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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.
24/07/2025

The Batavia Shipwreck

In 1629, the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia wrecked on the treacherous reefs of the Houtman Abrolhos, off the coast of Western Australia. What followed was one of history’s most horrifying tales of survival, mutiny, and mass murder. Stranded on the lawless barren islands with no immediate rescue, a power-hungry merchant named Jeronymus Cornelisz seized control, unleashing a brutal reign of terror that saw over 100 men, women, and children slaughtered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
18 mai

The Bowraville Murders

In 1990, three Aboriginal children vanish from the same small community in Bowraville within five months. What follows is a story of fear, suspicion, failed investigations, and families left carrying the search for justice themselves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10 mars

Told Through Trial: The Chamberlain Case

In 1980, nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from a campsite at Airs Rock. Her mother claims a dingo had taken her. Two years later, the question of what happened was tested in court. Told through the witnesses and evidence presented at trial, this episode follows how the infamous case unfolded before a jury. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
23 févr.

The Scott Johnson Case

Sydney, December 1988. Twenty-seven-year-old American mathematician Scott Johnson is found dead at the base of cliffs at North Head. He had moved to Australia to build a life with his partner, splitting his time between Canberra and Sydney while completing his PhD. His clothes are discovered folded near the cliff edge, and within months his death is ruled a suicide — but over the decades that follow, questions about that conclusion refuse to settle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
16 févr.

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.
12/06/2025

The Moorhouse Murders

The Perth suburbs of 1986 were thrown into fear when multiple young women suddenly started to go missing. Too late for several victims but thanks to one, police eventually discovered the “house of horrors” where sadistic couple Catherine and David Birnie would rape, torture and ultimately, murder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
01/09/2025

The Family Murders, Part Two

Warning: This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault, child sexual abuse, drug use, torture and mutilation. The murders in Adelaide didn’t stop with Alan Barnes and Neil Muir. Two more boys - 14 year old Peter Stogneff and 18 year old Mark Langley — would vanish under eerily familiar circumstances. As the investigation unfolds, it starts to become alarmingly clear; these crimes weren’t committed by a sole perpetrator and they aren’t slowing down. Whoever these people were, they held a chilling confidence in committing such heinous crimes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
08/09/2025

The Family Murders, Part Three

Warning: This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault, child sexual abuse, drug use, torture and mutilation. Only meters from his home, 15 year old Richard Kelvin is hastily abducted by several people. Being the son of a local news presenter, the media is quickly overrun by the story, and with it, police are pressured to make serious progress with their investigation. They close in on an ongoing suspect, Bevan von Einem, but will the other members of the sadistic network known as “the Family” be held accountable? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
01/09/2025

The Family Murders, Part One

Warning: This episode contains themes of pedophilia, sexual assault and mutilation. In Adelaide, following the notorious murder of criminal lawyer Derrance Stevenson, dubbed “body in the freezer”, a series of even more horrific murders would occur. This time the victims were young boys and men - drugged, abused, killed, mutilated and discarded. A trail left behind by an underground world of sadism, pedophilia, pornography and exploitation on Adelaide’s most vulnerable. Despite the unrelenting efforts to keep this story hidden, it’s one that continues begging to be heard. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Disappearance of Graeme Thorne

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The Family Murders, Part Three

The Family Murders, Part One

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