Australian True Crime
Episodes
The international cult that has a presence in Australia
10 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Founded in 1972, "The 12 Tribes" presents itself as a welcoming religious sect. However, the accounts from those who have managed to escape tell a ver...
Shortcut: The young law student who began robbing TABs - Part 2
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. This i...
The young law student who began robbing TABs - Part 2
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second part of a two part series with our guest, Arthur Bolkas.In his late teens and early twenties, Arthur was pulling double duty as a p...
Shortcut: The young law student who began robbing TABs - Part 1
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. We're ...
The young law student who began robbing TABs - Part 1
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. We're ...
Shortcut: The surge of violence in Victoria's illicit tobacco market
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Over t...
The surge of violence in Victoria's illicit tobacco market
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past eight months, more than 30 tobacco stores in Victoria have fallen victim to a series of fire bombings due to a burgeoning turf war. Mart...
Shortcut: Falling in love with a prisoner sentenced to life
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Ashlei...
Falling in love with a prisoner sentenced to life
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ashleigh (not her real name) is a kind of woman we've all heard about many times, but don't often get to hear from.A couple of years ago, Ashleigh rec...
Shortcut: The Man Who Wasn't There
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. In 201...
The Man Who Wasn't There
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2011, A young indigenous man by the name of Zak Grieve was sentenced to life in prison for a murder he didn't commit.The murder of Ray Niceforo was...
Shortcut: Where is Australia getting its crystal meth?
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Austra...
Where is Australia getting its crystal meth?
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Australia tops almost every other country when it comes to our consumption of meth, with billions of dollars of it arriving at our shores each year.In...
Re-Issue: Annette Mason: Journey to an Inquest - #42
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
November 2023 marks the 34th anniversary of the brutal murder of Toowoomba teenager, Annette Mason. For today's episode, we revisit one of our earlies...
Shortcut: Convincing your husband to murder your ex
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Even t...
Convincing your husband to murder your ex
12 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Even though Biannca Edmunds didn't pull the trigger, Victorian homicide detectives pursued her for years with the belief that she was responsible for ...
Shortcut: The Girl in Cabin 350
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Gwenda...
The Girl in Cabin 350
05 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gwenda McCallum was young, single and determined to squeeze every drop out of life when she arrived in Sydney in 1949. Mere weeks later, she found her...
Shortcut: The Real Romper Stomper
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. The cu...
The Real Romper Stomper
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The current rise of Antisemitism and “White Power” groups in Australia is not unprecedented.In fact, as recently as 1992, Russell Crowe’s career...
Shortcut: This Criminologist may challenge your views on the Criminal Justice System
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Lauren...
This Criminologist may challenge your views on the Criminal Justice System
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Lauren...
Robert Berchtold's reign of terror on the Broberg family - True Crime Compendium
22 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is an unlocked episode of Australian True Crime Plus. To access all ATC Plus episodes, plus ad free and early listening of all Australian True Cr...
Shortcut: The Brutal Upbringing that Prepared Susan Norman to be a Prison Guard
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Susan ...
The Brutal Upbringing that Prepared Susan Norman to be a Prison Guard
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Susan ...
Shortcut: Lynn's Law: The Murder of Lynn Cannon and the Call for Reform
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Lynn C...
Lynn's Law: The Murder of Lynn Cannon and the Call for Reform
15 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lynn Cannon, an adored Perth mother of two, was brutally murdered by her ex husband Paul Cannon in late 2022.The day before she was murdered, Paul lea...
Shortcut: Being the head police officer during the Cabramatta heroin crisis
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Alan L...
Being the head police officer during the Cabramatta heroin crisis
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Leek is a retired member of the New South Wales Police Service, in which he served for 34 years. In the early 1990s, Alan was rewarded for h...
Shortcut: My father murdered my baby and he’s not in jail
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. In Oct...
My father murdered my baby and he’s not in jail
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In October 2019, Natalie Sands, her children and her mother suffered an unthinkably brutal attack at the hands of her father. Natalie was doused in pe...
Shortcut: How did this Australian die in South African police custody?
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. In 199...
How did this Australian die in South African police custody?
01 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1995, Adrian Pendergast accepted an exciting job opportunity in South Africa. Less than a week after he got there, he was found dead in a jail cell...
Shortcut: Drug dealing, car theft and escaping prison. This was Nathan's life.
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Our gu...
Drug dealing, car theft and escaping prison. This was Nathan's life.
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Our gu...
Shortcut: If your abuser is a cop, will the police still protect you?
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Mary (...
If your abuser is a cop, will the police still protect you?
16 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mary (not her real name) is a recently retired Victoria Police officer.Mary's husband and father of her two children committed serious family violence...
Shortcut: Australia's sex trafficking rings hiding in plain sight
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Sex tr...
Australia's sex trafficking rings hiding in plain sight
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sex trafficking of overseas women to Australia is far more widespread than you may believe.The Sex Work industry can be one of empowerment and autonom...
Shortcut: What happened to Ray and Jennie Kehlet?
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Ray an...
What happened to Ray and Jennie Kehlet?
03 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Jennie Kehlet's much loved Great Dane, Ella, wandered alone and dehydrated into a caravan park in Sandstone, WA in March 2015.The phone calls ...
The Murder of Katie Rackliff - True Crime Compendium
27 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of the unlikely killer who hid in plain sight in the tiny and terrified community of Camberley for two years. This is an unlocked e...
Shortcut: The multinational effort to bring Cecilia Haddad's killer to justice - Part 2
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. This i...
The multinational effort to bring Cecilia Haddad's killer to justice - Part 2
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 2 of a 2 part series on the murder of Cecilia Haddad, and the multinational effort to bring her killer to justice.Journalist Ashlea Ha...
Shortcut: The multinational effort to bring Cecilia Haddad's killer to justice - Part 1
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. On the...
The multinational effort to bring Cecilia Haddad's killer to justice - Part 1
20 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the day Cecilia Haddad's body was discovered in Sydney's Lane Cove River, her ex partner Mario Marcelo Santoro was on a flight home to Brazil.Our g...
Shortcut: Sarah's brave act that forever stopped a child predator
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Sarah ...
Sarah's brave act that forever stopped a child predator
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah spent decades explaining her self-destructive behaviour to people as a consequence of one terrible year of bullying in primary school.Her abuser...
Re-Issue: The Fight to Bring an Alleged Pedophile Headmistress Back to Australia to Face Justice: Survivor Dassi Erlich's Story
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a re-issue of episode 99 from May 2019 2019Dassi Erlich is living a life today she literally could never have imagined as a child. She couldn’...
Shortcut: Re-Issue: The Fight to Bring an Alleged Pedophile Headmistress Back to Australia to Face Justice: Survivor Dassi Erlich's Story
13 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. This i...
The disappearance of Susan Thomson leaves more questions than answers
06 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Warren, 15 years old in the year of 1965, ran away with a man 8 years her senior, Arthur Thomson.The next 34 years of her life are quite frankly...
Shortcut: The disappearance of Susan Thomson leaves more questions than answers
06 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Susan ...
What you need to know to keep your child safe online
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We return this episode with our guests Jon Rouse APM and Akhim Dev, answering your questions about the fight against online exploitation of children.A...
Shortcut: What you need to know to keep your child safe online
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. We ret...
Task Force Argos: The police who rescue children from online sexual exploitation
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Task Force Argos is a world renowned branch of the Queensland Police Service, responsible for the investigation of online child exploitation and abuse...
Shortcut: Task Force Argos: The police who rescue children from online sexual exploitation
30 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Task F...
Can We Be Real? - The Secrets!
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing "Can We Be Real?" - our new podcast that delves deep into the realm of authenticity and vulnerability.Join us as we encourage our listener...
Shortcut: A "real life monster" from Australia's Great Depression
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. During...
A "real life monster" from Australia's Great Depression
23 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
During the Great Depression, 32% of working age men were put out of work, with many of them resorting to drunken and violent lifestyles.During this ti...
Shortcut: Unfinished Business - a survivor defies the odds of Australia’s Court System (Part 2)
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. This i...
Unfinished Business - a survivor defies the odds of Australia’s Court System (Part 2)
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is part two of a two part series with our anonymous guest. If you haven’t yet listened to our previous episode, we highly suggest you go and li...
Shortcut: Unfinished Business - a survivor defies the odds of Australia’s Court System (Part 1)
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Today'...
Unfinished Business - a survivor defies the odds of Australia’s Court System (Part 1)
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is part one of a two part series. Part two will be available this coming Thursday.For reasons that will become apparent, our guest has...
Introducing… They Walk Among Us
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered if there is a dark side to your neighbour? The cashier at the supermarket? The delivery driver? The person that sleeps beside y...
Shortcut: Three days before her pregnancy was due, Krystal Fraser went missing
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. On the...
Three days before her pregnancy was due, Krystal Fraser went missing
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the 20th of June, 2009, a heavily pregnant Krystal Fraser, 23 years old, checked herself out of hospital to go to a party in Pyramid Hill. A countr...
Special Extra: Mark Bouris and Meshel Laurie talk True Crime
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Meshel recently went on Straight Talk with Mark Bouris, and a whole lot of their conversation was about true crime. So what we've done is ed...
The father and son who vanished in one of the most remote parts of Australia
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a story about a man and his young son, Brad and Bevin Simmonds, who disappeared out in Cape York 20 years ago.How could an experienced fisherm...
Shortcut: The father and son who vanished in one of the most remote parts of Australia
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. This i...
ATC Plus *UNLOCKED*: Ripple: A Long Strange Search for A Killer
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jim Cosgrove was a journalist until a song he made up for his nieces and nephews called ‘Mr Stinky Feet’ became the hit of the local book fair. He...
Shortcut: From Predatory Boys Homes to the Unforgiving Streets of Kings Cross
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Many o...
From Predatory Boys Homes to the Unforgiving Streets of Kings Cross
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many of Australia's systems failed Glen Fisher during his adolescence. Coming from a broken home, Glen had to endure a horrifying stint while in custo...
War hero to war criminal, Nick Mckenzie reflects on exposing Ben Roberts-Smith
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, Ben Roberts-Smith, a decorated Australian war veteran who had won the Victoria Cross for his actions in Afghanistan, sued The Age, The Sydney...
Shortcut: War hero to war criminal, Nick Mckenzie reflects on exposing Ben Roberts-Smith
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. In 201...
The silent suffering of a missing person's sibling
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Ryan's sister Marcia disappeared in 1996 after leaving her Melbourne home. Marcia told her family she was going on a road trip with her dog Ziggy...
Shortcut: The silent suffering of a missing person's sibling
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Tony R...
Tina Greer's disappearance: Her daughter's fight for justice
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tina Louise Greer, 32, went missing from her Beechmont home in Queensland, January 18, 2012.She had gone to visit her ex boyfriend, a Finks bikie by t...
Shortcut: Tina Greer's disappearance: Her daughter's fight for justice
04 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Tina L...
The woman helping families of the vanished in Australia
28 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nicole Morris started a website more than 16 years ago called Australian Missing Persons Register. It was something she began as a personal project bu...
Shortcut: The woman helping families of the vanished in Australia
27 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Nicole...
The Heartbreaking Story This Crime Reporter Can't Forget
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2007 when Kate Kyriacou was a reporter for the Adelaide Advertiser, she took up a story of a missing woman named Glenys Heyward.Glenys, 53, had bee...
Shortcut: The Heartbreaking Story This Crime Reporter Can't Forget
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. In 200...
Shortcut: The Baby in the Suitcase
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Sarah ...
The Baby in the Suitcase
21 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Boyd immigrated from Scotland to Sydney in 1923. It was there, where she and an accomplice committed an unthinkable decision.What's even more te...
Can We Be Real?
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
🚨 NEW PODCAST ALERT 🚨You are the first to find out about a new podcast project I've been working on and it's called "Can We Be Real?"I've really...
The Meanest Man in Pentridge Who You've Never Heard Of
14 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We continue on from last week's episode with a breakdown of a suspect believed to be the perpetrator of the 1941 Pay Car massacre.That suspect's name ...
Shortcut: The Meanest Man in Pentridge Who You've Never Heard Of
13 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. We con...
Unsolved: South Sydney's Forgotten Massacre
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On the morning of December 8, 1941, three men operating a "Pay Car" in south Sydney were unknowingly heading into a brutal ambush.This story, however,...
Shortcut: Unsolved: South Sydney's Forgotten Massacre
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. On the...
Leisl Smith is missing, and her family can not get a judge's verdict
07 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sandi Harvey has not seen her daughter Leisl Smith since 2012. At that time, Leisl was 23 years old. She was happy, healthy and working in her dream j...
Shortcut: Leisl Smith is missing, and her family can not get a judge's verdict
06 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Sandi ...
Shortcut: The ripple effects after your family is touched by an act of pure evil
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Our gu...
The ripple effects after your family is touched by an act of pure evil
30 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Boyd Unwin, a suburban tradie and father of three in his fifties, who's always thought of himself and his family as the epitome of ...
Shortcut: Setting the record straight on Christopher Dale Flannery, AKA Mr Rent-a-Kill
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Ray Mo...
Setting the record straight on Christopher Dale Flannery, AKA Mr Rent-a-Kill
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ray Mooney joins us again this week to tell us about his friend, Christopher Dale Flannery (AKA Mr Rent-a-kill).Chris was a teenager when they first m...
Shortcut: From Pentridge to Playwright, Ray Mooney proves rehabilitation is possible
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Our gu...
From Pentridge to Playwright, Ray Mooney proves rehabilitation is possible
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest today is Ray Mooney. He's in his seventies now, and for most of his life, he's been a celebrated writer of novels, plays, films, non-fiction...
Modern day organised crime gangs in Australia
16 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Dowsley has been a crime reporter at Melbourne's Herald Sun since 2004. In that time, he's covered everything from homicides, solved and unsol...
Shortcut: Modern day organised crime gangs in Australia
15 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Anthon...
Nancy & Victoria: The Beaumaris Beach Mystery
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Two young female tourists are staying in the same quiet spot in Tasmania…one disappears, never to be seen again and two years later, the other woman...