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REDRUM true crime

He Said His Family Died In The Flames… They Never Existed

REDRUM true crime

redrumpodcast

History, True Crime

4.6533 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The tragedy that took 72 lives, and the scammers who tried to cash in.

Today I'm joined by Adam from UK True Crime. You can find more details about his show here!

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0:00.0

On a June night in 2017, in the heart of West London, residents of a high rise awoke to smoke sweeping through their doors,

0:13.5

and within minutes, the fire leapt outside and began racing up the tower's walls at impossible speed. Entire families called loved ones to say goodbye.

0:24.2

Others fought to survive as the air itself turned toxic.

0:28.9

By morning, one of the wealthiest boroughs in London

0:31.9

had witnessed one of the deadliest fires in modern British history.

0:36.8

This is Red Rum, stories about the true victims of

0:40.1

crime. Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Red Rum. Today, I am joined by Adam. Once

0:46.6

again, hello, Adam. Hi, Grace. How you doing? I'm really well. Thank you. Thanks so much for being here. I'm really

0:51.7

excited to tell you a quite a complex case that I didn't realize was as complex as it is. We spoke a little bit before we came on record about how I'm going to kind of go into some different details today. But yeah, I was so surprised. So today I'm covering the case of Grenfell. So I thought today I would start with a little bit

1:14.0

of Adam in the podcast and I wanted you to guess the month and year. How does that sound? Sounds really good.

1:20.4

Okay, so I've just got three facts about this month and year. So let's see how you do. Ready? Okay. This year, two films came out in this

1:32.4

month and they were both the third in a series. So the first was Cars 3 and the second was

1:40.9

Despicable Me 3. Have you seen either of those? Cars.

1:44.6

The first one? The third one as well. Yeah. Oh, okay. Great. Any idea when a roundabouts?

1:50.5

I think you're looking at 2017. Excellent knowledge. Did you just know that off the top of your head?

1:55.6

You just know when Cars 3 came out? No, I don't actually. Because on the morning of Grenfell,

2:00.4

I was driving to see someone

2:02.6

who was very, very unwell and I remember that exact time, that exact year. Oh, I gave it away

2:08.9

with the, yeah, I already... I'm not an expert on the guest of a year ago, but I don't get my own

2:13.2

one right most of the time, trust me. Well, yeah, you're spot on. So the other two facts, which you will not need to get this month and year,

2:20.7

are the song Despacito was number one in the charts this month,

2:25.0

and Ariana Grande's One Last Time was number two.

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