ASSASSINS
Episodes
The assassination of British MP Jo Cox
22 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After the young British MP Jo Cox was assassinated in 2016, police raided the house of her killer. He lived in Cox’s West Yorkshire electorate, a ...
Jo Cox MP: Gunned down by a neo-Nazi
20 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After the young British MP Jo Cox was assassinated in 2016, police raided the house of her killer.The killer lived in Cox's West Yorkshire electorate...
The Trung Sisters who took on the Chinese Empire
13 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In the year 40 AD, the Trung sisters led one of the most incredible rebellions against China, taking on the powerful Eastern Han dynasty. Born into ...
The American journalist assassinated in Karachi
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Daniel Pearl touches down in Karachi, Pakistan, he knows he's taking a risk.A big one.He's a Jewish American reporter for the Wall Street Journa...
How to defeat the Sicilian mafia: Part two
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Magistrate Giovanni Falcone should have been too scared to take on the Sicilian mafia.After all, many of his colleagues had died trying to bring the ...
The magistrate vs the mafia: Part one
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Italian mafia once held regular meetings to decide which public figure needed to be assassinated.Some decisions were because of long-held grudges...
The plot to kill Iran's loudest dissident — Masih Alinejad
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Would-be assassins have tried to kill or abduct Masih Alinejad at least three times. Somehow, she's still alive.The former Iranian journalist fled h...
PRESENTS... What The Duck?! | Nature's Most Wanted
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
ASSASSINS with Aslan Pahari will be back in a few weeks with a batch of brand new stories about the world's most shocking assassinations. But in the ...
The Saudi journalist and the hit squad that dismembered him
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Who wins in a feud between a Washington Post journalist… and his own Crown Prince?Saudi Arabian columnist Jamal Khashoggi ran monthly op-eds about ...
The Army of God and the killing of abortion doctors
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Army of God has been described by the American government as a domestic underground Christian terrorist organisation.The group's been accused of ...
The anti-abortion assassin (Part 1)
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bombings. Break-ins. Setting fire to abortion clinics. The extremist wing of the anti-abortion movement in the United States has actively targete...
Is Aurangzeb India’s most significant assassin?
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built the majestic Taj Mahal to commemorate his beloved wife Mumtaz after she died.The couple's children, however, were...
“Z”: The Oscar-winning film banned in Greece
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At the 1970 Academy Awards the movie "Z" won the Oscar for best foreign film.The film opens with this line: "Any similarity to actual persons and eve...
The Greek Olympian assassinated by right wing extremists
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Greek Olympic long jumper Grigoris Lambrakis was assassinated by right wing extremists in front of police and a crowd of witnesses.Just one month...
Alexei Navalny: Catfishing the Kremlin
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There aren't many Russians who can get away with insulting their president, Vladimir Putin.But for most of his career, Alexei Navalny did.This week, ...
Did TV kill the Saudi King Faisal?
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1975 a young Saudi prince entered the royal palace and shot dead the king, Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.The killing was both personal and politica...
Berta Cáceres: The environmentalist killed by big business
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Indigenous woman Berta Cáceres helps organise a months-long blockade against multinationals in Honduras she immediately becomes a target.It's 2...
Who betrayed Indira Gandhi?
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Indira Gandhi, India's first and only female Prime Minister, had many enemies.But after her government ordered tanks to fire on the Golden Temple, on...
Rasputin: The drunk Russian monk who refused to die
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's said that Rasputin, the so-called 'mad monk', had supernatural abilities, could hypnotise people, and was quite the philanderer…It's also said...
Ahmad Shah Massoud: The man who warned the world about 9/11
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Five months before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Afghan resistance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud warned the western world that Al Qaeda was planning som...
PRESENTS… If You’re Listening | How Israel changed the way it assassinates enemies
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Each week on If You're Listening, host Matt Bevan explains the biggest story in world news while hiding in his basement from assassins (not us!) and ...
PRESENTS… No One Saw It Coming | The Wrong Turn That Started a World War
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hosted by Marc Fennell, No One Saw It Coming is a podcast that focuses on moments in history that seemed inconsequential but turned out to be momento...
Why was Mahatma Gandhi killed by one of his own?
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian activist who helped topple the British Empire, wasn't killed by colonisers, but by one of his own.When the struggle agains...
The Iranian nuclear scientist killed in a Hollywood-style hit
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The high-tech hit on Iranian nuclear scientist, Professor Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
The many attempts to kill Donald Trump
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From Ricin to rifles: The many attempts to assassinate Donald Trump.
PRESENTS - Huntsman - Unravel True Crime
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ABC’s biggest investigative true crime podcast Unravel has just dropped their new season, Huntsman. It’s not about an assassination – that...
A home-made gun, a cult, and the assassination of Japan’s Shinzo Abe
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the longest serving Prime Minister in Japan's history, Shinzo Abe deserved a relaxing retirement. Instead, he was out on the campaign trail for a ...
Hit 'Em Up: The assassination of Tupac Shakur
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tupac Shakur was a poet. A performer. A radical. He might have only been alive for 25 years, but in that time, he became the voice of his generation....
Atiq Ahmed: Gunned down on live TV
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You'd never expect to see an assassination broadcast on live TV.But that's exactly what happened in 2023.In the badlands of India's most populous sta...
An ancient mystery solved by modern science!
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For over 3000 years, the death of Pharaoh Ramses III was one of history's great mysteries.Then, in 2012, scientists cracked the case, revealing that ...
Who killed Ramses III? How scientists found murder in an Egyptian mummy
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is Ancient Egypt's 3000-year-old murder mystery history's coldest case?Ramses III was the last of Egypt's Great Pharaohs; a saviour of the empire, a ...
Charlotte Corday: The Angel of Assassination
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How long do you remain conscious for after having your head chopped off?For centuries, people thought that a severed head might be aware of what's go...
The samurai assassins who killed a Korean Empress
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you assassinate someone when you don't know what they look like?The K-Pop Demon Hunter of her time, Korea's first empress, Queen Min, was a to...
Who killed Benazir Bhutto?
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Almost two decades after her assassination we still don't know who killed Benazir Bhutto.But that doesn't mean there aren't a lot of theories about w...
Abraham Lincoln's celebrity assassin
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There have been few assassinations as notorious or consequential as Abraham Lincoln's.But for years before he killed the President, Lincoln’s assas...
INTRODUCING — ASSASSINS with Aslan Pahari
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aslan Pahari brings you stories of the world's most shocking assassinations. From seizing power, to silencing dissidents, ASSASSINS unpacks the momen...