Australian True Crime

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.    Tony Ryan's sister Marcia disappeared in 1996 after leaving her Melbourne home.   Marcia told her family she was going on a road trip with her dog Ziggy to see their parents in Queensland. But as you'll hear from Tony, Marcia's car was...

Tina Louise Greer, 32, went missing from her Beechmont home in Queensland, January 18, 2012.   She had gone to visit her ex boyfriend, a Finks bikie by the name of Les "Grumpy" Sharman, and has not been seen since.   Despite being listed by a Queensland coroner and police as the primary suspect in Tina's disappearance, Les Sharman was never formally questioned by police. He then died in...

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.    Tina Louise Greer, 32, went missing from her Beechmont home in Queensland, January 18, 2012.   She had gone to visit her ex boyfriend, a Finks bikie by the name of Les "Grumpy" Sharman, and has not been seen since.   Despite being...

Nicole Morris started a website more than 16 years ago called Australian Missing Persons Register . It was something she began as a personal project but it soon turned into a valuable resource and advocacy platform for the families and friends of missing people in Australia.    Now some of these cases and stories are in her first book VANISHED , told through the experiences of siblings w...

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.    Nicole Morris started a website more than 16 years ago called Australian Missing Persons Register . It was something she began as a personal project but it soon turned into a valuable resource and advocacy platform for the families and frie...

In 2007 when Kate Kyriacou was a reporter for the Adelaide Advertiser, she took up a story of a missing woman named Glenys Heyward. Glenys, 53, had been due to go on a holiday with her new partner. Instead, she went missing from her hometown of Mount Gambier, towards the Victorian border. Nowadays, Kate is the Courier Mail's Chief Crime Reporter, and has since reported on many harrowing cases. Thi...

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.    In 2007 when Kate Kyriacou was a reporter for the Adelaide Advertiser, she took up a story of a missing woman named Glenys Heyward.   Glenys, 53, had been due to go on a holiday with her new partner. Instead, she went missing from her...

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.    Sarah Boyd immigrated from Scotland to Sydney in 1923. It was there, where she and an accomplice committed an unthinkable decision.   What's even more terrifying, is that it was a decision that wasn't uncommon for women living in Sydne...

Sarah Boyd immigrated from Scotland to Sydney in 1923. It was there, where she and an accomplice committed an unthinkable decision.   What's even more terrifying, is that it was a decision that wasn't uncommon for women living in Sydney, Australia at the time. In fact, it was one of only a handful of difficult options faced by many women.   BUY Tanya Bretherton's book The Suitcase Baby ....

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We continue on from last week's episode with a breakdown of a suspect believed to be the perpetrator of the 1941 Pay Car massacre.   That suspect's name is Lionel Charles Thomas. But don't get too used to it, because if there was one thing this guy loved, it was changing his name.   You'll have to keep your wits about you because over the course of this episode, as he lies cheats, murder...

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.    We continue on from last week's episode with a breakdown of a suspect believed to be the perpetrator of the 1941 Pay Car massacre.   That suspect's name is Lionel Charles Thomas. But don't get too used to it, because if there was one t...

On the morning of December 8, 1941, three men operating a "Pay Car" in south Sydney were unknowingly heading into a brutal ambush.   This story, however, has been lost to history due to it taking place on the same day Pearl Harbour was attacked.   Michael Adams from the Forgotten Australia podcast is back with us for another historical Australian crime.   This is a part one of two p...

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.    On the morning of December 8, 1941, three men operating a "Pay Car" in south Sydney were unknowingly heading into a brutal ambush.   This story, however, has been lost to history due to it taking place on the same day Pearl Harbour was...

Sandi Harvey has not seen her daughter Leisl Smith since 2012.   At that time, Leisl was 23 years old. She was happy, healthy and working in her dream job caring for horses.   But it was horses that brought her into contact with James Church, a much older man with whom she fell in love.   After her disappearance, Sandi discovered Leisl's relationship with Church was one of cruelty a...

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.    Sandi Harvey has not seen her daughter Leisl Smith since 2012.   At that time, Leisl was 23 years old. She was happy, healthy and working in her dream job caring for horses.   But it was horses that brought her into contact with J...

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.    Our guest today is Boyd Unwin, a suburban tradie and father of three in his fifties, who's always thought of himself and his family as the epitome of normal and unremarkable.   Boyd has committed himself to understanding how he lost hi...

Our guest today is Boyd Unwin, a suburban tradie and father of three in his fifties, who's always thought of himself and his family as the epitome of normal and unremarkable.   Boyd has committed himself to understanding how he lost his daughter, Katie Haley, to her partner five years ago. Boyd and his wife Tania are now raising the child their daughter shared with her murderer. And bit by bi...

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.    Ray Mooney joins us again this week to tell us about his friend, Christopher Dale Flannery (AKA Mr Rent-a-kill).   Chris was a teenager when they first met in Pentridge Prison. Chris was not long out of the notorious Morning Star boys...

Ray Mooney joins us again this week to tell us about his friend, Christopher Dale Flannery (AKA Mr Rent-a-kill).   Chris was a teenager when they first met in Pentridge Prison. Chris was not long out of the notorious Morning Star boys home in Victoria's Mt Eliza.   Over the following decades, they maintained their close friendship. While Ray Mooney went on to become a published author, p...

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.    Our guest today is Ray Mooney. He's in his seventies now, and for most of his life, he's been a celebrated writer of novels, plays, films, non-fiction books, and a university lecturer.   At a different time in his life, though, the onl...

Our guest today is Ray Mooney. He's in his seventies now, and for most of his life, he's been a celebrated writer of novels, plays, films, non-fiction books, and a university lecturer.   At a different time in his life, though, the only institution he was allowed inside of was the Bluestone College: The College of Knowledge, also known as Pentridge Prison.   Ray Mooney was convicted of r...

Anthony Dowsley has been a crime reporter at Melbourne's Herald Sun since 2004. In that time, he's covered everything from homicides, solved and unsolved, law and order reforms and police corruption.   We're very honoured to have him in to discuss one of his speciality topics: gang related crime in Australia.   In this episode we will get a snapshot of who's who in Australian bikie gangs...

This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.    Anthony Dowsley has been a crime reporter at Melbourne's Herald Sun since 2004. In that time, he's covered everything from homicides, solved and unsolved, law and order reforms and police corruption.   We're very honoured to have him i...

Two young female tourists are staying in the same quiet spot in Tasmania…one disappears, never to be seen again and two years later, the other woman is brutally murdered.   The women are 26-year-old German Nancy Grunwaldt , reported missing on April 15th 1993. Getting around on a bike, she was spending some time at Beaumaris Beach, reading a book. What happened after that is a mystery&...