The Criminal Craic
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
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.
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REFERENCES
New York Times you may need to sign up to an account to view these articles.
1 Bodies of five slain unearthed in yard of mysterious Indiana farmhouse. NYTimes.com. 6th May 1908.
2 ...
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.
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REFERENCES
Newspaper articles.
The following were found on newspapers.com You will need an account to view.
1 Memorial Notice. The Boston Globe. Page 39. Thu 12 Aug 1999
2 Perplexed mourners pay ...
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.
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MAIN CASE REFERENCES click each number to be taken straight to sources
1 The Economic Times YouTube Channel. Caught on cam: £4.8 m gold toilet stolen from UNESCO World Heritage Site 'Blenhe...
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.
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REFERENCES
1 Newspapers.com: Just an FYI you may need to have an account to ...
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: Please be aware that this episode contains discussion about child murder and sexual assault, please proceed with caution.
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 and check them out and I will list other references below.
This case was written and research by Gem.
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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.
PLEASE NOTE: There is a section between 31minutes and 31.55 minutes which some people may prefer to skip due to discussion of acts of extreme vi...
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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EPISODE REFERENCES
Press & Journal articles:
1 TITLE: Forensic expert reveals one o...
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.
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EPISODE REFERENCES
Press & Journal articles:
1 TITLE: Pals join massive search operation ...
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