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UK True Crime Podcast

Always True Crime

The weekly UK True Crime Podcast, hosted by Adam Lloyd, has been the home of UK True Crime since 2016.Shortlisted in four categories for the 2025 True Crime Awards - including Best True Crime Podcast - and with over 85 million listens, it is where you discover a wide variety of lesser known UK cases and find new perspectives and insight on stories you may already know.If you would like to advertise on the show, please just email: Sales@audioalways.comhttps://uktruecrime.com⚠️ Disclaimer:The case

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28:42

The Saturday Night Strangler (part two): Episode 139

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/07/08

We return to South Wales in 2002 as the body of Joseph Kappen is exhumed from the grave where he was buried 12 years earlier, after dying from lung cancer at age 48. Was he the serial killer who had murdered 16 year old Sandra, Pauline and Geraldine? Reference For this story, I am indebted to the following article by Kevin Toolis in The Guardian

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26:52

The Saturday Night Strangler (part one): Episode 138

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/07/02

It was a strange experience for the detectives and forensics experts at dusk by the graveside as they began digging to exhume the body of the suspect. But the families of three young girls from the Swansea area, killed 30 years before, needed to be told for certain if this was the man who killed their daughters. This two-part episode of the UK True Crime looks at the terrible murders of Geraldine Hughes, Pauline Floyd and Sandra Newton in 1973 and the efforts made to bring their killer to

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24:02

A Life of Adventure: Episode 137

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/06/24

A stolen yacht was found drifting 12 miles from the coast from Senegal and it looked like it had been drifting for a month. Who had been sailing the boat and why was it here? In this episode of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast, I track the events leading to this discovery in August 2006. https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime

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22:42

Catching The Bus: Episode 136

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/06/17

This is an unusual episode of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast, as I look at the story of Louis Gillies, from Glasgow, who faced the charge that on a day between May 20 and June 7, 2002, at Eastbourne, he aided, abetted, counselled or procured the suicide of Michael Gooden, contrary to the Suicide Act 1961. I look at the background to the charges and follow events through to their shocking conclusion. Reference For this episode, I leaned heavily on this excellent

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22:19

A Halloween Obsessive: Episode 135

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/06/10

Control, domination, obsession. What makes someone exhibit these behaviours and then plan murder based on them? In today's story, from near Manchester in 2003, we look at a terrifying story of obsession that lead to an innocent man dying in the street outside his own home. https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime

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25:42

A Naval Disappearance (part-two): Episode 134

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/06/03

**This is the second part of a two part story**. The story resumes with Allan Grimson revealing to detectives details of another horror murder carried our for the elation he felt experiencing total domination and control of another person. I then explore other potential crimes carried out by this monster - did he kill as many as 15? https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime

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23:32

A Naval Disappearance (part-one): Episode 133

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/05/27

In today's episode I look at two members of the Royal Navy who disappeared in very different circumstances. And we meet a murderer who describes killing someone as: "It was such a feeling. I have never, ever had that feeling. It was a feeling of power. I would say it was better than sex." https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime

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23:34

The Facebook Killer: Episode 132

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/05/20

The internet allows all of us to be whoever we want to be. Of course, this can be escapist fun, but in today's episode of the UK True Crime weekly podcast from the north-east in 2009 we look at a man who posed as teenage boys for much more sinister reasons. https://www.uktruecrime.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime https://www.patreon.com/UKTrueCrime

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21:01

Margo Lafferty from Glasgow: Episode 131

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/05/13

The night of 28 February was chilly in Glasgow, with a bitter wind. But one sex worker was still on the streets, earning the money to pay for her heroin habit. In this episode of the UK True Crime Weekly podcast we follow the life of Margo Lafferty. 1, Please buy tickets for my live events in London & Manchester here: www.uktruecrime.com 2, Other links mentioned in the show: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UKTrueCrime www.patreon.com/uktruecrime

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26:16

A Double Abduction: Episode 130

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/05/06

Luck. Is staying safe just a matter of luck? In this episode, from North London in Christmas 1986 looks at two awful abductions and one terrible accident. A series of events caused by just one man which caused such misery and ruined so many lives. A huge thank you to Chris Clarke for his help with this story. He can be found on Facebook at The Armchair Detective. Chris chose to donate his fee for this episode to www.sosad.com, a dog rescue charity in County Durham. 1, Please buy tickets for my

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27:30

Nikki Allan from Sunderland: Episode 129

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/04/29

Nikki Allan was born in Sunderland on 30 August 1985 and she lived in the City with her mum, Sharon and 3 sisters. There was nothing unusual about the night of 7 October 1992, but this was the night that Nikki went missing and her body was found the next day. Nobody has been convicted of her murder. If you have any information about Nikki’s death - however small or insignificant it might seem - please speak to Northumbria Police’s major crime team on 101 ext 69191 or the independent charity

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20:01

A Double Murder: Episode 128

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/04/22

Stansted Mountfitchet is a quiet, pretty Essex village of around 6,000 people 35 miles north of London and close to Stansted airport. Not much happens here. But on a summers evening in July 2015 a brutal double murder rocked the community. In this episode of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast I look at exactly what happened. And why.

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29:12

Missing in Bournemouth: Episode 127

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/04/15

On the outside, they had everything. A beautiful home, the sports cars, holidays, great jobs. But beneath the surface, tension was building between Russell and Carole Packman, especially when Russell's younger lover moved into the family home in Bournemouth. Then in June 1985, Carole disappeared. In this episode of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast I explore a quite extraordinary story stretching from the 1970's to the present day. 1, Please buy tickets for my event with top author Geoffrey

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25:52

The Scottish Vampire: Episode 126

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/04/08

Have you ever been obsessed by a film? I mean really obsessed? In todays story, we hear how one Scottish man watched one vampire film three times a day, every day, and began to believe in the characters. Then fiction merged with reality producing unimaginable horror…. 1, Please buy tickets for my event with top author Geoffrey Wansell on 16 April in Manchester and 20 May in London 'Inside the mind of a serial killer' here: www.uktruecrime.com 2, Other links mentioned in the

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23:52

Missing in Merseyside: Episode 125

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/04/01

When Paul Morson had been missing for two weeks, detectives feared that he may have been held against his will, harmed, or worse….A few years previously, he had been in jail for his part in assisting two men guilty of a terrible racist murder. Was his disappearance related to this, or was it due to other reasons? This episode of the UK True Crime Weekly Podcast looks at all elements of the story and discovers what had in fact happened to Paul Morson. 1, Please buy tickets for my event with top

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25:53

Murder in Rural Cornwall: Episode 124

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/03/26

Crime was almost unheard of in this peaceful village in the north of Cornwall. But in November 2003, all that changed when the violent murder of Joan Roddam rocked the rural community of Delabole. With two other brutal murders nearby, was there a serial killer loose in Cornwall? And 10 years later, Joan's killer was still on the loose…. 1, Please buy tickets for my event with top author Geoffrey Wansell on 20 May in London here 'Inside the mind of a serial

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23:01

Held Against His Will: Episode 123

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/03/19

Here's the thing: you and I wouldn't fall for the wash-wash scam would we. Would we? In Leicester, as a group of men attempted to con local business associates over a property deal, the situation quickly escalated out of control with terrible consequences. 1, Please buy tickets for my event with top author Geoffrey Wansell on 26 March in London here 'Inside the mind of a serial killer': http://bit.ly/uktruecrimekillerstalk 2, Other links mentioned in the show: www.uktruecrime.com

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22:45

The Blackpool Serial Killer: Episode 122

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/03/12

Just how well do you know your family and friends and what they could be capable of doing? The podcast this week looks at a man who killed three people. A 'normal' (whatever that means) guy who was popular, had a range of interests and had a broad circle of friends. But when under stress in life, he went to a very dark place and carried out the most dreadful of crimes. 1, An excellent source of information on Blackpool Crime I referred to in this episode is below:

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23:41

The First Date: Episode 121

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/03/05

Their first date was due to take place at a trendy bar in Shoreditch, East London. Carl sounded great and Katie was incredibly excited as she travelled to their meeting on 23 December, 2015. How was Katie to know that the man she had met on Plenty of Fish was a monster? www.uktruecrime.com https://m.facebook.com/groups/1479468325433430 www.patreon.com/uktruecrime

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31:55

Northern Ireland, October 1993: Episode 120

UK True Crime Podcast ·

2019/02/26

Northern Ireland, October 1993. It was a terrible week as violence surged leaving innocent people on all sides of the troubles dead or injured. I look at the reasons for two of the most horrendous attacks in the history of Northern Ireland, what happened and why, and over 25 years later I remember the victims. www.uktruecrime.com https://m.facebook.com/groups/1479468325433430 www.patreon.com/uktruecrime

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