Nature vs Nurture: The Jed Allen Case | Ep. 218
British Murders with Stuart Blues
Stuart Blues
4.6 • 876 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In May 2015, 21-year-old Jed Allen committed an act so horrifying it would rock the quiet Oxfordshire town of Didcot to its core.
For reasons known only to him, Allen brutally ended the lives of his mum, stepdad, and half-sister one fateful Saturday afternoon, before taking his own two days later.
In this episode of British Murders with Stuart Blues, I explore one of Oxfordshire’s most shocking cases. A story involving familicide, an obsession with a comic book antihero, and an unstable childhood that leaves us asking the age-old question: are people born evil, or are they moulded that way?
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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. |
| 0:12.5 | In May 2015, 21-year-old Jed Allen committed an act so horrifying that it rocked the quiet Oxfordshire town of Didcot to its core. |
| 0:23.7 | For reasons known only to him, Alan brutally murdered his mum, his stepdad and his little half-sister, |
| 0:30.7 | all during the course of one fateful Saturday afternoon, before taking his own two days later. |
| 0:38.1 | In this episode of British Murders with Stilke Blues, I explore one of Oxfordshire's |
| 0:42.4 | most shocking cases. A story involving familicide, an obsession with a comic book |
| 0:49.2 | anti-hero, and an unstable childhood that leaves us asking the age-old question. |
| 0:55.3 | Are people born evil? |
| 0:57.4 | Or are they moulded that way? |
| 0:59.7 | Before we dive into the story, |
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| 1:09.3 | who are interested in true crime. If you want to listen |
| 1:12.7 | ad-free, head to patreon.com forward slash British murders. I want to start by briefly touching on |
| 1:20.5 | something I've hinted at in my intro, something which often sparks a huge debate when it comes to violent |
| 1:26.1 | crime. Nature versus nurture. |
| 1:30.2 | Is it possible that people are born bad? |
| 1:33.4 | Or do their life experiences, trauma and environment make them that way? |
| 1:38.9 | Now, it's a question that we might never know the answer to, |
| 1:42.1 | and it can differ from case to case, of course, but when you hear |
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