They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime

This use to be one of my favorite podcasts. I appreciate learning about the cases that are outside the US. In the past year or so, it seems far less time is spend on the happenings prior going to court (background context, victims, community, investigation, perpetrator arrest) and now too much time is spent simply stating the back-&-forth narrative in the courtroom. The courtroom part used to be maybe 20% of an episode, now it feels more like 65% of an episode. It drags on too long. I liked the format of episodes better previously. The podcast is still good for hearing about cases that are new to me, but now I listen to it when I have no unplayed episodes on all my other podcasts.

This is a simply heartwrenching story of victims of a very sick man. Well researched, written and narrated. Fascinating but so sad at the same time.

This show is great because there isn’t 10 minutes of banter between hosts at the beginning who think they’re funny. He presents the case straight off in a very well researched way. This is the kind of crime podcast I like. It’s very much like Casefile, my other favorite podcast.

His voice, the way he tells the story plus all the research they’ve done to bring us the full story is absolutely 5 stars! Whenever I’ve caught up on episodes, I start over and listen again! Absolutely worth trying. You won’t be disappointed.

Once upon a time this was a thoroughly fascinating true crime podcast, but in the last two-three years the cases that are covered are remarkably dull, without any of the twists or turns that made earlier seasons so compelling. More like a police blotter than actual storytelling, the podcast has become a sad slog.