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The Criminal Craic
by TheCriminalCraic
Hello we are Gem and Victoria and we'd like to welcome you to The Criminal Craic, your new favourite UK-based true crime podcast.We are childhood best friends, and have come together to bring you incidents of true crime from across the globe every fortnight.Every fortnight, one of us will throw a case at the other, who is blisfully unaware of what's to come so every reaction, question, and twisted theory you hear is 100% genuine and off-the-cuff.
Episodes
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EPISODE 25: 3 Ha'pennies
** For those of you who don't like our chit chat at the start, you'll be happy as its very limited today due to time constraints .... case begins at 6mins and 5secs** This episode takes us back to Victorian England to the quaint and sleepy rural market town of Alton, Hampshire (which is...
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EPISODE 24: The Atrocious Quadrille
** For those of you who don't like our chit chat at the start, you'll be happy as its very limited today due to time constraints .... case begins at 8mins 51secs** After two hours of banging on the locked and bolted door of his home at, 6 Rue de Bruyère, Monsieur Lancelin admitted defeat and…
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EPISODE 23: The Nothing Man
** For those of you who don't like our chit chat at the start, you'll be happy as its very limited today due to time constraints .... case begins at 10mins 7secs** There are numerous murders, disappearances and unanswered questions which orbit one individual who’s name most of us first heard in…
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EPISODE 22: A Parent’s Worst Nightmare.
Towards the end this episode has a slight change in sound thanks to techy gremlins, sorry about that folks.** For those of you who don't like our chit chat at the start, you'll be happy as its very limited today due to time constraints .... case begins at 2min 9 secs** When Matthew Gould finished...
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EPISODE 21: Get up! DO NOT go to sleep!!
** For those of you who don't like our chit chat at the start, skip to 12mins 10 secs.** TRIGGER WARNING's: This episode shares incredibly graphic content about the abuse, sexual assault and mutilation of a child - please proceed with caution. We understand if you decide to skip this episode and...
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EPISODE 20: Where is Steven?
** For those of you who don't like our chit chat at the start, skip to 7mins 15 secs.** On April 22nd, 1992, an article with the headline, “The Man Who Wanted to Fly” appeared in an issue of the Northern Echo, a regional newspaper that covers County Durham and Teeside..... Episode written,...
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EPISODE 19: DeDushka
** For those of you who don't like our chit chat at the start, skip to 13mins 57secs.** FOR TRIGGER WARNINGS please see below. "I think most of you will have heard about the case I’m covering in today’s episode. As soon as I say that you might call the individual involved a plangonologist. This...
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EPISODE 18: The 'Christmas Tree Couple' Part 2
* For those who don't like the chit chat at the start, please got to ( ) where the case starts* FOR TRIGGER WARNINGS please see below. This is the Second Part of an case which began on the afternoon of the 19th of December. If you haven' listened to it please find it here Christmas was fast...
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EPISODE 17: 'The Christmas Tree Couple' PART 1
** For those of you who don't like our chit chat at the start, skip to 8minutes 54secs.** FOR TRIGGER WARNINGS please see below. Today we begin on the afternoon of the 19th of December. Christmas was fast approaching as couples from the Church local to the town of Ethel gathered outside the cosy...
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EPISODE 16: In the still of the night.
** For those of you who don't like our chit chat at the start, skip to 9minutes 2secs.** Louisa Jane Jarrett was born in June 1892 in Gloucestershire, the daughter of a labourerand his wife. There is little knowledge online about her early years, yet it appears she spent most, if not all of her...
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EPISODE 15: Forever 11
** For those of you who don't like our chit chat at the start, skip to 9minutes 20secs.** FOR TRIGGER WARNINGS please see below. .... It wasn’t until we were a bit older and they moved to St Nic’s Road that I got to see the other side of Whiston, and this is where our case began, and life ended…
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EPISODE 14: Trick or Treat
FOR TRIGGER WARNINGS please see below. Eight-year-old Timothy O’Bryan started the evening proudly dressed up in his Planet of The Apes costume and excited to head out Trick or Treating in the local neighbourhood with his kid sister Elizabeth who was just 5 years old. Episode written and…
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EPISODE 13: We're coming for you.
FOR TRIGGER WARNINGS please see below. On Monday 10thFebruary 1996 Tanya Nicole Kach left as usual for Cornell Intermediate School where she was an 8th grade pupil but never came home. Episode written and researched by Gem. Today’s episode contains content which may be TRIGGERING including sexual...
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EPISODE 12: STRANDED The Unsolved Murder of Christina Menzies
FOR TRIGGER WARNINGS please see below. June 12th 1993, was the day of the Rhine Army Summer Show or RASS.....One of the people celebrating that day was Christina Menzies. Born in Scotland in the late1970s, Christina grew up as part of a military family..... Episode written and researched by...
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Episode 11: Monster
This episode comes with TRIGGER WARNINGS - see below description. Today we begin on the evening on Monday 22nd November 1983 in the small area of the Coppice in Narborough, a small village on the outskirts of Leicester in England..... Episode written and researched by Gem. Today’s episode…
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EPISODE 10: Courage over fear.
In this episode of The Criminal Craic, we honour the breath-taking heroism of three extraordinary women, Frankie Housley, Barbara Jane Harrison, and Neerja Bhanot. All flight attendants who made the ultimate sacrifice in moments of unimaginable terror…. Episode written and researched by Victoria....
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EPISODE 9: "Meet Me At The Hill"
This is a LONG episode but if you don't have time to listen in one go I recommend taking a break before the trial coverage which I do mention in the show. It was June 6th, 2018,and 27-year-old Steven Donaldson was enjoying some time playing with his youngest sister Loris, children in the garden…
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EPISODE 8: Come Prepared To Stay Forever
We’ll start with an ad placed in a Norwegian-language newspaper called the Minneapolis Tidende which reads ... This case was written and research by Victoria. Please follow us on our socials: FACEBOOK , INSTAGRAM and TikTok . REFERENCES New York Times you may need to sign up...
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EPISODE 7: ROAD TRIP
At its heart this crime involves two friends who took a road trip together, but only one lived to tell his tale..... This case was written and research by Gem. Please follow us on our socials: FACEBOOK , INSTAGRAM and TikTok . REFERENCES Newspaper articles. The following were…
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EPISODE 6: Feeling Flush
This episode is about a crime that left many red-faced - you might even say that it left them feeling flushed ... This case was written and research by Victoria. Please follow us on our socials: FACEBOOK , INSTAGRAM and TikTok . MAIN CASE REFERENCES click each number to be taken…
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Episode 5: "I Forgive You and God Will Too"
Todays episode is a little different to my usual as I will becovering two crimes that become forever linked because of two wonderful women who have both faced trauma and managed to come out of the other side and helped other people as they did. This case was written and research by Gem. Please...
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EPISODE 4: Maria
This case begins on the evening of December 3rd, 1957. The impending full moon and the promise of the first flurries of snow hanging in the air were too inviting for 8-year-old Kathy Sigman and 7-year-old Maria Ridulph to resist.... Episode chosen and researched by Victoria. TRIGGER WARNING…
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BONUS EPISODE 1: Vallow - Daybell. The Doomsday Murders
As promised here is a BONUS episode on the cases of Lori Daybell/ Vallow ahead of her third trial. A lot of my information came from the amazing podcast HIDDEN TRUE CRIME They have THE most comprehensive coverage of this entire case, including information STRAIGHT from the courtroom. Please go…
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Episode 3: Red Flags Missed
Banging and shouting startled Marium Abbas awake inthe early hours of Friday 13th September 2024. She lay there for a few moments, half asleep, tryingto understand where the noise was coming from. It seemed to be from the flat directly above her own.... Episode chosen and researched by Gem.…
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Episode 2: Terror & Tidewrack
It was on the afternoon of Wednesday 12th December in 1945 while a retired cooper named Alexander King combed a familiar section of shoreline along the river Dee in Aberdeen, collecting driftwood for his fire, that he made a most gruesome discovery. . . .Episode chosen and researched by Victoria...
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Episode1: I'll Be Home Later, Don't Worry About Me
Join us as we discuss the baffling disappearance of 20 year old Shaun Ritchie from Fraserburgh, Scotland. This case was chosen, researched and told by Gem. As we are brand new we ask that you please be kind with any comments and/ or criticism. Find us on our socials:The Criminal Craic | Facebook...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hello we are Gem and Victoria and we'd like to welcome you to The Criminal Craic, your new favourite UK-based true crime podcast.We are childhood best friends, and have come together to bring you incidents of true crime from across the globe every fortnight.Every fortnight, one of us will throw a case at the other, who is blisfully unaware of what's to come so every reaction, question, and twisted theory you hear is 100% genuine and off-the-cuff.
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Hello we are Gem and Victoria and we'd like to welcome you to The Criminal Craic, your new favourite UK-based true crime podcast.We are childhood best friends, and have come together to bring you incidents of true crime from across the globe every fortnight.Every fortnight, one of us will throw a...
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