Reviews
Rate ShowI look forward to the Crime Analyst Podcast every week, listening while I walk. Laura's work has deepened my perspective on the pervasive coercive control that underpins so many crimes against women and the stubborn indifference of the criminal justice system. Keep up your work Laura
- Clare Elizabeth Curran
- March 21, 2021
Thank you.
I can’t say it any better than the other commenters, so I’m just going to thank you for your informative and thought provoking podcast. You get me riled up every week, and thinking about how we can start getting things to change. I was waiting for your comments on Ms. Everard, and you were exactly right.
The part that affected me the most was in the episode where Wilma McCann’s son said that she wasn’t a prostitute, but it didn’t matter if she was, his mother would do what she had to do to take care of her children - nobody said anything about his father’s failure to take care of/provide for his family. I know that’s not the exact quote, but everyone reading this knows what I mean.
- Miss Devi
- March 21, 2021
Excellent!!!
Love this podcast! So well researched and delivered with the utmost respect to victims and their families.
- cglendinning
- March 19, 2021
- Karen Alden
- March 19, 2021
Best Podcast
I’ve listened to a lot of true crime, but Laura’s analysis is the best. Thank you Laura for all your advocacy, and for using the words ‘’misogyny’ and ‘femicide’ to name these crimes. How long before society realizes that half the population is targeted for violence because of the their sex.
- baroness willa
- March 18, 2021
Informative
I like the podcast and I’ve heard and seen Laura on tv and other podcasts and I really like how she has made the victims the most important part of the story and how she looks at the case with an instructive eye. I did find it a bit hard to follow, I kinda felt like I was just dropped in the middle. I needed a bit more background and more of a timeline presented.
- Zombehfahmah
- March 17, 2021
The more things change
Based on what is happening in the UK right now. The police don’t seem to have changed there attitudes about women
- UrluKat
- March 17, 2021
Crime analyst
I love this new podcast by Laura. I’ve heard her before on other podcast as guest speaker. Really like that you pay attention to victims and name them and try to speak very little if the perpetrator. Thanks for all your hard work. I like that you speak about victim blaming and then problems associated with that.
- Mrs. Middaugh
- March 16, 2021
Among the very best!
There are no other podcasts like Crime Analyst. This isn’t a true crime podcast. It’s a victim-centered analysis of criminal behavior through the lens of an experienced woman who doesn’t hold back on calling out misogyny and the roots of male violence. The case may be decades old but the same problems are still here. Listening to Laura helps me to dissect them as well as think about what can be done to change things.
- robbiclaire
- March 14, 2021
I love this podcast!
Laura offers great insights and I love how she gives power back to the victims and takes it away from the perpetrator.
- Catfight Johnson
- March 12, 2021
This podcast is a great and engaging listen and a challenging look at the world of real crime , in Laura we have an eloquent champion for the victim for justice and an advocate for change and legislation. The glorification of criminals and the way their "monikers" are spread over streaming services and media is rightly challenged the emphasis on the victims and their names restored, Highly endorsed
- Chris
- March 12, 2021
- cmdm
- March 11, 2021
Great Listen
This podcast is informative and thought provoking - one of the best podcasts I’ve heard. Laura brings a valued twist to the tale by focusing on the victims rather than glorifying the perpetrator.
- Maureen in CA
- March 10, 2021
Crime analyst
I love this new podcast by Laura. I’ve heard her before on other podcast as guest speaker. Really like that you pay attention to victims and name them and try to speak very little if the perpetrator. Thanks for all your hard work.
- Mrs. Middaugh
- March 10, 2021
I am really enjoying this podcast by Laura Richards and team. Laura is so insightful and uses her expérience and knowledge to explain concepts so clearly. For example how inherent sexism and misogyny contributes to failings in solving cases, which often enables perpetrators and centering the victim, rather than the perpetrator, in the investigation. I have been following her work for some time and always look forward to hearing more from her! Really valuable and essential work in the fight to rid the world of male violence against women.
- Niamh Redmond
- March 10, 2021
A True Crime podcast that gets it right
Laura Richards is a breath of fresh air in that she doesn’t treat crime as entertainment. Richards sees violence, especially violence against women and girls, as the horror it really is. She centers victims in their own stories, as well as their family and friends. Richards also traces the ongoing lifelong effects that ripple outward and even through generations of the grievous harm done by murder and violence.
- Melissa101897
- March 10, 2021
Still processing what I heard!
Laura, while Ive only recently discovered you, it goes without saying how incredible it is to see someone who advocates for justice and are taking things next level. Things need to change. The world has gone on too long with degenerates who get away with repeated unaccountable behaviour and no will to rehabilitate whats so ever. I don't believe its even possible for someone to better themselves with this type of character and personality. Too many things slip thru the cracks. All sides of the system need to communicate with each other. It is just so broken and I believe its worldwide. Need a gold standard of process to eliminate any form of slip ups. Criminals are given way too many rights for an out. I look forward to seeing and hearing more!
- DIFFSTER
- March 9, 2021
Great Analysis of the Strengths and Weaknesses in Criminal Investigation
Laura Richards consistently focuses on the victims, not on elevating the criminal. This is not only a refreshing change from many true crime podcasts, it is the ethical way to stave off some level of copycat behavior in pathological and narcissistic people listening to media.
This first series of the Crime Analyst podcast takes a deep dive into the stumbles and successes of the police and the prosecution as the women of Yorkshire in the 1970’s and 1980’s paid the price in blood. The survivors and their surviving families also speak, some even in present day interviews.
This is a podcast well worth your listen, and I can’t wait for series two.
- KoboldinMN
- March 8, 2021
A win for victims.
It’s nice to finally give the victims and their family a voice after decades of victim blaming/shaming. Laura’s passion is evident as is her compassion. She truly makes the victims the focus and it’s wonderful.
- Tee S 2011
- March 8, 2021
So informative, not sensationalistic!
I love Laura and I love her take, the female lens looking back at this horrible crime spree. I have learned so much and I have communicated many of your takeaways with my 16-year-old daughter as well. Keep them coming Laura -quite interested in what you’re putting out. Thank you!
- Peachydahl
- March 8, 2021
Expert Crime Analysis Through A Female Lens
Laura is an expert in her field. She shines a spotlight on victims and their families, by centering them in their own stories, is refreshing.
It is well past time to have crimes viewed through a female lens, reviewing and reframing the narrative. So often, women are at the receiving end of male violence and yet our input is neglected and our voices unheard.
I value that the names of perpetrators are reduced to initials and monikers given them by the media are redacted altogether. No need to sensationalize these criminals.
- alexxthegreat1
- March 7, 2021
Fantastic deep analysis from the victim’s perspective
I have become a huge fan of Laura Richards from
Real Crime Profile, and this solo venture of hers does not disappoint in the slightest. Her exact language and meticulous application of criminal analysis methods make listening to this podcast an extremely intense and harrowing experience but she does not shy from the reality of what male violence does to the women who are victimized and brutalized by it. While the realities she’s talking about are some of the worst crimes perpetrated against a human being, she does so with a deep understanding of the criminal behaviour and enormous empathy for the victims, plus how she places the crimes in the context of what was going on socially at the time makes for an extremely compelling and intensely involving podcast. Don’t miss out — if you’re a true crime enthusiast because like me you want to understand the extremities of human behaviour — Laura Richards will introduce you to thinking about these crimes and the continual violence of the patriarchy in an entirely different light. Excellent, amazing work!
- TashiMom
- March 5, 2021
Laura alone is great!
After years of TCP I found it often got too much off on chit chat and less of crime analysis. I have great hope that Laura alone will be focused and on point. The first episode is great. Thank you!
- poppy17
- March 4, 2021
There is no better microcosm to view misogyny through than this woeful police enquiry from Yorkshire and it is laid bare brilliantly and devastatingly here! All men should listen to see just what carnage crappy and lazy attitudes and assumptions about women can cause....
- Carol-Louise Owen
- March 4, 2021
Review
This podcast is outstanding. Laura’s analysis provides a fascinating insight into the PS case. Her interview with Julie Bindel is one of the best I’ve heard. Laura’s empathy and compassion for victims of crime and their families always comes across. I particularly like how Laura re-frames how the crime, the perpetrator and victims are discussed. It’s both confronting and thought provoking.
- sarah, Dublin
- March 2, 2021
Truly fascinating and engaging podcasts that cleverly unpick society's attitudes to victim blaming and the incredible police failings in the capture and arrest of PS.
Highly recommended listening, in particular to Laura's interview with Julie Bindel, which exposes the 'macho culture', police cognitive bias, society's attitudes to violence against women/girls and prostitution.
- dallox01
- Feb. 28, 2021