147 episodes
Dead Bodies Podcast Dead Bodies Podcast
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- Society & Culture
Have you ever seen a dead body?
People find dead bodies everywhere, under floorboards, inside chimneys, and in their homes. They’re at crime scenes, disaster scenes and in morgues. There have been dead bodies on the red carpet, in cannibals’ dens, and even advertised in the classifieds.
In this series, experienced crime and court reporter Sharnelle Vella, and veteran radio host Dee Dee Dunleavy look at where dead bodies have been found, how they got there, and most importantly, the effect on people who found them.
We talk to people who deal with death daily as part of their jobs, and people who weren’t prepared for the shock of finding a dead body.
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Ep 145 - Rani Featherston
Rani Featherston was just 34 when she was viciously stabbed and left to die on a street in Doveton, Victoria, Australia, in 2014. Just a few days earlier, her killer, Christian Bain-Singh, 24, had attacked and mutilated a man who was sleeping at home with his wife and child.
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Ep 144 - Alvin Ridley
Alvin Ridley was an eccentric, often combative TV repairman in the town of Ringgold, Georgia in the US, who became reclusive and paranoid after his business closed. Suspicious eyes fell upon him when he reported a woman - who he said was his wife - dead in his home. Lawyer McCracken Poston took on the job of defending him in a murder case that everyone said could not be won.
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Ep 143 - Velma Barfield
Australia, has been abuzz with discussion about the deaths of three people in Victoria, apparently after eating poison mushrooms. In this episode we look at serial poisoner Velma Barfield, who in 1984 became the first woman to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
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Ep 142 - Katie Haley
29-year-old Katie Haley was bashed to death with a dumbbell by her vicious, jealous and controlling partner Shane Robertson, while their baby daughter slept in the room next door. Katie’s sad end serves as another reminder that we need to do more as a community to stamp out domestic violence.
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Ep 141 - Boiled To Death
A new-age health and wellness workshop went horribly wrong in Quebec, Canada, in 2011, when 38-year-old Chantal Lavigne was literally boiled to death in a bizarre therapy session.
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Ep 140 - Lucy Letby
Babies sent to the neonatal intensive care unit are usually the most vulnerable, and in need of the greatest care. But instead of nursing them back to health, British nurse Lucy Letby was doing the unthinkable: attacking and killing them.