This Much is True Crime

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This Much Is True Crime is one of the UK's leading true crime podcasts, exploring the biggest crime stories making headlines in the UK and around the world every Wednesday.

Join Britain's leading criminologist, Professor David Wilson, and journalist and TV producer Martin Frizell as they examine the cases everyone is talking about, speak to the people at the heart of extraordinary crimes, and discuss the latest true crime documentaries and dramas.

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71 episodes
Updated July 28

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Jun 11, 2025 · 30 min
Episode 11: Michelle Mone and the 'unsafe' PPE scandal
Government lawyers are at the High Court demanding a massive payback from a company linked to Michelle Mone - £122 million pounds of taxpayers cash for faulty PPE that’s never been used. Almost thirty million pounds in profit from controversial deal, was put into a trust to benefit Baroness Mone and her children. Separately, detectives from the National Crime Agency are investigating the Baroness and her tycoon husband Doug Barrowman for possible criminal charges - the couple deny any wrong doing. So in this episode broadcaster Martin Frizell and emeritus Professor of Criminology David Wilson examine the Mone case. For a change, this is alleged white collar crime, instead of the blue stuff! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 9, 2025 · 36 min
Episode 10: Mushroom Killer, The Motive
Erin Patterson was either a calculating poisoner or, as she claimed, an appalling cook who accidentally killed three of her in laws with a Beef Wellington lunch laced with toxic mushrooms. Six weeks into the triple murder trial of the Australian mum of two and we are still no nearer to finding a clear motive for bumping off her estranged husband's parents and an aunt. Was it disputed family finances, a failure to help with school fees? And, if guilty, how did she think she'd ever explain all the lunch gathering dying - except her? Broadcaster Martin Frizell and award winning emeritus Professor of Criminology David Wilson take a look under the pastry lid but also explore poisoners through the years. Done properly, is it the perfect murder method? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 2, 2025 · 33 min
Episode 9: Diddy Done For?
Britain's top criminologist assesses the trial of the century as Sean Diddy Combs , the Hollywood Hip Hop tycoon , fights for his empire and his freedom. Professor David Wilson explains the prosecution's gamble with a controversial charge against Diddy usually reserved for mob bosses. Have the years of brushes with the law finally caught up with the world famous rapper? Diddy's a violent thug who beats up women but is he a mobster? The Prof reveals his prediction of how the jury will vote for or against one of America's cultural superstars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 27, 2025 · 25 min
Episode 8: Madeleine - Finally call off the search?
Britain's top criminologist Professor David Wilson has studied the abduction of three year old Madeleine McCann for more than a decade and now, 18 years later since her vanishing from her bed by the Portuguese seaside, he says it's time to end the police search.The Met police still have a team of three working away funded by the taxpayer whilst the most likely suspect, Christian Bruckner could be released from jail later this year for an unrelated crime only to disappear for ever.Professor Wilson believes Christian B is the killer and new evidence unearthed by The Sun this month only strengthens that belief. This is a cracking discussion with Martin Frizell who first alerted the world to Madeleine's disappearance and the Prof who says he knows what happened to her - the only mystery is whoddunnit? And he knows that too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 22, 2025 · 32 min
Episode 7: Castrate the Paedos and Rapists?
Chemical castration is being rolled out in the UK for sex offenders and rapists but will it stop these sick men from reoffending again? And violent domestic abusers, muggers and thugs may well be released early from jail to free up spaces in Britains overcrowded prisons. Reporter and broadcaster Martin Frizell and emeritus Professor of Criminology David Wilson have opposing views on dealing with the men who ruin lives, especially young children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 18, 2025 · 29 min
Episode 6: We jailed the wrong man for 40 years!
Imagine losing almost forty years of your life? The chance to. have children, a career, homes, holidays - four decades worth that never existed. Peter Sullivan was freed from jail this week after serving 38 years for a crime he didn't commit. He maintained his innocence throughout despite being convicted of the murder of 21 year old Diane Sindall in 1987. All down to modern DNA that proved it wasn't him but his cries for help, for a review were turned down time and again. Martin Frizell and emeritus Professor of Criminology David Wilson try to make sense of Britain's longest miscarriage of justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 9, 2025 · 33 min
Episode 5: Sycamore Morons
Why would anyone want to chop down the world famous Sycamore Gap tree that had stood by Hadrians Wall for more than a century? The two hapless locals found guilty showed no remorse and still haven't explained their actions. Called cowards and morons during their trial, if they wanted infamy they succeeded but now they face up to ten years in jail. Martin Frizell and Professor of Criminology David Wilson discuss this absorbing case just hours after the jury returned the unanimous guilty verdict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 5, 2025 · 25 min
Episode 4: Natalia Grace -The bizarre case that shocked the world.
Was she a toddler with dwarfism or a grown woman who tricked a family into adopting her then threatened to murder them as they slept? Emeritus Professor of Criminolgy David Wilson and reporter/broadcaster Martin Frizell explore the odd story of Natalia Grace now made into the Disney+ production Good American Family. Somehow there’s a feeling the story’s not over yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 28, 2025 · 27 min
Episode 3: Modern Crime Families
Drug running, money laundering, extortion and racketeering, its all in a day's work for Britain's crime families and they are alive and well in the modern age. The Kray brothers may have cornered the market in likeable villains (unless you were a target) but there is a rash of new dramas based on gangster families in Britain and Dublin. If you are a fan of Kin, MobLand or This City is Ours, Martin Frizell and Professor David Wilson explore how true they are to the violent families whose turf wars are still as murderous as ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 21, 2025 · 25 min
Episode 1: America's worst ever serial killer?
The bodies of eleven women and counting are the believed victims of the Long Island serial killer but there may be many more . It's a crime that had to wait for years to be taken seriously by corrupt police and would have gone neglected were it not for a band of grieving but determind mothers. Gone Girls is the powerful docu series from Netflix and we're looking at the case and the prospect that the main suspect is an even bigger monster than first thought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 19, 2025 · 28 min
Episode 2: Prison guards in danger of being murdered?
Three UK prison officers were viciously attacked by Manchester bomb plotter Hashem Abedi who threw boiling oil in their faces and slashed one so badly they were within minutes of death. Join Martin Frizell and ex prison governor and Professor of Criminology David Wilson as they discover why terrorist prisoners have special treatment and why it must change. How long before there's a murder of a prison guard on duty? Also the astonishing revelation that crime bosses have planted gang members within prison officers ranks after going through the official recruitment process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices