Lesser-known cases, carefully kept in view.
Always Time for True Crime is a case-by-case true crime show led by Julia, with recent stories ranging from the Forest City Serial Killer to Elizabeth 'Lisa' Roberts and the Hogue family murders. It favors detailed narration, victim names, investigation turns, and the unresolved questions that keep older cases alive.
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Always Time for True Crime is a narrated true-crime show about murder, missing-person cases, serial killers, and older crimes that have not always stayed in the public conversation. Julia is the recurring named voice in the excerpts, and her style is informal without being loose. She names victims. She follows timelines. She also makes room for the parts of a case that are still disputed, confusing, or painful. Recent episodes show the range clearly: The Forest City Serial Killer with Vanessa Brown Part 1, The Forest City Serial Killer with Vanessa Brown Part 2, The Row Family, Elizabeth 'Lisa' Roberts, The Hogue Family Murders, The Sharpe Family Murders, and Jack Gilbert Graham. The show moves through cases in Canada and the United States, including Everett, Boise, British Columbia, Colorado, and the Forest City material. It is not built around shock alone. The excerpts spend real time on family circumstances, police interviews, confessions, suspected motives, court outcomes, and the long wait for identification or resolution. Some stories turn on one official confession. Others sit inside competing accounts, missed chances, or a victim whose name was restored decades later. Julia’s narration is plainspoken and occasionally pointed, especially when a suspect’s explanation strains belief. Then the focus returns to the facts in sequence. The Forest City episodes bring in Vanessa Brown and repeatedly stress memory, unsolved questions, and the value of keeping old cases visible. Elizabeth 'Lisa' Roberts gives the show another recurring concern: unidentified victims being named after years of uncertainty. The family-murder episodes show an interest in crimes hidden behind ordinary domestic life. Jack Gilbert Graham expands that pattern into a mass-murder case tied to Flight 629. Across the sample, the show works best when it is sorting a complicated record into a story a listener can follow. It does not need theatrical distance. Its draw is the combination of case detail, human anger, and a persistent refusal to let older victims disappear into shorthand. For PlayNext, it belongs in the lane for true-crime listeners who want careful narration of lesser-known cases with enough context to understand why each one still lands.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants detailed true-crime narration about lesser-known murders, missing people, unidentified victims, and serial-killer cases. Best for someone comfortable with difficult material presented in a direct, case-file style.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by returning to older and less familiar cases while keeping victim names, investigative details, and unresolved threads in the foreground. Its conversational delivery makes dense timelines easier to follow without turning the material into spectacle.
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A killer was caught; 43 years later, you finally learn the victim's name.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A confession gives Georgia Jackson's case its clearest unsettling turn.
Part two of Always Time for True Crime's Forest City Serial Killer series turns on David Bottomer's confession, the moment that gives Georgia Jackson's case its sharpest and most disturbing movement.
Jackie English's story gives this case a human center while the Betty Harrison attack sharpens the suspect questions.
Jackie English's story is framed through the independence she was carving out in the summer of 1969, alongside her mother's worsening mental health and the absence of a steady parent at home.
A Boise house fire becomes a fractured family story of motive, testimony, and a death-row sentence.
The Rowe family fire starts with John Healy smelling smoke around 4am on February 10, 1992, then widens into the harder question of how three relatives died.
A killer was found, but Elizabeth Lisa Roberts remained unidentified for 43 years.
Always Time for True Crime follows a case shaped by a painful imbalance: a woman found murdered in the woods of Everett, Washington, in 1977 saw her killer identified and brought to justice, while she remained Jane Doe for 43 years.
A British Columbia family's respectable image gives way to a grim case of secrets, police authority, and a Christmas Eve robbery plan.
The Hogue Family Murders begins with the image of a settled 1960s British Columbia household, then steadily works at what that image was hiding.
Podcast discovery from the Sherpa Chalet.
Witchy banter with glorious detours.
Female crime, told with grave attention.
Always Time for True Crime part two stays on the Forest City Killer cases in London, Ontario, and Julia recaps Georgia Jackson, Jacqueline Dunleavy, Jackie English, Linda White, and Betty Harrison before widening the timeline.
Always Time for True Crime examines the Forest City serial killer theory in London, Ontario, where Julia says 11 brutal murders between 1968 and 1970 mostly stayed unsolved.
John Healy wakes around 4 a.m.
The killer in Elizabeth Lisa Roberts' 1977 Everett murder was convicted in 1979, but her name stayed unknown for 43 years.
Always Time for True Crime covers the Hogue Family Murders, also called the Coquitlam Massacre, after Vancouver police checked on Leonard Hogue on April 20, 1965.
Julia of Always Time for True Crime recounts the 2001 abduction of Toronto-area school owner Thomas Koo.
Julia tells how 17-year-old Shauna Card was found stabbed in her Florida home on January 31, 1995, after her mother Pauline returned from work.
Julia of Always Time for True Crime recounts five murders linked to the Doodler in 1970s San Francisco.
Host Julia introduces a patron-picked case about a lesser-known family annihilator, contrasting with the well-known Chris Watts case.
This episode recounts the 1955 bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 and the story of mass murderer Jack Gilbert Graham.