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Factual, engaging and succinct retellings of Australia's unique crime. Join the ‘Ned Kelly Gang’ for exclusive episodes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. The Disappearance of Graeme Thorne

    1D AGO

    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 min
  2. The Backpacker Murders: Unearthed

    FEB 9 • NED KELLY GANG ONLY

    The Backpacker Murders: Unearthed

    Dive deeper into the Backpacker Murders — one of Australia’s most notorious crimes. This Unearthed episode explores the unresolved questions that sit beyond the verdict: whether Ivan Milat acted alone, the possibility of additional victims, investigative failures, and why the case continues to resist full closure decades later.

    31 min
  3. The Backpacker Murders, Part Three

    JAN 26

    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.

    25 min
  4. The Backpacker Murders, Part Two

    JAN 19

    The Backpacker Murders, Part Two

    Police have just uncovered a fifth body in Belanglo State Forest. The victims span years of disappearances but a pattern is appearing; they all vanished while hitchhiking along the hume highway. Task Force Air has been formed to coordinate the investigation, bringing together missing-persons cases, forensic evidence, and search operations. What remains unclear is whether the forest has revealed everything it contains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    23 min
  5. The Backpacker Murders, Part One

    JAN 12

    The Backpacker Murders, Part One

    For decades, the road between Sydney and Melbourne has been a trusted passage — a route taken by families, freight drivers, and young travellers chasing work or experience. In the late 1980s, hitchhiking along this corridor is common and unremarkable. But when multiple travellers vanish without witnesses, a forest just off the highway begins to emerge as something more than a place on the map. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    26 min
  6. The Savoy Christmas Fire

    12/10/2025

    The Savoy Christmas Fire

    In Kings Cross during the summer of 1975, the Savoy Hotel is one of many old boarding houses offering cheap beds to those with nowhere else to go. But on Christmas morning, neighbours look up to see residents trapped behind windows and smoke pouring from the stairwell. What first appears to be a tragic accident will soon expose a far darker origin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min

  7. 11/17/2025

    Suzanne & Susan

    In 1977 Collingwood was a dense, close-quartered neighbourhood in Melbourne's inner-north. Its narrow terraces lived in by factory workers, students, artists and independent women carving out their own lives in the inner city. On Easey Street, two such women share a small terrace, but in January the home sits unusually still for days, with only the faint cries of a child breaking the silence. What begins as a simple welfare check quickly turns into a case that will haunt Melbourne for decades. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    28 min

  8. 11/10/2025

    The Baby Farming Murders

    Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child murder.  In 1892, Sydney was a city balancing progress and poverty. Thanks to social stigma and economic hardship, unwanted pregnancies were growing and as a result “baby farming” began to quietly thrive in backstreets and rented terraces. When workmen uncovered the tiny remains of infants buried beneath a particular house in Macdonaldtown, the discovery unravelled a web of deceit that stretched across the city, exposing a hidden trade built on desperation and betrayal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    27 min
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