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The Claremont Killings, Part One

In mid-1990s Perth, Claremont was a familiar nightlife strip where young people moved between venues and waited for taxis home. But when three women vanish after nights out there, a place of routine turns into one of Australia’s most infamous crime scenes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
26 gen

The Backpacker Murders, Part Three

Police have unearthed a total of seven bodies when they conclude their search at Belanglo State Forest. Attention now turns away from the forest and toward finding who is responsible. Thanks to Paul Onions, a survivor of an earlier attack in the same forest, Task Force Air gets its breakthrough. On the 5th of May 1994, police fly Paul to Australia and show him a series of images. He identifies the man he says attacked him. His name is Ivan Milat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
16 feb

The Disappearance of Graeme Thorne

Sydney, July 1960. Eight-year-old Graeme Thorne disappears while waiting for a lift to school in Bondi. His family are ordinary — a travelling salesman, his wife, and their two children, living in a rented duplex. Three weeks earlier, however, Bazil Thorne had won £100,000 in the Opera House Lottery — and the media published their names and home address. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
29 gen

Bushranger Book One: Black Caesar

Before Australia had roads, towns, or a stable food supply, the colony was already producing its first outcasts. In a settlement governed by hunger and discipline, one transported convict—known to history as Black Caesar—crossed the line between containment and survival. Unknowingly, he set in motion the earliest form of bushranging, before it had a name and before the colony knew how to respond to it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
06/10/2025

The Shark Arm Murder

In April 1935, a tiger shark at Sydney’s Coogee Aquarium regurgitated a human arm, setting in motion one of Australia’s most bizarre crimes. The case quickly grew into a tangled investigation, involving a crime underworld, a high-speed chase and the murder of a key witness. The story often feels stranger than fiction, yet it endures as a landmark case in Sydney’s history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
4 mar

Bushranger Book Two: Bold Jack Donohoe

Three decades after the colony’s first bushranger, the settlement was larger, harsher, and more organised — and so were its outlaws. Along the roads west of Sydney, a transported convict named Jack Donohoe moved from escape to armed resistance. In a colony now governed by patrols, proclamations, and printed rewards, bushranging was no longer improvisation. It was becoming a crisis the government could no longer ignore. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
17/07/2025

The Emu War

In the sun-scorched expanse of Western Australia’s Wheatbelt, late 1932 brought more than just drought and economic hardship—it brought an invader unlike any other. Not soldiers, not bandits, but a battalion of emus: towering, flightless birds with long legs that could outrun a man and a stubbornness that made them the unlikeliest adversaries in the annals of warfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
29/06/2025

Death of John Pat

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are warned that this story details the accounts and names of deceased persons. Since the fateful day in 1986 when Yindjibarndi boy, John Pat, died in police custody, the 28th of September has been known as John Pat day in Australia. It is a constant reminder of the oppression and injustice that the indigenous people continue to face. His death launched the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and exposed the fractured relationship between the justice system and First Nations people. To this day, no one has ever been found guilty of an Indigenous death in custody in Australia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
16 giu

The Claremont Killings, Part Two

In the years before Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Siara Glennon vanish from Claremont, three other women are attacked across Perth. One wakes in her own bedroom. One is targeted at work. One is taken after a night out. At first, the cases appear separate. Decades later, they will begin to connect. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
21/09/2025 • Solo abbonati

The Family Murders: Unearthed

Warning: This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault, child sexual abuse, drug use, torture and mutilation. Dive deeper into the Family Murders with the discovery of Trevor Peters’ diary and accounts from survivors. Listen to the theories surrounding these murders, and get to understand the crimes in a broader context of the network behind them.

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The Claremont Killings, Part One

The Backpacker Murders, Part Three

The Disappearance of Graeme Thorne

Bushranger Book One: Black Caesar

The Shark Arm Murder

Bushranger Book Two: Bold Jack Donohoe

The Emu War

Death of John Pat

The Claremont Killings, Part Two

The Family Murders: Unearthed

The Family Murders: Unearthed

Body in the Freezer: Unearthed

The Society Murders: Unearthed

Mr Cruel: Unearthed

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