Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! New Zealander Warienna Wright was a beautiful, kind and caring young woman, who like many young people her age, was trying her luck with dating on the Tinder app. There, she started chatting with Gable Tostee, a young man who she would later tell friends was the Australian version of the TV sho...

Caroline Grills was the kind of woman who looked like she'd give you a big hug and wipe away your tears. With her warm smile, dumpy frame and thick black rimmed glasses she was the textbook definition of a caring mother, grandmother and in law. But she wasn't. Behind that deceiving exterior, Caroline was hiding a secret, one that she was hoping would wipe out her in laws....one cup of te...

It's the 26th January, 1966, and it's a stinking hot summer's day in Somerton Park, South Australia, and hundreds of beach goers are cooling off at popular Glenelg Beach. The Beaumont Children, Jane aged 9, Arnna aged 7, and Grant aged 4, were amongst them, enjoying a swim and a play before catching the 12:00 o'clock bus back home, their mother Nancy waiting for them.... Only t...

It's the 29th January, 2009, and four year old Darcey Freeman is on the way to start her first day of kindergarten. Her dad, Arthur Freeman, is driving her, along with her brothers six year old Ben and two year old Jack, to meet her mum, Peta, at the school and they can all be there for Darcey's big day. But when Arthur Freeman crosses Melbourne, VIC's West Gate Bridge on the way to...

It's October 1997, and it's the Labor Day three day weekend in Bega, NSW, Australia a picturesque country town neat the NSW/VIC border. Best friends Lauren Barry, 14, and Nicole Collins, 16, were keen to celebrate their upcoming birthdays and the long weekend with a campout with some friends.  All was going well until the girls decided they wanted to go to a party in a nearby town saying...

Karen MacKenzie was a 31 year old single mother making a good life for herself, her 16 year old son Daniel and her daughters Amara, 7 and Katrina 5, on their rural farm in Western Australia's Greenough,. The family loved their farm life and the small farming community loved them. All that changed when one night, in the early hours of February 22, 1993, Karen, Amara and Katrina were brutally h...

It's a cold winter's night in 1979 when John Godson and his two young sons, Damien and Craig, decide to take one last ride on Sydney's Luna Park's famous Ghost Train before heading home. Nearby, friends Richard, Michael, Jonathan, Seamus, all 13 years old, and 12 year old Jason make the same decision. Only one of them would make it out alive. What happened on that June night no...

It's May 1999, and acting on a tip off, police enter a vacant bank in the sleepy town of Snowtown, South Australia, and what they found would shock even the most seasoned detectives and the world.  There, in six sealed barrels filled with acid, were the bodies of eight people. Some were dismembered, some crammed in with another victim, all having suffered a horrific end....but this was only t...

John Edwards was a man with a past. A past filled with domestic violence and ex partners and children who were terrified of him. When John met and married Olga, a young and beautiful Russian woman, the abuse continued and when she gave birth to their two children Jack and Jennifer, sure enough the abuse included them as they grew. Eventually Olga grew tired of John's abuse and left with the c...

Sian Kingi was a kind hearted and popular twelve year old girl. She was popular among her friends, caring, loved netball, her parents and animals...and it would be her love for animals that would lead her to fall into the trap of two depraved, sadistic monsters who had decided that that day, November 27, 1987, would be the day they finally acted out their sick fantasies. What happened when Sian cr...

On a cold September evening in 1994, Cabramatta, NSW, local politician John Newman was gunned down in his driveway in front of his terrified fiancee. John, a Cabramatta local since he was a child, was a formidable figure in local and state politics and was very vocal about the rise in drug use and gang related crime the area. And for John, the cause of this problem sat squarely at the feet of Viet...

Fifteen year old Melbourne teen Rachel Barber was thriving. The bubbly and popular teen with the striking green eyes had a loving and caring family, a boyfriend who adored her and was pouring all her energy into her first true love - dance. What Rachel didn't know was she also had an admirer, Caroline Reed, a family friend, who was bitter and jealous of Rachel's looks and the life she wa...

It's the night of 17th August, 1980 and Lindy and Michael Chamberlain are camping in one of Australia's most famous landmarks and natural wonders, Ayers Rock, Northern Territory - now known as Uluru - with their three young children. The family are relaxing with other campers and baby Azaria is asleep in the family's tent which is nearby. The chatter is interrupted by a baby's...

It's July 2001 and British couple Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees are making the most of their Australian adventure by hiring a car and taking in the stunning Australian Outback in the Northern Territory.... but, sadly, only one of them would make it out of the state alive.  What happened on that awful July night left a young man dead, a young woman traumatised and divided public opinion on wh...

It's January 1977, in Easey Street, Collingwood, and high school friends Susan Bartlett, 27 and Suzanne Armstrong, 28 had bid farewell to Susan's brother after having dinner with him and his girlfriend and were getting ready to settle down for the night. Suzanne's infant son Gregory was already asleep in his cot.  The 'two Sue's' as they were known as were never seen...

Anna Sharp was surprised, but happy about her second pregnancy. Her husband John was not. Their first daughter, Gracie, had been born with a congenital condition and her start to life was rough. The thought of going through this again only added to John's growing misery and resentment towards his wife and a marriage he desperately wanted out of.  What he did next was so heinous, so sickening...

Travelling is a way of life and a rite of passage for many of us, especially when we are young and carefree, and for most of us, the worst we will experience is running out of money or getting an upset stomach.... but what happens if what you encounter is worse than that? What happens if you what you encounter is pure evil? Sadly for seven backpackers hitchiking around Australia, this worst case s...

Nurses are angels in disguise, aren't they? From healing to helping they are there to help us with our healing journeys whatever that may look like...but what happens when one has other intentions. Or an addiction he was willing to kill for to cover up? Registered Nurse Roger Dean was woking in Quakers Hill Nursing Home, NSW, and he had a secret. He was stealing painkillers and was about the...

Hannah Clarke wanted nothing more in life than to have a happy, simple life with her three beautiful children and her husband who she loved. What she got was a marriage riddled with abuse and coercive control, all at the hands of the man who claimed to love her, and when she finally left, that is when things turned deadly.  Join me over a cuppa - or something stronger in this case - as I discuss t...

Maria Korp was a loving mother and wife. She and her husband Joe had been married for over a decade, had a child togehter and had just finished building their dream home in the Victorian suburb of Mickleham. Life, for the most part, was good. But Joe was bored and looking for more and he found it in the form of a online dating website where he met the young and impressionable Tania Herman. The two...

Sunday the 28th April, 1996, started out as any other Sunday in Port Arthur, Tasmania. The place was buzzing with tourists and locals, keen to enjoy the beauty of the penal colony and the stunning nature that surrounds it. Unbeknownst to them, however, a blonde haired man was on his way to visit the area, but he was not interested in admiring the view.....no. His plan for that Sunday was much more...

It's December 1993, and 13 year old Daniel Morcombe sets off to catch a bus to the nearby shopping centre to buy Christmas presents for his family. He never makes it to the shopping centre and is never seen alive again. What happened to Daniel will take years and an undercover police operation to uncover, and would finally give his family closure and put a repeat offender behind bars.  Join B...

It's a Friday night in October 1989, and 47 year old Edward Baldock is enjoying a game of darts and beers with mates. Just before midnight, he bids his mates farewell and decides to try his luck hailing a cab as he staggers home. That would be that last time anyone would see the father and grandfather alive, for what happened to Edward after he left the pub that night is one of the most bruta...

29 year old Jill Meagher,  was just like any other young woman on a Friday night. She was out having drinks in a local bar for a friends birthday, and like many of us, made the decision to make the short walk home. She was not seen alive again. What happened to Jill, an Irish woman making a life for herself in Australia, in a Melbourne laneway on a cold September night in 2012 was nothing short of...

Lisa Harnum came to Australia from Canada with a dream. A dream of making a life for herself, raising a family and living the fairytale. What she got instead was an unimaginable nightmare, full of abuse, control and isolation - all at the hands at the man who supposedly loved her - Simon Gittany.  Simon controlled everything in Lisa's life - what she wore, who she spoke to, where she worked o...