So, it's Halloween.

A time where people put fake limbs out of their letterboxes and aren't freaked out by it.

Sure, we don't understand why Halloween is taken off in Australia, but we also aren't here to yuck people's yum. Instead, we'll dive right into the hooky and the spooky and take a look at haunting, eerie, Halloween and true crime.

It's the themed episode you never knew you needed, until it hit your ear holes just now.

So sit back, relax and let the ghost* stories take you away.

*Note: there are actually not ghost stories in this episode. Sorry.

So you love true crime! There's quite a community of you these days listening to podcasts, reading books, watching documentaries.

But why??

You might have heard of the CSI effect when the forensic science TV show was at its most popular leading to a boom in people wanting to study forensics. But now that true crime is so wide reaching, are we seeing similar trends in people turning to criminology as a profession?

But also... where has this love of the creepy, the scary, the true crime come from?

In episode one, Dr Alex Simpson (criminologist) and Kia Handley (true crime fan) get into the nitty gritty of the love of true crime and the flow on effect we are seeing from that.

Get ready for your new favourite true crime podcast.

Sure, there's a lot of them - but none quite like this.

Bringing the world of true crime and pop culture together with the study of crime by tapping the mind of a real, life criminologist!

Join Dr Alex Simpson (Macquarie University) and Kia Handley (of no real place of interest except behind the microphone) for this new podcast delving into the world of the true crime vibes you love, with the criminological vibes you want to know more of!

Epsiodes dropping REALLY SOON!