We head out of the UK for this time around on TTCEP, firstly to Belgium, and then to the Canary Island of Tenerife for two accounts of pure Gothic horror that I’m sure once you’ve heard them – you will never forget them.

Two examples of the horrors some will commit due to the beliefs they hold..

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 Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• Super Furry Animals – Something 4 The Weekend
• New York Dolls – Who Are The Mystery Girls?

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Remembering Christel, Dagmar, Marina and Petra. The episode is dedicated to them.

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As a massive thank you for getting the show into it's 9th year now, on it's birthday, I'd love to share an episode from the show's back catalogue just to say thank you - you each are the reason I'm at this point with the show, and I'm so forever grateful - thank you from the bottom of my heart. Here's to another 8 years!!

Paul

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For Hertfordshire farmer Roger Kingsley, the afternoon of Sunday, March 22nd 2009 was one that he would remember for the rest of his life. Working the fields of his farm, he came across a green 'Gullivers' holdall, the contents of which would begin a complex murder investigation, one that would stretch from Hertfordshire, to the East Midlands.

It seemed someone was making a human jigsaw....

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• Wolf Alice – The Sofa
• Lambrini Girls – Company Culture

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Remembering Jeffrey. The episode is dedicated to him.

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Concluding the two part tale accounting one of Scotland's most notorious crimes this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, for which we are back to the summer of 1996, to the area of West Dunbartonshire in Scotland, and where I have accounted the brutal and senseless murder of 14 year old Caroline Glachan. Her murder, remained a cold case for more than a quarter of a century, until in 2021, thanks to the crucial 25 year old evidence of a 4 year old boy...

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Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• Talking Heads – Crosseyed And Painless
• Cast – Poison Vine

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HMA v Robert O'Brien and Andrew Kelly

(1)  Crimewatch UK — December 1996 - YouTube

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Remembering Caroline. The episodes are dedicated to her.

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The first of a two part tale accounting one of Scotland's most notorious crimes comes this time around and next on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, for which we head back to the summer of 1996, to Scotland's West Dunbartonshire area, and where we meet a 14 year old girl named Caroline...

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• Arctic Monkeys – Fireside
• Pearl Jam – Nothing As It Seems

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Remembering Caroline.

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Four days – almost a full working week for the majority. 96 hours, for some, it will fly by, for others, it may feel like the clock may go backwards. Over one such period back in the autumn of 2000, Worcestershire and West Midlands Police found themselves dealing with some of the most brutal, senseless, and horrifying killings that both the force areas, and the UK, has ever seen – all committed by the same person.

This time on The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast, I bring you the tale of the crimes committed by an individual who was a spree killer – or, who may even have been a serial one…

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• The Boxer Rebellion – Semi Automatic
• Keyside – Angeline

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Remembering Jodie, Rosemary, and Carol.

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Satanism, Black Magic, and Devil Worshipping are terms that have been around since the Middle Ages. In the majority of cases today, people who follow this do so somewhat out of boredom, it drawing something in their angry, perhaps somewhat confused selves that they feel may be that edge that they need to express their inner feelings. And in most cases, it will go no further than a dabble with the ideology or symbolism, before they find it’s not really for them, they see the light, and leave it behind. In some cases, they will maintain a lifelong commitment to Satan, but never going further than pronouncing that they follow his teachings.

But in some extreme cases, such as in Germany, in 2001 - the tale I have brought this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast – the odd one or two go that bit further, and prove just how committed to Satan they really are…

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• The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
• Just Mustard – We Were Just Here

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Remembering Frank.

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The girl, dressed in a pretty pink dress, poses for a photograph sat on the knee of a young man, smartly dressed in a tuxedo. They could be any young couple, but are not, for whilst she smiles broadly, he cannot, through pain, and inability. She then approaches the young man in the tuxedo, and brandishing a knife, proceeds to mutilate his chest with it, carving her initials into him.

She then approaches him with a cellar of salt, and his terrified eyes widen as she pours it into the wound….

Sounds like a bad movie? It is, it’s a scene from a 2009 Australian horror movie called The Loved Ones – except that in 2012, in the English city of Chester, someone thought life should imitate art….

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• Black Sabbath – N.I.B
• YAANG – Speed McQueen

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Remembering Andrew.

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Have you ever had someone you’ve fallen for so much that you would want to do ANYTHING to impress them, to give them the world? How about, pretending to be something, someone that you aren’t then, where you back up the most lavish of stories with a once in a lifetime event? For one 18 year old Merseyside student back in 2004, she was to get this – though in her worst nightmares she couldn’t have imagined exactly how she was to – and the lengths that her suitor had gone to to give it her.

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Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• Bar Italia - Cowbella
• Portishead - Glory Box

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Remembering Brian and Jacqueline.

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Concluding the sad tale of 13 year old Southampton girl Lucy McHugh - and would Stephen Nicholson be convicted of her rape and murder? We look at this, and developments in the case following here.

One of the saddest tales I have covered.

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• Elbow - Fly Boy Blue/Lunette
• Robin Trower - Bridge Of Sighs

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R-v-Nicholson-sentencing-remarks-1.pdf

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The episode is dedicated to Lucy.

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