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This Much is True Crime

This Much is True Crime

By: Martin Frizell & Prof David Wilson
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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.Martin Frizell & Prof David Wilson True Crime
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  • Episode 35: Fake Madeline Exposed
    Nov 8 2025

    How many fake Madeline McCanns are out there? Answer, 12!! The trial of Polish imposter Julia Wandelt, who believes she's the missing toddler, and conspiracy theorist Karen Spragg threw up odd nuggets of evidence over five weeks of trial before both women were cleared on stalking the McCanns and their children. Wandelt was found guilty of harassment and is likely to be deported. But was fake Madeline a con artist, attention seeker or just a very ill woman? This is an absorbing half an hour of the latest twist in the mystery of the worlds most famous missing person.

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    30 mins
  • Episode 34: How to Fix our Broken Prisons
    Nov 6 2025

    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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    32 mins
  • Episode 33: Manhunt -An Inside Job?
    Oct 25 2025

    Was it a blunder or something more sinister that allowed Britain's highest profile prisoner to walk free from jail yesterday instead of boarding a flight home to Ethiopia? Professor David Wilson was a prison governor before becoming a world leading criminologist and he believes there's something fishy in the controversial 'mistake' that allowed failed immigrant Hadush Kebatu to disappear from the jail where he was serving time for sex crimes against a 14 year old girl and a woman.

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    26 mins
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