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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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A Dinner Party In Canberra
It’s October 24, 1997, and 25-year-old Anu Singh, a promising young law student, invites friends over for a dinner party. She lives in a Canberra…
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Myra Hindley: The Most Evil Woman In Britain
It’s Boxing Day, 1964, when a 26-year-old man named Ian Brady, and a 22-year-old woman named Myra Hindley, attend a fair in Ancoats, an area in…
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Australia’s Most Notorious Female Killer
It was 6am on March 1, 2000, when John Price’s neighbour noticed his car was still in the driveway. It struck him as unusual. John’s supervisor…
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America's Boogeywoman: The Story Of Aileen Wuornos
Aileen Wuornos stares down the barrel of the camera, her eyes looking almost black. Her mousy brown hair is pushed back off her face, revealing a pink face…
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The Day Dalia Dippolito Tried To Have Her Husband Murdered
It’s a warm morning in August, 2009, when 26-year-old Dalia Dippolito decides to go to the gym. Dalia has long brown hair, tanned skin, and has only…
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Introducing Extraordinary Stories: The Demonisation Of Lindy Chamberlain
We’re popping into your feed to share with you our new episode of Extraordinary Stories: The Demonisation of Lindy Chamberlain. Episodes two and three of…
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A Startling Murder In West Cork
West Cork in Ireland sits on the edge of Europe. It’s rugged and windy, cold in the winter, and beautiful in the summer. Since the 1960s, the district…
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Did He Really Do It? The Disturbing Case Of Robert Farquharson
It’s Father’s Day, 2005, and Robert Farquharson is driving his three sons, Jai, Tyler and Bayley, home to their mother’s house. They’d…
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Who Killed Leanne Holland?
On the eastern edge of the city of Ipswich in Queensland, lies a small suburb named Goodna. About 20 kilometres from the Brisbane central business district…
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The Frankston Murders
It’s a quarter past seven in the evening on Friday, June 11, 1993. 18-year-old Elizabeth Stevens is freezing. She’s soaking wet from the rain, her…
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MH17: The Passenger Plane Shot Down From The Sky
It’s just after midday on July 17, 2014, when 283 passengers, and 15 crew members board MH17 at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. Among the passengers…
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The Real Life Dr. Death
It was late 2011 when 54-year-old Kellie Martin had her accident. Along with her husband Don Martin, Kellie was retrieving Christmas decorations from their…
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Life With The Serpent: The Story Of Charles Sobhraj
It was October 18, 1975, when a farmer found the body of a young woman floating face down in the Gulf of Thailand. Teresa Knowlton was wearing a floral bikini…
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The Myall Creek Massacre
It’s an hour and a half before sunset on a Sunday afternoon in June, 1838. A group of Indigenous Australians, the Wirrayaraay people, are cooking their…
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The Devil’s Grip: A Deadly Secret
Seven gunshots ring out through Victoria’s green and vast Barrabool Hills. On the western outskirts of Geelong, the Barrabool Hills is sparsely…
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The Good Girls: A Double Tragedy In A Quiet Village
Hanging from a mango tree, on the edge of their village in Uttar Pradesh, are the bodies of two girls. It’s May 27, 2014, and the sun is just beginning…
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Barrenjoey Road: The Case Of Trudie Jeanette Adams
On today’s episode host Jessie Stephens is speaking with award-winning investigative journalists Ruby Jones and Neil Mercer, co-authors of the book…
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Finding Cleo: The Story Of A Lost Child
On today’s episode Jessie is speaking with award-winning investigative journalist Connie Walker, whose podcast ‘Stolen’ & ‘Missing &…
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The Dunblane Massacre: Britain's Deadliest Mass Shooting
It’s a Wednesday morning in March 1996, and the bell sounds at Dunblane Primary School near Stirling in Scotland. Students scramble to their classrooms…
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The Belrose Bomb
It’s June 15, 1998, a cool winter’s evening on Sydney’s northern beaches. The leafy, quiet and friendly suburb of Belrose is located about 19…
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Buried Without A Body: The Murder Of Helen McCourt
It’s 4pm on the 9th of February, 1988. A 22-year-old woman named Helen McCourt, with long, dark brown hair picks up the phone. She's about to leave work…
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The Husband Poisoner
For Desmond Butler, it began with a headache. Then diarrhoea. Nausea that felt like a hangover. He was otherwise a healthy man, not yet 30. He shared two…
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The Man Who Murdered Luke Batty
It was February 12, 2014, a hot summer evening, and eleven year old Luke Batty was at cricket practice on a sports oval in the Melbourne suburb of Tyabb. With…
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Dennis Costas: The Murderer Who Forgets
In July 2011 a man named Dennis Costas called in sick to work. He told his employer he was suffering from sciatica. For the rest of the afternoon, he drank…
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The Queensland Backpacker Murder Of Mia Ayliffe-Chung
It’s August 23, 2016, in a sleepy Queensland town named Home Hill, south of Townsville. Shelley’s Backpackers is a modest hostel in the small…
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The Ugly Business Of Illicit Sex In America
Los Angeles is known as the city of dreams. The most populous city in California, Los Angeles is surrounded by mountain ranges, forests, beautiful beaches…
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The Apology Line
A man calls a phone number in Manhattan. His name is Johnny. And he has a confession. The phone line connects him to Mr Apology. A man whose real name is Allan…
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Exposing The Secrets Of Luna Park's Ghost Train Fire
It’s a cold winter’s night at Sydney’s Luna Park, nestled in the northern shore of Sydney Harbour. It’s June 9, 1979, and swarms of…
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What Really Happened At Port Arthur: A Survivor's Story
True Crime Conversations explores the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them. This month we’re focusing on…
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The Story Behind Snowtown
True Crime Conversations explores the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them. This month we’re focusing on…
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Peter Falconio And The Real Life Wolf Creek
True Crime Conversations explores the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them. This month we’re focusing in…
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Anita Cobby: The Full Story
True Crime Conversations explores the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them. This month we’re focusing in…
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Coming Soon: Australia's Most Notorious Crimes
True Crime Conversations explores the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them. This March we’re focusing on…
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The Night Stalker
It’s May 30, 1985, in Burbank, California. Spring is turning to summer, and the wide streets in the San Fernando Valley are lined with their signature…
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The Edward Street Baby Farm
It’s February 5, 1907, and a short, dark haired man in his late thirties named Corporal O’Halloran is on the doorstep of a house on Edward Street…
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The Execution of Melbourne's Vampire Gigolo
It’s August 16, 2002, when a man named Shane Chartres-Abbott meets a client at South Yarra’s Hotel Saville. The 27-year-old is a male prostitute…
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Sydney’s Infamous 'Granny Killer'
It’s the first day of Autumn, 1989, in an affluent Sydney suburb. Mosman is on the lower north shore and known for being comfortable and safe, a short…
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The Abduction of Wendy Pfeiffer
The small town of Mylor, buried in the Adelaide Hills, has a population of just over one thousand people. Properties sit on sprawling bushland, between the…
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The Melbourne Schoolgirl Strangler
It’s a sunny Saturday afternoon in Spring, 1930. Mena Griffiths is 12 years old and living with her family in suburban Melbourne. There’s a park…
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BEST OF 2020: The Fake Diving Resort
In the 1980s, a brochure was printed across the world, for an idyllic holiday resort called Arous. It was a diving resort on the Red Sea, in the Sudanese…
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BEST OF 2020: Blood On The Tracks: What Happened To Mark Haines
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples should be aware that this episode contains the names of people who have passed away. In 1988 the death of Mark…
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BEST OF 2020: Gary Jubelin & The Case That Cost Him His Job
It’s July 2018 when Detective Gary Jubelin stands in front of microphones and news cameras and says the words: “I suggest you come to us before we…
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BEST OF 2020: How Nicola Gobbo Became Lawyer X
It’s August, 2005, and Nicola Gobbo’s life is about to go in a direction she never anticipated. Nicola is a successful defence barrister, best…
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The Vanishing Of Vivienne Cameron
Phillip Island lies just off Australia’s southern coast, about two hours from the city of Melbourne. In 1986, the Cameron family were well known on the…
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After The Night: How The Night Caller Terrorised Perth
It’s Australia Day 1963, in the middle of a hot summer in Perth. A couple are sitting in a car, kissing and talking, in the beachside suburb of…
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The Cost Saxon Mullins Paid For Being A ‘Witness’
It was 2018 when Saxon Mullins, now 23, came out and said the four words: “I am that girl.” People had heard what had happened to a young woman in…
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Decades Of Abuse: The Case Of The Tasmanian Nurse - Part Two
This is the second part of a two part episode. If you haven't listened to part one, listen here now.Launceston is one of Australia’s oldest cities. Just…
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Decades Of Abuse: The Case Of The Tasmanian Nurse - Part One
Launceston is one of Australia’s oldest cities. Just south of the city centre stands Launceston General Hospital, one of the main public hospitals in the…
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How Laura Frizzo Caught The Black Widow: Part Two
This is the second half of a two-parter. If you haven't heard part one yet, listen here and then come back to listen to part two. Chris Regan, a 53-year-old…
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How Laura Frizzo Caught The Black Widow: Part One
Iron River, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, is known for its scenic lakes, hiking trails, exceptionally cold winters and dense forest. It’s sparsely…
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How Angela Jay Survived Her Tinder Stalker
It was mid 2016, when 28-year-old Angela Jay downloaded Tinder. Angela had come out of a long term relationship and had decided it was time to start dating…
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How Nicola Gobbo Became Lawyer X
It’s August, 2005, and Nicola Gobbo’s life is about to go in a direction she never anticipated. Nicola is a successful defence barrister, best…
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Janine Vaughan: The Woman Who Disappeared Into The Night
It was a Thursday night in December, 2001, when a woman named Janine Vaughan attended a nightclub in Bathurst called the Metro Tavern. Janine had lived in the…
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The Secret Hidden In Matthieu Heimel's Family
Matthieu Heimel grew up knowing nothing about his biological parents. His life in Perth had been enough for him until his two children began asking…
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The Real Life Narco
It was a tropical night in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, and 45-year-old Luis Navia’s 25-year stint as a narco (a drug trafficker) was coming to an…
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The Woman Who Dressed As Anita Cobby
It was a summer night in 1986 when 26-year-old Anita Cobby met friends for dinner in Redfern. Afterwards, the registered nurse caught the train from Central…
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A Web Of Lies: The Murder of Amy Allwine
It’s early 2016 when a description of American woman Amy Allwine is posted to the Dark Web: “She’s about five foot six, she looks about 200…
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Newcastle’s Grooming Of The Altar Boys
It’s 1974 in the suburb of Hamilton, which is about four kilometres from the heart of Newcastle. The area is an idyllic backdrop for an Australian…
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How Police Caught The Golden State Killer
It’s 1978 in the Californian city of Stockton. Bob and Gay Hardwick, a couple in their twenties, are asleep in the early hours of the morning. Suddenly…
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Gary Jubelin & The Case That Cost Him His Job
It’s July 2018 when Detective Gary Jubelin stands in front of microphones and news cameras and says the words: “I suggest you come to us before we…