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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.

  1. A Man and His Dog: Part 2 - Australian True Crime

    1d ago

    A Man and His Dog: Part 2 - Australian True Crime

    The Unsolved Disappearance of Paddy Moriarty from Larrimah - Part 2 of 2 A man and his dog vanished from an outback town of a dozen people, a few hundred metres from home. In Part Two, the rest of the world arrives to look for them. The searches. The divers. A quarter-million-dollar reward. A listening device left running in a quiet house, and a voice in the dark that the police thought might finally be the break they'd been waiting for. An inquest, a coroner who stood up and said the word out loud, and then, years later, two flat sentences that brought the whole thing to a halt. The conclusion of A Man and His Dog. Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast    Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast   Contact us - strewthpodcast@gmail.com  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: ABC News — Matt Garrick, "Why Paddy Moriarty's disappearance from the tiny town of Larrimah may never be fully solved," 8 June 2024. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-08/paddy-moriarty-case-nt-dpp-decision-larrimah-mystery-continues/103947002 ABC News — Roxanne Fitzgerald, "Case involving suspected death of Paddy Moriarty handed to Director of Public Prosecutions," 13 September 2022. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-13/paddy-moriarty-case-handed-to-director-of-public-prosecutions/101433924 The Guardian — Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson, "Paddy Moriarty inquest hears NT police recordings of man allegedly saying he 'killerated the bastard'," 6 April 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/06/paddy-moriarty-inquest-hears-nt-police-recordings-of-man-allegedly-saying-he-killerated-the-bastard NT Independent — "'I killerated old Paddy ... I struck him on the head and killerated the bastard': Inquest played bizarre murder song" (April 2022). https://ntindependent.com.au/i-killerated-old-paddy-i-struck-him-on-the-f*****g-head-and-killerated-the-bastard-inquest-played-bizarre-murder-song/ NT Independent — "No charges to be laid in Paddy Moriarty case: DPP" (June 2024). https://ntindependent.com.au/no-charges-to-be-laid-in-paddy-moriarty-case-dpp/ The Nightly — "Paddy Moriarty: Major development announced in Larrimah missing person case made famous on Netflix show" (June 2024). https://thenightly.com.au/australia/northern-territory/paddy-moriarty-major-development-announced-in-larrimah-missing-person-case-made-famous-on-netflix-show-c-14929564 Podcast — Lost in Larrimah, Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson (The Australian / News Corp, 2018). Winner, 2018 Walkley Award for Radio/Audio Feature. Radio — A Dog Act: Homicide on the Highway, ABC Radio National (2018). Documentary — Last Stop Larrimah, directed by Thomas Tancred, executive produced by Mark and Jay Duplass (HBO, 2023; also distributed internationally).

    36 min
  2. A Man and His Dog: Part 1 - Australian True Crime

    3d ago

    A Man and His Dog: Part 1 - Australian True Crime

    The Unsolved Disappearance of Paddy Moriarty from Larrimah - Part 1 of 2  One evening in December 2017, a man and his dog rode home from the pub in a tiny town on the Stuart Highway, a few hundred metres up the road, and were never seen again. Paddy Moriarty was a seventy-year-old Irish-born ringer, a larrikin and a creature of habit, who lived alone with his young red kelpie, Kellie, in a fading outback settlement of barely a dozen people. When he vanished, he left a half-made dinner on the table, both his hats by the door, and a town full of neighbours who weren't saying much at all. Part one of two. This week on Strewth: the man, the dog, the dying town, and the last ordinary day in Larrimah. Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast    Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast  Contact us - strewthpodcast@gmail.com  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: ABC News — Matt Garrick, "Why Paddy Moriarty's disappearance from the tiny town of Larrimah may never be fully solved," 8 June 2024. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-08/paddy-moriarty-case-nt-dpp-decision-larrimah-mystery-continues/103947002 ABC News — Roxanne Fitzgerald, "Case involving suspected death of Paddy Moriarty handed to Director of Public Prosecutions," 13 September 2022. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-13/paddy-moriarty-case-handed-to-director-of-public-prosecutions/101433924 The Guardian — Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson, "Paddy Moriarty inquest hears NT police recordings of man allegedly saying he 'killerated the bastard'," 6 April 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/06/paddy-moriarty-inquest-hears-nt-police-recordings-of-man-allegedly-saying-he-killerated-the-bastard NT Independent — "'I killerated old Paddy ... I struck him on the head and killerated the bastard': Inquest played bizarre murder song" (April 2022). https://ntindependent.com.au/i-killerated-old-paddy-i-struck-him-on-the-f*****g-head-and-killerated-the-bastard-inquest-played-bizarre-murder-song/ NT Independent — "No charges to be laid in Paddy Moriarty case: DPP" (June 2024). https://ntindependent.com.au/no-charges-to-be-laid-in-paddy-moriarty-case-dpp/ The Nightly — "Paddy Moriarty: Major development announced in Larrimah missing person case made famous on Netflix show" (June 2024). https://thenightly.com.au/australia/northern-territory/paddy-moriarty-major-development-announced-in-larrimah-missing-person-case-made-famous-on-netflix-show-c-14929564 Podcast — Lost in Larrimah, Caroline Graham and Kylie Stevenson (The Australian / News Corp, 2018). Winner, 2018 Walkley Award for Radio/Audio Feature. Radio — A Dog Act: Homicide on the Highway, ABC Radio National (2018). Documentary — Last Stop Larrimah, directed by Thomas Tancred, executive produced by Mark and Jay Duplass (HBO, 2023; also distributed internationally).

    32 min
  3. A Bizarre Journey

    3d ago • Subscribers Only

    A Bizarre Journey

    This week on Strewth: The Bizarre Case of the Tromp Family. In August 2016, an ordinary family from the hills east of Melbourne did something no one has ever fully explained. They left their phones on the kitchen bench, their passports in the drawer, the keys in the cars, and they drove. More than fifteen hundred kilometres, across two states, running from a danger no one else could see. Over six days they came apart one at a time, until a stranger driving to a doctor's appointment felt a kick from the floor of his ute and turned around. No crime. No villain. No threat anyone could find. So what were the Tromps running from? This week on Strewth: The Bizarre Case of the Tromp Family. In August 2016, an ordinary family from the hills east of Melbourne did something no one has ever fully explained. They left their phones on the kitchen bench, their passports in the drawer, the keys in the cars, and they drove. More than fifteen hundred kilometres, across two states, running from a danger no one else could see. Over six days they came apart one at a time, until a stranger driving to a doctor's appointment felt a kick from the floor of his ute and turned around. No crime. No villain. No threat anyone could find. So what were the Tromps running from? ------------------------------------------------- Sources: - Marshallsea, Trevor. "Tromp family: The mystery of a tech-free road trip gone wrong." BBC News, 7 September 2016. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-37293494 - Mills, Tammy, and Shana Morgan. "Ella Tromp: Police charge youngest Tromp child with stealing a car." Stuff, 5 September 2016. https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/83928440/ella-tromp-police-charge-youngest-tromp-child-with-stealing-a-car - "Riana Tromp speaks about bizarre roadtrip in first interview." news.com.au, 15 May 2017. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/riana-tromp-speaks-about-bizarre-roadtrip-in-first-interview/news-story/459be05ad66da097415bf3e865ea9b4c - "Tromp daughter was found in back of ute." SBS News (AAP, citing the Goulburn Post), September 2016. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/tromp-daughter-was-found-in-back-of-ute/tzpes451z - "The Tromp Family Disappearance." The Crime Talk Blog, n.d. https://thecrimetalk.com/mysteries/the-tromp-family-disappearance/ - Dave. "Folie a Deux: The Bizarre Tale of Sabina and Ursula Eriksson." Horror Bound Blog, 15 March 2021. https://www.horrorbound.net/blog/2021/2/23/folie-a-deux-bizarre-tale-of-sabina-and-ursula-eriksson

    35 min
  4. The Isdal Woman - Part 2

    Jun 17 • Subscribers Only

    The Isdal Woman - Part 2

    The Isdal Woman - Part 2 - Unsolved Mystery We followed her across Europe. Borrowed names. Hidden notebooks. A woman who went to extraordinary lengths to leave no trace of who she was. But we never answered the question that mattered most. Who she was. Really. How she died. Was it suicide? Was it murder? And why does one witness still wonder about three figures he passed in the valley that afternoon, a woman walking between two men, looking like she didn't want to be there? Cold War secrets. A missile program. And a death that has refused to make sense for more than fifty years. This is the conclusion of the Isdal Woman. Sources: - Cheung, Helier. "Isdal Woman: The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years." BBC News, 13 May 2017. Additional research by Johanna Keskitalo. - Nikel, David. "The Unsolved Mystery of the Isdal Woman." Life in Norway (History Blog), last updated 1 September 2024. - Moore, Kaelyn. "The Isdal Woman" (transcript). Heart Starts Pounding podcast. https://www.heartstartspounding.com/episodes/isdalwoman - Yeop, Azrul. "The Isdal Woman: Nine Identities, One Burned Body." Medium, 16 October 2025. - Higraff, Marit; Aardal, Eirin; Bye Skille, Øyvind; and Hansen, Ståle. NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) investigation, 2016 onwards. - "Death in Ice Valley." NRK/BBC World Service podcast, 2018. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p060ms2h - Osland, Tore. Book on the Isdal Woman case (referenced in BBC News, 2017).

    35 min
  5. Allison Road - Australian True Crime

    Jun 16

    Allison Road - Australian True Crime

    Allison Road - The Haunting Tale of Chrissie Venn On a February afternoon in 1921, a thirteen-year-old girl named Chrissie Venn left her home on Allison Road in North Motton, Tasmania, to collect groceries from the village. She was carrying a basket and nine shillings. She didn't come home. Nine days later, searchers found her body stuffed headfirst into a hollow tree stump, half a mile from her front door. More than a hundred years later, the question of who killed Chrissie Venn has never been answered. But the road where she died hasn't forgotten. Drivers on Allison Road still report engines cutting out, GPS signals vanishing, scratch marks appearing on car doors with no explanation. A girl in a white dress, standing at the roadside, gone before you can be sure you saw her. Allison Road. A true crime story. A ghost story. And a reminder that in small communities, the secrets that aren't spoken aloud have a habit of making themselves known another way. Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast   Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast  Contact us - strewthpodcast@gmail.com  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: Zeehan and Dundas Herald (Tasmania), March 1921. Digitised via Trove, National Library of Australia. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/83958105 Connolly, Pauline. "Drs. Ratten and Ferris and the Chrissie Venn Case." paulineconolly.com, 2025. https://paulineconolly.com/2025/dr-ferris-and-dr-ratten-meet-in-a-courtroom/ "The Haunting of Allison Road: The Murder of Chrissie Venn." Dangerous Roads. https://www.dangerousroads.org/australia-and-oceania/tasmania/13620-the-haunting-of-allison-road-the-murder-of-chrissie-venn.html "The Ghost of Allison Road." Tasmania's Most Haunted, January 4, 2019. https://tasmaniasmosthaunted.wordpress.com/2019/01/04/the-ghost-of-allison-road/ Sun Ithilwen. "The Road Haunted by a Little Girl: The Murder of Chrissie Venn." YouTube, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3QqBwCJj_E

    40 min
  6. A Lone Wolf? - Australian True Crime

    Jun 9

    A Lone Wolf? - Australian True Crime

    A Lone Wolf? - The Ivan Milat Backpacker Murders - Australian True Crime Everyone knows how the number seven relates to the Ivan Milat case. Seven backpackers. Seven graves in the Belanglo State Forest. Seven life sentences handed down in a Sydney courtroom in 1996. But in August 2025, a list was tabled in the New South Wales parliament that had been sitting in police files since 1993. Fifty-eight names. Fifty-eight missing or murdered young people that detectives from the task force that caught Ivan Milat had identified as potentially connected to him. Every state and territory in Australia. Decades of cases. Families who were never told. In this episode of Strewth, we aim to answer two big questions that still hang over this horrific case. How many of those fifty-eight is Milat really responsible for and did he receive help when committing these crimes? Subscribe now to Strewth Premium on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/cw/StrewthPodcast  Strewth social media links - https://linktr.ee/strewthpodcast  Contact us - strewthpodcast@gmail.com  Theme Music - Jesse Frank on Pixabay Sources: NSW Legislative Council Hansard Motion by the Hon. Jeremy Buckingham regarding production of Ivan Milat criminal records, 2025. URL: https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Hansard/Pages/HansardResult.aspx#/docid/HANSARD-1820781676-98950/link/92 ABC News "Police doubt Milat had a woman's help," Saturday 16 July 2005. URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-07-16/police-doubt-milat-had-awomans-help/2059768 News.com.au / Candace Sutton "Belanglo backpacker murders: Ivan Milat confessed to his mother before her death." URL: https://www.news.com.au/national/crime/belanglo-backpacker-murders-ivan-milat-confessed-to-his-mother-before-her-death/news-story/c56d825d8cde4acd3ce05e7bbeffcfbe Daily Telegraph / Charles Miranda "How forensic evidence finally solved Ivan Milat accomplice mystery," May 14, 2019. URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/behindthescenes/last-forensic-evidence-solves-ivan-milat-accomplice-mystery/news-story/b27c2d9b3b1ba60b3ead841d9a7e6508 The Guardian / Michael McGowan "Ivan Milat's chilling serial backpacker murders still haunt Australia," October 27, 2019. URL: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/oct/27/ivan-milat-chilling-serial-murders-haunt-australia-after-death AAP News, "Police files link Milat to 58 cold cases over decades," August 22, 2025

    42 min
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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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