Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery Podcast

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Welcome to Strewth, where we uncover Australia's most captivating tales of true crime and mysterious happenings. Yarns so extraordinary they'll make you stop and say, "Strewth!" From the sun-scorched outback to the seedy underbelly of our biggest cities, Australia harbours some of the world's most perplexing mysteries. Stories so bizarre that even hardened detectives could only mutter that distinctly Australian expression of disbelief. Each episode takes you deep into extraordinary cases through atmospheric storytelling and meticulous research. You'll walk alongside the detectives, feel the frustration of families seeking answers, and experience the shock of communities torn apart by inexplicable events. Strewth reveals how these cases shaped Australian society and exposes the dark undercurrents flowing beneath the nation's beautiful facade. From colonial-era crimes to modern forensic breakthroughs, these are the stories that made headlines and left investigators scratching their heads. New episodes weekly. Because some stories are too strange not to tell.

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  1. 1d ago

    Half the Farm - Australian True Crime

    The Disappearance of Kath Bergamin - Part 1 of 2 Kath Bergamin was thirty seven. She had married at eighteen and spent nineteen years on a tobacco farm sixty kilometres up the King Valley, raising three children, working the property, and telling a small number of trusted people that her husband had said she would never get off it alive. On the 29th of May 2002, she escaped it. This is the story of the eleven weeks that followed, the last eleven weeks of Kath Bergamin's life. Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast     Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast  Contact me - strewthpodcast@gmail.com  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: Record of Investigation into Suspected Death, Case No. 1111/07. Coroner Peter White, State Coroner's Office Victoria, dated at Melbourne 4 June 2008. Australian Missing Persons Register, Kath Bergamin case file. australianmissingpersonsregister.com/ampr/Bergamin.htm. Wangaratta Chronicle, 20 Years since Kath was murdered. 26 August 2002. https://www.wangarattachronicle.com.au/news/police-and-courts/20-years-since-kath-was-murdered-kjfuy8xj ABC News, 10 August 2015. Family seeking the $1m reward increase. abc.net.au/news/2015-08-10/family-of-missing-woman-kath-bergamin-want-reward-increased/6684520 Nine.com.au / AAP, 3 October 2017. "Letter-writer key to Victorian cold case." Det Insp Tim Day. nine.com.au/australia-news/vic/dna-hope-in-missing-vic-woman-case-20171003-p5vxur.html Macleay Argus / AAP, Callum Godde, 17 September 2020. "Five interviewed over Vic mother cold case." Wangaratta Chronicle, 18 August 2025. "Cold case hope." Source for the Part 2 closing beat. wangarattachronicle.com.au/news/police-and-courts/cold-case-hope-ganvyycv

    Half the Farm - Australian True Crime
  2. 3d ago • Subscribers Only

    Barry and Honey Sherman - Unsolved True Crime

    The Unsolved Murder of Barry and Honey Sherman In December 2017, two of the wealthiest people in Canada were found dead on the deck of their own basement swimming pool. A few hours later a detective stood on the footpath outside the house and told reporters there was nobody to look for. It took six weeks, and a second investigation paid for by the dead couple's children, before police said publicly that Barry and Honey Sherman had been murdered. Eight years on there has been no arrest. A thirty five million dollar reward has gone unclaimed. The children have accused each other. And the only suspect police have ever put before the public is a figure on twenty two seconds of grainy video, walking through the snow, identifiable by nothing at all except by the strange gait. Suspect footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIsuVobpZqA Sources: CBC News, Behind the Shadows: The unsolved murders of Barry and Honey Sherman https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/barry-honey-sherman-deaths-investigation BBC News, "Barry and Honey Sherman: The mystery of the strangled billionaires," Jessica Murphy, 4 February 2018 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42864082 ABC News (Australia), "Who killed Barry and Honey Sherman? The billionaire couple's son is offering $35 million to catch the killer," Rebecca Armitage, 3 January 2023 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-03/canada-billionaire-murder-mystery/101815016 CBC News, "Daughter of Barry and Honey Sherman speaks on their deaths ahead of 8th anniversary," 12 November 2025 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/barry-and-honey-sherman-daughter-speaks-on-death-9.6976085

    Barry and Honey Sherman - Unsolved True Crime
  3. 6d ago • Subscribers Only

    A Clear Night, Moderately Well Lit - Australian True Crime

    The Disappearance of Kath Bergamin - Part 2 of 2 On the evening of Sunday the eighteenth of August 2002, a woman walking her dog in Wangaratta crossed the road to avoid a parked car with the music up. That put her four or five metres from a stranger's front door, where a man was standing on the step talking to somebody behind the flywire. Margaret Scutt kept it to herself for five years and by the time she picked up the phone, a coroner had opened an inquest into what happened to the woman behind that door. In part two of our two part series into the disappearance of Kath Bergamin, we walk through that Sunday hour by hour. Pulling apart the evidence and scrutinising those around her to try to determine what happened to Kath on that fateful night. ------------------------------------ Sources Record of Investigation into Suspected Death, Case No. 1111/07. Coroner Peter White, State Coroner's Office Victoria, dated at Melbourne 4 June 2008. Australian Missing Persons Register, Kath Bergamin case file. australianmissingpersonsregister.com/ampr/Bergamin.htm. Wangaratta Chronicle, 20 Years since Kath was murdered. 26 August 2002. https://www.wangarattachronicle.com.au/news/police-and-courts/20-years-since-kath-was-murdered-kjfuy8xj ABC News, 10 August 2015. Family seeking the $1m reward increase. abc.net.au/news/2015-08-10/family-of-missing-woman-kath-bergamin-want-reward-increased/6684520 Nine.com.au / AAP, 3 October 2017. "Letter-writer key to Victorian cold case." Det Insp Tim Day. nine.com.au/australia-news/vic/dna-hope-in-missing-vic-woman-case-20171003-p5vxur.html news.com.au, Megan Palin, 24 August 2018. Det Insp Andrew Stamper. Two errors: charge year 2004, and tape on her pillow. Bendigo Advertiser, William Vallely, 24 August 2018. Original Stamper source. Macleay Argus / AAP, Callum Godde, 17 September 2020. "Five interviewed over Vic mother cold case." Wangaratta Chronicle, 18 August 2025. "Cold case hope." Source for the Part 2 closing beat. wangarattachronicle.com.au/news/police-and-courts/cold-case-hope-ganvyycv

    A Clear Night, Moderately Well Lit - Australian True Crime
  4. Aug 11

    Phantoms of the Line - Australian Mystery

    Australian Train Heist Mysteries In December 1973, two men in black stopped a train in the rainforest above Cairns, took the track workers' wages off it at gunpoint and vanished down a drain into the scrub. Thirty-five years earlier and half a state away, a mine payroll was lifted out of a locked mail van on the dark run to Mount Isa, so cleanly that a full day went by before anyone knew it was gone. Two railways, two payrolls, and two impeccable railway heists. This week on Strewth, the Phantoms of the Line. Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast     Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast    Contact me - strewthpodcast@gmail.com  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: "MAIL TRAIN ROBBERY. £3,000 IN NOTES STOLEN. North Queensland Haul." Brisbane, 31 August 1938.https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/42110600 "MAIL TRAIN ROBBERY. BRISBANE DETECTIVES. Called In To Assist." Brisbane, 4 September 1938. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/62172323 ABC News, "Mystery of Australia's Great Kuranda rail robbery remains unsolved 50 years on," 2023. Queensland Police Museum, "FROM the VAULT - Silk Yards and a Railway Guard," The Workshops Rail Museum (Queensland Museum), "Railway Mysteries," David Mewes, 25 June 2014. https://blog.qm.qld.gov.au/2014/06/25/railway-mysteries/ Secondary (retrospective features) The Cairns Post, "Cairns mystery: 1973 Kuranda rail armed robbery," Pete Martinelli, 2018. ABC News, "Deathbed confession solves 66-year-old robbery case," 10 February 2005.

    Phantoms of the Line - Australian Mystery
  5. Aug 6

    Where is Peter Falconio? - Australian True Crime

    The Disappearance of Peter Falconio - Part 2 of 2 Bradley Murdoch was convicted of Peter Falconio's murder and died in prison still denying it. Twenty-five years on, there is still no body, and some of the evidence that put him away has never stopped being argued over. In part two of two we analyse the evidence, the doubts, the stories, and leave you holding the one question a jury, a judge and a dying man could not close. Where is Peter Falconio? --------------------- Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast   Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast     Contact me - strewthpodcast@gmail.com  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: "25 years on: How Joanne Lees escaped the fate of Peter Falconio," Woman's Day, 12 July 2026. https://www.nowtolove.com.au/true-crime/joanne-lees-peter-falconio-25-years/ "A Quarter-Century Search for Answers," Nine , 2026. https://www.nineforbrands.com.au/media-release/a-quarter-century-search-for-answers/ "Outback Terror: The Falconio Murder: Documentary revives search for remains in Australia's Northern Territory," Victoria Laurie, The Sydney Morning Herald (Nine network), 2026. https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-documentary-reviving-the-search-for-peter-falconio-s-remains-20260712-p60enu.html "Peter Falconio: Australian police reveal previously unseen photos 25 years after backpacker murder," BBC News, 14 July 2026. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlwln0gkzlo "Police release new footage of Northern Territory killer days before death," Nine 10 July 2026. https://www.nine.com.au/australia-news/nt/bradley-john-murdoch-police-footage-peter-falconio-20260711-p60ehc.html "Peter Falconio murder: British expert says he has identified a 'most likely' burial location," The Guardian, 18 July 2026. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/18/peter-falconio-british-expert-says-he-has-identified-a-most-likely-burial-location "Peter Falconio's body could be 70km from murder scene, former police officer says," Courtney Barrett, ABC News, 14 July 2026. abc.net.au/news/peter-falconio-body-investigator-nt-missing-person-search/106911332

    Where is Peter Falconio? - Australian True Crime
  6. Aug 4

    The Barrow Creek Incident - Australian True Crime

    The Disappearance of Peter Falconio - Part 1 of 2 July 2001. A young English couple drive north into the Australian desert, and only one of them is ever seen again. Joanne Lees escapes a killer on the loneliest road in the country, hides for hours in the dark, and walks out to raise the alarm. Plenty of armchair detectives are quick to decide that she is the one with something to hide. In part one of two: the crime, the manhunt, and the survivor who was put on trial by everyone except the law. Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast   Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast     Contact me - strewthpodcast@gmail.com  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: "25 years on: How Joanne Lees escaped the fate of Peter Falconio," Woman's Day, 12 July 2026. https://www.nowtolove.com.au/true-crime/joanne-lees-peter-falconio-25-years/ "A Quarter-Century Search for Answers," Nine , 2026. https://www.nineforbrands.com.au/media-release/a-quarter-century-search-for-answers/ "Outback Terror: The Falconio Murder: Documentary revives search for remains in Australia's Northern Territory," Victoria Laurie, The Sydney Morning Herald (Nine network), 2026. https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-documentary-reviving-the-search-for-peter-falconio-s-remains-20260712-p60enu.html "Peter Falconio: Australian police reveal previously unseen photos 25 years after backpacker murder," BBC News, 14 July 2026. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlwln0gkzlo "Police release new footage of Northern Territory killer days before death," Nine 10 July 2026. https://www.nine.com.au/australia-news/nt/bradley-john-murdoch-police-footage-peter-falconio-20260711-p60ehc.html "Peter Falconio murder: British expert says he has identified a 'most likely' burial location," The Guardian, 18 July 2026. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/18/peter-falconio-british-expert-says-he-has-identified-a-most-likely-burial-location "Peter Falconio's body could be 70km from murder scene, former police officer says," Courtney Barrett, ABC News, 14 July 2026. abc.net.au/news/peter-falconio-body-investigator-nt-missing-person-search/106911332

    The Barrow Creek Incident - Australian True Crime
  7. Aug 2 • Subscribers Only

    The Missing of Piha - Unsolved Mystery

    Piha. A black-sand beach an hour out of Auckland. Beautiful. And one of the deadliest places in New Zealand. Since 1992, six people have gone missing from this one small stretch of coast. No body. No clothing. Not even a shoe has been recovered The coroners explained them one at a time. A drowning. A fall. A suicide. But set them side by side, and an ominous pattern begins to emerge. This week on Strewth Abroad. The missing of Piha. SOURCES Black Coast Vanishings (documentary, four parts). Directed by Candida Beveridge and Megan Jones. New Zealand, 2024. Streaming in Australia on DocPlay. Eva Corlett, "What connects six disappearances in a picturesque New Zealand town? 'Everyone has a theory'", The Guardian, 25 August 2025. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/25/what-connects-six-disappearances-in-a-picturesque-new-zealand-town-everyone-has-a-theory-ntwnfb Bob Harvey "The vanishing: The three women who disappeared on Auckland's west coast beaches", Metro. https://www.metromag.co.nz/society/society-crime/the-vanishing-the-three-women-who-disappeared-on-aucklands-west-coast-beaches Kirsty Wynn, "'I feel shaken': Piha women rally together after true crime revelations", Newstalk ZB / NZ Herald, 30 January 2024. https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/black-coast-vanishings-piha-women-set-up-walking-groups-to-stay-safe-after-true-crime-documentary-sparks-fears/ Kirsty Johnston, "Iraena Asher inquest 'pointless', says father", Stuff, 19 July 2012. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7305685/Iraena-Asher-inquest-pointless-says-father Jackson Thomas and Ryan Anderson, "The missing people of Piha: 25 years, six cases, no answers", Stuff, 1 January 2021. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300189370/the-missing-people-of-piha-25-years-six-cases-no-answers "What's Behind the Disappearances? Six People Vanish in New Zealand's Piha", Continent Surfer, 26 August 2025. https://continentsurfer.com/whats-behind-the-disappearances-six-people-vanish-in-new-zealands-piha/

    The Missing of Piha - Unsolved Mystery
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Welcome to Strewth, where we uncover Australia's most captivating tales of true crime and mysterious happenings. Yarns so extraordinary they'll make you stop and say, "Strewth!" From the sun-scorched outback to the seedy underbelly of our biggest cities, Australia harbours some of the world's most perplexing mysteries. Stories so bizarre that even hardened detectives could only mutter that distinctly Australian expression of disbelief. Each episode takes you deep into extraordinary cases through atmospheric storytelling and meticulous research. You'll walk alongside the detectives, feel the frustration of families seeking answers, and experience the shock of communities torn apart by inexplicable events. Strewth reveals how these cases shaped Australian society and exposes the dark undercurrents flowing beneath the nation's beautiful facade. From colonial-era crimes to modern forensic breakthroughs, these are the stories that made headlines and left investigators scratching their heads. New episodes weekly. Because some stories are too strange not to tell.