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Urban Legends #3 - Westall UFO & Federici's Ghost from 2023-11-12T19:00:41
Welcome to Urban Legends #3, the final episode of this series.
Join us as we chat about the Westall UFO, which allegedly flew over a school in Melbourne’s southeast some 40 years ago, and ...
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Urban Legends #2 - Pineapple Smoothie, No Ice & The Crown Casino Morgue from 2023-10-05T21:31:44
Welcome to Urban Legends #2!
Join us to discuss what allegedly happens when you order a pineapple smoothie, in a specific way, from a particular Melbourne venue, before we cross the Ya...
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Urban Legends #1 - Grand Sale & Grambo from 2023-09-21T22:29:45
Welcome to the first episode in a series of upcoming quirky stories about Urban Legends, originally released on Patreon when we were making episodes.
All have an element of criminal se...
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Mark 'Chopper' Read from 2023-09-08T04:07:05
A special edition episode originally recorded for Patreon members on Mark 'Chopper' Read
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Thankyou & Goodbye from 2021-08-30T02:00:54
We have decided to finish up making episodes for True Blue Crime.
This will undoubtedly be a surprise and disappointing for many people, but we want to finish things on our terms and n...
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Amber Haigh and Janelle Goodwin from 2021-08-27T02:11:36
Robbie and Amber spoke on the phone regularly, but fell out of touch as time went on. But then one day, all of a sudden, Amber was moving into Robbie’s house, which was a surprise to him.
Claremont, Part 2 from 2021-08-12T21:53:50
It was mid afternoon on May the 7th 1990, and Wendy Davis was working at the Hollywood Hospital in Nedlands.
She was at her desk, immersed in her work, when she heard a voice behind ...
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Claremont, Part 1 from 2021-07-30T02:12:17
Nicole awoke in her bed with someone next to her, but it wasn’t her boyfriend like she first thought. It was someone else. She grabbed his face, dug her fingernails in hard, and the man jumped u...
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Maya Jakic & Megumi Suzuki from 2021-06-14T07:00
It was the 17th of April, 1999, and in Adelaide, South Australia, two rookie police officers were coming to the end of their shift.
As the two young officers returned to their vehicle,...
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The Greenough Family Massacre from 2021-05-31T07:00
As the car drew closer, Daniel turned on the kitchen light and headed out front to see who was arriving at 3AM. The family dogs were barking out the back, attuned to the strange hour the person ...
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The Third Victim from 2021-05-24T07:00
This was a guy who’d worked a number of different jobs in his time - aside from the Navy, he’d been a sheet metal fabricator, a commercial diver, air system technician, a welder and even a posti...
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The Postcard Bandit from 2021-05-17T07:00
24th of November 1989, Fremantle Prison, Western Australia
The trio removed the bar and slipped out of the workshop window and gained access to the roof of the print shop. From there, ...
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The Kimberley Killer from 2021-05-03T07:00
Not long after sunrise Peter Leutenegger was flying his chopper across the Jubilee Downs Station, singing along to a few of his favourite Slim Dusty songs. He was mustering horses in preparation...
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Martin Pearson and Leanne Sleba from 2021-04-26T07:00
Anzac Day Friday, 25 April 2014
John Pearson said it was a bleak irony that his brother Martin was killed on a day that was all about mateship and courage.
“This is an a...
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The Lonely Hearts Killer from 2021-04-19T07:00
On the 26th of May 1990 a number of calls came in to 3AW’s late night lonely hearts program called Matchmakers. One seemingly eligible bachelor received several interested parties and potential ...
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Toyah Cordingley from 2021-04-12T07:00
On the 14th of June of 2018, the day after the murder of Melbourne comedian, Eurydice Dixon, police comments in the media drew the ire of the public, with the drawn inference that that women nee...
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The Melbourne Gangland Killings, Part 5 from 2021-04-07T05:10:12
With Purana still gathering evidence to support their case, Federal Police, led by Agent Jarrod Ragg, who’d been relentlessly pursuing Tony for some time, made the request to have Tony’s ba...
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Interlude #4 - The Melbourne Gangland Killings from 2021-04-06T09:44:57
Join Shaun for this interlude minisode between parts 4 and 5 of the Melbourne Gangland Killings.
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The Melbourne Gangland Killings, Part 4 from 2021-03-29T06:00
Mick was on a mission to find Graham’s killers.
Benji and Carl said they had nothing to do with it, but they’d heard that Asians, possibly the Chinese, had something to do with it.
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Interlude #3 - The Melbourne Gangland Killings from 2021-03-19T01:50:45
Join Shaun for this interlude minisode between parts 3 and 4 of the Melbourne Gangland Killings.
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The Melbourne Gangland Killings, Part 3 from 2021-03-17T02:54:04
Carl Williams had a new attack dog. Andrew “Benji” Veniamin was now spending the best part of his days with a new best mate; despite him allegedly accepting a contract from Jason Moran to off Ca...
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Interlude #2 - The Melbourne Gangland Killings from 2021-03-13T23:30:33
Join Shaun for this interlude minisode between parts 2 and 3 of the Melbourne Gangland Killings.
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The Melbourne Gangland Killings, Part 2 from 2021-03-08T06:08:11
13th of October 1999
Carl drove his hire car to Gladstone Park, a northwest suburb of Melbourne, and waited for Mark and Jason to arrive.
When they did, the ...
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Interlude #1 - The Melbourne Gangland Killings from 2021-03-04T02:19:35
Join Shaun for this interlude minisode between parts 1 and 2 of the Melbourne Gangland Killings.
These minisodes will be released mid-week for the rest of the series to add some additi...
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The Melbourne Gangland Killings, Part 1 from 2021-03-02T06:15:09
6th February 1995, Carlton, Victoria
Alphonse left Lygon St and went to the Richmond Hotel to attend the wake of a dearly departed. He drank and punted until midnight, leaving for a pa...
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Jaidyn Leskie from 2020-12-21T01:00
It was around 2AM. Kenny Penfold had a severed pig’s head and a handful of rocks. Darrin Wilson had an axe handle.They watched from the bushes along the railway siding on Narracan Drive, as Greg...
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Gerard Ross from 2020-12-01T01:00
It was around 930AM, as Stewart, the boy’s father, was fitting some carseats in the family car. He saw Gerard and Malcolm’s legs pass as they walked down the driveway and turned into Kent St. Listen
The Cowra Axe Murders (1987) from 2020-11-23T06:00
April 14, 1987, approximately 3:40PM
Young Johnny was walking from school to his home in Victor Street, when he passed the side gate of a house at number 1 Jindalee Circuit.
He l...
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The Cowra Axe Murders (2008) from 2020-11-16T06:00
Shelly worked her shift and returned to her parents house in Brougham St around 2PM. When she went inside, her Dad, John, was making a cup of tea. But Shelly felt something was off, immediately....
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The Russell Street Bombing from 2020-10-12T06:00
Inside the watch house across the street, which housed the cells of the nearby courthouse, constables Dave Yeoman and Angela Taylor had just fed the prisoners. It was their own lunch time now, a...
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The Bega Schoolgirl Murders from 2020-10-05T06:00
The 5th of October 1997 was a beautiful day on the NSW Sapphire Coast and Nichole Collins and Lauren Barry were a great team who shared a lot of fun times together; this long weekend was just an...
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The Figg Family Murders from 2020-09-28T07:00
Saturday 8th December, 1934, Mylor, South Australia
As dawn broke on this fresh summer’s morning, John Scotland was walking down the main street when he spotted a familiar face. Willia...
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The Schoolgirl Strangler from 2020-09-14T07:00
Set against the backdrop of the 1930’s Great Depression, the grey Melbourne streets were stalked by a serial killer the press dubbed The Schoolgirl Strangler. This predator, a few beers down eac...
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The Magnetic Drill Gang from 2020-09-07T07:00
Friday 23rd November 1978, Murwillimbah, NSW
Inside the branch of the Bank of NSW, the crew of thieves worked quickly and quietly.
They bypassed the combination lock of the vault...
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Kiesha Weippeart from 2020-08-31T07:00
Join Shaun and Chloe to discuss the tragic case of 6 year old Kiesha Weippeart, which happened around the Mount Druitt region of Sydney NSW in July of 2010.
There’s many aspects to thi...
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Mr Cruel, Part 2 from 2020-08-17T07:00
Mr Cruel was a child abductor, sexual predator, and presumed murderer, active in suburban Melbourne during the late eighties to early nineties. He has been quite accurately described as the boge...
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Mr Cruel, Part 1 from 2020-08-10T07:00
Mr Cruel was a child abductor, sexual predator, and presumed murderer, active in suburban Melbourne during the late eighties to early nineties. He has been quite accurately described as the boge...
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Herman Rockefeller from 2020-08-03T07:00
Andy Kingston arrived at 125 South St in the middle of the day, overcome by insatiable lust.
Bernadette and Mario in unit 2 invited him inside, expecting a visit from the guy they’d sp...
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Matthew Harris from 2020-07-20T07:00
At around 7:15pm mother of three, Trang Nguyen, answered a knock at the door of her home in Nordlingen Drive. The voices called out ‘it’s the police’. Trang opened the door, and was immediately ...
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The Weeping Woman Art Heist from 2020-07-13T07:00:55
August 1986, Melbourne, and the National Gallery of Victoria has just had their most recently acquired prized work of art stolen, and received a ransom letter detailing the demands…
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The Moorhouse Murders from 2020-06-29T07:29:57
In 1986, Perth and the whole of Western in Australia was flying high, booming at this time, with the likes of Iron Ore magnate Lang Hancock and the occasionally corrupt Alan Bond flexing their b...
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The Tromp Family Mystery from 2020-06-22T07:00
This tale is about the Tromp family from the little eastern Melbourne suburb of Silvan and the interesting road trip the family of 5 went on back in 2016.
On August the 30th 2016, poli...
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The La Trobe University Shooting from 2020-06-01T07:00
3 August 1999
His hand trembled as he wrote, his sweaty fingers wrangling the pen as the words poured from his mind and became scrawl on the paper.
‘I tried every legal way p...
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The Portland Hair Salon Murders from 2020-05-18T07:00
Almost halfway between Adelaide in SA and Melbourne in VIC is a small seaside town called Portland. It's a quaint coastal haven, steeped in history, normally a calm and picturesque place. But in...
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The Ice Cream Murders from 2020-05-11T07:00
Mr Whippy would spearhead our country's foray in the world of ice cream vans. The brand established in Australia in 1962 and became ingrained in our culture as a popular presence during our hot ...
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Gable Tostee and Warriena Wright, Part 2 from 2020-05-06T07:00
On the 7th of August, 2014, 26 year old, Warriena Wright, met the burly Surfers Paradise local, 28 year old Gable Tostee, at the Cavill Mall around 8:45PM.
What would start out like an...
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Gable Tostee and Warriena Wright, Part 1 from 2020-05-04T07:00
On the 7th of August, 26 year old Warriena Wright met the burly Surfers Paradise local, 28 year old Gable Tostee, at the Cavill Mall around 8:45PM. What would start out like any other Tinder dat...
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Introducing 'Who Killed Leanne Holland?' from 2020-04-29T23:00
The brutal murder of 12 year old Leanne Holland; the accused served nearly 15 years for the crime and his conviction now quashed. Controversial and highly debated, this new podcast seeks to answ...
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The Disappearance of Tony Jones from 2020-04-27T07:00
3rd November, 1982, Rosslea, QLD
20 year old Tony Jones called his family back home in Perth from a phone booth in Bower road. He spoke to his Mum and his brother Mark, who joked with ...
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The Kauai Serial Killer and Randall Saito from 2020-04-13T07:00
Andy Albury from 2020-04-06T07:00
Detective Sergeant Les Chapman and his partner Detective Sergeant Dennis Hart arrived at the Lameroo Lodge in Darwin in the morning of Saturday the 25th of November 1983. Adjacent to the lodge i...
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The Wollongong Murders, Part 2 from 2020-03-30T06:00
Detectives Joe Cassar and Russell Oxford inspected the scene. The house was immaculate, not an item out of place, not a dirty dish left out. Bloodstains lined the hallway leading in to the bedro...
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The Wollongong Murders, Part 1 from 2020-03-23T06:00
The windows of the house at 1 Reserve Street had all been smashed with rocks. Firecrackers had been hurled into the yard and scorched the once lush green grass, and graffiti plastered across the...
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The Flemington Armed Robbery from 2020-03-02T06:00
Racecourse Road, Flemington, on Friday the 25th of January 2002; Armaguard cash in transit security officers Mohammed Tabiaat and Rebecca Mitchell pulled up in their armoured van just before 10A...
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The Murder of Kim Barry from 2020-02-17T06:00
After seeing a movie and grabbing a bite to eat, Kim Barry and Donna Holland were up for a drink and dance. The local disco at Crown Gardens was the perfect spot and the vibes were good when the...
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The Valentine's Day Murders from 2020-02-10T06:00
"The rose is red, the violet's blue,
The honey's sweet, and so are you.
Thou art my love and I am thine;
I drew thee to my Valentine:
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Francis Fahey and The Valley Ripper from 2020-02-03T06:00
Karen Redmile was working near the intersection of Brunswick and Harcourt Streets; another night in the Valley dealing with client’s requests and negotiating. She was speaking with a man, and th...
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The Monash University Shooting from 2019-12-15T06:00
21st of October 2002. Monash University, Clayton, Victoria.
After the class of 12 had filed in and taken their seats, lecturer Lee Gordon-Brown handed back an assignment that students ...
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Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers from 2019-12-08T06:00
9th of November 1983. Bayan Lepas International Airport, Penang, Malaysia
There was the usual bustle of activity inside and outside the airport, with a seemingly innumerable fleet of t...
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The Disappearance of Sarah MacDiarmid from 2019-12-01T06:00
11 July 1990. Kananook Train Station, Seaford, Victoria.
At 10:20PM Maria Babacala got off the train and made her way off the platform, crossing the overpass to head o...
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The Silk-Miller Police Murders from 2019-11-17T06:00
18, July 1998. The Green Papaya Restaurant, Surrey Hills, Victoria.
A dozen staff were closing up for the night in the safe suburban upper class neighbourhood in Melbourne’s East.
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Bandali Debs from 2019-11-10T06:00
19 September 1994. Hallam, Victoria
Constable Jason Bryant and Sergeant Allan Beckwith were patrolling north along Hallam Road, when they spotted a stolen Nissan Bluebird with stolen r...
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Raymond 'Mr Stinky' Edmunds from 2019-11-03T06:25
He said he didn’t want to hurt her, but she saw the 10 inch butcher’s knife in his hand. Mrs G was too scared to say anything and worried about her daughter in the room nearby. The intruder said...
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The Tynong North and Frankston Murders from 2019-10-27T06:00
6th of December, 1980, around 2pm.
Graeme Brenchley and Tom Looby were enjoying a day of fox hunting near an old sand quarry. This area was in Tynong North, around Br...
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Patreon Preview - Weird Laws & A Succulent Chinese Mystery from 2019-10-20T06:00
The Disappearance of Bung Siriboon from 2019-10-13T06:00
On Thursday 2 June 2011, 13 year old Siriyakorn Siriboon, or Bung as she’s commonly known, had breakfast with her Mum, Vannida, and her older sister, Pang, before she left her home in Boronia, V...
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Ashley Coulston, The Balaclava Killer, and the Sutherland Rapist from 2019-09-29T07:00
On April 24, 2018, as many of us remember well, Joseph DeAngelo the alleged Golden State Killer/East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker was apprehended for a spate of brutal rapes and murders co...
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The Pong Su Incident from 2019-09-22T10:25
14th March 2003, Port of Yantai, China
Crew members loaded 5000 tonnes of sand onto the Pong Su. All 30 of the Korean crew members then set sail for Jae Mae Do, North Korea, where they...
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Raymond and Jennie Kehlet from 2019-09-15T07:00
On the 19th of March 2015, Raymond and Jennie Kehlet left their home in Beverley and headed towards the remote outback town of Sandstone WA, around 730 kilometres northeast of Perth. The couple ...
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The Murder of Kylie Maybury from 2019-09-08T07:00
6th of November 1984 Melbourne Cup Day
They say it’s ‘the race that stops a nation’. Australia’s most famous horse race, it’s also a world-class one that’s among the t...
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Marcus Volke and Mayang Prasetyo from 2019-09-01T07:00
Senior Constable Robert Richardson arrived with his tracking dog named Zuma. Zuma was given the scent and quickly began tracking down Dath St towards Vernon Terrace and around to an underground ...
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The Bourke Street Attack from 2019-08-25T07:00
20th of January 2017 Windsor, Melbourne, Victoria.
At around 8am, a channel 9 news team were covering a story about a man who had been viciously stabbed by his own bro...
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The Crawford Family Murders from 2019-08-18T07:00
The house was dark and every door to the place was locked. Constable Macarty eventually found a bedroom window that was ajar, and managed to pry it open and slide into the dark house. He went to...
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The Honolulu Strangler from 2019-08-11T07:00
*This episode was originally released on our Patreon feed back in June this year. We wanted to give you all a complete example, not just a preview, of the type of content we produce on Patreon. ...
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The Disappearance of Tej Chitnis from 2019-08-04T07:00
In the digital age, a world where we are all so connected it seems like we all know so much about other people. No one could simply vanish, could they? Someone would know something, someone woul...
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The Snowtown Murders, Part 2 from 2019-07-28T07:00
9th of May 1999, Snowtown, South Australia
Jamie and David made the trip to Snowtown, where Jamie had organised for them to check out a cheap computer a mate of his wa...
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The Snowtown Murders, Part 1 from 2019-07-21T07:00
Tuesday 16th of August, 1994, Lower Light, 50 kilometres north of Adelaide, South Australia.
No wind and no rain - the perfect conditions for brothers Jack and Ron Finch to conduct wee...
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The Truro Murders from 2019-07-14T07:00
On 25 April 1978, Bill and Valda Thomas were mushrooming in remote bushland alongside Swamp Road near the South Australian town of Truro, when they stumbled upon what they thought was the bone f...
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The Family Murders from 2019-07-07T07:00
The bodies of five young men were discovered in the broader area of Adelaide between the years 1979 and 1983. All of the bodies displayed signs of brutal sexual torture, leading to their deaths....
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Arthur Brown from 2019-06-30T07:00
Arthur Stanley Brown was charged in 1998 for the August 26, 1970 rape and murder of Judith and Susan Mackay in Townsville, Queensland. The jury failed to reach a verdict and a new trial was bloc...
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The Abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon from 2019-06-23T07:00
Joanne Ratcliffe (11) and Kirste Gordon (4) were abducted while attending an Australian rules football match at the Adelaide Oval on 25 August 1973. Despite the case making national headlines at...
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The Disappearance of the Beaumont Children from 2019-06-16T07:00
Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont were three siblings who disappeared from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia on a blistering hot Australia Day, 26 January, 1966. They were aged 9, 7, an...
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Derek Percy from 2019-06-09T07:00
Derek Ernest Percy was a child killer who was linked to the unsolved deaths and disappearances of nine children in the 1960s.
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The Wanda Beach Murders from 2019-05-26T07:00
On Monday the 11th of January 1965, Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock took four of Schmidt's younger siblings to Wanda Beach for a day trip. The blustery weather forced the group to seek r...
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Christopher Wilder from 2019-05-12T07:00
Christopher Bernard Wilder, also known as The Beauty Queen Killer, was a serial killer from Australia who abducted, tortured, raped, and murdered a number of women during a two-month cross-count...
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Eddie Leonski from 2019-05-05T07:00
Eddie Leonski, also known as the Brownout Strangler, was a US soldier and serial killer who terrorised the streets of wartime Melbourne in 1942.
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The Murder of Robert Hoff from 2019-04-28T07:00
Robert Hoff, a 50-year-old man who boarded with an elderly couple, was bashed to death in Carrum Downs - a suburb in Victoria’s southeast - as he walked down a quiet suburban path to a bus stop ...
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Katherine Knight from 2019-04-21T07:00
Katherine Knight is a woman whose early exposure to violent sexual behaviour compounded with a loose wire somewhere in her brain. She grew to use violence and sex as tools to manipulate the many...
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Terror at Salt Creek from 2019-04-14T07:00
The Australian horror movie Wolf Creek has only gained in popularity over the past decade since its release, spawning a sequel and spin-off television series. But it's a work of fiction. Somethi...
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The Murder of Jill Meagher from 2019-04-07T07:00
Jill Meagher was a 29-year-old woman who was raped and murdered while walking home from Bar Etiquette in Brunswick, Victoria, in the early hours of the Saturday 22nd of Septembe...
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Jimmy James from 2019-03-31T06:00
Jimmy James was an Aboriginal Australian, member of the Pitjantjatjara people, and master tracker who helped South Australian Police track down murderers, rapists, prison escapees, arsonists, bu...
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The Abduction of Wendy Pfeiffer from 2019-03-24T06:00
On Sunday the 23rd of October 1966, eight-year-old Wendy Jane Pfeiffer was abducted about 500 metres from her family’s dairy farm in Mylor, South Australia.
In the wake of the infamous...
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The Sydney Gang Rapes from 2019-03-17T06:00
In the weeks before the Sydney Olympics in the year 2000, Bilal Skaf would lead a large group of young men in a series of brutal gang rapes. The female victims, some as young as 14, would endure...
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Peter Dupas from 2019-03-10T09:45
Peter Dupas, The Mutilating Monster, is an Australian serial killer currently serving 3 life sentences without the possibility of parole. But police believe he may have at least 6 victims.
Leonard Fraser from 2019-03-03T06:00
Leonard Fraser, The Rockhampton Rapist, was a serial killer and rapist whose criminal history spanned and escalated over a period of three decades, culminating in a series of murders in 1998 and...
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The Murder of Corryn Rayney from 2019-02-24T02:44
44 year old Corryn Rayney left the Community Centre located in Bentley, Western Australia, around 9.30 pm on Tuesday 7 August 2007, and was expected home by her husband and two ...
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The Sydney Siege from 2019-02-17T06:29
The 2014 Sydney Siege saw lone gunman Man Haron Monis take 18 people hostage inside the Lindt Chocolate Cafe, in Martin Place, Sydney CBD. Monis insisted he had a bomb in his backpack, and decla...
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