#273 The Kray Twins...and Charlie

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The Kray twins Ronnie and Reggie, and their lesser known brother Charlie, ran the streets of London's East End in the 1960s — and they took quite a bit of inspiration from their American organized crime counterparts. Ronnie and Reggie Kray, are arguably the most infamous criminals in London’s gangster history. The Kray Twins weren’t the type to keep a low profile, they were known for everything from armed robberies to arson to pinning a man to the floor by his neck with a knife, all while hanging and working with politicians and celebrities. But the two had a lot of demons and ultimately became their own downfall. So let's get into the quick rise and fall of two of London’s most notorious gangsters. Check out our other shows!: Cryptic Soup w/ Thena & Kylee Strange & Unexplained True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS: https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Crimepine Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to True Crime Guys podcast. I'm your host Michael and Andy. Are you up there,
0:09.7	buddy? Oh, I'm a good Michael. Oh, you have there. You got that cockney accent warmed up.
0:15.4	I don't even think that's considered cockney. Is it not? What is it at that point?
0:18.3	It's cotton ball in the throat? I don't know.
0:25.3	That's that, yeah, that's pretty close.
0:31.2	Right. That's pretty close. Yeah, today we are talking the Cray twins. The Cray twins, one of England's most notorious gangsters, two of England's most notorious gangsters.
0:36.3	They were so notorious, They did it twice.
0:38.0	That's right. That's right. It was so bad. We're like, we can't even fit all this bad into one.
0:42.4	We got to split them into two. Yeah, that's, that's, I think that's what their mom did.
0:46.2	He's like, oh, this boy's going to be crazy. We need to split it into two. Wait, no. Right. Because they just multiplied the craziness.
0:59.7	But no, before we get into it, guys, I got to remind you you can catch these episodes early in ad-free on Patreon.
1:08.3	Patreon.com slash true crime guys, where for just three bucks a month, you can get access to these very regular weekly episodes.
1:13.1	But you get early access, ad- free with bonus content. In this episode,
1:17.8	I think we got like 20 minutes of jibber jibber. We talked a lot about the Cray Twins, a lot more than we, I thought we were going to. Because I feel like we were going to fill this episode with
1:21.1	jibber jabber. Yeah, I hope we didn't talk too much about them. They're fucking impressive
1:24.7	and they're saying them. Make the worst, make the rookie podcast mistake of talking about your case right before you
1:30.4	record. Oh no. They're still, I'm still interested in this. No, me too. But guys, also,
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1:39.5	Bina and Kylie. New episodes of Cryptic Soup come out every single Wednesday. Make sure you give them a
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