Bonus Episode: The Murder of Nikki Halpin

UK True Crime Podcast

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

For this bonus episode, I am a guest once again on one of my favourite true crime shows, the excellent REDRUM Podcast with Grace.

In this episode from the US, Grace tells me the story of the tragic murder of Nikki Halpin. Nikki was a young mum killed by her stalker, leaving behind devastated family and friends - and two young sons.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Always True Crime, a podcast network bringing you gripping real-life stories that you won't be able to stop thinking about.
0:08.2	Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com.
0:16.5	When detectives replayed the 911 call that captured a woman's murder in real time,
0:22.4	they heard something chilling, something they'd missed the first time.
0:26.4	In the middle of the chaos, a man's voice says three quiet words.
0:31.3	Nicole, calm down.
0:33.7	Only one person ever called her that.
0:38.1	This is Red Rump, stories about the true victims of crime.
0:41.8	I upload a video episode on Mondays and a podcast exclusive episode on Thursdays,
0:46.4	so make sure you're subscribed so you never miss an episode.
0:53.2	Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Red Rum. Thank you for joining me today. I have a very special guest. I am joined once again by Adam Lloyd from UK True Crime. Adam, thank you so much for being here once again. Hey Grace, it's a pleasure. Great to see you again. You too. For today's case, we are heading over the
1:13.5	pond from the UK. We're heading into the US and we are going to do a very Adam-centric game.
1:20.2	We are going to guess the year. So Adam, I've got a couple of facts for you. I'm not going to
1:24.5	mess it up like last time. I don't know if you remember with Grenfell. I told you I was doing great. So I'm going to give you a couple of clues and then
1:33.4	we'll see if you can guess the year and the month. So in this month and year, the top grossing
1:40.3	movies in the US were the Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King, cheaper by the
1:46.3	dozen, and along came Polly.
1:49.3	And we have a UK singles music chart.
1:55.3	And one of the charting artists, this is what did it for me.
1:59.7	This is where I was like, maybe you'll get this, was Michelle McManus. So we're going quite back. Well, films, I never ever go to the cinema. I never watch films. I just don't like films. I know you do. I know Stuart Dahl's and lots of people. I just don't watch them. But Michelle McManus, I reckon this must be about 2007. A little bit earlier. 2004.
2:21.4	So close.
2:22.3	How many years? Wow. Yeah. And any idea on the month? So Lord of the Rings. Most of the films,
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