Podcasts by Murder in the Land of Oz

Lynette Daley from 2021-02-07T19:00

Trigger warnings: murder, sexual violence, assault.

Lynette Daley was a 31-year-old Aboriginal woman who lived in the Clarence Valley, northern NSW. She was a mother of seven and a bel...

Invasion Day from 2021-01-24T21:00

As the final installment of our First Nation's themed season, we are talking about January 26th.

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Its Been A Minute from 2021-01-24T19:00

We are back after a (what turned into a much bigger than intended) break!

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The Fellowship of Truth from 2020-11-15T19:00

Whoops we covered another cult. Coming for ya, Jo Thornely.

Chantelle McDougall, her six-year-old daughter Leela, her partner Simon Kadwill, and their housemate Tony Popic went missing in ...

The Murder of Deedee Blancharde from 2020-11-01T19:00

Okay, yes, every show and their dog (or podcast cat) have covered this case. But we just had to jump on the bandwagon. 

You may be familiar with the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard from t...

Fred and Rosemary West from 2020-10-18T20:14

Fred and Rosemary West were coooooooked, mates. This episode was a request from our beloved patron Lily and let me tell ya, we don’t trust her any more! Massive listener warnings for murder, tor...

Lyn Dawson from 2020-10-04T21:20

This episode we cover the murder of Lynette Dawson. Although officially a “disappearance”, it has long been the belief of both the police and the general public that Lyn Dawson was murdered by her ...

Tanya Day from 2020-09-20T19:00

Aunty Tanya Day was a 55 year old Yorta Yorta woman who died while in police custody after being arrested for public intoxication while on a train. Tanya was drunk and asleep on a VLine train he...

The Bathurst War from 2020-09-06T19:12:06

Over three hundred Frontier Wars were fought in Australia as the Indigenous people of this land tried valiantly to resist the invasion of British Colonialists. The Bathurst War was one such war,...

The Death of John Pat, Part 2 from 2020-08-12T07:48:41

This episode discusses Aboriginal people who have died.

In this episode, we discuss the police’s attempt to cover up the finding of John Pat’s body, the subsequent investigation, trial, an...

The Death of John Pat from 2020-07-26T19:26

WARNING: This episode discusses Aboriginal people who have died.

In 1983, a sixteen-year-old Yindjibarndi boy named John Pat died in police custody after sustaining injur...

The Murder of Leanne Holland from 2020-07-12T18:21

WARNING: This episode discusses violence against children.

12-year-old Leanne Holland went missing in September of 1991. When her horribly mutilated body was found in bus...

The Sundown Murders from 2020-06-28T20:02

Cattle stations. The vast nothingness of the Central Australian bush. The past. A potential wrong conviction. Police corruption. This case TRULY has all the trappings of an #EllenEpisod...

Frankston-Tynong North Serial Killings from 2020-06-14T19:06

Between May 1980 and November 1981, the bodies of six women were found hidden in dense scrubland in south-east Melbourne. The murders mystified police – the circumstances of their disap...

Nancy Grundwalt and Victoria Cafasso from 2020-05-31T19:45

A 26-year-old German tourist named Nancy Grundwalt disappeared from Scamander, Tasmania in 1993, while cycling down the Tasman Highway. No trace of her has ever been found. Two years la...

Scott Johnson from 2020-05-17T19:54

When the body of Scott Johnson was found at the bottom of a cliff in North Head, Sydney, with his clothes folded neatly at the top of the cliff with a pen resting on top, the police eas...

Rod Ansell from 2020-05-04T03:21:27

Aussie mania swept the globe in the late 80s after a little film called Crocodile Dundee showed the world the magic of Australia’s last frontier. Audiences were charmed by the ...

Claremont from 2020-05-04T03:05:17

Claremont, like Snowtown, is one of those places that you only know the name of because of a heinous crime.

In the mid 90s, three young women went missing after spending ...

MITLOO Minis: Murder in the Land of Antarctica from 2020-04-05T21:22

Rodney Marks was an astrophysicist who tragically died while overwintering in Antarctica in 2000. His cause of death was unknown, and his body stayed in Antarctica for five months after...

MITLOO Minis: The Olivia Benson Power Hour from 2020-03-23T03:50:55

If you haven't watched Law & Order SVU now is your MOMENT huns. We rate the characters from a level of Olivia Benson to DUN DUN.

For reference on our stand out episod...

The Disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain, Part Two from 2020-03-08T19:36

In this episode, we discuss the many trials and tribulations of Lindy and Michael Chamberlain, as they were accused of murdering their daughter Azaria. We go through the inquests, the t...

The Death of Azaria Chamberlain, Part One from 2020-02-24T00:49

Look, folks, they can’t all be bangers.

This episode we discuss the lead-up to the most famous Australian case of all time – the death of Azaria Chamberlain. You...

The Murder of Phuongsri Kroksamrang and Somjai Insamram from 2020-02-10T03:18:19

Phuongsri Kroksamrang and Somjai Insamnan were sex workers who were murdered by teenagers Phu Ngoc Tring and Ben McLean in March of 2004. They were bound, strangled, and tossed in the r...

The Coniston Massacre from 2020-01-27T07:38:14

The Coniston Massacre is the name given to the officially-sanctioned murder of hundreds of Indigenous people of the Warlpiri, Anmatyerre, and Kaytetye tribes, committed by Northern Terr...

The Kimberley Killer from 2020-01-13T01:26:47

Australia had a bit of a tourism boom in the late ‘80s, with people travelling from all over the world to experience a bit of the Crocodile Dundee life for themselves. Inns, roadhouses,...

The Murder of Peter Falconio from 2019-12-29T23:43

CU in the NT, motherfuckers!

Our first foray into the Top End covers the murder of Peter Falconio, a British tourist who was murdered while on holiday with his girlfriend, Joanne Lees, on ...

Merry Crime-mas: A MITLOO Gift Guide from 2019-12-19T20:23

Merry Crisis!

Yes, that magical time of year is upon us where we give gifts, wear ugly Christmas sweaters despite the 35 degree heat, and suppress emotional breakdowns fo...

Eric Edgar Cooke Part 2 from 2019-12-16T07:08:43

Welcome to our final episode in Western Australia, for real this time. In Part Two of our discussion of Eric Edgar Cooke, we discuss Cooke’s final crimes, his trial and subsequent execu...

Eric Edgar Cooke Part 1 from 2019-12-01T20:42

Eric Edgar Cooke terrorised the people of Perth for years, but they didn’t know it.

The people didn’t know that the nighttime prowler breaking into people...

Ghosts in the Land of Oz 2 from 2019-11-18T01:17:23

The ghosts keep comin’ and they don’t stop comin’ in the second Halloween special from your favourite amateur paranormal investigators. Turn on your head-mounted GoPro, loosen the top o...

The Murder of Aaron Pajich-Sweetman from 2019-11-03T22:49:39

Aaron Pajich had dreams he wanted to fulfil. He worked hard, he wanted to get a good job, and he wanted to live in Japan. Aaron was autistic, loved video games and computers, and by all...

Bedford Family Murders from 2019-10-20T23:54:44

This episode discusses domestic violence and the murder of children.

Anthony Harvey was obsessed with serial killers, and in order to cope with life, he created a fantasy...

David and Catherine Birnie from 2019-10-06T20:56

LISTEN TO WOMEN, FOLKS.

Phew, now we’ve got that out of the way.

This is the story of Catherine and David Birnie, sure, but more importantly, it’s the stor...

Apologies from 2019-09-22T21:07

No episode today friends! But we have a quick message for you about why and what is happening in the MITLOO world!

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The Case of Martha Rendell from 2019-09-08T23:45:15

Welcome to our first episode of our Western Australia season! Fair warning, this episode discusses the death of children. Remember when we said we weren’t gonna cover child murder cases...

BONUS Missing Persons Week from 2019-09-01T21:35

Throughout our South Australia season, we’ve unintentionally covered a number of cases that have involved missing persons. Approximately 38,000 people are reported missing in Australia ...

The Murder of Carly Ryan from 2019-08-25T20:29

Oof, you guys. This hit home.

Carly Ryan was a bright, loving young girl who had a solid relationship with her mum, Sonia. Carly was a typical teenage girl in 2006 – she ...

Snowtown, Part Two from 2019-08-12T00:40:33

Listener warning: this episode will discuss paedophilia, sexual abuse, murder, torture, dismemberment, and other gross things we’ve managed to repress from our psyches. If you want your...

Snowtown, Part One from 2019-07-29T00:37

Be warned, this episode covers some seriously fucked up shit. This episode will discuss paedophila, sexual abuse, assault, torture, murder, dismemberment, and many other horrific things...

Maya Jakic and Megumi Suzuki from 2019-07-15T02:57:35

It’s kind of a Criminal Minds-style cliché to have a murderer be motivated by his sexual inadequacies, but truth is sadly often much worse than fiction. Mark Errin Rust was a s...

The Somerton Man from 2019-06-30T20:13

This bad boy has been the big kahuna of Australian mysteries for a long time, and it’s time for your girls to take a swipe at the Somerton Man, the mystery man whose body was found lying on Some...

The Truro Murders from 2019-06-16T23:13:31

South Australia, we’ve been waiting to get inside you for a long, long time.

To start our journey around Australia's most messed-up state, we have the Truro murders, the name given to the ...

The Disappearance of Brenda Hean from 2019-06-02T20:52

Conspiracy time!

Environmental activist and political leader Brenda Hean went missing in 1972 after her plane mysteriously vanished while she was on her way to the nation...

The Pacemaker Murderer from 2019-05-19T19:30

Tassie has a reputation of being an inbred backwater twenty years behind the rest of Australia, and to a certain extent that’s true (less so with regards to the inbreeding perhaps). But...

JonBenet Ramsey Thoughts/Feelings/Opinions from 2019-05-12T20:25

In this bonus episode, we discuss the infamous murder of JonBenet Ramsey, and have a surprisingly civil debate about the possible perpetrators of this horrible crime.

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The Killer Cannibal of Van Diemen's Land from 2019-05-09T21:33

Warning: this episode contains brief mention of sexual assault, and not at all brief mentions of cannibalism.

All of Australia has some pretty messed up history from the ...

Technical Difficulties in the Land of Oz from 2019-05-05T14:49:53

Interstate communications have broken down!

And your hosts will be getting back to you as soon as they can! (Which will be Friday)

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The Port Arthur Massacre from 2019-04-21T18:08

For our second Tassie episode, we cover one of the worst mass shooting in Australian history.

The shooter was Martin Bryant, a 25 year old man with the IQ of an eleven-year-old. Having the...

The Fisherman from 2019-04-08T06:43:42

Please note, this episode discusses crimes against children.

Was a man convicted of the murder of a nine year old boy in Tasmania in 1975 responsible for some of Australia’s most we...

Ned Kelly Part Two from 2019-03-24T15:27:46

Welcome to Ned Kelly Part Two!

We left our heroes (?) in Stringybark Creek, just after murdering a small handful of policeman. Ned’s fame would absolutely skyrocket from this act, and then...

Ned Kelly Part One from 2019-03-10T23:42:25

Ned Kelly: outback legend, or cowardly criminal? You decide!

In this kind-of-a-bonus-but-not-really episode, we tackle an Aussie icon, none other than Edward Kelly, better known as Ned, an...

Peter Dupas from 2019-02-24T20:47

Peter Dupas is one of the most horrific and violent serial killers in Australian history. When Nicole Patterson’s brutally mutilated body was discovered on April 19, 1999, the police followed a ...

BONUS Ted Bundy Thoughts/Feelings/Opinions from 2019-02-17T23:37:49

Ted Bundy has been talked about extensively in the past few weeks after a whole host of Ted Bundy #content has been released. Much of the chatter online has focused on whether or not media such ...

Eddie Leonski from 2019-01-27T19:34

In Melbourne, Victoria during the Second World War, electric lights were turned off or lowered at night to prevent aerial attacks from the Japanese. The war, which had confined itself to the Nor...

The Sharpe Family Murders from 2019-01-13T20:27

On March 23, 2004, John Sharpe shot a spear into his wife Anna’s head while she was sleeping. On March 27, he did the same to his nineteen month old daughter Gracie. He then concocted an elabora...

BONUS Murdered Musicians from 2018-12-30T20:33

What started out as a simple guest segment on Musicals Taught Me Everything I Know somehow ballooned out to this glorious 40 minutes of discussion about musical murders.

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Jill Meagher from 2018-12-16T19:08

Jill Meagher was a 29 year old Irish woman living in Melbourne with her husband, Tom. She was a bright, funny, loving young woman, who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. On the ...

UPDATE: The Murders of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and Khandalyce from 2018-12-04T23:55:49

A brief update episode to discuss the new developments in the trial and sentencing of the murderer of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and Khandalyce.

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The Bowraville Murders from 2018-12-02T19:32

In the early 90s, three children went missing from the same street over the course of four months. If it had happened in Sydney, we’d never hear the end of it, but because the kids were Indigeno...

The Other Doctor Death from 2018-11-18T17:24

What do you call a doctor that graduates at the bottom of his class? A doctor.

What do you call a doctor that graduates at the bottom of his class, gets sanctioned for professional miscond...

The Wanda Beach Murders from 2018-11-04T16:50

The Wanda Beach Murders are possibly Australia’s most well-known cold case. The 1965 murder of Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock devastated the nation, and to this day police are still try...

Ghosts in the Land of Oz, Halloween 2018 from 2018-10-30T17:04

For this Very Special Episode of Murder in the Land of Oz, the girls take you on an auditory tour of some of Australia’s most haunted locations. From the isolated cells of the Separate Prison in...

The Murders of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and Khandalyce from 2018-10-21T19:41

Two bodies lay thousands of kilometers apart – one, a two-year-old girl in a suitcase on the side of the highway in South Australia, the other, a twenty-year-old woman left lying next to a log i...

The Murder of Anita Cobby from 2018-10-07T23:39:29

Take a drink every time we tell a story about a young women murdered while walking home. And then keep drinking to help dull the pain.

This week we cover the murder of beauty pageant queen...

The Backpacker Murders Part Two from 2018-09-23T16:33

The murders of the seven backpackers had dominated headlines for years. The police, psychologists, scientists, and the international media were trying to work out exactly what went down in the B...

The Backpacker Murders Part One from 2018-09-09T19:07

Seven backpackers disappeared hitchhiking off the Hume Highway in New South Wales from 1989 to 1992. For years, Australia was gripped by the mystery – was it the work of a serial killer, or just...

The Lesbian Vampire Killers from 2018-08-25T18:09

Tracey Wigginton was convicted of murdering Edward Baldock and trying to drink his blood. Tracey wasn’t just a regular old murderer, you see. She was a vampire, a night stalker, one of the Devil...

The Mayne Family from 2018-08-12T16:48:01

Anyone who has roots in Brissie could probably ask ten different people what they know about the Mayne family and they’d get ten different answers. They’ve been called the Mad Maynes and the Mur...

The Murder of Betty Shanks from 2018-07-29T19:26

Betty Shanks was twenty-two years old and walking home from work when she was attacked, beaten and left for dead. Could be the first line of any article in the Courier Mail today, unfortunately,...

The Gatton Murders from 2018-07-15T19:43

Some towns become synonymous with the crimes that happen in them - Salem. Waco. Snowtown.

In Queensland, we have Gatton. When the bodies of Michael, Ellen, and Norah Murphy were discov...

Eurydice Dixon from 2018-07-08T19:37

Something a little different this week, friends.

Your girls do like to talk about murders, but we are not excited when they happen. Twenty-two year old aspiring comedian Eurydice Dixon was...

The Murder of Bronia Armstrong from 2018-07-01T15:40

A corrupt police force. A violent murder staged to look like a suicide. A wrongful conviction. And a suicide in custody. It’s not a Netflix series, it’s the new episode of Murder in the Land of ...

The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay Part Two from 2018-06-17T17:06

In Part Two of our investigation into the murder of Allison Baden-Clay, ya girls discuss the absolute gall of a man who so obviously killed his wife to appeal that decision in the first place, t...

The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay Part One from 2018-06-03T18:28

On April 20, 2012, Gerard Baden-Clay phoned the police. His wife hadn’t come home from her morning walk, you see, and it wasn’t like her to be late. She had a big day ahead, and he didn’t want t...

Murder in the Land of Oz - Coming Soon! from 2018-05-28T01:50:42

Until we hit the ether on June 4, let us tell you a little about ourselves...

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