Bronwyn
Episodes
Episode 12: Reality Check
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Friends and relations rally around Chrystal, who has suspected the existence of a ‘curse’ affecting her mother, herself and the Read family. But...
Episode 11: Heart and Soul
13 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bronwyn’s daughter Chrystal reverses her pledge to stay out of the case. Chrystal ventures opinions about her mother’s fate, defends her step-fath...
Hedley Thomas’ new podcast: Sick To Death
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A blockbuster new podcast from The Australian and our investigative star reporter Hedley Thomas: Sick To Death is the horrifying true story of a surge...
Episode 36: Forever Loved
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode for some time, the owners of a Sydney property learn that the missing mother’s remains may have been concealed under concre...
Episode 35: Home Truths
15 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Megan performs a dramatic backflip by changing her evidence about Jon’s moves in Sydney in the hours after his wife Bronwyn’s disappearanc...
Episode 34: A Cautionary Tale
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Retired detective Glenn Taylor who has worked harder on Bronwyn’s case than any other police officer faces a problem. Will his video-taped forma...
Episode 33: The Legal Veil
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a break of almost three months between episodes, Andy and Michelle come away from a meeting for the loved ones of homicide victims with newly fo...
The Gangster's Ghost Episode 1: Dead Man Talking
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The family of slain gangster Stewart John Regan has been frustrated by an unwillingness on the part of the NSW Police Unsolved Homicide Unit to share ...
Episode 32: Finally, A Finding
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After a bizarre last ditch bid by Jon Winfield to curry favour from a Ballina detective, the coroner heading the inquest into Bronwyn’s presumed...
Listen to The Australian's new podcast The Gangster's Ghost
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Johnny 'The Magician' Regan was a murderer, pimp and psychopath, gunned down by three assassins in a grimy back lane in 1974. He was 29. In this new i...
Episode 31: The Memory Hole
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jon’s daughter Jodie returns to the witness box for a searching cross examination on Day 4 of the inquest.She volunteers that she looked in the ...
Episode 30: Mountains And Molehills
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Did Bronwyn have a secret boyfriend with whom she was having a clandestine relationship before he spirited her away from her daughters and her Lennox ...
Episode 29: Out Of Character
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bronwyn’s state of mind and powerful maternal instincts for her two daughters face a determined challenge as Jon’s side depicts the missin...
Episode 28: The Lawyer's Picnic
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jon’s lawyer Craig Leggat does his homework, analysing witness statements and other documents to discover significant and inconsequential flaws ...
Episode 27: Megan's Court Showdown
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bronwyn’s friend and cousin Megan Read drops new bombshells while under oath on Day 2 of the inquest. Megan gives evidence at the coronial inqui...
Episode 26: No Way In The World
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The inquest into Bronwyn’s disappearance hears that when detective Glenn Taylor attended Jon and Bronwyn’s former family home at Lennox He...
Episode 25: Inquest Begins
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For more than 140 years, the Lismore courthouse has stood firm through a procession of natural disasters. Withstanding everything nature has thrown at...
Episode 24: Listener Night
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special live event recorded at the Art Gallery of NSW on a warm late summer evening, listeners and Bronwyn's family gather for a Q&A with ...
Episode 23: Will Power
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
News of Jon Winfield’s windfall and changes to the Will of his near-neighbour, Bev, shock the Lennox Head community and galvanise Bev’s fr...
Episode 22: Suburban Gothic
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lennox Head locals are suspicious of Jon’s motives with a well-off elderly woman who lives alone and has a terminal illness. Jon has been spendi...
Episode 21: Concrete Evidence
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Investigations reveal Jon’s fast work to get federal government welfare payments diverted from Bronwyn’s bank account to his account when ...
Where is Bronwyn’s body?
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hear the Bronwyn team debate how to approach the biggest question: was Bronwyn concealed under a concrete slab in Sydney’s Sutherland Shire? Thi...
Live now: Special video episodes of Bronwyn
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Go behind the scenes of the podcast in a very special new series of video episodes, live now at bronwynpodcast.com. Plus, you can read more about...
Episode 20: The Shire
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Andy seeks expert advice about the x-raying of a concrete slab at a house in Illawong in The Shire – the place he refers to as God’s Country, wher...
Episode 19: The Calling
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ‘smoking gun’ is data from the phone company about any local calls made from Sandstone Crescent on the night of May 16, 1993. Jon insists that...
Episode 18: Origin Story
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jon disparages Bronwyn’s mother Barbara as a sex worker. In one of his final comments in his 1998 interview with police investigating the disappeara...
Episode 17: A Strange Cheque
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Police Commissioner Karen Webb and her top Homicide detectives come under fire. Bronwyn’s brother, Andy Read, calls out a lack of effort, urgency an...
Episode 16: A Family Divided
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A politician and a leading newspaper speculate that a serial killer could have murdered Bronwyn and 66 other women on the New South Wales north coast ...
Episode 15: Taking Flight
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For 31 years, key parts of Jon’s story have been taken for granted. Even while he has been a longtime murder suspect, nobody challenged Jon’s clai...
Episode 14: Jon's Own Words
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What was going on in Jon’s marriage to Bronwyn leading up to the separation in 1993? Why did he suddenly take a flight from Sydney one Sunday aftern...
Episode 13: Father's Day
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A surprise message opens a long-closed door to Jon’s secret past. Sonia Lee has been listening to every episode in the Bronwyn podcast series while ...
A new episode of Bronwyn is live now
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An update from the Bronwyn team: Listen to a taste of Episode 15, the latest in Bronwyn's second season. The full episode is live now at bronwynpodcas...
Season 2 of Bronwyn is live now
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An update from the Bronwyn team: Listen to a taste of Episode 13, which kicks off Season 2. The full episode is live now at bronwynpodcast.com, along ...
From The Front: Pain and hope for Bronwyn’s family
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Australian's daily news podcast, a family ‘curse’, an audacious scam, and a remarkable young woman helping to solve the mys...
Episode 10: Mothers
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Distressing evidence from Jon Winfield’s first wife, Jennifer Mason, was part of the police brief which the then-Detective Sergeant Glenn Taylor bel...
Episode 9: The Lake
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A short walk from the sandy northern beaches of Lennox Head is a lake loved by locals and visitors alike. It is deep only in a few places, but nobody ...
Episode 8: Mea Culpa
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bronwyn’s friends and loved ones reel as the revelation of Judy Singh’s sighting of what appeared to be a body wrapped in a sheet, being driven aw...
Episode 7: Did Judy See Bronwyn’s Body?
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A new witness emerges with a chilling account of seeing what she fears was Bronwyn Winfield's body wrapped in sheets in the back of a car, in a develo...
Episode 6: Fragile
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As celebrities from Hollywood stars Chris Hemsworth to Simon Baker wax lyrical about Lennox Head, locals like Scruffy speculate about Bronwyn and the ...
Episode 5: Detectives, Red Flags and Failure
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Analysis of police internal running sheets and other files from 1993, when Bronwyn disappeared in Lennox Head, reveals remarkable red flags – ye...
A special update on BRONWYN
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An update from Hedley Thomas and The Australian. Read more about this case and see photographs, maps, timelines and more at bronwynpodcast.com. If y...
Episode 4: A Strange Getaway
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bronwyn's estranged husband, Jon, hastily packs the family car for an unplanned drive through the night to Sydney with the two girls. His neighbour, M...
Episode 3: The Lawyer's Advice
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jon's second wife reveals some home truths about her brief failed marriage and why she decided to file for divorce, triggering a bitter row over the h...
Episode 2: War of the Winfields
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a toxic relationship. Friends and family recall Bronwyn’s sadness and frustrations over what appears to be coercive control and emoti...
Episode 1: Jon’s Castle
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In an idyllic surf town, Bronwyn Winfield is a loving young mother determined to divorce her husband Jon and start again with her two daughters. She w...
Introducing: Bronwyn
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Teacher’s Pet creator Hedley Thomas returns with a new podcast investigation for The Australian. Subscribers to The Australian and registered ...