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Loose Units: The Podcast

The true crime book Loose Units, out now through Penguin Publishing (and in bookstores everywhere), had one thing it couldn't do: it couldn't fit everything. So each week, Paul and John will sit down ... Read more

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Loose Units: NSFW - Part One

Loose Units: NSFW - Part One

Why did John leave the police force and spend several years investigating disturbing industrial accidents? How did he ap... Read more

10 Dec 2019

31mins

Ranked #2

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Frontier Justice

Frontier Justice

Frontier justice is a tricky thing. This week on Loose Units, ex-cop John talks about bullying, both past and present, a... Read more

25 Dec 2018

26mins

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Get Bent

Get Bent

Corruption, bent detectives, and disillusionment. Why did John decide to leave the force? What was it that began to push... Read more

19 Mar 2019

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By Their Own Hand

By Their Own Hand

A staggering, disturbing look at death by suicide from the perspective of an ex-cop. John takes his son, Paul, through a... Read more

4 Nov 2019

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Loose Units: NSFW - Part Three

Loose Units: NSFW - Part Three

In the final installment of Loose Units: NSFW, John tells Paul some terrifying stories about his time in work cover, a g... Read more

30 Dec 2019

35mins

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Rampant Speculation

Rampant Speculation

On this bizarre episode of Loose Units, John and Paul literally walk through a live crime scene and speculate on what ha... Read more

21 Oct 2019

28mins

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Loose Units: NSFW - Part Two

Loose Units: NSFW - Part Two

This week on Loose Units: NSFW, Dad nearly finds out the secret ingredient in Coca-Cola during a gruesome investigation,... Read more

16 Dec 2019

29mins

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Safe

Safe

John reveals a complex trade secret: how does safe-cracking work? Turns out it's super, super complicated. The boys also... Read more

28 Oct 2019

31mins

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Confronting Evil

Confronting Evil

WARNING: This episode contains nature of a graphic sexual content.This week on Loose Units, John tells Paul about what h... Read more

7 Oct 2019

26mins

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Merry Crimesmas!

Merry Crimesmas!

BEST! CHRISTMAS PRESENT! EVER! Because you're our favourites, Paul and John sat down in the studio for this HUGE Crimesm... Read more

24 Dec 2019

49mins

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Corruption and Suicides

Corruption and Suicides

This week on Loose Units: The Podcast, Paul grills his ex-cop dad about a series of bizarre suicides up and down the Nor... Read more

31 Dec 2018

26mins

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A Day in the Life of a Firefighter

A Day in the Life of a Firefighter

So what is it actually like to go through a day as a firefighter? This week, ex-cop and ex-firey, John Verhoeven, walks ... Read more

16 Mar 2020

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The Balcony

The Balcony

We're in a new studio, and we celebrate by kicking off with one of the most terrifying cases yet involving one of the mo... Read more

7 Jan 2019

43mins

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Sunday Roast

Sunday Roast

In this horrifying new episode, John tells Paul about one of his most grisly cases involving a complex, tragic death. He... Read more

14 Oct 2019

29mins

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Dead Serious

Dead Serious

This week, our ex-cop reveals just a hint of what it was like running an honest-to-god funeral home, what it's like enco... Read more

6 Mar 2019

33mins

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Dickin' Around

Dickin' Around

On this week's episode, John and Paul talk about something hard. Something... VERY hard. A series of grisly thefts from ... Read more

2 Sep 2019

33mins

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The Real Underbelly

The Real Underbelly

In this insane episode of Loose Units, Paul sits down with his ex-cop dad, John, and they delve into a case that begins ... Read more

12 Aug 2019

31mins

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The Cases We Try to Forget

The Cases We Try to Forget

How bad does it get in forensics? And what happens when cases crop up that are just too much to process? Ex-cop John Ver... Read more

26 Aug 2019

32mins

Ranked #19

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Absolute F*ckwits

Absolute F*ckwits

Turns out the fire brigade in the 90s was crammed full of platinum-grade f*ckwits. In this revealing and thrilling episo... Read more

23 Mar 2020

35mins

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The Worst Murder Yet

The Worst Murder Yet

Our ex-cop, John, tells his son Paul a truly unprecedented story from the Loose Units case files. A terrible killing lea... Read more

5 Aug 2019

34mins

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