This Much is True Crime
This Much is True Crime
Podcast Description
Ever wonder why serial killers kill or why ordinary people sometimes do extraordinary things, sometimes downright evil things? This Much is True Crime is a weekly look at crime making the headlines and that includes crime drama and docuseries that are making news themselves. The hosts are news reporter and tv producer Martin Frizell and Britain's top criminologist Professor David Wilson.
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The podcast tackles a variety of crime-related topics such as notorious serial killers, modern crime families, and challenges faced by prison officers. Specific episodes include an investigation into the Long Island serial killer chain and a look at the dangerous dynamics surrounding today's crime families as highlighted by current TV shows like Kin and MobLand, focusing on the accuracy of their portrayals compared to reality.
Ever wonder why serial killers kill or why ordinary people sometimes do extraordinary things, sometimes downright evil things? This Much is True Crime is a weekly look at crime making the headlines and that includes crime drama and docuseries that are making news themselves. The hosts are news reporter and tv producer Martin Frizell and Britain’s top criminologist Professor David Wilson.
How much worse can it get, hundreds of inmates wrongly freed every year from Britain's jails, the latest an Algerian sex offender now at liberty roaming the streets. And this was after new measures introduced to stop it happening again following the embarrassment of the mistaken release of Hadush Kebatu, the Ethiopian illegal migrant who sexually assaulted a 14 year old girl. We have skin in the game, Professor David Wilson is not just a criminologist but was also a prison governor at Wormwood Scrubs and Martin Frizell, broadcaster and journalist lives in the neighbourhood of Wandsworth Prison, scene of the latest scandal. So how do we fix it?
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