True Crime Tonight: This Month in Crime History
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The suspect lured the victim into the woods. Biggest legal dramas in Hollywood. Today is a major win to show what the system can do. This is true crime tonight. Hello, everyone. It's six o'clock on Sunday night, which means this is True Crime. Tonight, across the network, I am your host, Michelle Laurie. I'm here with my producers, Matthew Tankett and Ruby Bartzis. We're here every Sunday night from six till seven with True Crime stuff.
Yes, indeed.
Yes, book recommendations, documentary recommendations. We've got something new tonight, Ruby. Yes, we do. We have Michael Adams coming on to talk about this month's crime from... History. History. That's what I'm looking for. This month in crime, let's call it, because he does an historical podcast called Forgotten Australia and it's so fascinating. He tells us about crimes that happened 100 years ago, 200 years ago, 50 years ago. It's all good stuff because you've just got to keep saying to yourself... How? Without mobile phones?
Yeah.
That's what the whole show really just makes you think, doesn't it?
Because he's been a godsend for us. He's done so many episodes for Australian True Crime.
We do love him.
But it is so funny when you hear about detectives from back then. It's just like, they're just operating on a hunch.
Yeah. No CCTV, no mobile phones, no towers. How did they solve anything? Well, he will tell us all about it coming up later in the show. Also coming up, we're going to talk about the Idaho 4 case. This is a case that I've been fascinated with since it happened. And that was the murder of four college students in a town called Moscow, Idaho. There's a man called Brian Koberger who is now... going to spend the rest of his life in jail. He's been convicted of these crimes. In fact, he confessed to these crimes, but there are still many questions about them. And we have one of the victim's mothers on the show, Christy Gonsalves. She's joined by a lady called Tracy Brocco, and they have started a foundation.
We will tell you all about it later in the show. But next up, we're talking a book recommendation. This is an Australian book written by an Australian lady about missing people, missing persons. That's coming up next on True Crime Tonight. Around Australia, you're listening to True Crime tonight. True Crime Book Club, guys. I've got another book. This is not a new book exactly, but it's a brilliant book. There's two of them, actually. Two books called Simply Missing by an Australian lady called Nicole Morris, who we loved.
She's one of the few people who have actually cared about something and has moved the needle on so many people's lives.
You're so right. Because missing persons cases are frustrating by their very nature and they oftentimes drag on and on and on. By the time someone's listed as long-term missing, which you go through the stats because they're really interesting, about 30,000 Australians go missing every single year. Most of those, about 98% of them, turn up one way or another within a week let's say a week or two so I think in order to be called long-term missing it has to be two or three months so it's still a significant number of people every year who simply vanish and their family nobody knows where they are and it can go on for decades if not indefinitely although with DNA improvements I think those stats are getting better.
But they're the stats. And yes, kids do run away. Yes, people do forget to call home because when they change their plans, all these things do happen. But we also know that sometimes it can be hard to get police interested. Even if you're saying to them, I'm telling you, I know this kid. She has not run away.
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