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Obscure cases, told with weight.
The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast follows obscure, often brutal cases through names, places, courtrooms, and aftermaths. Paul’s solo narration moves quickly from scene-setting to judgment, giving victims, families, and legal consequences as much attention as the crime itself.
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The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast is a one-person true-crime show with a hard focus on cases that have not been covered into the ground. It is grave, quick, and densely told. Paul’s narration tends to begin with place and circumstance, then stack the facts: who was present, what happened next, how police responded, what was said in custody, how lawyers framed the case, and what the court finally did with it. The result feels closer to a long, urgent case file retold aloud than a polished studio package. It has personality, though. Paul is willing to pause for a dry aside, a blunt reaction, or a moment of sympathy when the facts demand it. The recent run includes New Year and holiday-linked cases, family killings, violent attacks, buried bodies, old murder trials, diminished responsibility pleas, and sentencing decisions that leave relatives furious. The show is not gentle. It repeatedly returns to the gap between legal resolution and emotional justice, especially when families describe lies, delay, grief, and punishment that feels too small. Courtrooms are central. So are police interviews, remand hearings, prison visits, pleas, psychiatric reports, judges, prosecutors, defence counsel, and the words of those left behind. Paul’s style is conversational, but the structure is chronological and procedural, with enough dates and locations to keep the story anchored. There is also a distinctly local texture: North Wales in the framing, UK and Irish cases in the main current, with the occasional wider detour. The show works best when the case is obscure, messy, and morally ugly. It does not chase slick suspense so much as accumulation. Small details pile up until the full human cost is difficult to look away from. For listeners who want careful retellings with a personal edge, it offers a darker, more direct lane through true crime.
Made for: For true-crime listeners who want detailed solo narration, courtroom follow-through, and cases beyond the usual headline circuit. It suits those comfortable with grave material and a narrator who reacts plainly to cruelty and injustice.
What sets it apart: The show stands out through its combination of obscure case selection, rapid chronological detail, and personal moral commentary. It spends unusual time on aftermath: pleas, sentencing, family anger, and the uneasy limits of legal closure.
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 [email protected], you can support t…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed solo narration connects criminal acts, courtroom outcomes and family aftermath with unusual procedural clarity.
Paul reconstructs killings through the decisions that surround them: arrests, changing accounts, court hearings, pleas and sentencing remarks.
From a North Wales spare room, Paul makes unfamiliar cases hard for you to leave half-heard.
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A sentencing-led true crime hour shaped by grief, anger, and a five-year answer.
Death Is In The Air is a sentencing-led true crime hour, with Mr Justice Gage's five-year imprisonment term giving the story its hard frame. The strongest passages lean on the court's own language: the unlawful assault that caused Louisa's death, the burial in Nunnery Woods, and…
A prison meeting, a shifting confession, and a Leeds courtroom keep this case taut.
The episode follows Anthony O'Rourke back into Armley Prison and on to the Leeds courtroom, where John Parris returns to a client who hands over six pencilled pages and then shifts his story once again.
A drunken arrest leads into a troubling family case where memory, intent, and self-defence blur.
The episode frames Robert Circa's arrest as a family tragedy shaped by alcohol, panic, and a volatile relationship. Officers arrive at a gathering at 2.20am after his brother's death, and Circa is so drunk he passes out in the police car while repeatedly asking whether…
A grim hotel assault recounted with clear momentum, personal texture, and an uneasy closeness to the violence.
New Years Evil makes a hotel gathering feel frighteningly exposed, following the attack as it pushes from locked doors into the room and then across the people inside it.
A child-killing case told through court proceedings and sentencing.
The episode traces the case of Jake and Chloe Ford through the court process that ended with Samantha Ford pleading manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
Family endurance and prison years anchor a steady aftermath-focused chapter, with only a dense health rundown to slow it down.
Rather than revisiting the violence itself, the chapter stays with the long afterlife of it, letting Liz Maxwell's words and the family's endurance do most of the work.
A rough-edged series recap that keeps its focus on the people left carrying the damage.
The closing episode returns to Jacqueline Ross, Daniel Joseph, and Deleth Andrews, and the result feels less like a tidy wrap-up than a last look at the damage the series has been carrying.
ABC Audio's Theranos fraud series that also introduces its other true-crime podcasts.
Patrick Radden Keefe investigates whether the CIA secretly wrote a Scorpions hit.
Jake Halpern and the Snowball team track a con artist who defrauded a family.
A city-by-city true-crime documentary, from Detroit's Kwame Kilpatrick scandal to mob confessions.
A murder rumor in rural Alabama unravels into a clockmaker's suicide and estate feud.
This is a promotional segment for the Always True Crime podcast network, highlighting two investigative series and a Norauto tire advertisement.
This final episode of 'The Lost Girls' series examines the aftermath of serial killer Robert Black's crimes.
This is a promotional segment for the Always True Crime network, advertising other true crime series like Codename Badger and The Mystic in the Mare, followed by a humorous ad for a wellness podcast.
A true crime podcast episode promoting other series in the Always True Crime network, with no actual case content.
This episode of Jigsaw investigates the case of Stephen Marshall, a Canadian serial killer, and the police investigation that led to his capture.
This episode is a promotional segment for the True Crime Enthusiast podcast, advertising other true crime series before the main content begins.
["The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast's series 8 review jumps from Leanne Turner in Leeds to David Smith's double-jeopardy conviction, covering 33 cases along the way.", "Paul, the creator-host from North Wales, says the episode is a rough recap before the next series and introduces Pixie, his sleeping cat, as company.", "He revisits cases including Colette Gallagher, Abby Humphries, Joshua Hunt's 'mudding' explanation, and the unnamed South Wales father in 'Monsters of Carmarthenshire.'", "The review ends on the East Lancs Road murders and Smith's killings of Sarah Crump and Amanda Walker, which Paul treats as the series' most severe violence."]
The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast episode “Death Is In The Air” ties Valentine’s Day to three UK cases: Pauline Turner and her two-year-old son Jamie in Worcester in 1993, Louisa Tipping in Ronkswood, and Adiba Ahmed in Slough in 2004.
The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast episode "The Luck Of The Irish" follows Anthony O'Rourke, an Irish migrant who arrived in Pickering, North Yorkshire, with Flory and her four children in 1949.
A true crime podcast episode about a case at Derlwyn Farm, preceded by promotions for other shows and a UBC wildfire research segment.
This is a promotional segment for the Always True Crime network, featuring ads for other true crime podcasts and a university AI initiative, before the actual episode begins.
A true crime podcast episode about an arson case, with an ad for UBC's wildfire research.
A 15-to-17-centimetre wound pierced Christopher Serka’s aorta, and the knife handle snapped off in the kitchen sink.
Paul traces the New Year’s Eve 1991 violence at the Cloverley House Hotel in Llandudno, where Denise Reynolds’s family, children, and guests were gathered before Vernon Reynolds forced his way inside.
Host Paul of the True Crime Enthusiast podcast presents a Patreon-archive 'Horrors Over the Holidays' episode covering the December 2018 murder of 23-month-old twins Jake and Chloe Ford by their mother, Samantha Ford, in Margate, Kent.