Jon Venables and Robert Thompson
True Crime All The Time
Emash Digital
4.7 • 13.8K 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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