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The WA Family Cult That Vanished Overnight
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2007, a family of three and their friend vanished from their secluded home in Nannup, Western Australia, leaving only a cryptic note claiming they ...
Michelle’s Whole Family Was Victimised By A Pedophile
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Her life changed forever when her five-year-old daughter, Rose, bravely spoke up about a trusted family friend sexually assaulting her. That mom...
The Woman So Obsessed With Killers She Became One
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Some women dream of launching a career before 25. Some dream of owning their first home. Jemma Lilley had a different goal: she wanted to kill someone...
The Husband Who Played Grieving Widower After Killing His Wife
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In June 2016, Karen Risktevski vanished from her home. Her husband, Borce, told their daughter she had gone for a walk and never returned. For months,...
What A Former Domestic Abuser Wants Women To Know
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Darryl Gardiner grew up in a home ruled by unimaginable violence... and it almost destroyed him. Witnessing and experiencing abuse from a terrifyingly...
Trenny Gibson Went On A School Trip And Never Came Home
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In October 1976, 16-year-old Trenny Gibson boarded a school bus in Knoxville, Tennessee, expecting a routine day. Instead, her horticulture class was ...
Why Courtney Herron's Brutal Killer Never Went To Prison
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2019, 25-year-old Courtney Herron was murdered after a night out in Melbourne’s CBD. What happened next would ignite national outrage and...
The Deadly Obsession That Drove Jodi Arias To Murder Her Lover
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The case of Jodi Arias, the woman who murdered her former lover, Travis Alexander, in 2008, captivated audiences around the world. When the trial bega...
The Missing Australians You’ve Never Heard Of
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Two 15-year-olds vanish after heading to a disco in Wollongong. An 18-year-old Belgian backpacker disappears after a night out in Byron Bay. A 20-year...
What Happens When Your Ex Tries To Have You Killed
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Who would try to hire a hitman to kill an innocent young girl? In early 2021, Riley ended a relationship with a man she had been in a year-long ...
He Killed His Entire Family, Then Walked Free To Start Another
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On September 7, 1971, at a remote farmhouse 40 kilometres south of Adelaide, Clifford Bartholomew killed 10 people. His wife, his seven children, his ...
The Adelaide Schoolgirl Abducted From Her Bed Without A Trace
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
On a summer evening in January 1983, 10-year-old Louise Bell went missing from her bedroom in Adelaide's Hackham West. It was a case that horrif...
The Prison Guard Who Fell In Love With An Inmate
03 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1992, career criminal Peter Gibb met prison guard Heather Parker while serving a 12-year sentence at the Melbourne Remand Centre. Heather claimed s...
Inside Prison With My Dad: Australia’s Most Notorious Bank Robber
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brenden Abbott, known as The Postcard Bandit, is one of Australia’s most notorious bank robbers and prison escapees. He's the guy who devel...
Michelle Steck Found Her Ex Hiding In The Roof, Weeks Later Her Daughter Was Dead
27 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On New Year’s Day 1993, Perth woman Michelle Steck, 24, packed her bags and left her abusive four-year relationship with her violent partner&rsq...
Australia's Dark History Of Forced Adoptions
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For nearly half a century, Australia was engaged in a shameful and shocking practice that would tear babies from the arms of their mothers, sometimes ...
The Russian Woman Who Hijacked A Helicopter To Free Her Aussie Lover
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Killick is one of Australia's most infamous criminals. Why? Because in 1999, he escaped from Sydney’s Silverwater Correctional Complex on a...
The Murder Of Melbourne Schoolgirl Masa Vukotic
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On March 17, 2015, 17-year-old Masa Vukotic left her Doncaster home for an evening walk through her local park, a routine she had followed countless t...
The Irishman Who Survived Nine Murder Attempts
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Iron Mike” Malloy survived not one, not two, but more than nine attempts on his life before he finally met his end. Malloy became the tar...
26 Kids Buried Alive: The Most Shocking Kidnapping In U.S. History
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On July 15, 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their beloved driver, Ed Ray, left Chowchilla, California, after a hot day at summer school an...
Australia’s Forgotten Teens: The Vanishing Of Elaine Johnson & Kerry Joel
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If two teenage girls went missing today, would police just assume they’d run away from home? That assumption is why two Australian teenagers, El...
The Killer Clown Used Magic Tricks To Lure His Victims
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sixteen-year-old Timothy “Jack” McCoy spent Christmas 1971 with his relatives in Michigan, leaving on January 2, 1972, to return home to N...
Who Killed John Furlan? The Car Bombing Case Australia Forgot
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the morning of August 3rd, 1998, Melbourne businessman John Furlan followed his usual routine: coffee, newspaper, and off to work at his Coburg aut...
Once Called "Australia's Worst Female Serial Killer." Kathleen Folbigg Sets The Record Straight
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
She was once called "Australia’s worst female serial killer." Kathleen Folbigg spent 20 years imprisoned for the deaths of her four children, co...
The Real Story Of Ed Gein: The Original Psycho
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On September 8, 1960, Psycho shocked cinema audiences with a level of psychological horror never seen before. But Psycho wasn’t pure fiction. It...
The Mum Who Cyberbullied Her Own Daughter
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On January 15, 1974, 15-year-old Charlie Otero and his siblings came home in Wichita, Kansas, to find their family murdered - the first known victims ...
Unmasking Chopper Read: The Infamous Australian Criminal
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Part criminal, part storyteller, and part myth. Mark “Chopper” Read is one of Australia’s most polarising figures. Today, we d...
We Take You Inside The New Amanda Knox Series And Real-Life Case
04 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a summer night in Italy in 2007, the brutal murder of Meredith Kercher shocked the world. Her American flatmate Amanda Knox, and her new boyfriend ...
"I Was Held In A Soundproof Bunker By My Stalker": Samantha Stites Speaks Out
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In October 2022, Samantha Stites was kidnapped and assaulted by a man who had stalked her for over a decade. After breaking into her Michigan home, he...
Inside The Mind Of Australia's Youngest Killer
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What drives a teenager to become a killer? In 2001, three-year-old Courtney Morley-Clarke was put to bed on a hot summer night on the NSW Central Coas...
Inside The Cecil Hotel: Dark Truths Behind Elisa Lam's Elevator Video
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a February morning in 2013, guests at the infamous Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles complained of brown, foul-tasting water. What the maintenance team di...
"My Daughter Was The Victim Of An Online Catfish"
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When police raided the home of 48-year-old Garry Francis Newman in March 2007, they found him sitting in his lounge room, chatting online with a 14-ye...
Barry & Honey Sherman: Bodies Found Posed By The Pool
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You don’t expect to find two billionaires posed like mannequins by their own pool. But on December 15, 2017, realtor Elise Stern did just ...
Sally Leydon Spent 30 Years Searching For Her Missing Mother
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On October 19, 1997, Sally Leydon called her brother Owen to ask if their mum, Marion Barter—who was on a year-long trip overseas—had phon...
The Honeymoon Drowning That Turned A Groom Into A Murder Suspect
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In October 2003, newlyweds Gabe and Tina Watson travelled from Alabama to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef for their dream honeymoon. Just 11 days...
The Idaho Four College Murders
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What began as a typical game day celebration for University of Idaho students would end in unimaginable horror on Saturday, November 12, 2022. X...
UPDATE: Snowtown Murderer James Vlassakis Has Been Granted Parole
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In May 1999, two detectives followed a trail of suspicious missing persons cases to an old, red-brick bank in Snowtown, South Australia. As they...
The Day Three Children Disappeared In Broad Daylight, Without A Trace
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a scorching summer day in Adelaide, January 26, 1966, the Beaumont children—Jane, Arnna and Grant—left for Glenelg Beach and never came...
For Years, Karlie’s Murderers Convinced Her Family She Was Still Alive
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When two-year-old Khandalyce Pearce vanished, police were baffled that her mother, Karlie, hadn’t reported her missing. What no one realise...
Lisa McVey: In Her Own Words, On Surviving A Serial Killer
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa McVey’s story is one of unimaginable pain and extraordinary power. At 17, after surviving years of abuse, she was kidnapped and assaulted f...
Lisa McVey: Inside The Minds Behind The Viral Film 'Believe Me'
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At just 17, Lisa McVey was abducted by a dangerous man in Tampa, Florida. Over 26 long hours, despite unimaginable fear, Lisa stayed remarkably calm a...
Bradley Murdoch Takes Peter Falconio’s Whereabouts To His Grave
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bradley John Murdoch was convicted of Falconio’s murder in December 2005 and sentenced to life in prison. Now, there’s been a significant ...
The Killer Who Livestreamed His Mass Shooting On Facebook
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On March 15, 2019, New Zealand was shattered by a terrorist attack unlike any in its history. Fifty-one worshippers were murdered and dozens more woun...
Australia's Black Widow: The Story Of Dulcie Markham
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dulcie Markham has been called Australia’s most beautiful bad woman. Underworld figures describe her as "Black Widow," like the spider known for...
"The Moment I Realised The Man I Loved Was A Serial Romance Scammer"
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Heather let “Jace” into her Toronto condo to fix a kitchen cabinet, she had no idea she was opening the door to one of Canada’s...
Kidnapped, Abused & Held In A Pig Shed: The Shocking Case of Davine Arckens
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When 24-year-old Belgian backpacker Davine Arckens reached out to a man on Gumtree about working on his farm, she was excited. The 88 days of labour w...
The Gonzales Family Murders
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At just 20 years old, Sef Gonzales murdered his entire family, his father Teodoro, mother Mary Loiva, and 18-year-old sister Clodine, in their Sydney ...
The Former Miss Australia Who Was Convicted Of Drug Dealing
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Felicia Djamirze has lived many lives—counsellor, women’s justice advocate, three-time Miss Australia titleholder, and convicted drug deal...
Karen Read Found Not Guilty In Viral Murder Trial
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since the mysterious death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe on a snowy night in 2022, the town where he died has been deeply divided. ...
Lauren Had No Idea She Married a Monster—Until She Learned the Truth
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, Lauren Trevan’s husband was interviewed by police about messages he had sent to a teenage girl. He claimed they were harmless. They wer...
We Finally Know The Motive Behind Australia’s Deadliest Mass Shooting
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly 30 years have passed since the Port Arthur massacre — one of the darkest and most devastating events in Australia's history. On April 28,...
The Woman Who Tricked 50 Doulas Into Believing She Was Pregnant
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kaitlyn Braun spun an elaborate web of lies, convincing over 50 doulas she was pregnant after a traumatic assault. Her deception confused and shattere...
How A Broken Law Sent Kathleen Folbigg To Prison
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After 20 years in prison, Kathleen Folbig, once labelled Australia’s worst female serial killer, was released in just 56 minutes. New genetic ev...
Hundreds Were Forced To Witness The Death Of Agnes Magnúsdóttir
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
She was young, poor, and alone in a harsh, unforgiving Icelandic landscape — and then she was sentenced to die. In 1830, Agnes Magnúsd&oa...
William Tyrrell: Is This The Breakthrough We've Been Waiting For?
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
He was three years old, dressed in a Spider-Man suit, playing in his foster grandmother’s yard — and then he was gone. Nearly a decade lat...
Kat Torres: The Influencer Convicted Of Human Trafficking
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kat Torres had it all—famous friends, a jet-setting modelling career and a social media feed that painted the picture of a woman who had truly m...
Tortured & Brainwashed: How Ben Shenton Survived Australia’s Most Disturbing Cult
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At just 18 months old, Ben Shenton was handed over to a woman who claimed she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. That woman was Anne Hamilton-Byrn...
"I Had to Kill Him": The Woman Who Survived Dirty John
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"Dirty John" Meehan, a serial con artist and violent criminal, was Terra Newell's stepfather. He had married her mother and spent years manipulating a...
Meet Heston Russell: The Veteran Falsely Accused Of War Crimes
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Heston Russell has lived a life most of us couldn’t imagine. A former special forces commander, he’s been shot at, dropped out of helicopt...
Escaping One Of Australia's Most Secretive Cults [re-release]
19 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Laura McConnell grew up in a fundamentalist sect with no name. Along with no official title, the group also claims to have no registration around the ...
The Podcast Host Who Solved A Murder When Police Couldn't
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 1993, a teenage girl vanished on her way to school in a quiet town in Ontario, Canada. That morning, she’d argued with her mother, Mary Ann&m...
What We Know About Stephanie Scott's Death 10 Years On
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Scott was just days away from marrying her long-time partner when she went into her empty high school on Easter Sunday to prepare lesson pla...
A Message From Gemma!
06 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, True Crime Conversations listeners! If your sharp investigative minds haven't already guessed, we're excited to share that our very own host, G...
How The Deaths Of Two Girls, Eight Years Apart, Uncovered Tokyo’s Worst Predator
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Carita Ridgeway from Australia and Lucie Blackman from England arrived in Japan eight years apart, both working as hostesses, earning $150-$400 a nigh...
53 Years Ago Robyn & Her Classmates Were Kidnapped. This Is Her Story.
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On a Friday afternoon in 1972, in the small town of Faraday, Victoria, 10-year-old Robyn Howarth was playing musical chairs with her classmates when s...
The Kapunda Triple Murder & An Unsuspecting Killer
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2010, 18-year-old Jason Downie became obsessed with Chantelle Rowe, his friend’s girlfriend, after she rejected him. On the night of November...
The Four-Day Exorcism Of Joan Vollmer
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the remote outback of Victoria in 1993, Ralph Vollmer believed his wife, Joan, was possessed. Ralph enlisted members of his local religious communi...
What It's Like To Find Out The Man You Love Is An International Con Man
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hamish McLaren is a serial fraudster. Remember the podcast Who the Hell Is Hamish? He defrauded victims of their money for more than 30 years before h...
The Moment That Could’ve Saved Gabby Petito [re-release]
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In August 2021, Gabby Petito went missing while on holiday with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. The pair were six weeks into a four month trip acro...
Meet The Anonymous Host Of Casefile
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To some, he’s the mysterious voice behind their favourite true crime podcast (besides True Crime Conversations, of course). Others know him as &...
"What REALLY Happened When I Confronted Belle Gibson"
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2015, Australian con woman Belle Gibson was living the dream. Her app The Whole Pantry was hugely popular and she was about to launch a b...
Maria Korp Was Left To Die In The Boot Of Her Car
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Maria Korp, a 50-year-old mother of two from Melbourne, went missing in February 2005. She was discovered four days later in the boot of her car barel...
25 Years Ago, A Revengeful Man Set Fire To A Queensland Hostel
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On June 23rd, 2000, just after midnight, Robert Paul Long set fire to the Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel in Queensland. He had recently been evict...
We’re Finally Telling The True Story About The Slender Man Stabbing
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What started as a typical sleepover in Wisconsin in 2014 turned into one of the most chilling true crime stories in America.Twelve-year-olds Morgan Ge...
The Man Who "Knows What Happened" To The Beaumont Children [re-release]
26 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The disappearance of The Beaumont Children is burned into the collective conscious of Australia. It’s one of the longest-running cases in the na...
Australia's Worst Mass Family Killer & His Shocking Second Life
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On September 7, 1971, at a remote farmhouse 40 kilometres south of Adelaide, Clifford Bartholomew killed 10 people. His wife, his seven children, his ...
Meet The Former Australian Prosecutor With A Target On Her Back
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Margaret Cunneen SC was one of Australia’s top Crown Prosecutors, renowned for securing convictions against some of the country’s most not...
According To A Criminologist, Keli Lane Shouldn’t Be In Prison.
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On September 12, 1996, Keli Lane gave birth to a baby girl at Auburn Hospital in western Sydney. Two days later that baby seemingly disappeared. ...
How ‘Cocaine Cassie’ Really Survived Three Years In A Colombian Prison
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After she was caught trying to smuggle 5.8kg of cocaine out of Colombia in 2017, the media nicknamed her ‘Cocaine Cassie’. But Cassie Sainsbury’...
Why Women Kill And The Lives They Live Behind Bars [fresh episode]
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Women are responsible for only 10 per cent of homicides in Australia, Canada, England, and the US, and because it’s such a small sample size not...
With Her Abuser Behind Bars, Dassi Erlich Is Ready To Talk
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In 2023, Malka Leifer was sentenced to 15 years in prison for 18 counts of sexual abuse against Dassi Erlich and her little sister. Leifer was the sis...
Eve Wiley’s Father Was A Serial Sperm Donor… And He’s Not Alone
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eve Wiley is one of the featured voices in the Netflix series The Man with 1000 Kids, but the story of how she came to be a fierce advocate for victi...
Nicole Madigan Is Still Being Watched By The Woman Who Stalked Her [fresh episode]
29 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, while taking a picture of her son at a gathering, Nicole Madigan had a brief encounter with a stranger who asked her if she was photographing...
A Doomsday Cult And Two Missing Kids
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In November 2019, police conducted a welfare check on seven-year-old JJ Vallow. He hadn't been seen since September, and police will come to realise t...
Tia Levings Escaped A Trad Wife Cult
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tia Levings was raised within the same strict Christian fundamentalist ideology as the infamous Duggar family from 19 Kids And Counting. By the time ...
Inside One Of Australia’s Longest Running Cults [fresh episode]
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Geelong Revival Centre, one of Australia’s longest-running cults, has been hiding in plain sight for years. Led by Pastor Noel Hollins until...
The Baby Doll Serial Killer: America’s Most Unsuspecting Murderer
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the winter of 1999 in Detroit, Michigan, sex worker Monica Johnson entered a Jeep Wrangler with the licence plate 'Baby Doll' with a client. That c...
Bonus: The French Rape Trial, A Victim-Survivor's Story Of Which She Has No Memory
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's the case that has shocked France and led to protests outside of an Avignon court house. For 50 years, Dominique and Gisèle Pélicot were married...
The Lindt Cafe Terrorist Was Listening To Gemma Read The News
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
During the Lindt Café siege, True Crime Conversations host Gemma Bath was reporting the news live with a police negotiator by her sid...
10 Years Ago A Man With A Gun Walked Into A Lindt Cafe In Sydney
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On a sunny December morning in 2014, just 10 days before Christmas, breakfast was in full swing at the busy Lindt Café in Sydney’s Martin...
Amy Allwine Had No Idea A Stranger Online Was Paid To Kill Her
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, journalist Carl Miller found himself staring at a murder-for-hire website on the dark web, introduced to him by a hacker friend who had stumb...
Extra: What We've Finally Learned About Lilie James' Killer
30 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Warning: This episode speaks of violence and suicide. Please take care when listening. A year on from her death, Lilie James' parents have spoken pu...
'I'm Confident My Son Is Still Alive': The Case Of The Lost Boy
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2015, Fiona Lu showed up at her son Mike Zhao-Beckenridge's school to pick him up, only to find he was missing. Panicked, she called the poli...
Something Is Not Right About Phoebe's Fall
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In December 2010, the body of 24-year-old Phoebe Handsjuk was discovered at the bottom of a garbage chute in her Melbourne apartment building.She had ...
Extra: Is There Really A Serial Killer In Byron Bay?
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's a serial killer on the loose in Byron Bay... allegedly. People are starting to connect the dots between multiple cases of women going missing...
Did America Just Execute An Innocent Man?
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2001, Marcellus Williams was sentenced to death for the 1998 murder of reporter Felecia Gayle. After over two decades on Missouri’s death row, he...
Extra: Meeting The Terrorist Who Killed My Son
09 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
James Foley’s death was unimaginable. He was a journalist held hostage by ISIS for two years in Syria and killed in 2014 as a threat to America. Foo...
It Took 32 Years For Police To Find Kylie Maybury's Killer
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1984, the body of six-year-old Kylie Maybury was found in a gutter in the early hours of the morning following Melbourne Cup Day. So why did it tak...
Will The Menendez Brothers Be Released From Prison?
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s August 1989, and a 911 call comes through from a Beverly Hills mansion on Elm Drive just before midnight. The call is from a hysterical Lyle Me...
Bonus: The Spill: The Best True Crime Documentaries Of All Time
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
True crime documentaries have always been a cornerstone of the pop culture world and with recent releases such as The Menendez Brothers documentary dr...