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True Crime Podcasts

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭ifeelstupid


    Pheonix10 wrote: »
    Oh I did the same! Looking for anything similar.

    You might enjoy Death in Ice Valley


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,732 ✭✭✭Mollyb60


    You might enjoy Death in Ice Valley

    +1 for this. I'm listening to that at the moment and it is really fascinating.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭optogirl


    Just started binging Redhanded - lots of cases and the women who present have a great way of analysing it while staying fresh & engaged. I thought I wouldn't like it to begin with because I don't like the 'banter' element of some true crime podcasts but these ladies seem to have struck the balance very well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,315 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    Didn't think much of Death in Ice Valley - Lacked detail and think it might have been too long ago.

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,325 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kingp35


    Not a recommendation but a warning. I started listening to 'The Clearing', a true crime podcast from Gimlet featuring April Balascio, daughter of American serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards. I only lasted to episode 4 of the 8 episode series as it was so unfocused I just couldn't get into it.

    Did anyone listen to it and enjoy it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭markcahill1985


    Kingp35 wrote: »
    Not a recommendation but a warning. I started listening to 'The Clearing', a true crime podcast from Gimlet featuring April Balascio, daughter of American serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards. I only lasted to episode 4 of the 8 episode series as it was so unfocused I just couldn't get into it.

    Did anyone listen to it and enjoy it?




    I finished it but wouldnt say I thoroughly enjoyed it, agreed it lacked focus and was all over the place. A lot of conjecture in it as well I felt. Not one of my favourites but was grand for a car journey.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭ifeelstupid


    I have just finished listening to The Missing Cryptoqueen, a BBC podcast - Dr Ruja Ignatova persuaded millions to join her financial revolution. Then she disappeared. Why? Jamie Bartlett presents a story of greed, deceit and herd madness.
    Interesting to see how easily people get sucked in to believing these scams, in fairness Dr Ruja seemed to have all the credentials!!

    (As an aside I also like the lack of advertising on the BBC podcasts:D)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,315 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    New podcast from RTE called The nobody Zone, episodes are uploaded every monday.

    About an Irishman in London in the 80's who starts confessing to multiple murders. First episode seems promising.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭Not in Kansas


    New podcast from RTE called The nobody Zone, episodes are uploaded every monday.

    About an Irishman in London in the 80's who starts confessing to multiple murders. First episode seems promising.

    I listened to the first episode of this tonight and thought it was brilliant. I'm looking forward to the rest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,315 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    I listened to the first episode of this tonight and thought it was brilliant. I'm looking forward to the rest.

    Second episode out today.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 443 ✭✭ifeelstupid


    Second episode out today.

    I'll have to wait til it's all done, I dont have the patience to wait week to week:pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Raconteuse


    Bardstown.

    A pretty little town in Kentucky has suddenly turned into a scary place in the last seven years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    New podcast from RTE called The nobody Zone, episodes are uploaded every monday.

    I was looking forward to this but very disappointed. This podcast is so in love with itself, particularly the narrator, who thinks he is working on something epic. It's very slow, the repetition of the actual interviews by the narrator becomes tedious.

    Not sure I'll bother with episode three.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    Not sure if it's been mentioned before but Redhanded is very good also.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,869 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Recently started listening to one called Murder Mile. Surprised no one has mentioned it up to this point.

    It's UK True Crime and the guys style is a bit eccentric. I think the narrator himself is a bit "off". But I kind of like his blackly comic style.

    I don't really know why in this case it works for me, I usually hate comedic true crime, there's something so wrong usually for me when I get the sense that cruelty and murder is being played for a laugh.

    But the guy knows how to tell a good story and the scripting is very witty and the wordplay is tight. And he's a talented enough voice artist too. I think I find it easier to stomach his comedy, because I think he uses it more in the service of portraying the narcissistic and selfish side of the murders. He doesn't really mock the victims.

    The most bizarre aspect of the pod is the feature at the end of most episodes of a segment called the "mini-mile". It's got nothing to do with the true crime, just the host going on about his daily life. And this guy is a bit odd. He'll fill you in on his living situation - he lives on some houseboat - his battle with his weight - a never ending battle, he loves cake, and all sorts of other stuff.

    It feels unusual to hear this fella going on about all this minuatae and typically he's verbally ticking and bleeping away the whole time. It can feel like you are listening to a man have a low key nervous breakdown.

    But, it is at the end and you don't have to listen to it and at the end of a multipart series he'll release an omnibus edition of the series with all the episodes compiled together but with all his audio diary and tourettes stuff cut out.

    It's strange, the whole show is strange. I'm surprised that it isn't a bit more of a cult thing. It's definitely one of the more idiosyncratic true crime pods out there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭Not in Kansas


    I was looking forward to this but very disappointed. This podcast is so in love with itself, particularly the narrator, who thinks he is working on something epic. It's very slow, the repetition of the actual interviews by the narrator becomes tedious.

    Not sure I'll bother with episode three.

    It's amazing how differently people can react to things. I just said last night that I think he's my favourite narrator of any podcast I've ever listened to. His voice is wonderful as is his pacing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    It's amazing how differently people can react to things. I just said last night that I think he's my favourite narrator of any podcast I've ever listened to. His voice is wonderful as is his pacing.

    He's got a very good voice. Sort of reminded me of Craig Beck, who writes and narrates his own motivational books.. See what you think

    https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Art-of-Happiness-Peace-Purpose-Audiobook/B01LZH6ZYQ?qid=1583360618&sr=1-2&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_2&pf_rd_p=c6e316b8-14da-418d-8f91-b3cad83c5183&pf_rd_r=WN15AW3P47WVGV0CBX2D

    I did listen to episode three after all. Seems like it takes a curve, as they start to question the reliability of the guy that is one of the main sources for the story. I did laugh when I heard the interview with Ray D'Arcy though, as Ray laps up his tall stories.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭dball


    I was looking forward to this but very disappointed. This podcast is so in love with itself, particularly the narrator, who thinks he is working on something epic. It's very slow, the repetition of the actual interviews by the narrator becomes tedious.

    Not sure I'll bother with episode three.

    just listened to ep3 there,
    he has kind of told us that most of ep1 and ep2 were not really coming from a reliable source so its almost like its back to square 1
    , loosing interest in this - ill listen next week but i'm not going to be as keen and eager to hear it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭Not in Kansas


    The Nobody Zone Ep 3:
    Yes episode 3 calls into question everything said in Episode 2 but that in itself was fascinating to me. How in the hell did this guy manage to publish a book and do the morning TV and radio circuit unchallenged when in that book he accuses the home office of covering up the crimes of a serial killer and elevates his own position to that of chief investigator of the original case, none of which is true. That book is still for sale online on multiple sites - I checked. We really do live in a post-truth world.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    dball wrote: »
    just listened to ep3 there,
    he has kind of told us that most of ep1 and ep2 were not really coming from a reliable source so its almost like its back to square 1
    , loosing interest in this - ill listen next week but i'm not going to be as keen and eager to hear it.

    I always wonder about the "set up" for these podcasts. It seems to me that some of these documentary makers do all their research and interviews, and then arrange information that was acquired linearly in an order that makes the story most interesting.
    Surely as was said above, all the information that they got from Geoff should have just been ignored and left out of the podcast altogether.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    They are talking about The Nobody Zone right now on Radio 1 with one of the producers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭Not in Kansas


    The Nobody Zone Episode 3:
    In relation to whether they should have included Geoff's claims at all only to discredit him, I think the justification in this instance is that the podcast would not exist were it not for the book he wrote. It was his book and the hype surrounding it that sparked the idea in the first place


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,881 ✭✭✭dball


    fair point Kansas. agreed


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    I've also been listening to the Fatal Voyage podcast by that Colin McLaren guy from Australia. Series One was about the death of Natalie Wood, Series Two was about the death of Princess Diana, and Season three is about JFK Junior and his "unfortunate" plane crash.

    They are worth a listen but I sort of lost all respect for Colin Mclaren when he came to the conclusion that JFK Senior was actually shot by a secret service agent who was in the car behind (whose automatic weapon went off by accident!).

    https://podbay.fm/podcast/1411528418


  • Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    the dateline NBC podcasts are actually fairly good one-episode case stories imo - a reasonable amount are quite interesting and pretty well done as they have integrated the witnesses pretty well - has anybody tried them?


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  • Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I've also been listening to the Fatal Voyage podcast by that Colin McLaren guy from Australia. Series One was about the death of Natalie Wood, Series Two was about the death of Princess Diana, and Season three is about JFK Junior and his "unfortunate" plane crash.

    They are worth a listen but I sort of lost all respect for Colin Mclaren when he came to the conclusion that JFK Senior was actually shot by a secret service agent who was in the car behind (whose automatic weapon went off by accident!).

    https://podbay.fm/podcast/1411528418

    sounds like he is partial to a donning tinfoil hat?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    I heard Tubridy this morning saying that The Nobody Zone is one of the best podcasts ever made. I think this remark only makes sense in the context that he considers himself an excellent host of the late late show. It's not bad by any means by the structure of it has really gone to hell after they pulled the rug from under their own story in Episode Three. And I listened to Episode four where they discussed three particular murders, and this is probably where they should have started the series.

    Tubridy says they were right to tell the story in only six episodes. I argue that they could have told the story in one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,467 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Really enjoying the nobody zone 2 episodes in
    Kelly was a really ****ed up person and the cop guy in episode 2 equally as
    The Christy Moore song really fits in


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    Episode Five of The Nobody Zone is out today. I listened to it earlier and thought it was quite good.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,236 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    glasso wrote: »
    the dateline NBC podcasts are actually fairly good one-episode case stories imo - a reasonable amount are quite interesting and pretty well done as they have integrated the witnesses pretty well - has anybody tried them?

    Yeah really enjoying them and the 48 hours ones, really easy to listen too.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,315 ✭✭✭✭Mantis Toboggan


    The Annie McCarrick case was covered by True Crime Garage this week.

    Well worth a listen.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    If we're picking individual episodes with an Irish bent, then the Redhanded podcast did an episode on Ana Kriegal.

    https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/redhanded/episode-130-ana-kri%C3%A9gel-the-LnArtPpwUlk/

    It's a good telling of the story, but God it is depressing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭Tropheus


    Anyone listen to the last episode of The Nobody Zone?
    Overall, it was interesting series and very well done. However, it presented very little new information.

    I was hoping there would be some type of breakthrough, but they seemed to draw blanks at every turn. They never really determined if the person supposedly murdered in Bank Tube station in 1953 actually existed. You'd imagine there would have been some record of a body found so likely it never happened.

    IMO, Kelly was a serial killer, but also a fantasist and didn't kill as many people as he claims. The ex detective (I think they showed he never actually was a detective nor central to the case) was a headbanger also.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,869 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    I thought it was only so so. A lot of dead ends and much building up to revalations that never arrived.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,467 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Did love the nobody zone series but found last episode a bit disappointing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    Day Six in the Big Brother house and somebody else has made a gobsh1te out of Rob. In this episode, some lad tells Rob that there are bones buried in the ground. Rob hires a team to dig the ground and they found nothing. I think if you sent out Rob to sell your cow he would come back with magic beans.

    Really annoyed with this podcast. Aside from episode four, which I thought was really good, the rest of it just really annoyed me. Lost complete trust in the podcast after the second episode and never recovered. The narration really annoyed me. This should have been a one hour episode on Documentary On One, not this mess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    I finished episode three of Nobody Zone tonight. I am enthralled by it. I can see the flaws, and am as disappointed (not sure it's the correct word given the scale of the crimes) as anyone that Geoff was a spoofer, but his whole angle is fascinating as it is. He's like Jay from the Inbetweeners with his high tales.

    Now I'm far from an expert when it comes to podcasts- Dan Carlin and No Such Thing as a Fish are the only two I have on my playlist-but it seems to be really well put together, from the use of underground trains whirring by the background, to interjecting in and out of the original police interview in 1983.

    Looking forward to finishing out, and now have a craving for similar podcasts. Any recommendations? (I use podcast addict on my samsung)


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,325 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kingp35


    I've just finished The Nobody Zone. I really enjoyed the first three episodes, I was gripped. Sadly though it really fizzled out from that point. I guess that's the nature of true crime but it was a disappointing ending to a promising series.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 373 ✭✭JimmyCorkhill


    Currently listening to the Nobody Zone, on the final episode, feel like it may fizzle out and flatter to deceive overall.

    Any other recommendations for similar podcasts?
    Had West Cork and Serial (or something like that) mentioned to me.

    Thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 735 ✭✭✭DundalkDuffman


    I finished episode three of Nobody Zone tonight. I am enthralled by it. I can see the flaws, and am as disappointed (not sure it's the correct word given the scale of the crimes) as anyone that Geoff was a spoofer, but his whole angle is fascinating as it is. He's like Jay from the Inbetweeners with his high tales.

    He was some spoofer all right. I enjoyed the first few episodes but the last episode was just totally unnecessary. Overall I thought it was decent enough but could have been done in 4 eps easily.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭danslevent


    Broken Harts
    Body on the Moor (BBC)
    Criminal Broads
    Death in Ice Valley (this one is AMAZING, highly recommend joining the FB group too)
    Down the hill: The Delphi Murders (also very interesting)
    Lost in Larrimah
    Finding Cleo
    Redhanded
    Sinisterhood
    The dating game killer
    The lighthouse
    To live and Die in LA


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    I'm two episodes into "Death in Ice Valley" based on the recommendations in this thread. Really hooked in.

    It'll be great to keep my mind engaged on my walks over the next few days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭Tropheus


    I'm two episodes into "Death in Ice Valley" based on the recommendations in this thread. Really hooked in.

    It'll be great to keep my mind engaged on my walks over the next few days.

    Just finished it based on a recommendation here also. It was very good. Their Facebook group has some interesting stuff too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭danslevent


    I'm two episodes into "Death in Ice Valley" based on the recommendations in this thread. Really hooked in.

    It'll be great to keep my mind engaged on my walks over the next few days.

    Delighted people seem to enjoy it from my recommendation :)

    Currently listening to Bear brook. Interesting and well produced but also frustrating!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,948 ✭✭✭0gac3yjefb5sv7


    Could anyone recommend a good Irish based on similar to Trevor Deely or Sophie Tuscan?


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 14,236 Mod ✭✭✭✭pc7


    Could anyone recommend a good Irish based on similar to Trevor Deely or Sophie Tuscan?

    Red Handed did Anna Krigel, Casefile did Graham Dwyer, True Crime Garage did Annie McCarrick and this week Jason Corbett. All Irish linked cases if that’s any help.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,948 ✭✭✭0gac3yjefb5sv7


    pc7 wrote: »
    Red Handed did Anna Krigel, Casefile did Graham Dwyer, True Crime Garage did Annie McCarrick and this week Jason Corbett. All Irish linked cases if that’s any help.

    Thanks!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,069 ✭✭✭sporina


    are there any podcasts on Criminal Psychology out there?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,025 ✭✭✭optogirl


    Could anyone recommend a good Irish based on similar to Trevor Deely or Sophie Tuscan?

    MENS REA is an Irish true crime podcast - different story each week though as opposed to a series on one crime


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,646 ✭✭✭Mehaffey1


    Could anyone recommend a good Irish based on similar to Trevor Deely or Sophie Tuscan?

    The Trail Went Cold covered Trevor Deely a few years ago now. A good overview in 45minutes.


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