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- 299 - Extra: Is There Really A Serial Killer In Byron Bay?
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 or being murdered in the Byron and New South Wales coastal areas, including women with their own first-hand encounters.
So how likely is it all these cases and run ins are linked? And what's the underlying lesson we can all take away from these experiences?
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Host: Claire Murphy
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Executive Producer:Taylah Strano
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Sat, 16 Nov 2024 - 298 - Did America Just Execute An Innocent Man?
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 was executed by lethal injection on September 24, 2024.
As time passed, doubts about his guilt grew. Marcellus’s defence team, the victim’s family, and even some jurors questioned his conviction. Despite this, the governor denied clemency, and the Supreme Court did not intervene.
One of the few people to interview Marcellus during his time on death row was Jack Laurence, a producer and podcast host, who believes the case against him was flawed. Laurence, like many others, feels the decision to execute Marcellus was a tragic mistake.
You can listen to Jack's interview with Marcellus Williams on his podcast One Minute Remaining here.
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CREDITS
Guest:Jack Laurence
Host: Gemma Bath
Producer: Tahli Blackman
Audio Producer:Thom Lion
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Wed, 13 Nov 2024 - 297 - Extra: Meeting The Terrorist Who Killed My Son
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. Footage of him wearing an orange jumpsuit, and forcibly reading a message before being beheaded was posted to Twitter. The media coverage of the event had the second most recognition in recent American history after 9/11. That was 10 years ago now.
His mother Diane Foley’s determination to understand her son’s fate led her to meeting with one of the men responsible.
This episode is about the profound impact of James’ life, he saw light in everything and everyone. His mother has been through the complexities of grace and empathy in the face of an unthinkable loss.
American Motherby Colum McCan with Diane Foley is available here.
Watch the documentary Jim: The James Foley Story on Amazon Prime or Apple TV.
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Host: Mia Freedman
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Producers: Gia Moylan & Kimberley Braddish
Audio Producer: Leah Porges
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Sat, 09 Nov 2024 - 296 - The Little Girl Murdered By The Man Around The Corner
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 take 32 years after her death for police to finally find her killer — a man with previous convictions for sexual assault and violence, who lived just around the corner?
Former Herald Sun journalist and true crime author Keith Moor has covered the case since the day Kylie's body was found. He has interviewed her grieving mother many times and considered her a friend. For the 40th anniversary of Kylie's death, Keith details this case.
You can read more about Keith and his work here.
This episode details the case of a child who was sexually assaulted and murdered. Please take that into consideration and listen with care. If any of the contents in this episode have caused distress, know that there is help available via Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636.
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CREDITS
Guest:Keith Moor
Host: Gemma Bath
Producer: Tahli Blackman
Audio Producer:Thom Lion
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Wed, 06 Nov 2024 - 295 - Will The Menendez Brothers Be Released From Prison?
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 Menendez, and you can hear his brother Erik crying in the background. The brother's parents, Jose and Kitty, are dead, shot a combined 16 times at close range while in their TV room. The crime scene is horrific.
At first, police suspect a Mafia or mob hit. But seven months later, it’s the brothers who are arrested for murder in a case that catapults them into worldwide infamy. Even 35 years later, we’re still discussing the Menendez brothers, asking why they killed their parents.
Robert Rand is an award-winning journalist who has been covering the Menendez brother's case since the day after the murders on August 21, 1989. He has a personal relationship with the brothers, speaking with them regularly. He helps us tell this story.
You can read his book The Menendez Murders here. You can watch The Menendez Brothers documentary on Netflix here.
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CREDITS
Guest:Robert Rand
Host: Gemma Bath
Producer: Tahli Blackman
Audio Producer:Thom Lion
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Wed, 30 Oct 2024 - 294 - Bonus: The Spill: The Best True Crime Documentaries Of All Time
True crime documentaries have always been a cornerstone of the pop culture world and with recent releases such as The Menendez Brothers documentary dropping on Netflix our appetite for these stories is at an all-time high.
So, we’ve brought in an expert whose job is hooked on watching every true crime documentary ever released and we’ve rounded up the best offerings out there, with true stories that will literally make your jaw drop.
And we haven’t forgotten about Weekend Watch! Today we have a new blockbuster with a sexy leading man to recommend to you, along with a new thriller you’ll want to binge this weekend.
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Hosts: Laura Brodnik & Em Vernem
Executive Producer: Kimberley BraddishAudio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Fri, 25 Oct 2024 - 293 - The Many Faces of Samantha Azzopardi: The Con Artist Who Just Won't Stop
It's October 2013, and two police officers in Dublin spot a distressed young girl outside the General Post Office. She’s crying and unable to speak, using her fingers to show she’s 14 years old. They take her to a nearby children’s hospital while trying to figure out who she is. Local media starts speculating about possible sex trafficking as interest in her case grows.
As a month goes by, police decide to release her photo to the public and are quickly flooded with calls from Australia. It turns out this isn’t a vulnerable 14-year-old girl in distress; the woman in the Dublin hospital bed is actually 25-year-old Samantha Azzopardi, a serial con artist. And as the years go by, this wouldn’t be the first alias she’s used to trick her victims.
Paula Bycroft from CJZ Productions is the Executive Producer of the Australian documentary series Con Girl, which details the life and crimes of Samantha Azzopardi. She helps us to tell this story.
You can watch Con Girl here. There’s also a Con Girl podcast series you can listen to here.
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Guest:Paula Bycroft
Host: Gemma Bath
Producer: Tahli Blackman
Audio Producer:Thom Lion
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Wed, 23 Oct 2024 - 292 - Judy Malinowski Testified At Her Own Murder Trial
At around 5pm on a hot August afternoon in 2015, a 911 call comes in about a fire at a service station in Columbus, Ohio. A man has poured two jerry cans of fuel over his partner, 31-year-old Judy Malinowski, and is watching as flames engulf her.
Judy is rushed to the hospital with 90 per cent of her body burned. Doctors warn her family that her chances of survival are slim, but against all odds, Judy survives. She endures severe ongoing pain and dozens of surgeries in the years that follow, dying two years after being set on fire. After she dies, she becomes the first person in history to testify at her own murder trial.
Director Patricia Gillespie seeks to honour Judy’s remarkable strength and raise awareness about domestic violence in her documentary, The Fire That Took Her. You can watch it here.
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Guest:Patricia Gillespie
Host: Gemma Bath
Producer: Tahli Blackman
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Wed, 16 Oct 2024 - 291 - Has The Long Island Serial Killer Finally Been Caught?
In the early hours of May 1, 2010, Shannan Gilbert called 911 from a Long Island house after working as an escort with a client she met on Craigslist. After seeking help from neighbours, she disappeared from the street before the police arrived.
Months later, extensive searches turned up no trace of the 23-year-old, but authorities discovered the bodies of four other young women, later known as “The Gilgo Four,” all escorts who found clients online.
Rex Heurmann has been charged with their murders, along with two others.
There are four more bodies found nearby, that detectives are still investigating. Shannan was also eventually found, but is her death linked?
True crime producer and investigative journalist Alexis Linkletter has extensively covered the case. You can listen to her podcast, Unravelled, here.THE END BITS
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CREDITS
Guest: Alexis Linkletter
Host: Gemma Bath
Producer: Tahli Blackman
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Wed, 09 Oct 2024 - 290 - The Melbourne Mother Executed By Mistake
On an ordinary Melbourne afternoon in 1997, suburban mum of three Jane Thurgood-Dove pulled into her driveway with her kids in the back seat. As Jane got out of her car, a stolen Commodore pulled in behind her. A man with a gun chased her around the car and then shot Jane as her kids looked on in horror.
For years, police were convinced she was killed by a man with an obsession, but they were wrong. This murder of a young Melbourne mother is believed to be a devastating case of mistaken identity.
Australia’s longest-serving crime reporter, John Silvester, speaks with us today.
You can find John’s book Dark City here.
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CREDITS
Guest: John Silvester
Host: Gemma Bath
Producer: Tahli Blackman
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Wed, 02 Oct 2024 - 289 - A Babysitter’s Deadly Obsession With The Girl Across The Road
When Rachel Barber failed to return home from dance practice one evening in 1999, her family reported her missing and launched a desperate search. They plastered Melbourne with over 2,000 posters, hoping for any news of her whereabouts.
After days of searching, their hopes shattered on day 12 when they learned Rachel had been murdered. Her killer was a 19-year-old former babysitter and family friend who had been consumed by jealousy and obsession with Rachel, stalking her for years.
Criminal court reporter Megan Norris co-wrote a book with Rachel’s mother, Elizabeth, titled Perfect Victim, detailing the families tragic loss and the details of the case.
You can find Megan’s book with Elizabeth Southall Perfect Victim here.
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CREDITS
Guest: Megan Norris
Host: Gemma Bath
Producers: Tahli Blackman & Christel Cornilsen
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Wed, 25 Sep 2024 - 288 - Cold Cases & Serial Killers: Inside The World Of A Famous Homicide Prosecutor
From solving cold-cases to putting multiple serial-killers behind bars, Matt Murphy is one of America’s top homicide prosecutors. Many of his cases are known as some of America’s biggest crimes that have made headlines worldwide, including the Dirty John case that became a global media phenomenon.
In this episode, we dive deep into the cold-case of Cathy Torrez that Matt successfully prosecuted, as well as what makes a serial killer different from a “one-off” murderer, and the dangers of online dating for women.
After never losing a homicide case and spending 17 years assigned to the Homicide Unit of Orange County, California, Matt has released his first book: THE BOOK OF MURDER: A Prosecutor’s Journey Through Love and Death, available here.
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Guest: Matt Murphy
Host: Gemma Bath
Executive Producers: Liv Proud & Christel Cornilsen
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Wed, 18 Sep 2024 - 287 - The Murder That Broke A Detective
From domestic violence to murder, sexual assaults, and abuse against children, former Australian detective, Luke Taylor, has sadly seen it all.
But after struggling with his mental health from the job, one murder was the final catalyst for Luke's retirement: an attack on an unsuspecting nurse, killed by her very own family.
Luke Taylor has since founded Crime Story Australia, hosting workshops where school students recreate crime scenes to learn how to problem solve and analyse crimes.
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Guest: Luke Taylor
Host: Gemma Bath
Executive Producer: Christel Cornilsen
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Wed, 11 Sep 2024 - 286 - Inside The Mind Of A Sexual Predator
Brent is a former police officer who has done extensive work investigating sex crimes, which led him to become one of Australia’s top experts on the methods and psychology of rapists.
For the last 30 years, he has dedicated his career to sex crime education, teaching over one million people about sex crimes and how to protect yourself from a dangerous situation.
When he's not teaching students, Brent hosts his own podcast, Crime Insiders.He's also the author of ‘How Dangerous Men Think: And How to Stay Safe for Life.’
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CREDITS
Guest: Brent Sanders– Former Policer Officer, Author, Educator
Host:Gemma Bath
Executive Producer: Christel Cornilsen
Audio Producer:Scott Stronach
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Wed, 04 Sep 2024 - 285 - A Cop Cover-Up Or A Killer Girlfriend: Is Karen Read Being Framed?
Ever since the mysterious death of Boston Policeman John O’Keefe, during a snowy night in 2022, the small town where he died has been divided. There are two very distinct camps. Was John killed by those at a house party, inside a house full of police and law enforcement, who then proceeded to cover up his murder? Or did his girlfriend Karen Read kill him with her car, before he even made it through the front door?
The case has since snowballed into an international debate fueled by both The Free Karen movement that's taken over TikTok and evidence that the defence claims points to a clear-cut police cover-up.
Executive Producer Jessica Lowther from The Law&Crime Network and producer of the podcast series ‘Karen’’ joins us to dissect the case.
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Guest: Jessica Lowther from The Law&Crime Network and producer of podcast series 'Karen'
Host:Gemma Bath
Executive Producer: Christel Cornilsen
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Wed, 28 Aug 2024 - 284 - The Australian Filmmakers Determined To Solve America’s Burger Chef Murders
The bodies of Danny, Jayne, Mark and Ruth were found two days after their final shift at Burger Chef in late 1978, 20 miles away in a rural field.
They’d been shot, stabbed and bashed - each of their murders telling its own devastating tale of the teenagers' last terrifying moments alive.
Their deaths shocked their small tight-knit community and now, 40 years later, two Australian filmmakers are searching for answers.
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Guest: Co-writers & co-directors of The Speedway Murders, Luke Rynderman and Adam Kamien
Host:Gemma Bath
Executive Producer: Liv Proud
Audio Producer: Leah Porges
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Wed, 21 Aug 2024 - 283 - The Mother And Daughter Murder Australia Forgot
In 1984, Margaret Tapp and her nine-year-old daughter Seana were found dead in their beds, still in their nightgowns.
The killer surely strangled Margaret first. It's inconceivable she would not have fought to save her little girl.
9-year-old Seana died the same way, except she was raped first.
Journalist and author of Life & Crimes, Andrew Rule covered the story when it first broke in the 1980s and now years later, he's adamant that reporters and police sometimes get it wrong - including him.
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Guest: Journalist, podcaster and author of Life & Crimes, Andrew Rule
Host:Gemma Bath
Executive Producer: Liv Proud
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Wed, 14 Aug 2024 - 282 - Three Months After Her Wedding, Anthea Bradshaw Was Murdered
In 1994, the body of 26-year-old Anthea Bradshaw was found on the floor of the apartment her husband Jeff Hall was living in just three months after their wedding day.
So why did it take four years after her death for Anthea's family to find out that her husband was not only an official suspect - but the only suspect - in her murder?
Nine Senior Reporter Ben Avery is on a mission to uncover what really happened to the Adelaide teacher, in a new podcast called The Anthea Bradshaw mystery.
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Guest: 9News reporter and host of podcast Just Married: The Anthea Bradshaw Mystery, Ben Avery
Host:Gemma Bath
Executive Producer: Liv Proud
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Wed, 07 Aug 2024 - 281 - The Real Story Behind The Attempted Assassination Of Donald Trump
Thomas Crooks managed to send eight bullets flying in 26 seconds, before he was shot dead by secret service agents.
He missed his target Donald Trump, but managed to draw blood - grazing the former president’s right ear with a bullet.
Now, as more details emerge, Host of ABC podcast If You're Listening? Matt Bevan joins us to delve into the details of the crime, the shooter, and the aftermath that we might have missed.
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Guest: Host of ABC podcast If You're Listening? Matt Bevan
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Wed, 31 Jul 2024 - 280 - Inside The Deadliest Police Shooting In Queensland History
On December 12, 2022, Constables Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold were killed in the line of duty.
A neighbour, Alan Dare, also died that day. As did the three people who were firing at them.
But there are still many unanswered questions from that night, which will be examined when an inquest gets underway at the end of this month.
9News presenter and host of podcast The Ultimate Sacrifice, Melissa Downes, joins us to discuss the deadliest shooting in Queensland Police history.
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Guest: 9News presenter and host of podcast The Ultimate Sacrifice, Melissa Downes
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Wed, 24 Jul 2024 - 279 - An Affair, A Murder And A Cover-Up: Inside The Missing Campers Trial
The Wonnangatta Valley is the perfect place for anyone hiding a secret, or anyone who doesn’t want to be found. The perfect place to have an affair. But also, the perfect place to get away with murder.
Over the years, several people have gone missing there, never to be found again, and that very nearly happened to 74-year-old Russell Hill and 73-year-old Carol Clay.
But thanks to some careful police work, detectives were able to track down a man named Greg Lynn. And with his trial just concluded, the former Jetstar pilot is waiting to find out how long he’ll spend behind bars.
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Guest: Award winning author Sarah Krasnostein
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Wed, 17 Jul 2024 - 278 - Sarah Everard And The Policeman She Should Have Been Able To Trust
In March 2021, Sarah Everard’s body was found in a stream in Kent, wrapped in a bag. The 33-year-old had been raped and murdered after being abducted off the street in London’s south.
But Sarah wasn’t dragged away kicking and screaming. She went willingly with her captor because - as a serving police officer - he pretended to arrested her.
We speak to LBC journalist Henry Riley to revisit this crime, the impact it had on us and the changes that have been made since.
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Guest: Henry Riley, LBC News Reporter
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Wed, 10 Jul 2024 - 277 - How The Amish Wife’s Husband Got Away With Murder
When Ida Stutzman perished in a barn fire on a warm summer night in 1977, her husband Eli’s side of the story didn’t add up from the start.
But the Stutzmans were part of the Amish community. The very nature of their insular world meant the suspicious nature of Ida’s death went unspoken for many years. They rarely talk to outsiders, which is why author Greg Olsen had his work cut out for him when penning his latest book The Amish Wife.
But slowly, with the help of his researcher Robin Lassen, a story of cover-up, lies and an investigation that never stood a chance started to reveal itself.
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Guest: Robin Lassen - Researcher for The Amish Wife author Gregg Olsen
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Wed, 03 Jul 2024 - 276 - Hedley Thomas Is Searching For Bronwyn
The disappearance of Bronwyn Winfield was barely covered by the media in 1993.
It took 11 days for her husband Jon Winfield to report her as missing after that Sunday night. Very little was done in the way of a police investigation in those early days, in fact it would be years until her case was actually taken seriously.
A coronial inquest nearly a decade later determined that Bronwyn had likely been murdered. It went as far as recommending Jon be prosecuted - but that never happened.
Hedley Thomas's podcast The Teacher's Pet helped to solve the disappearance of missing mother Lynette Simms - formerly known as Lynette Dawson. Now, in his latest investigation, he's hopeful of getting some answers for Bronwyn’s family.
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Guest: National Chief Correspondent of The Australian, Hedley Thomas
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Wed, 26 Jun 2024 - 275 - How The Parents Of A School Shooter Ended Up Behind Bars
What a 15-year-old student unleashed on Oxford High School in 2021, didn’t just land himself in prison, he took his mother and father down with him.
Jennifer and James Crumbley became the first parents convicted in a US mass shooting, each receiving at least 10 years in prison.
Speaking with Sins of the Child podcast creators Jessica Lowther and Cooper Moll, we aim to unpick some of the most complex questions within this story about community, school responsibility and the role parents have in their children’s lives.
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Guest: Creators of Sins of the Child Podcast, Jessica Lowther and Cooper Moll
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Wed, 19 Jun 2024 - 274 - Eurydice Dixon Was Just Walking Home
It’s been six years today since the rape and murder of 22-year-old comedian Eurydice Dixon as she was walking home in Melbourne. Six years since her boyfriend, Tony, and her family learnt the horrendous details of her death. Six years since Australia erupted with anger at the circumstances surrounding her murder.
Our guest Sarah Krasnostein is a criminal law expert and award-winning author of The Trauma Cleaner, The Believer and the Quarterly Essay Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia.
Sarah joins us to discuss how the sentencing of Eurydice's killer Jaymes Todd unfolded and what needs to change to ensure women are safe on the streets.
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Guest: Award winning author Sarah Krasnostein
Host:Gemma Bath
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan and Liv Proud
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Wed, 12 Jun 2024 - 273 - The Unravelling Of Jennifer Pan’s Double Life
As police arrive at an ordinary suburban home to find a mother dead, a father seriously injured, three people on the run and a terrified Jennifer Pan, they soon discover that something doesn't seem right.
Was the 24-year-old really the Olympic-caliber figure skater, award-winning pianist and straight-A student she had led her parents to believe? Or was she a high school drop out who had hired hitmen to brutally carry out their murder?
Ahead of a controversial retrial, House of Mystery Radio Show host and bestselling author Alan R. Warren unpacks the lies that lead to this fateful night in his book Deadly Betrayal: The True Story of Jennifer Pan, Daughter From Hell.
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Guest: Alan R.Warren - Bestselling Author and Host of the House of Mystery Radio Show
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Wed, 05 Jun 2024 - 272 - There Were 105 Bruises On Her Body
When Kirra-Lea McLoughlin died on a property near Gympie, Queensland, law enforcement and medical examiners were baffled.
Kirra’s former partner would claim she went to sleep after a fight and simply didn’t wake up. Family said there had been a party at the property the night before, but neighbours disputed that. Kirra’s body had 105 signs of bruising, and there was a 12 hour period where emergency services weren’t contacted about her rapidly declining state.
Former police officer Jamie Pultz met Kirra McLoughlin before her death. His podcast Beenham Valley Road investigates the case, talking to Kirra’s friends and family, and looking into the events leading up to and following her death.
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Guest: Jamie Pultz host of the Beenham Valley Road: The Kirra McLoughlin Story podcast
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Wed, 29 May 2024 - 271 - Jennifer & Jack Edwards Had Just Come Home From School
On July 5th, 2018 Jennifer and Jack Edwards were murdered in their home on Hull Street in the Sydney suburb of West Pennant Hills.
Their mother Olga Edwards returned from work that day to a wall of lights and sirens in front of her home. Police wouldn't let her inside, but she knew almost instantly who was responsible for whatever evil had happened inside her house. She knew there was only one reason police would be at her doorstep.
“It’s my husband,” she told police. “It’s my husband. We have the final court hearing in two weeks.”
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Guest:Sally Rawsthorne
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Wed, 22 May 2024 - 270 - Tara Did Everything 'Right'
Tara Costigan was murdered in 2015, one day after taking out a DVO on her ex-partner Marcus Rappel. The day he laid a finger on her was the day he murdered her. Before that the abuse had been verbal. Emotional.
Tara did everything ‘right’. She followed advice and took steps in the system designed to protect her, even though she was nervous about how he might react.
And then she died, in the most horrendous of ways, while cradling her one-week-old daughter. Her murder changed the fabric of Canberra and the conversation surrounding domestic violence.
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Guest:Heidi Lemon author of The First Time He Hit Her
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Wed, 15 May 2024 - 269 - Luke Just Wanted A Few Extra Minutes With His Dad
In 2014, 11-year-old Luke Batty was murdered by his father at Tyabb cricket ground on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.
The following year a coroner ruled that no one could have predicted that Luke would be killed by his father, but the inquest did point out several gaps in the family violence system in the lead-up to his death.
Ten years on, Luke's mother Rosie remains on the frontline campaigning for change.
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Guest:Rosie Batty
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Wed, 08 May 2024 - 268 - The Woman Counting Australia’s Murdered Women
This month, we’re doing things differently. Over the next few weeks well be revisiting stories from our archives to highlight crimes involving male violence against women in Australia because right now the rate at which we are losing women is alarming and terrifying.
But first, we wanted to talk to someone who lives and breathes violence against women every single day.
Sherele Moody is a journalist and the founder of The Red Heart Campaign and the Australian Femicide Watch. She has created a moving and chilling memorial online, that tracks every known Australian woman and child killed as a result of murder, manslaughter or neglect from white settlement to now.
Sherele joins us to discuss her work and what we can actually do to see change.
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Keep this conversation going: Over on our daily news podcast The Quicky we're exploring the next steps to stopping gendered-based violence. Hear what happens after the national rallies here.
Guest:Sherele Moody
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Wed, 01 May 2024 - 267 - The News Snowtown Victims Families Have Been Dreading
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 head inside, they head straight for the bank’s vault where they find six large plastic barrels containing human remains. They also find handcuffs, knives, a saw, boxes of disposable gloves and bottles of hydrochloric acid.
They’d come to realise they'd found the dumping grounds of Australia’s worst serial killings, crimes that would see four men sent to prison with lengthy sentences.
But now, 2 years later, two of these men could soon be eligible for release.
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Guest:Jeremy Pudney
You can find more info about his book Snowtown: The Bodies in Barrels Murdershere.
Host:Gemma Bath
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
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The story is not the first time we've covered the Snowtown Murders. Hear our past episode with Debi Marshall here.
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Wed, 24 Apr 2024 - 266 - A Triple Murder And A Broken System
In May 2016, police arrived at a farmhouse in Hillier, north of Adelaide. The scene that awaited them was horrifying beyond words.
Stephen Graham Peet had just murdered three people. The bodies of his girlfriend, Adeline Yvette Rigney-Wilson, and her two young children were inside.
But as his crimes unravelled in court, something became clear. Those two little kids shouldn’t have died. Their deaths, at least, were preventable. It was a series of failures from government agencies designed to protect them that actually, left them in the path of a killer.
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Guest:Sean Fewster
You can listen to his podcast Just Lawful here.
Host:Gemma Bath
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
The story is not the first time we've covered systemic failures within domestic violence cases. If you found this episode interesting you might like to listen to one of these next:
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Wed, 17 Apr 2024 - 265 - According To A Criminologist, Keli Lane Shouldn’t Be In Prison.
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.
After years of investigation, Keli was convicted of her daughter's murder in 2010 and sentenced to 18 years behind bars. But did they get it wrong?
Keli Lane’s story has been compared to the wrongful conviction of Lindy Chamberlain. It’s been pulled apart and analysed for years.
So is she a baby killer? Or is she a woman, misunderstood.
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You can listen to her podcast Motive And Method here.
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Wed, 10 Apr 2024 - 264 - Dorothea Puente: The Serial Killer Granny
To the outside world, Dorothea Puente presented herself as a kind grandmotherly figure who cared for the disabled and vulnerable residents of her boarding house in downtown Sacramento. But behind closed doors, nothing was as it seemed…
Not only was she stealing the money of her tenant, but she was also a serial killer. Allegedly murdering up to nine people.
In today's episode, we explore the crimes of the ‘Death House landlady’ who even after she was convicted managed to win over people with her sweet, grandmotherly ruse.
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Guest: Genie Ortiz, author of The Corpse Collector: The True Story of Dorothea Puente
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Wed, 03 Apr 2024 - 263 - Secrets On Death Row: America’s ‘Killer Clown’
John Wayne Gacy is one of the worst serial killers in American history, murdering at least 33 teenage boys and men in the late 1970s.
He was executed by lethal injection in 1994, but many are confident he killed even more victims than the ones he admitted to, and took plenty more secrets to the grave.
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Guest: Karen Conti. You can find out more about her book Killing Time With John Gacy here.
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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 262 - Inside The Rise & Fall Of Ruby Franke
Ruby Franke and her husband Kevin started posting their family online in 2015 under the pseudonym 8 Passengers. Things like birthday parties, grocery hauls, tips on getting toddlers to sleep through the night, and Sunday baking. It was an all-access pass inside their lives, and people loved it.
But over the years, the criticism grew about the way Ruby and Kevin were choosing to discipline their kids. Fast forward to 2024, and Ruby and her business partner Jodie Hildebrandt were both charged with aggravated child abuse against the YouTuber's youngest two children.
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Guest: Paula Barros & Jessica Lowther.
You can listen to Episode 1 of their podcast, The Rise And Fall Of Ruby Franke here.
Stay up to date with the latest updates about the Ruby Franke case with Mamamia's news podcast The Quicky.
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Wed, 20 Mar 2024 - 261 - How A Perth Girl Ended Up In A Thai Prison
Holly Deane-Johns grew up in a wealthy area of Perth. When her family’s real estate business went bust, her mother started a successful escort agency to keep their lavish lifestyle intact. But her parent’s relationship was abusive, and when they finally split Holly’s mum met someone new that changed everything.
Simon was a heroin addict. Pretty soon her mother was too, and the family’s comfortable lifestyle collapsed as addiction took over. It didn’t take long for Holly and her siblings to also become reliant on heroin.
By the age of 20, Holly was in prison on drugs charges. By the age of 21 her mother had died of an overdose. But Holly’s hell was only just beginning.
In August 2000, she was arrested in Thailand on more drugs charges - except there, the ramifications were much, much more serious.
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Guest: Holly Deane-Johns. You can find out more about her book Holly's Hell: Seven Years in a Thai Prison here.
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Wed, 13 Mar 2024 - 260 - Scotland’s ‘Lynette Dawson’ Case
In April, 1998, Arlene Fraser disappeared from her home in Elgin, north-east Scotland.
On a seemingly normal Tuesday morning, the 33-year-old waved her two children off to school and was never seen again.
Arlene’s disappearance sparked the biggest missing person search in Scotland’s history. To this day her body has never been found.
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Guest:Dale Haslam host of Vanished: The Arlene Fraser Murder podcast.
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Wed, 06 Mar 2024 - 259 - ‘Sit Down & Shut Up. The Man In The Coffin Has Something To Say’
Bill Edgar is the world's only Coffin Confessor.
He attends people’s funerals, sits quietly amongst the mourners, and then at a time pre-determined by the deceased, he stands up and confesses.
Sometimes, it’s a shocking secret. Sometimes, it's their last wish.
What started as a favour for a friend, has turned into Bill's life calling. And as he’ll tell you, it’s not an easy job, but it’s worth it.
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Guest:Bill Edgar
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Wed, 28 Feb 2024 - 258 - How Australia’s ‘Bug Whisperer’ Solves Crimes
Insects never lie. And in Paola Magni’s job, she's the person who helps translate what these tiny little witnesses have to say to give justice to victims of crime.
Known as Australia’s ‘bug whisperer’, Paola is the global face of the specialist forensic science that uses insects and other small creatures to help solve murders, suspicious deaths and cold cases.
She joins us today to take us behind the scenes of forensic entomology.
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Guest: Paola Magni
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Wed, 21 Feb 2024 - 257 - Escaping One Of Australia's Most Secretive Cults
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 world, no formal hierarchy, and no official places of worship.
According to Laura, it's this secrecy and denial that has allowed abuse to flourish within the community. She joins us today to expose what she witnessed and experienced inside the group she calls The Truth.
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Guest: Laura McConnell
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Wed, 14 Feb 2024 - 256 - Meet The Man Who Does 200 Autopsies A Year
Johan Duflou has seen a lot of dead bodies.
In his four decades as a forensic pathologist, he estimates he’s done about 200 autopsies a year. Sometimes the people on his table have been the victim of a crime. Sometimes they’ve simply died unexpectedly and he’s been tasked to find out why.
As he’ll tell you, the job is not like what you see in movies or on TV.
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Guest: Johan Duflou
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Wed, 07 Feb 2024 - 255 - Come With Us Behind The Scenes Of Crime...
Mamamia’s True Crime Conversations is back for 2024, exploring the world’s most notorious crimes, by speaking to the people who know the most about them.
And over the next month we're taking you behind the scenes of crime, interviewing a forensic pathologist, a cult survivor, a forensic scientist who uses insects and other small creatures to help solve crimes, and the world’s first and only Coffin Confessor.
Hear True Crime Conversations’ Behind The Scenes Of Crime Special throughout February, right here on your favourite podcast app.
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Mon, 05 Feb 2024 - 254 - With Her Abuser Behind Bars, Dassi Erlich Is Ready To Talk.
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 sisters' former high school principal, and when whispers of their allegations came to light in 2008, she fled from her home in Melbourne to Israel before any formal complaint could be made.
It took 70 extradition hearings and 13 years to bring her back to Australia. But finally last year, Dassi was able to breathe a sigh of relief. Leifer was finally going to pay for what she’d done.
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Guest: Dassi Erlich
You can find out more about her memoir In Bad Faith here.
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Audio Producer: Thom Lion
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Wed, 31 Jan 2024 - 253 - The Complicated Crimes Of Gypsy Rose Blanchard
In 2016, Gypsy Rose Blanchard pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
She admitted to planning and orchestrating the stabbing death of her mother Dee Dee at the hands of her boyfriend Nick Godejohn, who was convicted of first-degree murder.
Nick remains behind bars, but in December 2023, Gypsy was released after serving eight years of her sentence.
This case is about more than just murder. It’s one of the most famous cases involving the alleged diagnosis of Munchausen by proxy - known nowadays as ‘Factitious disorder imposed on another’.
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Guest:M.J. Pack
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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 - 252 - Inside The Life Of An Australian Prison Guard
Stevie Munro is a Senior Correctional Officer with Moree Court Escort services, in charge of things like processing offenders who’ve just been arrested, and escorting them to and from court.
She deals with prisoners from all over Australia, and has seen it all. Kicking, screaming, lashing out, attempted suicide…
She is dealing with people during their most emotional times in prison. But as she will explain, her toughest days have nothing to do with the criminals themselves.
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Wed, 17 Jan 2024 - 251 - Mamamia Investigates The Disappearance Of Peng Shuai: But Will She Ever Be Free?
This episode was originally published as part of Mamamia’s Extraordinary Stories podcast.
In the lead-up to the Beijing Winter Olympics, the world began to wonder how and if Peng Shuai would be used in the games, and whether the IOC was going to have anything to say to the Chinese Government about their silencing of the tennis star. So how did the Chinese propaganda juggernaut shift its attention to the global sporting stage? And what happens when the international community’s peak sporting body is accused of silencing a sexual assault survivor?
Plus, we investigate China’s Me Too movement. What does the story of Peng Shuai tell us about feminism in China?
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Wed, 10 Jan 2024 - 250 - Mamamia Investigates The Disappearance Of Peng Shuai: Proof Of Life
This episode was originally published as part of Mamamia’s Extraordinary Stories podcast.
For three long weeks in November 2021, the tennis community, news organisations and human rights advocates the world over had one question; Where Is Peng Shuai? In the aftermath of a Weibo post detailing allegations of sexual assault against one of China’s top political figures, concerns for Peng Shuai's freedom were escalating swiftly. Then suddenly, proof of life. On this episode, we’ll learn more about the Chinese propaganda machine, and how it’s working to convince the world of Peng Shuai's safety, whilst censoring her story.
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Sun, 07 Jan 2024 - 249 - Mamamia Investigates The Disappearance Of Peng Shuai: The Tennis Star Who Vanished
This episode was originally published as part of Mamamia’s Extraordinary Stories podcast.
It was after 10 pm, on November 2nd, 2021 when 35-year-old Peng Shuai - China’s beloved global tennis star - sat down and began typing. Truncated sentences of an open letter, detailing an affair and sexual assault involving one of China’s highest-ranking political figures, would go on to rock the international community. It took only a few minutes before the post had amassed thousands of shares, likes, and comments. But within half an hour, it vanished. And moments later, so too did Peng Shuai.
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Wed, 03 Jan 2024 - 248 - Mamamia Investigates Belle Gibson: Reckoning & Reinvention
This episode was originally published as part of Mamamia’s Extraordinary Stories podcast.
Belle Gibson spent years lying about her health. From those early skater chatroom claims that she had died on the operating table during heart surgery, to a terminal brain cancer diagnosis, and finally, revelations that cancer had spread through her entire body. She had built a business out of peddling her strategy for treating that cancer; with food. She said it was curing her, and could (for a small fee) cure you, too. But in March 2015, everything came undone, and it wasn't only Belle's followers who wanted answers. The police did too.
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Sun, 31 Dec 2023 - 247 - Mamamia Investigates Belle Gibson: The Email No One Wanted To Believe
This episode was originally published as part of Mamamia’s Extraordinary Stories podcast.
Belle Gibson was travelling to Queensland for a funeral when she was first contacted by Melbourne newspaper, The Age. Reporters were seeking clarification. They wanted to know exactly how much of the money that Belle was making was going to charity. By 2015, The Whole Pantry had become a hugely successful app, blog and book. Belle had always publicly pledged that a sizeable chunk of the money it was making was being redistributed to charities and various worthy causes, but was that true? In this episode of Extraordinary Stories, we’ll learn how it all came crashing down for the so-called 'Wellness Warrior,' Belle Gibson, and how a woman who once provided hope for some of the nation's most vulnerable people, exploited them for cash and clout.
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Wed, 27 Dec 2023 - 246 - Mamamia Investigates Belle Gibson: From Teen Mum To Internet Infamy
This episode was originally published as part of Mamamia’s Extraordinary Stories podcast.
Belle Gibson spent years lying about her health. From those early skater chatroom claims that she had died on the operating table during heart surgery, to a terminal brain cancer diagnosis, and finally, revelations that cancer had spread through her entire body. She had built a business out of peddling her strategy for treating that cancer; with food. She said it was curing her, and could (for a small fee) cure you, too. But in March 2015, everything came undone, and it wasn't only Belle's followers who wanted answers. The police did too.
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Sun, 24 Dec 2023 - 245 - The Adelaide Schoolgirl Taken From Her Bed
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 horrified Australia, as every parent's worst nightmare became reality for the Bell family. How could a young girl tucked up in her bed in a safe, suburban neighbourhood just go missing in the middle of the night?
It would take 30 years, and advances in DNA technology, to find out who was responsible for the disappearance of Louise Bell.
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Guest:Candice Prosser
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Wed, 20 Dec 2023 - 244 - The Murdaugh Murders
The Murdaughs were one of South Carolina's most prominent legal families for nearly a century. They were so influential in the area, that locals nicknamed the county they practised in ‘Murdaugh country.’
But in 2019 a fatal boating accident put the family under a microscope, and what was uncovered about the Murdaughs over the next four years is almost too shocking to believe.
This story is complicated. You’re about to hear about the deaths of five people in South Carolina, all with ties to the Murdough family.
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Guest:Michael DeWitt, author of The Fall of the House of Murdaugh
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Wed, 13 Dec 2023 - 243 - Inside The Mind Of The Hoddle Street Killer
On a Sunday night in August 1987, 18-year-old Julian Knight unleashed terror on the streets of Melbourne.
It was just after 9:30pm when the recently discharged army cadet opened fire on innocent civilians, murdering seven people and seriously injuring 19 more.
After the incident, a group of psychologists were tasked with analysing Knight to try to understand the motivations of such a callous, unprovoked attack. Our guest today was part of that team.
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Guest:Tim Watson-Munro
Tim's joined us before to discuss black widow killers and also his career as a criminal psychologist.
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Wed, 06 Dec 2023 - 242 - The Baby In The Mailbag
In May 1965 a horrific discovery was made at a Darwin post office.
A package carrying the remains of a newborn baby boy had been sent there from the Russell Street post office in Melbourne. The sender and the intended recipient were unable to be identified at the time.
Now, almost 60 years later, there are new leads in the case. Finally, after all this time, detectives might be on the precipice of solving this cold case.
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If you have any details about this case, you can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or on their website.
Guest:Meni Caroutas, Host of The Missing Podcast
Host:Gemma Bath
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Wed, 29 Nov 2023 - 241 - Shanelle Dawson: Coming To Terms With The Teacher's Pet
The murder of Lynette Dawson was a crime that unravelled in real-time via a podcast called The Teacher’s Pet in 2018. It was a groundbreaking investigation. One that forced police to re-investigate things they’d filed away as unimportant decades prior.
Shanelle Dawson, Lynette's daughter, had already pieced together the truth before investigative journalist Hedley Thomas came knocking. But his podcast helped put her father behind bars.
Since then, Shanelle has released her own story, in her own words via a memoir called My Mother’s Eyes. On this episode of True Crime Conversations, she joins Mamamia's Mia Freedman to give incredible insight into what it’s like to grow up with a father who did an unthinkable crime, and spent years lying to her about it.
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You can hear our recent episode with Hedley Thomas, looking behind the scenes of making The Teacher's Pet podcast here.
Guest: Shanelle Dawson
Interviewer: Mia Freedman
Host:Gemma Bath
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Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Wed, 22 Nov 2023 - 240 - The Forgotten Victims Of Malcolm Naden
Malcolm Naden was once Australia's most wanted man.
The prime suspect for the murder of his neighbour, as well as in the disappearance and suspected murder of his cousin, Naden was on the run from 2005 until 2012.
Today’s guest, Dimity Clancey, followed this story as it unfolded and was the journalist who first acquired and published Naden’s confession in 2016.
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Guest: Dimity Clancey. You can watch her award-winning coverage of Malcolm Naden's confession here.
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Wed, 15 Nov 2023 - 239 - The Most Famous Poisoning Murder You’ve Never Heard Of
On New Year’s Eve, 1927, Ethel Griggs and her baby daughter Alwyn returned home to Victoria after six months away in Tasmania.
After eating supper with her husband Ethel quickly became ill, and just over 48 hours later she was pronounced dead.
At first, it was thought to be heart trouble or even sea sickness that caused her death, but when police exhumed her body just two weeks after Ethel was laid to rest, they found enough arsenic inside her stomach to kill not just Ethel, but several people.
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Guest: Michael Adams, host of the Forgotten Australia podcast and author of The Murder Squad. You can listen to his past episode with us about The Murder Squadhere.
Host:Gemma Bath
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Wed, 08 Nov 2023 - 238 - Inside Australia's Most Infamous Prison
For more than a century, Australia's infamous Pentridge Prison was an ominous presence just 30 minutes away from Melbourne’s CBD.
A place of murder and mayhem, it was home to Victoria’s worst criminals. Everyone from Ned Kelly and Chopper Read, to mass murderers Julian Knight and Craig Minogue.
Pentridge officially closed in 1997 after decades of controversy. Over the years, everybody in Victoria had an understanding that Pentridge was a bad place, and the criminals who spent time inside can attest to that. They describe it as hell.
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Guest: James Phelps, author of Australia's Most Infamous Jail: Inside the walls of Pentridge Prison
Host:Gemma Bath
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Wed, 01 Nov 2023 - 237 - Six Deaths. One Uncomfortable Truth.
Over the last two years, Indigenous Affairs Reporter Douglas Smith and his team have been looking into the deaths of six Indigenous women, from three different states across Australia.
Each case occurred in different jurisdictions, involving different individuals, but the investigation conducted by Doug's team uncovered a commonality that is impossible to ignore.
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Guest: Douglas Smith host of the Dying Rose podcast.
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Wed, 25 Oct 2023 - 236 - Hunting The Kimberley Killer
In June 1987, Australia's top end lost it's innocence.
The murders of five tourists across the Northern Territory and Western Australia marred the reputation of this idyllic tourist region, sparking fear in locals and visitors alike.
These horrific events sparked one of the biggest manhunts in Australian history and saw today's guest, Former WA Police Inspector Bob Brown, on the front lines of the hunt for Josef Thomas Schwab: ‘The Kimberley Killer’
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If you have any details about this case, you can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or on their website.
Guest: Former WA Police Inspector Bob Brown
Host:Gemma Bath
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Wed, 18 Oct 2023 - 235 - From Journalist To Witness: Inside The Teacher's Pet Podcast
In 2018, Hedley Thomas’ podcast The Teacher's Pet captivated millions of listeners around the world as he unravelled the disappearance of Lynette Simms in real time, week by week.
Throughout his meticulous investigation more evidence and information came to light, leading to the arrest of Lyn's former husband Chris Dawson.
In 2022, Hedley found himself a witness in Dawson's high-profle murder trial. He joins us today to discuss the podcast that landed Hedley in the courtroom, and Dawson behind bars.
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If you have any details about this case, you can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or on their website.
Guest:Hedley Thomas, host of The Teacher's Pet podcast and author of the newly published book of the same name.
Host:Gemma Bath
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Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Wed, 11 Oct 2023 - 234 - The Wrongful Conviction of Evaristo Salas
Evaristo Salas Junior was just 16 when he was sent to an adult men’s prison convicted of the murder of Jose Arreola in 1995.
But in the nearly three decades since his conviction, the evidence has been re-examined in great detail. Cracks, lies and omissions have been uncovered by journalists and documentary makers alike, leading to Evaristo's exoneration and release in August of this year.
So how did this happen? How did the justice system fail him so monumentally, and why did it take so long to get him out?
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If you have any details about this case, you can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or on their website.
Guest:Jack Lawrence, host of the One Minute Remaining podcast.
Host:Gemma Bath
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Wed, 04 Oct 2023 - 233 - The Disappearance Of Rhianna Barreau
In October 1992, 12-year-old Rhianna Barreau disappeared.
On the day she went missing it was school holidays, and Rhianna had spent the morning wandering to the local shops to buy her American pen pal a Christmas card. When her mother got home at 4pm, expecting to find Rhianna, she was nowhere to be found.
It's one of South Australia's most enduring cold cases. Her disappearance didn’t just change the lives of her family, it changed her community and the streets of Adelaide forever.
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If you have any details about this case, you can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or on their website.
Guest:Rebecca Brice
Host:Gemma Bath
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
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Wed, 27 Sep 2023 - 232 - Australia’s Biggest Terror Campaign You’ve Never Heard About
In September 1988 a campaign of terror was unleashed upon Perth’s Chinese community through a series of targeted firebombings that decimated a number of restaurants around the city.
The motive behind the attacks was impossible to ignore, but it would take a drastic escalation of violence for WA police to start taking the firebombs seriously.
Once they finally started to piece the crimes together and close in on the culprits, police realised they’d happened upon a plot in the making that was a lot more sinister than the destroying of restaurants.
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Guest:Alex Mann and Crispian Chan
You can listen to their podcast Firebomb here.
Host:Gemma Bath
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
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Wed, 20 Sep 2023 - 231 - Australia's Dark History Of Forced Adoptions
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 before they ever even laid eyes on their precious little faces.
Today, Amelia Oberhart shares with us the journey of her discoveries about her mother’s life before she was born in her podcast, Secrets We Keep, Shame, Lies and Family…and in the process of unveiling her own story, found the buried stories of women whose numbers will shock you.
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Guest:Amelia Oberhardt
You can listen to her podcast Secrets We Keep here.
Host:Claire Murphy
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
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Wed, 13 Sep 2023 - 230 - The Murder Squad
In Australia in the 1920s a 'murder wave' gripped the country, as the desperation of The Great Depression rippled through society.
Cases like The Human Glove, The Hammer Horror, The Park Demon, The Bungendore Bones, and most famously The Pyjama Girl, were splashed across tabloid headlines. At the same time a new age of methods and technologies were being rolled out to help investigate crimes that would've previously gone unsolved.
In NSW there was an elite group of hardened and cunning detectives who were tasked with solving all these crimes. They became known as The Murder Squad.
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Guest:Michael Adams
You can find out more about his book The Murder Squad here.
Host:Claire Murphy
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
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Wed, 06 Sep 2023 - 229 - Inside The Trial Of Lucy Letby
Last week, 33-year-old nurse Lucy Letby was found guilty of murdering seven newborns, and attempting to kill six others who were under her care in 2015 and 2016.
During her time in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwestern England, her colleagues noticed a significant rise in the number of babies dying and suffering serious collapses in the unit.
Police and medical experts were called in for a large-scale investigation and discovered one common factor linking these occurrences: Lucy Letby.
She's only the fourth woman in UK history to receive a whole-life sentence, earning her the title of Britain’s worst modern day child serial killer.
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Guest:Caroline Cheetham
You can listen to her podcast The Trial Of Lucy Letby here.
Host:Claire Murphy
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Wed, 30 Aug 2023 - 228 - Karen Bell Escaped Her Husband, But She Couldn’t Save Her Children
Karen Bell met Gary Poxon in 1993. She was 17, he was 29.
By 2008, the pair were living in an isolated farmhouse in Pericoe with their three children - Maddie, Jack and Bon. Their 15 year long relationship was filled with emotional and physical abuse, with multiple AVOs taken out against Gary to protect Karen. He faced charges more than once for assaulting her, but he'd never once hurt their kids.
They were his trump card. Every time Karen tried to leave Gary he would withhold them. 'You can go,' he would tell her, 'but the kids stay with me.' It was an impossible position.
Eventually Karen fled, fearing for her life if she stayed. It would be the last time she ever saw her children alive.
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Guest:Megan Norris
You can find out more details about her book Look What You Made Me Do here.
Host:Claire Murphy
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Assistant Producer:Tahli Blackman
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Wed, 23 Aug 2023 - 227 - ‘Look What You Made Me Do’: The Murder Of Mimi Acar
What little kid doesn’t want their Dad to take them to the shop and get them a kinder surprise?
That’s what Ramazan Acar told his ex partner Rachelle D’Argent in November 2010, when he turned up at her Melbourne home, breaking yet another intervention order that she had taken out against him. He just wanted to take his daughter to the little shop down the road and get her a treat.
But Yazmina Acar would never return from that trip with her dad. Angry and upset over his perception that he was being wronged by his ex, Acar took the innocent little girl, just a few days shy of her third birthday, and ran. What happened next will haunt Rachelle for the rest of her life.
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Guest:Megan Norris
You can find out more details about her book Look What You Made Me Do here.
Host:Claire Murphy
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
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Wed, 16 Aug 2023 - 226 - Murder On The West Gate Bridge: The Story Of Darcey Freeman
In January 2009, Darcey Freeman’s father, Arthur Freeman, was driving her to her first day of school when he acted out of revenge. He threw his four-year-old daughter off Melbourne’s 58-metre-high West Gate Bridge. Darcey’s mother, Peta Barnes never got the chance to say goodbye to her only daughter.
Today, we are joined by Megan Norris, the author of Look What You Made Me Do: Fathers Who Kill,to examine Peta’s story and how the system placed blame on everyone but the aggressive and abusive father.
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If you have any details about this case, you can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or on their website.
Guest:Megan Norris
You can find out more details about her book Look What You Made Me Do here.
Host:Claire Murphy
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Assistant Producer:Tahli Blackman
Audio Producer: Madeline Joannou
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Wed, 09 Aug 2023 - 225 - Fathers Who Kill: The Revenge Murder Of Kelly East
You can listen to our first-hand interview with Michelle Steck here.
In 1993, Michelle Steck lost her daughter Kelly at the hands of her former partner Kevin East. It was an horrific act classified as retaliatory filicide, when domestic violence perpetrators use their children to get back at their partners who dare to leave them.
Today we're joined by Megan Norris, the author of Look What You Made Me Do: Fathers Who Kill,to examine Michelle's story and the systemic failures that left a vulnerable little girl at the mercy of her violent and abusive father.
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If you have any details about this case, you can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or on their website.
Guest:Megan Norris
You can find out more details about her book Look What You Made Me Do here.
Host:Claire Murphy
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Assistant Producer:Tahli Blackman
Audio Producer: Madeline Joannou
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Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Just by reading our articles or listening to our podcasts, you’re helping to fund girls in schools in some of the most disadvantaged countries in the world - through our partnership with Room to Read. We’re currently funding 300 girls in school every day and our aim is to get to 1,000. Find out more about Mamamia at mamamia.com.au
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Wed, 02 Aug 2023 - 224 - The Cold Case Still Haunting Australia’s Cape York
When Bevin and Brad Simmons went missing off the coast of the Cape York Peninsula in 2003, a massive air, land and sea search was launched to find the pair.
The operation covered a huge area but in the days and weeks that followed, no evidence was found. Not their boat, not a body, not even a piece of fishing gear that may have floated away if they'd capsized.
To this day, the final resting place of Bevin and Brad is unknown. But the story uncovered during the investigation - of an ongoing turf war between two rival fishing families, that seemingly took a fatal turn - would eventually lead to charges being laid.
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If you have any details about this case, you can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or on their website.
Guest:Justine A Rosenthal
You can watch the Stan original documentary, The Cape here.
Host:Claire Murphy
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Assistant Producer:Tahli Blackman
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Wed, 26 Jul 2023 - 223 - The McCulkin Murders
The notorious Whisky Au Go Go nightclub fire in Brisbane in 1973 left behind questions that remain unanswered to this day.
Who was really behind it, who was there that night, why did 15 people have to die and did it go beyond just criminal activity to include corrupt police too?
But the deaths of 15 people that night wouldn’t be the only ones linked to the blaze.
When the McCulkins, 34 year old Barbara, 13 year old Vicky and 11 year old Leanne went missing in 1974, the investigation into their disappearance would find very little.
But a confession from another criminal many years later, would send two men to jail and again cause the convictions around the Whiskey Au Go Go fire to be questioned.
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Guest: Matthew Condon
You can hear his podcast Ghost Gate Rd here.
Host:Claire Murphy
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Assistant Producer:Tahli Blackman
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Wed, 19 Jul 2023 - 222 - Murders In The Nightclub: Inside Queensland's Worst Firebombing Incident
The Whisky Au Go Go Fire is just as much a mystery today as it was in the hours after the tragedy that took the lives of 15 people in Fortitude Valley on March 8th 1973.
Police would start a major investigation that would drag in some of Brisbane’s most well known criminals, gangsters, bosses and violent offenders who had spent time together in jails over decades, creating networks and ties that spread down the coast into Sydney.
But the investigation would also expose police and political corruption, with a group of officers, who were on the take from those very criminals, potentially using this fire to help some club owners cash in.
Was it meant to escalate as it did? Were those 15 people meant to be victims or were they just in the wrong place at the wrong time with an arson attack that went far more successfully than the perpetrators planned?
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Guest: Matthew Condon
You can hear his podcast Ghost Gate Rd here.
Host:Claire Murphy
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Assistant Producer:Tahli Blackman
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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Wed, 12 Jul 2023 - 221 - The Prison Guard Who Fell In Love With An Inmate
In 1992, career criminal Peter Gibb met prison guard Heather Parker while serving a 12-year sentence at the Melbourne Remand Centre. Heather claimed she didn’t notice Peter at first, but she quickly became smitten and their relationship developed from flirtatious to physical.
When their affair was exposed Heather was immediately transferred, with communication between the two forbidden. But they couldn’t be stopped, and with the help of another inmate acting as their middleman, the pair hatched a plan to break Peter out of prison. Their escape sparked one of Australia's largest criminal pursuits and saw Heather and Peter dubbed Australia’s Bonnie and Clyde.
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Guest: Megan Norris
Host:Claire Murphy
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Wed, 05 Jul 2023 - 220 - Surviving The Butcher Of Bega
You can listen to our interview with a second victim or Dr Reeves here.
In the later months of 1995, 28-year-old Jayne Mansfield found herself in need of an obstetrician. She was pregnant with her first baby and, as most first-time mums do, she put her trust in the medical professional her GP had referred her to - a doctor named Graeme Reeves at The Hills Hospital in Sydney’s Baulkham Hills.
Throughout her pregnancy care, Jayne felt there was something not quite right about her doctor, but it wasn’t anything specific, nothing she could really put her finger on. And as far as she knew she was receiving expert care… who was she to question the methods of a doctor with the relevant qualifications and over a decade of experience?
In 1996, Jayne delivered her bouncing baby boy, and the unnerving memories of her obstetrician’s strange behaviours quickly disappeared in the busy haze of new parenthood. It would be years before she saw his face again, this time it was on the TV during the news, the words The Butcher Of Bega emblazoned under his image.
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Guest: Jayne Mansfield
Host:Claire Murphy
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Guest Booking: Cassie Merritt
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Wed, 28 Jun 2023 - 219 - The Butcher Of Bega
Listen to our interview with a survivor of the Butcher Of Bega here.
In 2011 gynaecologist Graeme Stephen Reeves was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on one of his patients. A case that was just one of many allegations of heinous offences against his female patients, that dated back nearly two decades.
Claims of assaults, molestation and mutilation plagued his career from the 90s, and in 1997 the NSW medical board banning Reeves from practising obstetrics. Despite that, he took a job in 2001 as a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist for the Greater Southern Area Health Service, working unregistered in Bega and Pambula.
When he was finally struck off the medical register in 2004, a trail of traumatised women were left in his wake, most too embarrassed or mortified to tell their stories. But the ones that did pushed for reform, so that no other women would ever go through what they had.
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Guest: Margaret Cunneen
Host:Claire Murphy
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Guest Booking: Cassie Merritt
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Wed, 21 Jun 2023 - 218 - Abuse, Fraud & Control: Unravelling Hillsong
Pentecostalism has been practised in Australia since the 1920s. But it wasn’t until husband and wife team Brian and Bobby Houston launched Hillsong church in 1983 that Pentecostal Christianity really began to surge in popularity.
From its humble beginnings in Sydney’s Baulkham Hills, by 2018 Hillsong had 80 branches in 21 countries. But after a spectacular and meteoric rise to international popularity, over the last several years Hillsong has been dogged by controversy. Allegations of fraud, coercive control, and abuse eroding its stronghold on Pentecostal believers.
But what’s life actually like inside this megachurch? And what next for the followers who've been left disillusioned.
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Guest:Marc Fennell
You can watch his documentary The Kingdom on SBS On Demand.
Host & Producer:Emma Gillespie
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Audio Producer: Madeline Joannou
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Wed, 14 Jun 2023 - 217 - Where Does Kathleen Folbigg Go From Here?
Earlier this week, in an historic decision, the NSW attorney general made the extraordinary announcement that Kathleen Folbigg had been granted a pardon after 20 years in prison.
In 2003, Kathleen was sentenced to thirty years for the murders of three of her children and the manslaughter of a fourth. And while she always maintained her innocence, it wasn’t until a second inquiry into Kathleen's convictions, that new scientific developments led to revelations that three of her children could have died of natural causes.
As the dust settles from this week’s announcement, attention has turned to understanding the failures that put her in jail, the scientific advancements that freed her, and quashing her convictions once and for all.
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Guest:DrXanthe Mallett
The latest episode of her podcast, Motive & Method, saw Xanthe and her cohost interview Kathleen's best friend Tracy Chapman. Listen here.
Host & Producer:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Audio Producer: Tegan Sadler
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Wed, 07 Jun 2023 - 216 - After 20 Years In Prison, Kathleen Folbigg Has Been Pardoned
After 20 years behind bars, Kathleen Folbigg has been pardoned, and released from prison.
A landmark inquiry saw NSW’s top prosecutor accept there was reasonable doubt about her convictions over the deaths of her four children.
If you’re not aware or Kathleen’s story, you’re about to hear our episode with investigative journalist Jane Hansen who unpacked the forensic evidence that was to be examined in the inquiry. The evidence that has now led to Kathleen Folbigg’s freedom...
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Mon, 05 Jun 2023 - 215 - The Disappearance Of Gordana Kotevski
In November, 1994, 16-year-old Gordana Kotevski was abducted while walking home from a local shopping centre in the Newcastle suburb of Charlestown.
Gordana was just moments from her aunt's front door when she was dragged into a white Toyota Hilux by two men, and never seen again.
Her loved ones have spent years since her kidnapping in an unrelenting search for answers. But despite wide scale police searches and multiple eye-witness accounts, as well as ongoing public appeals and rewards, Gordana’s body has never been found.
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Guest:Amelia Saw
Host & Producer:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Audio Producer:Madeline Joannou
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Wed, 31 May 2023 - 214 - Australia’s Most Wanted Father & Son
Listen to part two of this conversation with Nino, here.
In the mid 90s, the Stoccos seemed like any other Aussie family. A mum and dad, Connie and Gino, and their two teenage kids, Mark and Christina.
But in 1997, the breakdown of this seemingly happy family marked the beginning of a dark new chapter for Gino of crime and violence. It was a path he wouldn’t walk alone though, as little by little, Gino’s son Mark, would join him in his offending. What started as stolen groceries or a fall out with an employer would manifest into serious lawlessness. The likes of which would see the pair listed amongst Australia’s most wanted criminals.THE END BITS
Guests:Nino Bucci, author of The Stoccos: Like Father, Like Son
Host & Producer:Emma Gillespie
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Audio Producer:Madeline Joannou
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Wed, 24 May 2023 - 213 - The Wrongful Conviction That Divided New Zealand
The murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in June 1970 were labelled the death of innocence in New Zealand, and would go on to become one of the country’s most infamous cold cases.
In the immediate aftermath, a man named Arthur Allan Thomas was found guilty of the crime. His fate sealed by a piece of evidence so compelling that a jury had no doubt he was the killer. A piece of evidence that years later would be revealed to have been planted.
Thomas was granted a royal pardon after serving nine years in prison. But the question of who really killed Harvey and Jeannette Crewe remains to this day.
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Guests:Kirsty Johnson & James Hollings
Host & Producer:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
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Wed, 17 May 2023 - 212 - ‘I Was Stalked For 3 Years’: Nicole Madigan’s Story
The phenomenon of stalking is as prolific as it is insidious. The breadth of quiet suffering perpetrators calculate and inflict on their subjects often leads to victims being completely unable to identify what’s happening to them, and to seek help.
Journalist Nicole Madigan was stalked by a woman she barely knew for three years. Her experience led her to investigate the power, fixation and control that drives stalkers, and the havoc they wreak on the lives of their victims.
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You can learn more about her new book Obsession here.
Host & Producer:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
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Wed, 10 May 2023 - 211 - The Black Widow Of Adelaide
Michelle Burgess is one of Australia’s most infamous ‘black widows’ - a term given to female psychopaths who either kill or organise other men to kill other men.
In 2001, Michelle plotted two murders. The targets were her husband Darren, and a woman named Carolyn Matthews - a mother of three whose husband Kevin had become involved in an affair with Michelle.
While Michelle & Kevin would only see through one half of this twisted plan before they were stopped, they would eventually be served with two of the longest non-parole periods in South Australia's history.
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Guests:Dr Xanthe Mallett & Tim Watson-Munro
Listen to their new podcast Motive & Method here.
Host & Producer:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Audio Producers:Rhiannon Mooney
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Wed, 03 May 2023 - 210 - The Clifftop Murder Of Janet Fisicaro
In 2010, 52-year-old Des Campbell was found guilty of murdering his wife Janet Fisicaro. The pair had only been married six months when they embarked on a camping trip in the Royal National Park, south of Sydney. A trip that sadly only Des would survive.
Initially he would tell police that Janet had fallen from a 50-metre cliff, but investigators would soon come to realise that the 49-year-old hadn’t fallen at all… she’d been pushed.
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Guest:Ian W. Shaw
You can hear his previous episode of True Crime Conversations about Melbourne's Brownout Strangler here.
Host & Producer:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Audio Producers:Rhiannon Mooney
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Wed, 26 Apr 2023 - 209 - Life In Prison With No Parole: The Man Who Killed Karen Chetcuti
In January 2016, 49-year-old Karen Chetcuti was viscously attacked on her property in Whorouly, a rural town in north-eastern Victoria.
What happened to Karen at the hands of her neighbour, Michael Cardamone, was described as so unfeeling, so excessive and sadistically executed that those prosecuting him worked to make sure that Michael would never walk freely amongst the community again.
The Chetcuti family’s lawyer, John Suta, joins us today to discuss the investigation and legal proceedings that eventually saw Karen's killer put behind bars for the rest of his life.
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Guest:John Suta
Host:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
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Wed, 19 Apr 2023 - 208 - The Frankston Murders: Why A Serial Killer Could Walk Free
In the early 1990s, 21-year-old Paul Denyer terrorised the Victorian suburb of Frankston. He preyed on the local women; stalking, abducting and eventually murdering three young victims.
Their names were Elizabeth Stevens, Deborah Fream and Natalie Russell.
But after three decades behind bars, a parole board in Victoria must now consider an application to free the man behind what became known as the Frankston Murders.
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Guest:Vikki Petraitis
You can listen to her podcast The Frankston Murders here.
Host:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Audio Producers:Rhiannon Mooney & Madeline Joannou
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Wed, 12 Apr 2023 - 207 - The South Australian Woman Who Turned To Stone
In 1951, the discovery of a petrified female body in the raging floodwaters of the Murray River triggered an investigation that spanned multiple Australian states. And while evidence suggested foul play, the truth of her identity and what really happened to her would remain a mystery, with the death of a vital witness in the aftermath of the discovery leaving the case cold.
But seven decades on, investigative documentary filmmaker and author Peter Butt believes he’s uncovered new information. And that the facts laid out in his new book The Petrified Woman could be key in exhuming the unnamed woman and solving this mystery once and for all. He joins us today.
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Host:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Junior Producer: Cassie Merritt
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Wed, 05 Apr 2023 - 206 - The Moment That Could’ve Saved Gabby Petito
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 across the United States.
They'd been living out of Gabby's specially decked out van, documenting and filming every adventure so she could share it on her growing social media platforms. But when the 22-year-old suddenly stopped posting, her family began to fear the worst.
Gabby's high-profile disappearance sparked an unprecedented social media movement to find her. An unstoppable onslaught of amateur sleuths and armchair detectives exposed a story no one was prepared to ignore, as the world hung on each development in the nationwide search for Gabby, her fiance, and the truth.
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Guest:Sarah Abo
You can watch the 60 Minutes coverage of this case here.
Learn more about the Gabby Petito Foundation here.
Host:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Junior Producer: Cassie Merritt
Audio Producer:Madeline Joannou
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Wed, 29 Mar 2023 - 205 - Fake Identities, Kidnapping & Murder: Uncovering The True Identity Of Sharon Marshall
In April 1990, a 21-year-old woman was found dead on the side of a highway in Oklahoma City.
The investigation into her death, which initially seemed like a straight forward hit-and-run, would lead police to uncover a violent trail of lies, abuse, false identities, kidnapping and murder, spanning multiple decades.
Journalist Matt Birkbeck, our guest today, spent two decades researching this case and played an integral role in uncovering the woman's true identity.
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Guest:Matt Birkbeck
Matt's research into Suzanne Sevakis' case is detailed in two books, A Beautiful Child & Finding Sharon as well as the Netflix documentary The Girl In The Picture. The documentary includes interviews with Megan Dufrense, the woman who was eventually identified as Suzanne's biological daughter, who was put up for adoption in 1989.
Host:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Junior Producer: Cassie Merritt
Audio Producer:Rhiannon Mooney
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Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
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Wed, 22 Mar 2023 - 204 - The Secret History Of Catholic Orphanages
Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, impoverished populations within urban areas were struggling to keep up with the rising number of abandoned children. And with little support or infrastructure in the way of social and government services, the responsibility to house these children fell largely on local parishes.
The image of these grand manors, large estates surrounded by manicured lawns, of a safe space for innocent children could not have been further from the truth of what was occurring behind closed doors.
It would take several decades before the atrocities that unfolded within these church-led homes would begin to come to light, thanks to the bravery of those willing to share their accounts of abuse, and remarkable survival.
Journalist Christine Kenneally, our guest today, extensively investigated the secret horrors hidden deep within Catholic orphanages, in the US and here in Australia, until as recently as the 60s and 70s.
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Guest:Christine Kenneally
You can find out more about her book Ghosts Of The Orphanage here.
Host:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Junior Producer: Cassie Merritt
Audio Producer:Madeline Joannou
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Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
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Wed, 15 Mar 2023 - 203 - The Cruise Ship Death Of Dianne Brimble
On the 23rd of September 2002, Dianne Brimble stepped aboard what should have been a ten-day cruise through New Caledonia and Vanuatu with her family. But within less than 24 hours, Dianne was found unconscious, in a strangers room.
The cabin belonged to four men, travelling as part of a bigger group of eight. The Adelaide Eight, as they’d soon become known. A group of young men ready to indulge in the vices of the infamous party cruise industry.
The death of Dianne Brimble exposed a dangerous culture on board these ships, but the mystery surrounding her final hours would lead to a search for answers for the better part of a decade.
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Guest:Geesche Jacobsen
You can find out more about her book Abandoned here.
Host:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Junior Producer: Cassie Merritt
Audio Producer:Rhiannon Mooney
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Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
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Wed, 08 Mar 2023 - 202 - The ‘Child Bride’ Who Brought Down Australia’s Biggest Doomsday Cult
William Kamm is the self-proclaimed Messiah behind Australia’s biggest doomsday cult.
After the inception of The Order of St Charbel in the late 1980s, Kamm spun of web of lies, peddling end of the world prophecies to coerce his trusted flock into subservience, with the promise of salvation.
But when a young girl’s diary surfaced, the true horrors of life inside the community were revealed. A life of strict hierarchy, coercive control, and abuse. All hidden from the outside world.
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Guest:Megan Norris
You can find out more about her book The Messiah's Bride here.
Host:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Junior Producer: Cassie Merritt
Audio Producer:Rhiannon Mooney
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If any of the contents in this episode have caused distress, know that there is help available via Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636
Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Just by reading or listening to our content, you’re helping to fund girls in schools in some of the most disadvantaged countries in the world - through our partnership with Room to Read. We’re currently funding 300 girls in school every day and our aim is to get to 1,000. Find out more about Mamamia at mamamia.com.au
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Wed, 01 Mar 2023 - 201 - A Deal With The Devil To Find Matthew Leveson
In September 2007, after a night out on Sydney’s iconic Oxford Street, 20-year-old Matthew Leveson went missing.
Although police investigated his disappearance at the time, it would be a decade before they finally uncovered his body.
His 43-year-old boyfriend, Michael Atkins, was the last person to see Matt alive. His aversion to telling the truth about that night would torment Mathew’s family, see a murder acquittal, a coronial inquisition, and an historic immunity deal.
Guest:Grace Tobin
You can find out more about her book Deal With The Devil here.
Host:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Junior Producer: Cassie Merritt
Audio Producer:Rhiannon Mooney
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If any of the contents in this episode have caused distress, know that there is help available via Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636
Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Just by reading or listening to our content, you’re helping to fund girls in schools in some of the most disadvantaged countries in the world - through our partnership with Room to Read. We’re currently funding 300 girls in school every day and our aim is to get to 1,000. Find out more about Mamamia at mamamia.com.au
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Wed, 22 Feb 2023 - 200 - Meet The Woman Who Caught The Mornington Monster
Today’s episode is about one of Victoria’s most disturbing cases of familicide.
The death of Anna Kemp & her daughter Gracie at the hands of John Sharpe, the husband and father who’s crimes would see him branded ‘The Mornington Monster’.
Our guest, Narelle Fraser, is a former Victorian Police officer, whose discoveries were instrumental in solving the case and bringing John to justice. She joins us to discuss this shocking case, and her role in finding out what happened to Anna & Gracie.
Guest:Narelle Fraser
You can listen to her podcast Narelle Fraser Interviews here.
You can find tickets to her live show in Victoria on the 25th of February 2023 here.
Host:Emma Gillespie
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Junior Producer: Cassie Merritt
Audio Producer:Rhiannon Mooney
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If any of the contents in this episode have caused distress, know that there is help available via Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636
Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
Just by reading or listening to our content, you’re helping to fund girls in schools in some of the most disadvantaged countries in the world - through our partnership with Room to Read. We’re currently funding 300 girls in school every day and our aim is to get to 1,000. Find out more about Mamamia at mamamia.com.au
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