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True Crime Conversations
True Crime Conversations explores the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them. Hosted by Gemma Bath.
Episodes
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Inside The Mind Of Australia's Youngest Killer
What drives a teenager to become a killer? In 2001, three-year-old Courtney Morley-Clarke was put to bed on a hot summer night on the NSW Central Coast. By…
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Inside The Cecil Hotel: Dark Truths Behind Elisa Lam's Elevator Video
On a February morning in 2013, guests at the infamous Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles complained of brown, foul-tasting water. What the maintenance team discovered…
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"My Daughter Fell Victim To An Online Catfish"
When police raided the home of 48-year-old Garry Francis Newman in March 2007, they found him sitting in his lounge room, chatting online with a 14-year-old…
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Barry & Honey Sherman: Bodies Found Posed By The Pool
You don’t expect to find two billionaires posed like mannequins by their own pool. But on December 15, 2017, realtor Elise Stern did just that when she…
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Sally Leydon Spent 30 Years Searching For Her Missing Mother
On October 19, 1997, Sally Leydon called her brother Owen to ask if their mum, Marion Barter—who was on a year-long trip overseas—had phoned for…
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The Honeymoon Drowning That Turned A Groom Into A Murder Suspect
In October 2003, newlyweds Gabe and Tina Watson travelled from Alabama to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef for their dream honeymoon. Just 11 days after…
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The Idaho Four College Murders
What began as a typical game day celebration for University of Idaho students would end in unimaginable horror on Saturday, November 12, 2022. Xana Kernodle, a…
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UPDATE: Snowtown Murderer James Vlassakis Has Been Granted Parole
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…
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The Day Three Children Disappeared In Broad Daylight, Without A Trace
On a scorching summer day in Adelaide, January 26, 1966, the Beaumont children—Jane, Arnna and Grant—left for Glenelg Beach and never came home. In…
True Crime ConversationsFor Years, Karlie’s Murderers Convinced Her Family She Was Still Alive
When two-year-old Khandalyce Pearce vanished, police were baffled that her mother, Karlie, hadn’t reported her missing. What no one realised was that…
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Lisa McVey: In Her Own Words, On Surviving A Serial Killer
Lisa McVey’s story is one of unimaginable pain and extraordinary power. At 17, after surviving years of abuse, she was kidnapped and assaulted for 26…
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Lisa McVey: Inside The Minds Behind The Viral Film 'Believe Me'
At just 17, Lisa McVey was abducted by a dangerous man in Tampa, Florida. Over 26 long hours, despite unimaginable fear, Lisa stayed remarkably calm and sharp…
True Crime ConversationsBradley Murdoch Takes Peter Falconio’s Whereabouts To His Grave
Bradley John Murdoch was convicted of Falconio’s murder in December 2005 and sentenced to life in prison. Now, there’s been a significant…
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The Killer Who Livestreamed His Mass Shooting On Facebook
On March 15, 2019, New Zealand was shattered by a terrorist attack unlike any in its history. Fifty-one worshippers were murdered and dozens more wounded when…
True Crime ConversationsAustralia's Black Widow: The Story Of Dulcie Markham
Dulcie Markham has been called Australia’s most beautiful bad woman. Underworld figures describe her as "Black Widow," like the spider known for…
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"The Moment I Realised The Man I Loved Was A Serial Romance Scammer"
When Heather let “Jace” into her Toronto condo to fix a kitchen cabinet, she had no idea she was opening the door to one of Canada’s most…
True Crime ConversationsKidnapped, Abused & Held In A Pig Shed: The Shocking Case of Davine Arckens
When 24-year-old Belgian backpacker Davine Arckens reached out to a man on Gumtree about working on his farm, she was excited. The 88 days of labour would mean…
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The Gonzales Family Murders
At just 20 years old, Sef Gonzales murdered his entire family, his father Teodoro, mother Mary Loiva, and 18-year-old sister Clodine, in their Sydney home in…
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The Former Miss Australia Who Was Convicted Of Drug Dealing
Felicia Djamirze has lived many lives—counsellor, women’s justice advocate, three-time Miss Australia titleholder, and convicted drug dealer…
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Karen Read Found Not Guilty In Viral Murder Trial
Ever since the mysterious death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe on a snowy night in 2022, the town where he died has been deeply divided. Was he…
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Lauren Had No Idea She Married A Monster, Until She Learned the Truth
In 2015, Lauren Trevan’s husband was interviewed by police about messages he had sent to a teenage girl. He claimed they were harmless. They…
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We Finally Know The Motive Behind Australia’s Deadliest Mass Shooting
Nearly 30 years have passed since the Port Arthur massacre — one of the darkest and most devastating events in Australia's history. On April 28, 1996, a…
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The Woman Who Tricked 50 Doulas Into Believing She Was Pregnant
Kaitlyn Braun spun an elaborate web of lies, convincing over 50 doulas she was pregnant after a traumatic assault. Her deception confused and shattered trust…
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How A Broken Law Sent Kathleen Folbigg To Prison
After 20 years in prison, Kathleen Folbig, once labelled Australia’s worst female serial killer, was released in just 56 minutes. New genetic evidence…
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Hundreds Were Forced To Witness The Death Of Agnes Magnúsdóttir
She was young, poor, and alone in a harsh, unforgiving Icelandic landscape — and then she was sentenced to die. In 1830, Agnes Magnúsdóttir…
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William Tyrrell: Is This The Breakthrough We've Been Waiting For?
He was three years old, dressed in a Spider-Man suit, playing in his foster grandmother’s yard — and then he was gone. Nearly a decade later, the…
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Kat Torres: The Influencer Convicted Of Human Trafficking
Kat Torres had it all—famous friends, a jet-setting modelling career and a social media feed that painted the picture of a woman who had truly made it…
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Tortured & Brainwashed: How Ben Shenton Survived Australia’s Most Disturbing Cult
At just 18 months old, Ben Shenton was handed over to a woman who claimed she was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. That woman was Anne Hamilton-Byrne, the…
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"I Had to Kill Him": The Woman Who Survived Dirty John
"Dirty John" Meehan, a serial con artist and violent criminal, was Terra Newell's stepfather. He had married her mother and spent years manipulating and…
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Meet Heston Russell: The Veteran Falsely Accused Of War Crimes
Heston Russell has lived a life most of us couldn’t imagine. A former special forces commander, he’s been shot at, dropped out of helicopters, and…
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Escaping One Of Australia's Most Secretive Cults [re-release]
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…
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The Podcast Host Who Solved A Murder When Police Couldn't
In 1993, a teenage girl vanished on her way to school in a quiet town in Ontario, Canada. That morning, she’d argued with her mother, Mary…
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What We Know About Stephanie Scott's Death 10 Years On
Stephanie Scott was just days away from marrying her long-time partner when she went into her empty high school on Easter Sunday to prepare lesson plans for…
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A Message From Gemma!
Hello, True Crime Conversations listeners! If your sharp investigative minds haven't already guessed, we're excited to share that our very own host, Gemma…
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How The Deaths Of Two Girls, Eight Years Apart, Uncovered Tokyo’s Worst Predator
Carita Ridgeway from Australia and Lucie Blackman from England arrived in Japan eight years apart, both working as hostesses, earning $150-$400 a night while…
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53 Years Ago Robyn & Her Classmates Were Kidnapped. This Is Her Story.
On a Friday afternoon in 1972, in the small town of Faraday, Victoria, 10-year-old Robyn Howarth was playing musical chairs with her classmates when something…
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The Kapunda Triple Murder & An Unsuspecting Killer
In 2010, 18-year-old Jason Downie became obsessed with Chantelle Rowe, his friend’s girlfriend, after she rejected him. On the night of November 8th, in…
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The Four-Day Exorcism Of Joan Vollmer
In the remote outback of Victoria in 1993, Ralph Vollmer believed his wife, Joan, was possessed. Ralph enlisted members of his local religious community to…
True Crime ConversationsWhat It's Like To Find Out The Man You Love Is An International Con Man
Hamish McLaren is a serial fraudster. Remember the podcast Who the Hell Is Hamish? He defrauded victims of their money for more than 30 years before he finally…
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The Moment That Could’ve Saved Gabby Petito [re-release]
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…
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Meet The Anonymous Host Of Casefile
To some, he’s the mysterious voice behind their favourite true crime podcast (besides True Crime Conversations, of course). Others know him as…
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"What REALLY Happened When I Confronted Belle Gibson"
In 2015, Australian con woman Belle Gibson was living the dream. Her app The Whole Pantry was hugely popular and she was about to launch a book of the same…
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Maria Korp Was Left To Die In The Boot Of Her Car
Maria Korp, a 50-year-old mother of two from Melbourne, went missing in February 2005. She was discovered four days later in the boot of her car barely alive…
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25 Years Ago, A Revengeful Man Set Fire To A Queensland Hostel
On June 23rd, 2000, just after midnight, Robert Paul Long set fire to the Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel in Queensland. He had recently been evicted for…
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We’re Finally Telling The True Story About The Slender Man Stabbing
What started as a typical sleepover in Wisconsin in 2014 turned into one of the most chilling true crime stories in America.Twelve-year-olds Morgan Geyser and…
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The Man Who "Knows What Happened" To The Beaumont Children [re-release]
The disappearance of The Beaumont Children is burned into the collective conscious of Australia. It’s one of the longest-running cases in the…
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Australia's Worst Mass Family Killer & His Shocking Second Life
On September 7, 1971, at a remote farmhouse 40 kilometres south of Adelaide, Clifford Bartholomew killed 10 people. His wife, his seven children, his…
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Meet The Former Australian Prosecutor With A Target On Her Back
Margaret Cunneen SC was one of Australia’s top Crown Prosecutors, renowned for securing convictions against some of the country’s most notorious…
True Crime ConversationsAccording 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…
True Crime ConversationsHow ‘Cocaine Cassie’ Really Survived Three Years In A Colombian Prison
After she was caught trying to smuggle 5.8kg of cocaine out of Colombia in 2017, the media nicknamed her ‘Cocaine Cassie’. But Cassie Sainsbury’s life in a…
True Crime ConversationsWhy Women Kill And The Lives They Live Behind Bars [fresh episode]
Women are responsible for only 10 per cent of homicides in Australia, Canada, England, and the US, and because it’s such a small sample size not much…
True Crime ConversationsWith 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'…
True Crime ConversationsEve Wiley’s Father Was A Serial Sperm Donor… And He’s Not Alone
Eve Wiley is one of the featured voices in the Netflix series The Man with 1000 Kids, but the story of how she came to be a fierce advocate for victims of…
True Crime ConversationsNicole Madigan Is Still Being Watched By The Woman Who Stalked Her [fresh episode]
In 2018, while taking a picture of her son at a gathering, Nicole Madigan had a brief encounter with a stranger who asked her if she was photographing a man…
True Crime ConversationsA Doomsday Cult And Two Missing Kids
In November 2019, police conducted a welfare check on seven-year-old JJ Vallow. He hadn't been seen since September, and police will come to realise that…
True Crime ConversationsTia Levings Escaped A Trad Wife Cult
Tia Levings was raised within the same strict Christian fundamentalist ideology as the infamous Duggar family from 19 Kids And Counting. By the time she was 19…
True Crime ConversationsInside One Of Australia’s Longest Running Cults [fresh episode]
The Geelong Revival Centre, one of Australia’s longest-running cults, has been hiding in plain sight for years. Led by Pastor Noel Hollins until his…
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The Baby Doll Serial Killer: America’s Most Unsuspecting Murderer
In the winter of 1999 in Detroit, Michigan, sex worker Monica Johnson entered a Jeep Wrangler with the licence plate 'Baby Doll' with a client. That client…
True Crime ConversationsBonus: The French Rape Trial, A Victim-Survivor's Story Of Which She Has No Memory
It's the case that has shocked France and led to protests outside of an Avignon court house. For 50 years, Dominique and Gisèle Pélicot were married, but for a…
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The Lindt Cafe Terrorist Was Listening To Gemma Read The News
During the Lindt Café siege, True Crime Conversations host Gemma Bath was reporting the news live with a police negotiator by her side. She later…