The Hollywood Ending:The Matthew Tinling Case - Part Two

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

3.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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🎧 THE DEVIL WITHIN: The Matthew Tinling Case — Part Two Chapters 4–6: The Trial of a Horror Fan · The Violence Doesn’t End Here · The Devil in the Mirror 🔥 Description: After his arrest, Matthew Tinling faced the Old Bailey — calm, smiling, and proud. The prosecution called him “a man who mistook fiction for faith.” The jury called him guilty. And yet, inside the walls of HMP Belmarsh, the violence didn’t end. From his obsession with Jigsaw’s “rules” to a string of brutal attacks on fellow inmates, Tinling kept the game alive long after the cameras stopped rolling. But what if he wasn’t just a monster? What if he was a mirror — reflecting our own hunger for punishment disguised as justice? In this concluding episode, we follow Tinling from the courtroom to the cellblock, and finally into the cultural darkness that made him possible. ⚖️ Chapter 4 — The Trial of a Horror Fan 🔪 Chapter 5 — The Violence Doesn’t End Here 🪞 Chapter 6 — The Devil in the Mirror 🎙️ Written & Hosted by: Branden Morgan 🎚️ Produced by: Evio Creative / Bellaire Studios 🎵 Sound Design & Score: The Evio Collective 💬 Call to Action: If you finished this story and felt something staring back — that’s the point. Rate, review, and share The Devil Within to help new listeners find the darkness. 🔗 Explore more at eviocreative.com and follow @thedevilwithinpod. 🩸 Discover Criminal Mischief, Taboo Treasures, The Devil’s Ledger, and The Ides of April. 💰 Sponsored By: 👕 Quince — quince.com/DEVILWITHIN for free shipping + 365-day returns. 📱 Mint Mobile — mintmobile.com/DEVILWITHIN. 🧠 ExpressVPN — expressvpn.com/DEVILWITHIN for up to 4 months free. 🎙️ The Devil Within: The Matthew Tinling Case was written and hosted by Branden Morgan, produced by Evio Creative, mixed at Bellaire Studios, with original score and sound design by The Evio Collective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I was a teenager, a girl went missing from my hometown, Blackpool. Her name was Charlene
0:07.0	Downs. And the story of what happened to her is not what it seems. 22 years after Charlene went
0:14.1	missing, I want to try and uncover not just the truth about what happened to her, but the lies too.
0:21.2	I'm Nicola Thorpe, and this is Charlene.
0:24.6	Somebody knows something.
0:27.0	Available now, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:32.1	EVO.
0:32.5	EVEO.
0:36.9	The Welcome back to The Devil Within.
0:44.0	This is the Hollywood ending, the Matthew Tinling case, part two.
0:50.5	Chapter 4, the trial of a horror fan.
0:55.8	They say London's old Bailey courthouse is haunted, not by ghosts, but by echoes, the voices of the condemned still clinging to the walls.
1:06.1	If that's true, then courtroom nine has a new name to add to the roll call.
1:11.6	Matthew Tinling.
1:12.6	On a gray spring morning in 2013, he walked in wearing a rumpled blue shirt and a smirk
1:19.6	that never once left his face.
1:22.6	He looked less like a defendant and more like a man waiting for his cue. When the clerk read out R.V. Tinling,
1:31.3	he tilted his head and whispered something under his breath. A court reporter later said he
1:37.3	mouthed the words, game on. The charge was simple, murder. But the narrative that followed was anything but. The prosecution
1:47.7	led by Edward Brown described a horror film made real. They painted Tinling as a self-appointed
1:53.7	executioner, one who'd drawn moral logic from Saw Six and used it to justify savagery. Brown told the jury that this was not an act of madness.
2:04.6	It was an act of meaning. A man inspired by cinema, reimagining murder as instruction.
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