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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
True Crime ConversationsThe 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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‘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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Inside The Mind Of Australia’s Most Perverted Killer
In 1969 Derek Percy was arrested for the brutal killing of 12 year old Yvonne Tuohy. While he was held responsible for that crime, a string of unsolved heinous…
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Re-Opening The Closed Case Of Sandrine Jourdan
Sandrine Jourdan vanished from a Queensland property in July 2012. A coroner would eventually rule her death a probable suicide. But her body has never been…
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We’ve Got Some News
Our host Gemma Bath is taking a short break, while she's on maternity leave a familiar voice will be stepping in to keep the mic warm...Become a Mamamia…
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Daniella Was 15 When She Escaped A Cult
Daniella Mestyanek Young was born into the Children Of God religious cult. Her childhood was lived out behind the tall gates of a commune in Brazil, where the…
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Gary Jubelin’s Life As A Homicide Detective
After 34 years in the police and 25 years in homicide, it was former Detective Inspector Gary Jubelin’s job to catch killers. He worked on some of the biggest…
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Crime Through The Eyes Of A Psychic Detective
Debbie Malone is used to sceptics. She’s been brushed aside, turned away, and sworn at by people who say she’s a liar. That she’s making things up. You see…
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Meet The Woman Who Cleans Up Crime Scenes
Lee Iordanidis has been cleaning crime scenes for over thirty years. Her job has her brushing up against things most of us couldn't even imagine in our worst…
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Inside The Mind Of A Criminal Psychologist
Tim Watson Munro has sat across from the worst of the worst. Rapists. Terrorists. Mass murderers. Tim’s a psychologist, who started his career in the prison…
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Catching Sydney’s North Shore Rapist
Graham James Kay is known in the media as The North Shore Rapist. In the 1990s he terrorised the suburbs of Balgowlah, Artarmon, Epping, Eastwood, and…
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From Missing To Matricide: Inside Melbourne’s Society Murders
In April 2002, millionaire socialite Margaret Wales-King and her husband Paul King disappeared after a dinner at her son Matthew's house in Melbourne. Less…
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The Disappearance Of Olivia Newton-John’s Lover
On June 30, 2005, Korean American cameraman Patrick McDermott went missing from an overnight fishing trip off the coast of Los Angeles. Initial investigations…
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The Cafe Recruiting For One Of Australia’s Most Sinister Cults
The Twelve Tribes are a Christian fundamentalist sect with followers all around the world, from Germany to America and even here in Australia. Their cafes in…
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The 93 Victims Of Samuel Little
Samuel Little is known as the 'most prolific serial killer in US history'. It's believed he murdered more than 90 women over the course of almost four decades…
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Is Australia’s Worst Female Serial Killer Innocent?
Kathleen Folbigg has been described as 'Australia’s worst female serial killer' and 'Australia’s most hated woman'... but what if she never actually committed…
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The Mysterious Deaths Of Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler
In the early hours of New Year’s Day, 1963, the body of a man and woman were discovered on the banks of Lane Cove River in Sydney. They were half naked and…