Horrors Over The Holidays - The Tale Of Jake And Chloe:

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🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This time around, for the last of the Horrors Over The Holidays to take place this year over the Christmas period, I bring perhaps the most tragic of these tales - the truly awful circumstances that two families lost so much at Christmas time 2018.

The episode contains details and descriptions of crimes and events, involving children, 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	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.
0:23.6	Discover your next true crime obsession at alwaystruecrime.com. The The The
0:40.3	The Hello all and the very warmest of welcomes to the True Crime Enthusiast podcast.
1:16.3	North Wales's very own intrepid jaunt into tales of true crime
1:20.1	curated from worldwide that usually won't find done to death on, excuse the pun, on every other show.
1:29.4	Sometimes they may be a bit strange,
1:35.5	they may be totally bizarre, or just plain good old horrific, but which all of which are true.
1:41.3	Brain News Said Tales is myself, Paul, the creator host and true crime enthusiast of the show's title. My one eye candy, Peexie, the true crime
1:44.4	enthousy cat, is sat here with me as always. And me and Peexie are both pleased to be
1:50.2	joined by yourselves, the wonderful enthusiasts that keep the show rolling on and now
1:55.2	fast approaching its ninth year. Johnny Ball, would you believe it? It is as fabulous as always having you
2:03.0	joining us today, which I thank you kindly for doing so, and I hope that as the episode
2:06.9	finds you, it finds you and yours all good, all safe and well, and as you're listening,
2:12.6	have enjoyed a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to a happy new year.
2:19.9	I truly hope you have because undoubtedly the content here is going to bring that down a bit of a notch. Now traditionally
2:26.2	each year for Patreon subscribers I do an episode around this time of the year themed horrors over
2:31.7	the holidays which are curated tales of crimes and events that
2:35.4	take place at points over the Christmas or New Year period. It really is just as simple as that.
2:42.0	I've done several of these episodes over the years, and I thought this year I would go through
2:46.3	the Patreon show's back catalogue and curate some of these tales down and bring several of these said
2:51.5	tales each day over the holiday period. I thought I'd try this as a format and see how it's received
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