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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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10 Years Ago A Man With A Gun Walked Into A Lindt Cafe In Sydney
On a sunny December morning in 2014, just 10 days before Christmas, breakfast was in full swing at the busy Lindt Café in Sydney’s Martin Place…
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Amy Allwine Had No Idea A Stranger Online Was Paid To Kill Her
In 2020, journalist Carl Miller found himself staring at a murder-for-hire website on the dark web, introduced to him by a hacker friend who had stumbled upon…
True Crime ConversationsExtra: What We've Finally Learned About Lilie James' Killer
Warning: This episode speaks of violence and suicide. Please take care when listening. A year on from her death, Lilie James' parents have spoken publicly -…
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'I'm Confident My Son Is Still Alive': The Case Of The Lost Boy
In March 2015, Fiona Lu showed up at her son Mike Zhao-Beckenridge's school to pick him up, only to find he was missing. Panicked, she called the police…
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Something Is Not Right About Phoebe's Fall
In December 2010, the body of 24-year-old Phoebe Handsjuk was discovered at the bottom of a garbage chute in her Melbourne apartment building.She had fallen 12…
True Crime ConversationsExtra: 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…
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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…
True Crime ConversationsExtra: 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…
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It Took 32 Years For Police To Find Kylie Maybury's Killer
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…
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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…
True Crime ConversationsBonus: 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
True Crime ConversationsA 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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'…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…