true crime
Hosted by Chris Summers · true crime · EN-GB
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.
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Contact path
Public web form
Booking probability
30%
Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchA 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.
Totalcrime is hosted by Chris Summers. The show has published 37 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "'If Only Dogs Could Talk'" (27 October 2026, 49 minutes), "How Have We Arrived At 'Digital Cults'?" (20 October 2026, 49 minutes), and "The Day I Visited a Condemned Man on Death Row" (13 October 2026, 22 minutes).
Totalcrime publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 36 minutes across 37 episodes.
Booking probability for Totalcrime is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Totalcrime requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Totalcrime's contact route on record: public web form.
Chris Summers hosts Totalcrime, a true crime podcast with 37 episodes published.
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Episode #37
Michael Ross's wife Jacquie went out to walk their dog one Sunday morning, and never came home. She was ambushed and murdered by a complete stranger, who had been out of prison for less than a month. In today's episode...
Episode #36
My guest today is Kacey Baker (pictured), the host of the CultVault podcast. We talk about the history of cults, including The People's Temple, which was responsible for the Jonestown massacre in 1978 (in which more...
Episode #35
In July 2003 I travelled to California and visited Stanley "Tookie" Williams (pictured) on Death Row in San Quentin prison. Two years later he was executed on the orders of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Tookie was the...
Episode #34
Rapper Tashera "T" Savage and her mother Shontel Greene tell me about their lives on the streets of Baltimore and how they have been turned into a movie, "Thru The Eyes of the Hustlers' Daughter", which is coming out...
Episode #33
Alex Smith - a psychic entertainer and stage hypnotist who uses the stage name Jonathan Royle - thought he could outwit the News of the World's investigative journalist Mazher Mahmood, aka "The Fake Sheikh" and reveal...
Episode #32
This is the second of a two-parter series about the Pottery Cottage Murders in Derbyshire. Podcasters John and Sally Midgley - who are both former police officers from Derbyshire - talk me through what happened after...
Episode #31
This is the first of a two-parter about the Pottery Cottage Murders in Derbyshire. Podcasters John and Sally Midgley - who are both former police officers from Derbyshire - talk to me about the crimes of Billy Hughes...
Episode #30
In this episode I speak to Sanne de Boer, the author of The New Mafia: The Inside Story of the Rise of the 'Ndrangheta. Sanne, who is Dutch, moved to a beautiful village in Calabria in the far south of Italy 20 years...
Episode #29
In this episode I talk to N. Leigh Hunt, the author of a new book - The Boy Next Door - about the world's youngest serial killer, Craig C. Price (pictured), who killed a woman in Rhode Island when he was 13 and then a...
Episode #28
In this episode I look at one of the most infamous unsolved murders in Britain in the last 40 years - the killing of private investigator Daniel Morgan (pictured). In 1987 Morgan, 37, was murdered by a mystery axeman in...
Episode #27
I recently attended a Metallica concert in London where the chief support band were Pantera. In 2004 one of the founders of Pantera, guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott, was shot dead - along with three other people - by a...
Episode #26
Life has come full circle as I interview Shaun Attwood, a YouTuber with 1.1 million followers, who I first wrote about in 2004 (see first link), when he was blogging from an Arizona prison about the horrendous...
Episode #25
One night in 1984 a civil servant, Anthony Littler, who had just got off a Tube train after a night out with some fellow real ale enthusiasts, was attacked as he walked home along a darkened alley in north London. It...
Episode #24
In this special episode I dissect the recent trial of London rappers Rack5 and TY with two voices from the streets, Tankz and TMC. Rack5 (Ellis Heather) was jailed for life on 17 July 2026 for the murder of the brother...
Episode #23
So the World Cup is over and the painful memories of England's semi-final defeat against Argentina will stay with us for years. Where did you watch the game? I was lucky enough to watch it in a bar in the Caribbean. In...
Episode #22
In this episode I speak to Simon Michael, a former barrister turned novelist, who is sometimes known as "Britain's John Grisham". We had a fascinating discussion about the differences between true crime and crime...
Episode #21
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...
Episode #20
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...
Episode #19
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...
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executive coach specializing in ADHD and neurodiversity, HM Consul General and Director of Trade for Vietnam
Programme Director for Public Services at the Institute for Government, International Mixed Martial Arts Federation
former BBC home affairs correspondent and Yvette Cooper adviser, University of New York
News of the World
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