The Crime Roundup: October 2025
British Murders with Stuart Blues
Stuart Blues
4.6 • 876 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this final episode of The Crime Roundup, Adam and I reflect on our journey together while discussing various true crime cases. We delve into the tragic story of Jamie Lucas, the cycle of domestic abuse highlighted by a recent murder case, and the sentencing of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption. Our conversation also touches on the murder of Ian Watkins, the bizarre discovery of a crocodile in Derbyshire, and the disturbing case of a woman locked away in her bedroom for 27 years. Throughout the episode, we explore the impact of social media on crime reporting and the justice system.
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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. |
| 0:12.7 | Hello everyone and welcome to what is going to be in its current iteration, the final episode of the Crime Roundup with myself, Stu, of British |
| 0:21.9 | Murders and Adam of UK True Crime. How are you, Adam? Can't really talk, sure. It's the last |
| 0:27.7 | one. It's affected to me emotionally. I can't spake. So this is, is this the 10th one then? We |
| 0:33.6 | started in January, didn't we? Yeah. The 10th roundup. |
| 0:37.7 | Yeah, the 10th crime rounder. |
| 0:39.1 | But don't fear, dear listener, it's not going away permanently, just in its current format. |
| 0:44.9 | So Adam and I are in the process of setting up a brand new collaboration show, which is going |
| 0:51.7 | to have its own feed. |
| 0:55.6 | A lot of people when I say that, they don't really know what I mean, and I which is going to have its own feed. A lot of people when I say that, |
| 0:59.8 | they don't really know what I mean, and I'm not going to go into it right now. It just means it'll be its own show. So if you go on a podcast player and you search for Adam's show or my show, |
| 1:05.2 | this will be its own show. I think we're going with the true crime catch-up, was it? |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah, that's it. |
| 1:11.6 | True crime catch-up with Adam and Stu. That's what it's going to be. It's all in pre-production stage, but it's going to be a weekly show. Thanks to everyone who filled out the survey that I put out about how we're going to format the show. It's going to be between half an hour and an hour, roughly. a weekly show, we'll get together, chat about some things |
| 1:28.4 | pretty much like the Roundup. between half an hour and an hour roughly. A weekly show, we'll get together, chat about some things |
| 1:28.4 | pretty much like the roundup, but better. But we're not quitting our own shows, which was a common |
| 1:35.2 | misconception. I had to put a note in to confirm that we're still going to be doing our own shows, |
| 1:40.9 | doubling the workload for ourselves. But for you guys, it's double or an extra podcast to listen to. |
| 1:46.3 | So what we're going to do for this last one? |
| 1:47.8 | We're going to throw out the old routine |
| 1:50.2 | of local international quirk in all that. |
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