Australian True Crime
Episodes
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...