ASSASSINS
Episodes
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...