Edwards, or a lawyer of his caliber, on their side.
