Crime Insiders
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DETECTIVES | The Rat Pack
02 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When former Queensland Police Setective Keith Banks joined the force, he thought he was signing up to fight crime, not work alongside it. In this epis...
REWIND | The cult of The Family
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever heard of the Australian cult The Family...? It was led by a woman named Anne Hamilton-Byrne. How did she control her followers? How did ...
FORENSICS | How a high-profile husband walked free
26 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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JUDGEMENTS | When a former PM took on the media [Lange v ABC]
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1990s, former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange found himself at the center of a defamation storm in Australia. The ABC re-broadcast...
REWIND | The Wattle Flower murder
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The body of 27-year-old mother of two, Samantha Bodsworth, was found in Noosa, surrounded by wattle trees. The killer thinks it’s the perf...
DETECTIVES | Surveillance, war zones & survival
19 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Atkinson is a former Victorian police officer. In this episode of Crime Insiders | Detectives, Andrew discusses his journey from general ...
JUDGEMENTS | The fight for recovered treasure [Robinson v WA Museum]
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A ship is wrecked off the coast of Western Australia. It’s cargo sank with it. Many of those on board perished in the tragedy. Who own...
REWIND | The lie detective (how well could you lie?)
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would you be able to get away with lying? In this Rewind episode of Crime Insiders | Detectives, expert lie detector Steve Van Aperen talks to former ...
BONUS | Antoinette Lattouf speaks with Forensics host, Dr Liz Porter
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special bonus episode of Crime Insiders, we go behind the scenes with our Forensics host, Liz Porter to find out what it was about forensics t...
JUDGEMENTS | An innocent man acquitted after 20 years [R v Keogh]
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A murder, a conviction and a twenty-year fight to clear your name. This is the story of Henry James Keogh who was convicted and served twenty years in...
REWIND | How tattoos can lead investigators to criminals
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More Aussies have tattoos than ever before; 1 in 5 of us have at least 1 tattoo. That number is growing. Even when removed or burnt, forensic experts ...
DETECTIVES | Australia's most famous 'Mr Big' operation
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Paul Bleakley is a Gold Coast-born academic based in Kentucky in the United States. He’s an expert on child abuse and investigati...
JUDGEMENTS | The NSW Police Headquarters shooting [R v Alou & Ors]
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Police employee Curtis Cheng was shot dead outside Police Headquarters in Parramatta, Sydney, 10 years ago this week. The gunman was a 15-year-old boy...
REWIND | The Sydney Bra Boys murder
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sydney standover man Tony Hines' body was found strewn against a cliff face in Maroubra in 2003. How did police begin their investigation, and what co...
FORENSICS | The Orange County family death pact
28 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Five bodies. Three generations. One room. Zero answers. In 2008, a luxury home in California’s Orange County became the site of an unimagi...
JUDGEMENTS | The Claremont Serial Killer [R v Edwards]
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the 1990s, young women began vanishing from Perth’s wealthy suburb of Claremont. The disappearances sparked fear across the city, and launche...
REWIND | The Yorkshire Ripper
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A merciless serial killer terrorised women in the United Kingdom with a spate of brutal attacks, leaving police and forensic experts stumped. Now, alm...
DETECTIVES | Surviving the Russell Street Bombing
21 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1986, a car bomb ripped through Melbourne’s Russell Street Police Headquarters, killing one and injuring 21. It was Australia’s first t...
JUDGEMENTS | The man who proved Australia was never 'empty' [Mabo v QLD]
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1992, the High Court handed down a ruling that shattered centuries of denial. Eddie Mabo’s fight for recognition overturned the legal fiction...
REWIND | The Boggo Road Prison escape
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In March 1991, five violent offenders stole a prison garbage truck and smashed their way through the gates of Brisbane’s notorious Boggo Road Ga...
FORENSICS | Bones in a Victorian Mineshaft
14 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2006, underworld figure Lee Patrick Torney vanished without a trace. Nearly a year later, forensic anthropologist Dr. Soren Blau was lowered into a...
BONUS | The fugitive who outsmarted police for 30-years
12 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2021, a neatly dressed man in his 60s walks into a Sydney Police Station. He looks like a regular guy. But police are stunned - this isn’t ju...
JUDGEMENTS | The Brisbane toolbox murders [R v Daniels & Ors]
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two people vanish without a trace from Logan, south of Brisbane in Queensland. They hadn’t been seen in days. Their phones rang out. Their...
REWIND | The Worlds End murders
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It took 37 years, a failed murder trial, and an Australian mathematician to finally prosecute one of Scotland's most infamous serial killers. Professo...
BONUS | Mushroom Murderer Erin Patterson is a 'narcissistic psychopath'
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The courtroom drama that gripped Australia has finally reached its conclusion. Erin Patterson, the woman at the centre of the nation’s most infa...
DETECTIVES | How a frauditor took on London's Met Police
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Peter Tickner is a seasoned auditor with over 40 years of experience across the NHS, central government and police. Peter became Head of Inte...
JUDGEMENTS | Determining criminal enterprise [Miller v Miller]
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A stolen car, a drunken joyride, and a woman left with injuries so severe, she’ll live with them for the rest of her life. What happens whe...
REWIND | The Bega schoolgirl murders
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1997, two young girls from Bega in regional New South Wales were kidnapped, raped and murdered. In this Rewind episode of Crime Insiders | De...
FORENSICS | The 13-year-old Australian charged with terrorism
31 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aged just 13, Thomas Carrick was placed under covert surveillance by the Australian Federal Police and lured into online conversations with them, posi...
BONUS | The ‘Accident’ – Killer Charm
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A woman wakes to a tragic accident on her rural Queensland property. She’s told one of her friends has fallen into a woodchipper. He was clearin...
BONUS | 'Baby faced' killer Sef Gonzales could walk free
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Triple murderer Sef Gonzales has been granted the right to appeal against his life sentence. Gonzales was just 23 when he murdered his parents an...
JUDGEMENTS | The Childers Backpacker fire [R v Long]
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty years ago this year, Michael Long set fire to the Palace Backpackers hostel in the regional Queensland town of Childers. Fifteen people were ki...
REWIND | The Vampire Gigolo
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Bassed is one of Australia's most experienced forensic odontologists. His work is complex and important in solving high profile murders - like...
DETECTIVES | A detective's theory on how a Brisbane man disappeared
24 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Former QLD Detective Inspector Mal Gundry was head of the Queensland Police Criminal Investigation Bureau at Indooroopilly in Brisbane. He was integra...
JUDGEMENTS | The Angel of Belanglo [R v Holdom]
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter Khandalyce Pearce were tragically murdered in 2008 in a case that shocked Australia. Their deaths remained un...
REWIND | Filicide and the impact on investigators
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A crime without a motive. A detective who investigated the unthinkable. On September 2nd, 2001, a father murdered his three children, Jackson (6), Tay...
FORENSICS | Reporting sexual assault in Palestine
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reporting a sexual assault is deeply challenging in any context, so what happens when you’re in a war-torn region, where infrastructure has crum...
JUDGEMENTS | Cleo Smith abduction (R v Kelly)
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the dead of night, Friday October 15, 2021, on the rugged coastline of Western Australia, four-year old Cleo Smith is abducted from a tent at a cam...
REWIND | A special Science Week episode
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s National Science Week….Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology. In this episode of Crime Insiders Rewind, we ...
BONUS | The science that cleared Kathleen Folbigg
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kathleen Folbigg is front page of every newspaper and news website this morning after we learned the NSW government had paid her just $2million in com...
DETECTIVES | Hidden scars, the price of service
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Brent Sanders speaks with former NSW Police officer Justyn Backhouse, who spent 25 years on the front lines of law enforcement. From ...
BREAKING | New poisoning claims vs mushroom murderer Erin Patterson
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here's all the evidence the jury in the mushroom triple murder trial wasn't allowed to hear. In this special episode, The Briefing's host Tara Cassidy...
JUDGEMENTS | R v Gargasoulas [Melbourne car massacre]
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Friday January 20, 2017 in Melbourne’s CBD. Bustling Bourke Street became the scene of unspeakable horror. Six people were killed, 27 other...
REWIND | The horror of the Hoddle St massacre
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A tragedy that rocked Melbourne in the late 80s, and one that left the nation questioning its own attitude towards guns and violence. Former Com...
FORENSICS | Mr. Cruel
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Wells was the Victoria Police Surgeon during one of Australia’s most disturbing unsolved crime sprees - the abductions and assaults of thr...
JUDGEMENTS | A brutal FNQ murder (R v Lowrie & Ross)
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In July 1995, sex worker Grace Heathcote was lured to a Cairns motel under the guise of friendship — but what unfolded was a brutal murder. ...
REWIND | Exhumed: what the dead still tell us
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever watched a movie where police exhume a body? Why does it happen? And what do forensics learn by doing it? Dr Jo Duflou is a pr...
DETECTIVES | The dangerous life of a police dog handler
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Raymond spent almost 30 years as a QLD Police dog handler. He caught killers, found people reported missing and saved the lives of people ...
JUDGEMENTS | R v Gerard Baden-Clay
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2012, Brisbane father and real estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay reported his wife missing. Ten days later, Allison Baden-Clay’s body was found ...
REWIND | Surveilling a high-profile sports star
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This Rewind episode tells the story of how the Newcastle Knights superstar was covertly surveilled and arrested for drug trafficking. It threw his car...
FORENSICS | A wife's recipe for murder
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When a husband died after a long illness, and under suspicious circumstances, it was this episode's guest, Forensic Chemist Maggie Baron, who was task...
BONUS | The truth about the Christchurch Terrorist
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, 51 people were murdered at two mosques in Christchurch. The world was told it was the work of a lone wolf. But what if he wasn’t alone?...
JUDGEMENTS | Is the law on your side if you have too much to drink?
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Does a venue owe you a duty of care if you've had too much to drink? In Cole v South Tweed Rugby League Football Club, the High Court of Australia con...
REWIND | Shaken Baby Syndrome
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Heartbreaking was the only word that could be used to describe the death of a 10-month-old baby in Perth. What was less clear cut is the question that...
DETECTIVES | Is EVIL always a factor in crime?
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Terry Goldsworthy is a criminologist, former detective inspector, academic, and one of Australia's most respected voices on criminal behaviour. Wit...
JUDGEMENTS | Dr Death (R v Patel)
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jayant Patel, dubbed "Dr. Death," was a U.S.-trained surgeon who worked at Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland, Australia, from 2003 to 2005. Du...
REWIND | The Blue Mountains double murder
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A case that started a manhunt, and ended in tragedy. A quiet town in the Blue Mountains, thrown into chaos by a shooting and the police's effort to tr...
FORENSICS | The Headless Body in the Mineshaft
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the winter of 1988, two gold prospectors were scouring the picturesque Mount Firebrace in Victoria… when their search unearthed something fa...
JUDGEMENTS | Sydney's samarai sword trial (R v Davis & Quinn)
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An aspiring rapper, battling drug addiction raided a home in inner Sydney in August 2018. Armed with a blank-firing pistol and knuckledusters, 30-year...
REWIND | How police can use your DNA
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of your family members could be missing, and your DNA could help find them. Associate Professor Jodie Ward is the former Program Lead of the...
DETECTIVES | The boy in the goldmine
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
12-year-old Terry Floyd disappeared from the Pyrenees Highway outside Avoca in June 1975. His brother Daryl has spent the last 50 years searching...
TRAILER | Secrets We Keep: Lone Actor
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The team at Crime Insiders is really excited to bring you a new series on LiSTNR. You're going to love it. Secrets we Keep: Lone Actor is a deep dive ...
JUDGEMENTS | The Truro Murders
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Truro Murders case is one of Australia's most chilling serial murder investigations. It involves the deaths of seven young women in South Au...
REWIND | How drugs are smuggled into Australia
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The AFP and customs intercept hundreds of tonnes of narcotics every year. But, the techniques of criminals and smugglers are becoming more complex, an...
FORENSICS | Ned Kelly
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ned Kelly was executed in 1880, yet he remains one of the most iconic and divisive figures in Australian history. For more than a century, a question ...
JUDGEMENTS | Can you claim dementia as a criminal defence?
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
68-year-old Allan Charles Gibson shot his wife at their Traralgon home in the early hours of April 14, 2016. He then tried to take his own life,...
REWIND | The Dubbo Truck Crash
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do forensic investigators decipher the scene of a violent car crash? Why is the filament in a brake light so important? And what evidence can lead...
DETECTIVES | Wanted in 4 countries, caught in Australia
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As a child, Craig Doran dreamt of being a policeman. He was obsessed with Sherlock Holmes. Craig ended up working for Queensland Police for 22 years.&...
JUDGEMENTS | Not guilty by virtue of mental illness
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A quiet suburb. A brutal murder. What happens when someone kills - but isn’t sane enough to be found guilty? Marita Cunningham was c...
REWIND | Operation Ironside
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The world's most notorious criminals, unknowingly spilling their secrets on a 'secure' app run by... the cops. That's exactly what happened in Operati...
FORENSICS | The Tasmania Yacht Murder
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Bob Chappell vanished from his yacht in Hobart, suspicion quickly turned on his partner, Sue Neill-Fraser, an unassuming woman who soon found her...
JUDGEMENTS | The Super League war
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, rugby league was a code looking to expand nationally after the success of its premier competition in Sydney. ...
REWIND | Could a fly frame you for murder?
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Semen is the crack cocaine of the fly world, and while maggots love a corpse, flies feast on live human flesh and fluids. So, could a fly frame you fo...
DETECTIVES | Identifying a potential stalker
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
2.7 million Australians aged 18 and over have experienced stalking. One in 5 women and over 1 in 15 men. What are the warning signs, and w...
JUDGEMENTS | Hiring a hitman to murder your wife (R v Kalajzich)
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Kalajzich was a big-time businessman in Manly, Sydney in the 1980s - a titan of the time. While he portrayed the role of a loving family man, b...
REWIND | Unmasking Australia's 'Unluckiest' Husband
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two cousins, both wives to the same man, found dead under mysterious circumstances. Was this the world's unluckiest husband, or a serial wife killer? ...
FORENSICS | The Adelaide NCA Bombing
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The 1994 bombing of the Adelaide National Crime Authority sent shockwaves across Australia. It was a brutal act that killed a police officer and serio...
JUDGEMENTS | Celeste Manno
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
23-year-old Celeste Manno had her life brutally taken from her by a man who had relentlessly stalked her, despite Celeste going to great lengths to pr...
REWIND | The psychology of stalking
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stalking is disturbingly common, yet often misunderstood by wider society. Professor Troy McEwan from the Swinburne University of Technology is ...
DETECTIVES | How a stalking victim reclaimed her life
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Di McDonald was a victim of a stalker, who terrorised her and her family. She finally re-claimed her life with the help of former Victorian poli...
JUDGEMENTS | The Mosman Bomb Hoax (R v Paul Douglas Peters)
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On August 3, 2011, Paul Douglas Peters, a 50-year-old Australian businessman, entered the Mosman home of 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver on Sydney’...
REWIND | The Frankston Serial Killer
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2004, outside a pub, Australian Cricket legend David Hookes died. A manslaughter charge was laid, and a trial ensued. But no one was convicted, why...
The Briefing | Two-minute mushroom trial recap
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Erin Patterson has been charged with the murders of three relatives and the attempted murder of another; after allegedly serving up a beef Wellington ...
FORENSICS | The Bali Bombings Explosions
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Saturday, October 12th, 2002. A warm night in Bali’s bustling Kuta Beach. Bars packed with tourists, music pumping. Then - devastation.&nbs...
JUDGEMENTS | Dirty Deeds at Eagle Farm
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Fine Cotton Scandal of 1984 is a notorious event in Australian horse racing history, where a syndicate attempted to rig a race by substituting a s...
BONUS | Who is Victoria's new top cop, Mike Bush?
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Victoria Police have a new Chief Commissioner - Mike Bush. Mike is the former New Zealand Commissioner of Police and has had a decorated career....
REWIND | WA's female thrill killer duo
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2016, a mum of three and a wannabe serial killer became two of Australia's most calculated female murderers. Dr Kari Pitts is a forensic chemist an...
DETECTIVES | Negotiating with killers
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Kaldas is an Australian law enforcement legend with a career spanning over 40 years. From undercover ops and hostage negotiations, to rebuilding ...
JUDGEMENTS | Diane Brimble
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Diane Brimble boarded a cruise in 2002, no one imagined what would come next. This episode of Crime Insiders Judgements unpacks the disturbing ca...
REWIND | The Barossa Valley Siege
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A 40 hour long raid. Shot 14 times in a mere 5 seconds, and bleeding out on the ground for 3 hours. This was Derrick McManus' day at work in May ...
FORENSICS | The Weeping Woman
27 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Document examiner Neil Holland has worked on documents related to investigations into alleged Nazi war criminals, accused killers and dodgy bookies, a...
JUDGEMENTS | Men at Work (Emi Songs Australia v Larrikin Music Publishing)
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aussie band Men at Work's most famous song is arguably Down Under. But what if it wasn't actually their song? This was the claim made by Larrikin...
REWIND | The downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, flight MH17 was shot down, and 298 people died. A set of Australian experts were sent to investigate and assist. In the aftermath, victim ide...
DETECTIVES | The case of Keli Lane
20 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Ashwood was a young detective assigned to help investigate the murder of a neo-Nazi in Sydney. What Michael and his colleagues didn't know was...
JUDGEMENTS | The rise & fall of Alan Bond (Bond v The Queen)
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Alan Bond is an Australian businessman known for his rise to fame and subsequent fall from grace. Celebrated for his role in Australia's 1983 America'...
REWIND | The woman who took down Roger Rogerson
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Once an admired figure in NSW police, the now disgraced Roger Rogerson left a trail of corruption and death as he moved his way through the force.&nbs...
FORENSICS | Identifying the victims of the Bali Bombings
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After the 2002 Bali bombings killed 202 people, 88 of them Australian, Dr. Pamela Craig was sent into the centre of the crisis. As a forensic odontolo...
JUDGEMENTS | Escaping prison to commit a murder (R v Miles)
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Miles was already serving a lengthy prison sentence for murdering his girlfriend. While in prison, he befriended and became romantically linked...
REWIND | The Golden State Killer
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The case of the Golden State Killer puzzled police and amateur sleuths for decades. Then, in April 2018, a Sacramento man was arrested and charged. Ho...
DETECTIVES | The Good Friday Crossbow Standoff
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The NSW Police Tactical Operations Unit deals with the most extraordinary police operations - terror attacks, sieges, and armed confrontations. For th...