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. 13h ago

    The Mathinna Mystery - Australian True Crime

    The Unsolved Murder of William Mullins The fourth of July, 1913. Four men stand shin-deep in the Tyne River in the north-east of Tasmania, in snowmelt coming off the range, turning a prospector's dish. The method is sixty years old in that valley. Gold came out of Black Horse Gully in the 1850s and every man standing in the water learnt the dish as a boy. But today, they are not panning for gold. There is a bag of ash on the bank beside them, carried down from a hollow on a hillside two kilometres back, and another bag coming. A farmer named William Mullins walked out to check his possum traps a fortnight earlier and did not come home, and this is what is left to look for him with. Six weeks later a jury of his neighbours sat in the Mathinna hall and named the man who killed him. Six weeks after that a Chief Justice in Hobart took the case off a second jury before they were allowed to consider it. This week on Strewth, the Mathinna Mystery. Launceston By Foot - https://www.launcestonbyfoot.com/ Sources: "Ellen Sneezewell: Her Life and Unfortunate Death." From On the Town - Dianne Cassidy (2020) https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55780385-on-the-town "The Mathinna Tragedy. Summing Up of the Coroner. Daniel Jones Found Guilty of Murder. Mrs Jones an Accessory." The Mercury (Hobart), 13 August 1913. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10295662 Trial report, The Mercury (Hobart), 25 September 1913. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10300830 Trial report, The Examiner (Launceston), 24 September 1913. Druce, Alex. "Mathinna murder mystery endures." The Examiner (Launceston), June 2013. "Tragedy in Launceston. Murder and Attempted Suicide." The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW), 9 May 1882, reprinting the Launceston Examiner. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/851532 "Murder in Launceston." The Mercury (Hobart), 1 May 1882. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9008855 "Execution of George Braxton at Launceston." The Mercury (Hobart), 11 July 1882. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9026073

    The Mathinna Mystery - Australian True Crime
  2. Aug 25

    Wakehurst Parkway - Australian Mystery

    Wakehurst Parkway - Australia's Most Haunted Road Fourteen kilometres of unlit road run straight through the bush through the bush on Sydney's Northern Beaches. By day it is a commuter route with a flooding problem. After dark it is the most haunted road in the city, and people have been reporting the same young woman on the verge for more than fifty years. What is on the record is just as horrifying. Four very real killings, thirty five years apart, no connection between the people who committed them. So what brings them to the same stretch of road to commit these heinous crimes. In this episode I drive the Wakehurst Parkway end to end. Are you game enough to join me? 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: Rozenberg-Clarke, Josephine. "Wakehurst Parkway Ghost: Tales From Sydney's Most Haunted Road." Pedestrian.TV, 22 May 2019. https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/wakehurst-parkway-ghosts/ "Wakehurst Parkway: 'Ghost of Kelly' haunts road on Sydney's Northern Beaches." Nine.com.au, 31 October 2018. https://www.nine.com.au/australia-news/haunted-roads-wakehurst-parkway-sydney-northern-beaches-ghost-kelly-halloween-20181031-p5wpbq.html Hla Oo. "Dark Parkway." Hla Oo's Blog, November 2010. http://hlaoo1980.blogspot.com/2010/11/dark-parkway.html "Wakehurst Parkway Ghost: The Hitchhiker of Sydney's Haunted Road." Earth Bound, 10 March 2026. https://earthboundguides.com/blogs/supernatural-sydney/wakehurst-parkway-ghost-the-hitchhiker-of-sydney-s-haunted-road "Wakehurst Parkway Drivers Report Chilling Ghost Sightings In Oxford Falls Stretch." Cromer News. https://cromernews.com.au/wakehurst-parkway-drivers-report-chilling-ghost-sightings-in-oxford-falls-stretch/

    Wakehurst Parkway - Australian Mystery
  3. Aug 20

    A Clear Night, Moderately Well Lit - Australian True Crime

    The Disappearance of Kath Bergamin - Part 2 of 2 On the evening of Sunday the 18th 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. 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 Wangaratta Chronicle, 18 August 2025. "Cold case hope."  wangarattachronicle.com.au/news/police-and-courts/cold-case-hope-ganvyycv

    A Clear Night, Moderately Well Lit - Australian True Crime
  4. Aug 18

    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
  5. Aug 16 • 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
  6. 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
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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.