The murder of James Bulger | Ep 232
Crime and Coffee Couple - True Crime Podcast
Allison and Mike
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
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James Bulger disappeared from a shopping center in Bootle in February 1993, and the case unfolded through CCTV, witness statements, and a growing realization that the usual assumptions did not apply. We walk through the moments that were missed in public, the inconsistencies in what people thought they saw, and what the investigation and trial later made clear while still leaving key questions unanswered. Allison guides the story carefully, grounding it in the details that shaped how this case was understood then and how it is argued about now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of The Crime and Coffee Couple. My name's Allison. |
| 0:08.0 | And my name's Mike. Hi, Mike. Hello, my beautiful pumpkin princess. I always think pumpkin, I don't know why. Not that you look like a pumpkin or shaped like a pumpkin, but, you know, pumpkins are like warm and cozy. And you're warm and cozy. |
| 0:20.1 | Oh, thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How are you doing today? I'm doing okay. How are you're warm and cozy. Oh, thank you. |
| 0:21.0 | Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:21.7 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:22.6 | I'm doing okay. |
| 0:23.4 | How are you? |
| 0:23.9 | I'm good. |
| 0:24.3 | Welcome to the show, by the way, for those of you watching at home or listening at home or in your car or wherever you are while you're doing laundry. And if you're new to us, I'm Allison. This is Mike. Yeah. And we host a true crime podcast. |
| 0:35.8 | And that's what this is. |
| 0:36.9 | We've been married for 23 years. |
| 0:38.8 | I deliver the story. |
| 0:39.9 | Mike listens. |
| 0:40.6 | He goes, mm-hmm. That's probably the biggest part of my job. And it's hard. You believe it or not, it's, you know, you got to know one to say the, oh, like at the right time. So I try to ask the questions that you guys, this is my first time hearing this story. So all, every single story. Yeah. So along with you guys, |
| 0:54.2 | Mike's hearing it for the first time too. Yeah. Yeah. And I usually don't remember them. So I was just thinking like that crime con is coming up in like September. So it gets in May. May. Okay. Well, I was way off. So I don't remember a lot of things. And it turns out that like, like if people came up to us and they met us. |
| 1:08.7 | I'm like, oh my gosh, you know that story about blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:11.2 | And you were talking to me, I'd be like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. |
| 1:13.0 | But in my head, I'd have, |
| 1:14.0 | no idea. Allison, come over here and help me out here because I have no idea what they're talking about. For my own self-preservation, I try to get rid of it. I hear you, brother. I hear you. Yeah. So in the meantime while I'm not remembering true crime stories I try to feed crows in our backyard and I just had a |
| 1:28.2 | very successful crow feeding oh Oh, Mike was pumped. It is a good day. Oh, it's wonderful. It's very early morning here on the weekend when we're recording this and it was just, oh, it was so nice. I heard a little crow in the backyard and I was like, oh, this is one of my crow bros. And I look back there and he's still sitting there. And my son's like, yeah, he's out of her dad. So I chopped up an egg and I threw it out there for him, maybe a couple of peanuts. |
| 1:47.4 | And then the family cake. one of my crow bros and I look back there and like he's still sitting there and my son's like yeah he's out of her dad so I chopped up an egg and I threw it out there for him maybe a couple |
| 1:46.8 | peanuts and then the family came around there's like four of them that always come around and then |
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