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Totalcrime
A true crime podcast, written and produced by Chris Summers, veteran crime reporter with more than 30 years of experience. He has been writing producing content for Totalcrime on Substack since March 2024 and is now launching into podcasting. The podcast will be a mixture of Chris narrating true crime stories from the UK and around the world, and occasional interviews with people who are knowledgeable about crime.
Episodes
22 episodes
'I'm scared': Thomas Herdman Interview Part II
This is the second part of my interview with Thomas Herdman, the Canadian businessman who has been waiting for more than five years to go on trial in France accused of setting up Sky ECC to help organised criminals do their deals in secret. He ...
Prisoner of the War on Encryption
In this episode I have an exclusive interview with Thomas Herdman, who is awaiting trial in France four years after he was arrested and accused of being behind an international criminal enterprise at the encrypted app Sky ECC. Herdman tells me ...
Beyond Depravity: The Death of Preston Davey
Last week Jamie Varley was given a whole life sentence for the murder of Preston Davey, a 13-month-old boy he was in the process of adopting with his boyfriend John McGowan-Fazakerley. I covered the trial, which heard shocking evidence that the...
The Suiciders
This is an exclusive interview with Zac Law, from Yorkshire, who tells me how he discovered one day that one of his American friends on the app Discord, Travis Dyer (pictured), had killed himself and then later found out that three other people...
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The Turks of London
I have been following the machinations of the Turkish and Kurdish underworld in London for almost a quarter of a century and this seems like the perfect time to tell the story. The reason I am doing this episode now is because of the conviction...
Groomed: The Murder of Katie Simpson
Nicola Tallant, top Irish crime journalist and author of Groomed: Coercion, Control and a Cold-blooded Murder, joins me to discuss the horrific murder of Katie Simpson, a 21-year-old showjumper in Northern Ireland who fell into the clutches of ...
The Dying Art of Court Reporting
Polly Rippon, a former court reporter with the Sheffield Star who now teaches journalism at Sheffield University, joins me to discuss the art of court reporting and why it is so important. We talk about why trials are covered differently than t...
What is Murderabilia?
In this episode I am joined by Loukas Ntanos, a criminologist from Birmingham City University and an expert on murderabilia - which is the collection of items related to homicide cases. Yes, believe it or not, there are people out there who col...
The murder of Robert "Fox" Powell with special guest Adam Lloyd from UK True Crime podcast
In Episode 13 of the Totalcrime podcast my special guest is Adam Lloyd, the host of the UK True Crime podcast, which has been going for almost 10 years. We talk mainly about the murder of Robert "Fox" Powell in June 2020 and the amazing crimina...
The Fall of the Kinahans
Daniel Kinahan - the alleged head of the Kinahan drugs cartel - was arrested in Dubai on 17 April. But why has it taken nearly a decade to arrest a man who had been hiding in plain sight in Dubai for a decade and had put his head above the para...
'The police were lying all the time'
I speak to Sir Ivan Lawrence KC, who as a barrister in the 1960s and 70s specialised in proving that police officers were liars. He represented numerous gangsters, including the Kray brothers – twins Ronnie and Reggie, and also their less famou...
'I'm not bitter, I'm angry'
Michael O'Brien spent 11 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. His case, the Cardiff Newsagent Three, was one of several with a "common thread" - a vulnerable person being cajoled into a confession upon which South Wales Police built a...
Why did police spy on grieving father?
In today's episode I have an exclusive interview with John Burke-Monerville who has the unwanted distinction of being the father of three sons who were all murdered - in 1994, 2013 and 2019 - in London. But as if John's story was not tragic and...
The Brides In The Bath
In today's episode I visit the Metropolitan Police Museum, where they have artefacts from 150 years of crime. I interview Dr Clare Smith, the museum's curator, about the collection and focus on "The Brides in the Bath" case in 1915, which invol...
America's Most Dangerous Prisoner
Tommy Silverstein - one of the leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang in the United States - killed three men behind bars in the space of two years, one of whom was a prison guard. The federal Bureau of Prisons reacted by locking him up i...
Born in Prison, Son of a Bad Man
In today's episode I interview Lee Marvin Hitchman, who was born in a prison and taken into care as a baby. He explains the terrible reputation of his birth father Eric Rogers - which includes supposedly taking part in the killing of PC Keith B...
Who Killed Jacqueline?
In January 2002 Jacqueline Nyeko, 24, went missing, leaving behind a young daughter, Lexi. Three days later her body was found - with horrific injuries - in a bin store on an estate in Kennington, south London. All these years later the case is...
The Shooting of Lola Doll
Lola Doll is a sexy and popular singer and influencer in Guyana, so why was she shot in September 2025? Today's episode is all about drugs, corruption and politics in Guyana, a former British colony on the Caribbean coast of South America. Spoi...
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The Balcombe Street Siege
Fifty years ago a couple in their 50s were sitting in their council flat, not far from London's West End, watching an episode of Kojak when four armed IRA desperadoes burst in. It would turn into a six-day siege - which was broadcast on the nat...
The Fake Grieving Widow
When Thomas Campbell was tortured and stabbed to death at his home in Manchester in July 2022 his ex-wife, and mother of his children, Coleen, posted on Facebook that he had been: "The best dad anyone could wish for." But her grief was fake and...