The Crime Roundup: April 2025
In this monthly collaboration series, Adam from the UK True Crime podcast and I take a step back from individual cases to explore a curated selection of gripping crime stories that made headlines in A...
25 Apr 202551min
#294 - Sheer 'Bloody' Ignorance (‘Robyn’ Browne, Fitvrovia, UK)
On Friday 28th of February 1997 sometime after 7pm, at 6b Gosfield Street, a brutal and bloody attack on a lone sex-worker occurred in this first floor flat. Barely reported in the newspapers and igno...
24 Apr 20251h 2min
S17E08 | Diana Garbutt (Melsonby, North Yorkshire, 2010)
In March 2010, the small Yorkshire village of Melsonby awoke to the kind of horror rarely seen outside the pages of crime fiction.40-year-old Diana Garbutt was found bludgeoned to death in her bed, an...
23 Apr 202533min
A Suspicious Fire: Episode 440
The fire hit the residential street in Newcastle-under-Lyme at around 4am. Luckily, the main house was ok and it was just the garage that was destroyed. But then it was found that a body had been disc...
21 Apr 202525min
The Lost Girls: Part 10 - The Aftermath
The Lost Girls multi-parter comes full circle this time around on The True Crime Enthusiast, as for the final part I housekeep the tale of Susan, Caroline, Sarah, Theresa and Jennifer. We look at the ...
19 Apr 20251h 14min
#293 - The Mercy Murderess (Valerie & Carmen Swann, Maida Vale)
On Friday the 7th of February 1936, 32-year-old Carmen Swann booked a twin room for one night in Clarendon Court at 33 Maida Vale, West London. Staying in Room 4 of Flat 20 on the third floor, she an...
17 Apr 20251h 2min
S17E07 | Gerald Corrigan (Holyhead, Anglesey, 2019)
In April 2019, the quiet Welsh island of Anglesey was rocked by a crime so bizarre and brutal it seemed almost fictional.74-year-old Gerald Corrigan was outside his remote coastal home when he was str...
16 Apr 202530min
Operation Matrix: Episode 439
Operation Matrix saw a drugs gang of ten men sentenced to more than 120 years in prison for their part in a £53 million supply of cocaine into the UK.But what is the story between the headlines? It al...
15 Apr 202527min
