A Homage To The Loved Ones

The True Crime Enthusiast Podcast

The True Crime Enthusiast

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

The girl, dressed in a pretty pink dress, poses for a photograph sat on the knee of a young man, smartly dressed in a tuxedo. They could be any young couple, but are not, for whilst she smiles broadly, he cannot, through pain, and inability. She then approaches the young man in the tuxedo, and brandishing a knife, proceeds to mutilate his chest with it, carving her initials into him.

She then approaches him with a cellar of salt, and his terrified eyes widen as she pours it into the wound….

Sounds like a bad movie? It is, it’s a scene from a 2009 Australian horror movie called The Loved Ones – except that in 2012, in the English city of Chester, someone thought life should imitate art….

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving descriptions of injury detail, that some listeners may find disturbing or distressing, so discretion is advised whilst listening in.

Music used in this episode: "The Descent" by Kevin Macleod. All music used is sourced from https://filmmusic.io/ and used under an Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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0:00.0	This summer, deciding between eating, drinking and chatting is over, thanks to the new
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0:32.8	This episode is sponsored by James Patterson, the world's number one thriller writer and his latest book,
0:39.8	The Idaho Murders, uncovering the tragedy that shocked the world.
0:45.1	On the 13th of November 2022, in the quiet Idaho town of Moscow, four college students were murdered
0:52.9	in their home, and though a suspect, Brian Koberger
0:56.5	was charged and is set to stand trial this August, what exactly did the local police and FBI get
1:03.9	wrong in the investigation? After conducting over 300 exclusive interviews and in-depth research into the shocking details of the murders and the investigation, along with the backstories of the four heartbroken families, and the suspect Brian Coburger, brilliant graduate student, loner, and apparent in-cell, James Patterson and co-author,
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1:54.5	The book.
1:56.1	The The The Book The
2:03.6	The The
2:20.3	The Hello all and the very warmest of welcome to the True Crime Enthusiast podcast,
2:55.6	the regular slice of true crime that may be unfamiliar to you,
2:59.0	that I bring from my North Wales crime library,
3:02.1	and that I have scoured the dark underbelly of the UK and occasionally worldwide to do so.
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