Best True-Crime Podcasts of 2019 - The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast (Q&A)

Nominated BEST TRUE-CRIME PODCAST at British Podcast Awards 2018 and iTunes Top 50. Subscribe via iTunes, Spotify, Acast, Stitcher and all podcast platform.

Hello! Well, fans of true-crime podcasts, you are in for a treat. As you know, each week I upload a new and fascinating Q&A interview with a true-crime podcaster, to introduce you to their show and give you an insight into who they are as a person. This week I have the pleasure of interviewing Paul from awesome The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast.

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Their Details:

• Podcast: The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast
  
• Genre: UK true-crime
  
• Duration: Weekly, 1hr+ average
  
• Tag-line: Obscure and often forgotten true crimes, solved or unsolved, looked at weekly from all corners of the UK and Ireland
  

Useful links to The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast:

• Facebook
  
• Podcast
  
• Twitter
  
• Website / Blog
  

Note: Paul's not only an excellent podcaster but a fabulous true-crime blogger too, so check out his website.

Michael's thoughts: One word "excellent", Paul's True-Crime Enthusiast Podcast really does what it says on the tin, he's super passionate about telling untold and long forgotten true-crime stories in a heartfelt, honest and compelling way and that truly comes across in every episode, as his attention to detail, commitment to telling the truth and his level of research is incomparable. It puts the vast majority of true-crime podcasts to shame. If you absolutely love true-crime podcasts and you're desperate for something rich, emotive and engaging, I heartily recommend you listen to the True Crime Enthusiast Podcast.

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Q & A with Paul from The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

• How did you get into true-crime podcasting? It’s been my go to genre of interest for reading about all my life really. That led to a blog, which led onto the show almost two years ago now.
  
• What podcast (true-crime or not) first inspired you? UK True Crime – It was the first podcast I ever wrote an episode for, I loved doing it
  
• What was your first episode and why was it an important story to tell? The Ossett Exorcist Murder – I felt it a good choice because I wanted with my own show to put out content that I would be interested in hearing as a listener myself. It wasn’t a case I’d come across before and I found it a fascinating one, so it seemed the perfect choice really. Start as you mean to go on and all that.
  
• What’s been the best episode you’ve produced so far? Ha – all of them! I don’t know. I’m proud of each really – some are better received than others, but I know as soon as one is finished and is triple checked I’m always proud that I’ve done the best I can do.
  
• What’s the biggest mistake you find that murderers make? Thinking that they can get away with it really – science, technology and Occam’s Razor are against you dickheads!
  
• What’s the most obscure true-crime fact you know? Off the top of my head, the actor who played Les Battersby in Coronation Street, Bruce Jones, was the person who found the Yorkshire Ripper’s 5th Victim.
  
• What have you learned about yourself whilst making your podcast? That I am a stickler for detail – I never believe you can have too much detail. I have also learned that I am in danger of becoming a bigger Bibliophile than I already am.
  
• Has any case proved so tragic/sad you’ve had to take a break from the research? There are certain cases that have stayed with me more than most, but you get so steeped in each episode because so much goes into making shows such as these, that you tend to remember everyone’s stories really.
  
• What’s your thoughts/theory on Jack the Ripper? Definitely dead now.
  
• What’s the weirdest question/comment a listener has ever asked? A listener got in touch with me to say that she was stopping listening to the show because I was less than favourable about the films of Jason Statham in an episode, and she loved him to the point where she could no longer enjoy the show, knowing that I thought his films were gash. Which I thought was a bit odd, but hey, each to their own.  
  
• Have you ever been contacted by the victim/killer’s family and why? Yes, sort of. I have been contacted by the daughter of an infamous British killer, albeit not one I have covered on the show, concerning the review of a book that I wrote for the show’s website. Also, very soon I shall be working on an episode with a family member of a person concerned in the case that I have made contact with, and a friend of mine was also close friends with another person who will feature in a separate upcoming episode. So it does happen, I do reach out to family members respectfully whilst researching each case I cover if it’s possible – and I completely understand if it’s not something they wish to broach at all again, I completely respect that.
  
• Why is true-crime so popular? I think it always has been, people like to be chilled and fascinated about horror and stuff that scares them, and to look into the darkness that they know exists from their safe place. Yet there are really no safe places are there?
  
• Is it right to fancy, admire or worship a serial-killer/murderer? I think it’s a bit fucked up if you do – because who a person is and what they do should attract as much as physicality – and why on earth would you fancy, admire or worship someone who commits such horror as we all broadcast about – unless they are either that way inclined themselves, or need a check up from the neck up?
  
• Which case do you feel is over-exposed / under-exposed and why? Madeline McCann – I don’t even need to say anymore on that.
  
• What has been the greatest innovation in solving crimes? Gotta be the onset of DNA profiling – one of the most remarkable discoveries of all time really I think.
  
• What’s the nearest you’ve ever been to a real murder case/crime? Well, I was questioned about one many years ago – but that’s a tale for a future episode…
  
• How would you cope as a homicide detective? I already drink black coffee, I’m burned out and I ain’t no god damn pencil pusher, so I’m practically halfway there as it is.
  
• Where do you see your podcast going over the next few years? I’d like to do a book if possible, but I love doing the show too much to pack it in, plus there are still countless tales to feature yet.
  
• Which upcoming episode of yours are you most excited about researching/writing? I have a collaboration with Caprice from The Unseen Podcast coming up soon that I’m looking forward to covering and working on, one of my fave shows, plus I have this series of the show’s Trilogy coming up in a few weeks – that’s a bit of a dark one so I don’t know about me being excited, but it is a case I have had in mind for a long time to cover.
  
• Why should new listeners give your podcast a try? Because I’m a very charming, very entertaining man with loads of great qualities – biggest feature is definitely my modesty. Well no, I do try to put out what I would enjoy listening to myself – and if you are interested in a bit more of an obscure, unfamiliar UK case – that’s what I seek out and cover.
  
• Do you have a message for your loyal listeners? Yes – you guys rule, you make the show and keep the show going. I appreciate each and every one of you always, and I look forward to bringing you more tales from the Enthusiast. Thank you.
  

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A big thank you to Paul for taking part in this True-Crime Podcaster Q & A. Don't forget to check out his podcast. To explore this fine true-crime podcast further, click on the links. .

Stay safe my friends
Michael.x

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Michael J Buchanan-Dunne is a writer, crime historian, podcaster and tour-guide who runs Murder Mile Walks, a guided tor of Soho’s most notorious murder cases, hailed as “one of the top ten curious, quirky, unusual and different things to do in London”, nominated "one of the best true-crime  podcasts at the British podcast Awards 2018", and featuring 12 murderers, including 3 serial killers, across 15 locations, totaling 5o deaths, over just a one mile walk