24 Hour Podcast: Criminal Minds with Dr Joni Johnston
REAL
Naomi Channell
4.8 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On the 17th of May, I hosted a 24 hour live podcast to raise money for Victim Support UK.
In this session, I am joined by forensic psychologist Dr Joni Johnston, who has spent her career trying to get into the minds of some of America's most dangerous criminals.
You can check out her work here:
https://www.drjonijohnston.com/
If you would like to donate to the fundraiser, you can do so here:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/24hourpodcast
Thank you.
NB: Please not this audio has been taken from the live stream, so the quality is not as polished as the regular episodes of 'REAL', though I hope you will find the conversations as insightful and interesting as I did.
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| 0:00.0 | Warning, this is a true crime podcast and is not suitable for all audiences. Please use discretion. |
| 0:07.6 | Just a quick note to say that this episode is not the typical format of the real podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | On the 17th of May 2025, I did a 24-hour live podcast to raise money for an incredible charity, Victim Support UK. The stream was |
| 0:24.6 | recorded and each session that took place has been edited into an episode for you to listen to. |
| 0:31.7 | Because this was a live stream, the sound quality is not as polished as the regular episodes of the podcast usually are. |
| 0:41.0 | But I hope you'll find the conversations as insightful and interesting as I did. |
| 0:47.0 | If you'd like to donate to the fundraiser, please find a link in the show notes. |
| 0:52.6 | Oh, what a treat this is. |
| 0:57.3 | We are now joined by Dr. Joni Johnston, |
| 1:05.2 | so she is a forensic psychologist. She's a podcaster. She does the YouTube channel Unmasking A Murderer. She's done a book on serial killers and she has a newsletter called The Mind Detective. |
| 1:12.9 | She has so much and I'm thrilled to have her on. Let's talk about your fantastic work that you do, |
| 1:18.9 | Joanie. So I know you wear many, many hats. So let's talk about sort of what working life |
| 1:26.2 | looks like for you and I'm sure it's very varied. |
| 1:30.4 | Friends of Psychology, of course, is the area of the law or the area of psychology where there's |
| 1:34.4 | some legal question that psychology can help answer. |
| 1:37.3 | So that's kind of the overall umbrella. |
| 1:40.5 | And then I do only criminal work. |
| 1:42.6 | So there's kind of like these specialty areas just |
| 1:45.4 | getting more and more narrow as you go down the bike. But I've done everything from, I mean, |
| 1:52.0 | mainly the short answer is I work with violent offenders. That's the short answer. And that can |
| 1:56.8 | take a lot of different forms. So for example, if you have someone who's committed a violent |
| 2:01.8 | crime and they are claiming that they're not guilty by reason of insanity, I might be called |
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