Australian True Crime
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Repost: #LetHerSpeak Janelle O’Connor’s sexual assault. WARNING – VIOLENT CONTENT - #159
30 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a repost of episode #159, originally published on May 21st 2020.Janelle O’Connor was the first person in the State of Tasmania to ex...
The Golden Age of Armed Robbery - #172
16 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bank robbers like Russell ‘Mad Dog’ Cox and Ray Denning were household names in Australia in the 1980s, when they brazenly escaped prison and t...
Simon Fenech is Breaking Good - #170
02 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Fenech’s ice addiction transformed him from an athlete, husband and father with a 5 bedroom house and a Harley to a former inmate lining up fo...
My Adoption Story is True Crime - #169
26 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Colenso discovered as an adult that she was adopted. Her search for her biological mother uncovered a tragic and frightening story. Warning: ...
The Unsolved Murder of Emma Pawelski - #168
19 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There are people in Adelaide who know who murdered Emma Pawelski and why. Her mother and her sister are desperate for them to come forward and tell th...
The First Time He Hit Her - #167
12 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Canberra mum Tara Costigan was holding her newborn baby when her ex-partner murdered her in front of her other small children. Although he’d been ve...
Gemini Rules Breathing - Astrologer Maggie Kerr
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Old School Nitty Gritty Committee is back!Maggie Kerr is an astrologer of over 30 years’ experience. She says everything that’s happening right no...
Undercover Copper Keith Banks - #166
05 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Banks was a clean living country boy when he joined QLD Police in the 70s but it took him to some very dark places. He joins us to talk about it...
The Jaidyn Leskie Murder - #165
28 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The murder of 14-month-old Jaidyn Leskie is officially unsolved. Journalist and author Michael Gleeson explains the prosecution’s theory as to how h...
The Childers Backpackers Fire - #164
21 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Paul Cochrane joins us to talk about the fire in the Queensland fruit-picking town of Childers that took the lives of 15 people. He hosts t...
How Lisa Harnum Changed the Conversation - #163
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Harnum’s life and death changed the way we think, talk and report about domestic violence in Australia. Former Daily Telegraph Chief Court Amy ...
The Unsolved Disappearance of Revelle Balmain - #162
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stunning young model and dancer Revelle Balmain disappeared in November 1994, just days before realising her dream off moving to Japan to perform. Whe...
Shark Arm - #161
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two wealthy Sydney-siders get more than they bargain for when they team up with 2 small-time criminals in this extraordinary depression-era story of t...
A witness finds his courage and a killer is convicted - #160
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Bellia was just 16, hanging out with his friend Ricky Balcombe in the local shopping mall on a Friday afternoon when an older man walked up to th...
#LetHerSpeak Janelle O’Connor’s sexual assault. WARNING – VIOLENT CONTENT - #159
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Janelle O’Connor was the first person in the State of Tasmania to exercise her right to be named as a rape survivor, on the 24th of April 2020. Up u...
The Sting – Catching Daniel Morcombe’s Killer - #158
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Although Queensland police visited Brett Peter Cowan just days after Daniel Morcombe first disappeared in 2003, it took 8 years, an inquest and an inc...
The Narelle Fraser Conversations - Kira Olney - #157
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate our first Australian True Crime online livestream this Saturday Night, starring Narelle Fraser and Ron Iddles, we’re releasing an extra...
The shocking murder of Bride-to-be Stephanie Scott - #156
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The rape and murder of country schoolteacher Stephanie Scott just a week before her wedding shocked Australia. Journalist Monique Patterson was the ed...
The Narelle Fraser Conversations - Patrick Tidmarsh - #155
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Tidmarsh is a leading authority on sexual offending, and the investigation of sexual crime. He trains and lectures investigators all over the ...
The Narelle Fraser Conversations – Retired Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Sandra Nicholson - #153
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Retired Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Sandra Nicholson isn’t the kind of person who seeks attention. Fortunately Narelle knows what an impr...
Do Policemen Have a Soul? With Gary Raymond - #152
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Raymond worked some of the highest profile and most challenging cases in NSW policing in living memory, including the brutal abduction and murder...
The Narelle Fraser Conversations – Michele Williams QC Senior Crown Prosecutor - #151
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Narelle Fraser dusts off her celebrated interviewing skills for a special series of episodes of Australian True Crime to be featured intermittently th...
Welcome To Hell: Yvie Jones
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We caught up with Yvie Jones from Gogglebox and I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here for a YouTube Livestream on Friday night. Here are some highlight...
Where did Elmer Crawford go? (After murdering his wife and children) - #150
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Fogarty, author of ALMOST PERFECT: The true story of the Crawford family murders joins us to discuss the story of Elmer Crawford, the "ordinary" ...
Welcome to Hell Trailer
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meshel is locked inside with her children and her mother. It's only been a week and it's hell. Her friend comedian Nelly Thomas has a bit of practice ...
Tara Schultz and the Price of Survival - #149
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tara Schultz is a survivor of many crimes perpetrated against her in childhood. She joins us to share some uncomfortable truths about the difficulties...
Narelle Fraser meets Victor Peirce at the shops - #148
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Narelle Fraser thought her number was up when she ran into the notorious armed robber Victor Peirce at the shops. She also gives us an update on an un...
Journalist Anthony Dowsley on Paul Dale, Lawyer X et al. A Different Perspective - #147
11 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Dowsley’s dogged reporting over several years unmasked lawyer Nicola Gobbo as a police informant and has played a significant role in exposi...
Paul Dale Pt 2. The Crimes in Question #146
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Disgraced former Drug Squad Detective” Paul Dale was charged with robbery, and then with murder. Some find it hard to believe he’s not in jail ...
“Disgraced” Paul Dale. Victim or Villain? - #145
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Disgraced former Drug Squad Detective” Paul Dale has seen his reputation so destroyed that his lawyer says he’s virtually beyond defamation.&nb...
Missing No More – the Gruesome Truth of the barrel at the barbecues - #144
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two “missing” women are found to have suffered similar gruesome fates. Author and journalist Liz Porter returns to tell us the truth about Sy...
Defending the Indefensible - #143
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Marsh defends people we call monsters. He’s Chief Counsel at Victoria Legal Aid, and in the last year alone he’s represented 2 men charged wit...
105 signs of Recent Injury - #142
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Pultz is a former Queensland police officer who’ll soon be launching a podcast investigation into the murder of Leanne Holland. He talks ...
Special Extra: Clunes Cluedo Episode One
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first episode of Alice Mitchell’s podcast about Nina Nicholson’s unsolved murder, Clunes Cluedo. You’ll find it sometimes overlaps w...
Justice for Nina - Clunes Unsolved - #141
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Mitchell is the second cousin of a young woman called Nina Nicholson who was murdered in 1991 on the porch of her home in Clunes, Ballarat (VIC)...
Ram Tiwary: The miscarriage of justice you’ve probably never heard of - #140
22 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Author Liz Porter, Author of Crime Scene Asia, tells us the unbelievable and disturbing case of Sydney-based Singaporean student Ram Tiwary who spent ...
Arson. - #139
15 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Two things can be true at once,” and arson is part in Australia’s bushfire story.Dr Troy McEwan is an associate professor in clinical and foren...
Fiona’s fight to find her husband Bruce’s body - #138
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Fiona Splitt started an intense advocacy campaign in Queensland to have the "no body, no parole" legislation introduced after the murder of her partne...
Who Killed Leanne Holland Pt 2 - Graham Stafford Interview #137
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Graham Stafford served 15 years for the brutal rape and murder of his girlfriend's 12-year-old sister Leanne. The conviction was overturned in 2009, b...
Who Killed Leanne Holland? Part 1 - #136
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
12-year-old Leanne Holland was brutally raped and murdered in Ipswich, QLD in 1991. Her sister's boyfriend, Graham Stafford was convicted of the crime...
Shirley Finn, Dirty Girl - #135
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Perth Brothel owner Shirley Finn's 1975 unsolved murder looms large over the city, with men at the highest levels of government and policing suspected...
Crime and Sport: Australia's Great Passions - #134
13 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From bank robbing football players to drug-dealing football players and stand-over men, (who used to be football players). Ok, they're not all footbal...
Julie's Big Drug Importation Adventure - #133
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Julie was a teenager in 1970s Australia, she and her friends decided to try their hands at drug smuggling. It didn't turn out well, despite the a...
Jock Palfreeman's Quasi Bulgarian Parole - #132
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Australian Jock Palfreeman has been in a Bulgarian prison since 28 December 2007 when he was taken into custody for the stabbing murder of Andrei Mono...
Re-Issue: Milat Family Insider Special Extra - #131
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The “Milat family insider” quoted extensively in Australian media this week is actually our friend Amanda Howard, from the "Monsters Who Murder" p...
Re-Issue: The Woman Who Thinks Ivan Milat is Innocent - #130
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda Howard, the Serial Killer Whisperer joins us again to talk about the holes she believes are in the case against Ivan Milat. Amanda corresponds ...
Dead Man Walking: The Killing of Michael McGurk - #129
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michael McGurk was murdered with a single gunshot to the head outside his family home in Cremorne in 2009. He described himself as a businessman but o...
The Abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon - #128
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
11-year-old Joanne Ratcliffe was the kind of well-mannered, responsible girl often entrusted to care for younger children. She was no match though for...
Jack and Stacey and Ice in the Latrobe Valley - #127
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
22-year-old Jack Nankervis was stabbed 70 times by a teenager he didn’t know. His girlfriend Stacey is still trying to put her life back together fi...
Dianne Brimble: By Her Ex-husband Mark - #126
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dianne Brimble died an unnecessary death in the company of strange, cruel men on a cruise she’d saved years for. She’s had no justice, but her ex-...
Operation Zhivago: A Narelle Fraser Case - #125
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Narelle is back with a case that’s very close to her heart because it’s connected to her time working with her favourite boss Lorraine Blackwell a...
Is Sydney Even Sydney Without The Seedy Cross? - #124
18 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sexy gangster, porn star, part-time models. A letter bomb and a tv home shopping star having sex with another tv home shopping star in a police statio...
The Wettenhall Family Murders Rocked the Small Community of Barrabool - #123
11 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Wettenhall Family murders rocked the small community of Barrabool in Victoria. The revelations that came to light in the aftermath however, reflec...
Australia's Badlands: The Palmerville Station Murder - #122
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From Far North Queensland's Cape York comes the terrifying story of the Strubers of Palmerville Station who terrorised gold prospectors for years unti...
Cardinal Pell's Next Destination, Ararat - #121
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Karen Owen designed the treatment program for sex offenders used by Corrections Victoria. She helps us understand what’s in store for Cardinal Ge...
The Falconio Mystery Continues - #120
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bradley John Murdoch isn't a good man, but did he murder Peter Falconio? That's the question posed by inimitable True Crime author Robin Bowles in her...
Greenough Murders: Fighting to Keep a Killer in Jail - #119
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Karen MacKenzie and her three children were murdered in their Western Australian home in 1993. For her sister Evalyn, the nightmare never ends. She jo...
Remembering Bree - #117
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The pain of living with loss and injustice. An extraordinarily intimate kitchen table conversation between the family of Bree Jones who died of a drug...
Murder in Albury - Kim Meredith's Parents and the 5 Minute Window: A Belinda Neil Case - #116
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bob and June Meredith were living a simple but idyllic life with their teenage children in Albury in 1996, until a chance encounter with a stranger to...
Death on the Derwent - #115
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One man’s mysterious disappearance has become a decade-long tragedy for two Tasmanian women, from different sides of the tracks. Author Robin Bowles...
Journalist Andrew Rule's Scariest Case - #114
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's easy to forget it takes a lot of courage to write stories about bad guys week after week. Andrew Rule has irritated some of the baddest in the bu...
My Brother the Paedophile Priest - #113
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Harrod and her twin brother Michael both dedicated their lives to God, she as a nun and he as a priest. Their family was the envy of their Ca...
A Kiwi Teen Almost Killed the Queen. Kia Ora cuz! - #112
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 1981, a psychopathic New Zealand teenager came very close to assassinating Queen Elizabeth. Embarrassed police not only covered it up but sent him ...
The De Gruchy Family Murders - #111
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Belinda Neil was settling in on her first day in the homicide squad when she took a phone call that would change the course of her career. An unassumi...
Anne Hamilton Byrne and The Family - #110
16 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
From humble beginnings in suburban Melbourne to reincarnation as Jesus Christ, a cohort of devoted, well-heeled followers and an enviable real estate ...
Lex De Man on Anne Hamilton Byrne's Death - #109
16 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When former Detective Lex De Man received a text reading simply, "The Witch is Dead!" he knew exactly what it meant. Since attending a school fire in ...
The David Hookes Matter with Charlie Bezzina - #108
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Homicide Detective Charlie Bezzina received a phone call about a man who'd been punched outside a popular St Kilda pub during an altercation with a bo...
Frankston Serial Killer Investigation Re Issue - #107
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Charlie Bezzina was lead investigator on the Frankston Serial Killer Case in which Carmel and Brian's daughter Natalie was the final victim. In this e...
26 Years After Our Daughter's Murder, We Need Help - #106
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Frankston Serial Killer took their 17-year-old daughter Natalie in 1993, and Carmel and Brian have lived through many more challenges since then. ...
ATC Extra. The Family of the Deceased - #105
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Emily is joined by Sandra Charlton, the cousin of Vicki Arnold. Vicki was the woman accused of murdering her best friend Julie-Anne Leahey before kill...
A Convenient Murder Suicide: Who Killed Vicki Arnold and Julie-Anne Leahy? - #104
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
BFFs to the end, Vicki and Julie-Anne died together on a lonely track in Far North QLD in 1991. The police quickly ruled it a murder suicide but the f...
The Crimes and Times of Uncle Jack Charles - #103
22 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Charles, known respectfully and affectionately as Uncle Jack Charles is a survivor who has much to tell about life, starting from the impact of b...
Milat Family Insider Special Extra - #102
17 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The “Milat family insider” quoted extensively in Australian media this week is actually our friend Amanda Howard, from the "Monsters Who Murder" p...
Karlie and Khandalyce: The Lost Girls with Ava Benny-Morrison - #101
15 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How did the remains of toddler Khandalyce Pearce-Stevenson end up in a suitcase by the side of a highway in South Australia? How did her mother Karlie...