Jon Venables and Robert Thompson

True Crime All The Time

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True Crime, Truecrime, Podcast, Documentary, Murder, Exhibit C, Serial, Killers, Society & Culture

4.7 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were child killers who abducted and murdered 2-year-old James Bulger. Thompson and Venables were only 10 years old at the time of the murder, making them the youngest convicted killers in Britain. This is a case that rocked Britain and shocked the entire world.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss Thompson and Venables and the infamous murder of James Bulger. Robert Thompson had a tough childhood and there were allegations of abuse. Jon Venables grew up in a much more stable family but had problems with anger and was known as a bully. This tragic case brings up many legal and ethical questions about children who commit violent crimes.

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0:00.0	What's Your Name?!
0:30.0	Hello everyone and welcome to episode 269 of the True Crime All the Time podcast.
0:38.9	I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in True Crime, Mike Gibson, give
0:43.4	me how are you?
0:44.4	I'm doing good, man, about you.
0:45.4	I'm doing well.
0:46.4	I've been hitting the indoor cycle hard.
0:49.3	Yeah.
0:50.3	I've been, you know, doing some lifting.
0:52.5	I've been trying to eat better.
0:54.6	I'm really trying to stick with this, you know, New Year's resolution, lose some weight
1:00.0	before crime con.
1:01.0	Like, see you doing the triathlon or the Iron Man, whatever soon?
1:04.9	Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen, but, you know, just trying to hold off father
1:10.3	time just a little bit.
1:12.3	Well, it all makes a difference.
1:14.4	It does.
1:15.4	Everything you do makes a difference.
1:16.4	Hey, let's go ahead and give our shout outs for Patreon Chelsea S jumped out to our
1:22.0	highest level.
1:23.0	Hey, Chelsea.
1:24.0	Angela Warren, what's going on, Angela Shannon Kennedy, hey, Kennedy Rebecca Jackson,
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