Australian True Crime

Show Notes Ep 226 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb This is a special extra episode of ATC to celebrate the release of ‘Chapelwaite’, inspired by the Stephen King short story ‘Jerusalem’s Lot’ on Stan. You can sign up for your 30-day free trial at stan.com.au     Buy CSI Told You Lies by Meshel Laurie In Paperback As an ebook As an audiobook read by Meshel  ...

Show Notes Ep 225 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb Dr Joanna Glengarry studied for 8 years to be a surgeon but not long after completing her studies and entering the theatre she realised her true passion was forensic pathology. In her native Auckland, that meant another 5 years of formal study, just to get an introduction at the city mortuary. She was taken on as a Saturd...

Show Notes Ep 224 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb Squizzy Taylor was Australia’s first flashy Gangster. He set the standard so many still try to emulate today. Squizzy courted the media, flaunted an extravagant lifestyle and never laid low. Historian Roy Malloy joins us to talk about the incredible exploits of Squizzy and his associates. You can buy Roy’s book, Squizzy T...

Boris Mihailovic is a former outlaw motorcycle club member, a journo and magazine editor and writer, and author of three books - My mother Warned Me about Blokes Like Me , At the Altar Altar of the Road Gods and The Wisdom of the Road Gods.   You can find out more about Boris and read his provocative musings at his website  borismihailovic.com Boris co-hosts a popular podcast ...

Show Notes Ep 222 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb New Hope for the Unidentified There are around 500 sets of unidentified human remains stored in mortuaries around Australia. There are also over 2000 people registered as long-term missing persons. No doubt, some of them are the same people, so why have none of these mysteries been solved? There is new hope.   F...

Suzanne Lawrance , known as Suzie, has been missing from Healesville, Victoria since February 7 1987 after walking home from a 21st birthday party at the town’s Memorial Hall. We speak to Suzie’s family - Liz Westwood and Tony Lawrance and Suzie’s friends, Tracey Squires, Natalie Tulipano, Matthew Hughes and Glenn Taylor in this episode.   If you have any information that could help find out...

CONTENT WARNING: this episode discusses suicide, sexual abuse and assault. Private investigator and entrepreneur Bill Edgar had a traumatic childhood. Childhood sexual assault, life on the streets and a stint in Brisbane’s notorious Boggo Road Jail with some of Australia’s worst criminals, Bill found many ways to survive. In adulthood, Bill has built a loving home and family life with his wife Lar...

Show Notes Ep 219 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb: On 16 July 2001, security guard Steven Rogers was shot dead at his workplace, a Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne. Clinical psychologist Dr Susie Allanson who worked at the clinic was on-sight that day and she joins us to tell us about it, along with lawyer Lizzie O’Shea who represented the clinic in the Supreme...

Show Notes Ep 218 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb The legendary Sandra Pankhurst, made famous as The Trauma Cleaner in the brilliant book by Sarah Krasnostein, passed away last week. Although she battled health issues for some years, Sandra never lost her sense of humour, her incredible generosity or her capacity for love. She was genuinely one of the most loving human b...

Show Notes Ep 217 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb Australian journalist Eileen Ormsby literally wrote the book on the Dark Web. In fact, she’s written 7 books about it, but it was her first book, “ Silk Road ”, released in 2014, about the so-called eBay of hard drugs, that began the exposure of the darkest corners of the internet to the world. A year after Silk Road’s re...

Show Notes Ep 216 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb Dr Danny Sullivan is the Executive Director of Clinical Services at Thomas Embling hospital, Melbourne's Secure Mental Health Hospital, which houses patients with varying levels of security clearance including some who've committed extremely violent acts, but who the court has deemed to ill to be held responsible. You can...

Show Notes Ep 215 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb Amber Haigh has been on the missing persons list since 2002. At that time, she was 19 years old, the mother of a newborn, residing in the NSW town of Young, with the parents of her former boyfriend, who were reportedly the last people to see her alive.   Shaun McMahon, from the True Blue Crime podcast joins us to tel...

Show Notes Ep 214 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb Many things have changed since Jamie Pultz and I last spoke about Kirra McLoughlin’s death and the podcast it inspired, called Beenham Valley Road. Most notably, we don’t have to use the pseudonym “Jason” when talking about her partner anymore. That’s because Queensland’s Deputy Coroner named him as the person responsible...

Show Notes Ep 213 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb Julie Clarke and her husband Richard Neville wrote the book On the Trail of the Serpent, The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj upon which the Netflix series The Serpent is based. Julie is our guest this week.   You can support us with a one-off contribution here . You can become a patron here . You can subscribe to...

Show Notes Ep 212 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb Ginger Gorman is an award-winning journalist and the author of Troll Hunter. She’s always had great passion for her work, and she’s been driven by equal parts creativity and curiosity. In 2011, those forces led her to a home in Far North Queensland to record an interview with a family. It was meant to be a short radi...

This is an Australian True Crime short cut. It’s an abridged version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.  Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb Ginger Gorman is an award-winning journalist and the author of Troll Hunter. She’s always had great passion for her work, and she’s been driven by equal parts creativity and curiosity. In 2...

This is an Australian True Crime short cut. It’s an abridged version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.    Journalist Nina Young made a podcast documenting her search for the truth about her father. It’s called My Father the Murderer . Nina uncovered much more than she could ever have imagined, and more than her mother Denise had ever wanted t...

Show Notes Ep 211 Journalist Nina Young made a podcast documenting her search for the truth about her father. It’s called My Father the Murderer . Nina uncovered much more than she could ever have imagined, and more than her mother Denise had ever wanted to know. Both Nina and Denise join us to talk about their impressions of the man in question, Allen Ladd and his crimes. We’ll also talk about th...

Melbourne-based forensic and clinical psychologist Dr Ahona Guha joins us to discuss her work with people who display abnormal behaviours from stalking to arson. You can ask Ahona questions on Instagram or Twitter Like us on Facebook ​ Follow us on Instagram or Twitter Support us on Patreon Visit our Bookshop Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a special mother’s day edition if Australian true crime. Both Emily and Meshel have a favourite TV show they share with their 11-year-old daughters called “ Superstore ”. All four of them share the same favourite character – assistant manager Dina Fox , played by Canadian actress Lauren Ash, and would you believe it? Lauren co-hosts her own True Crime podcast, called True Crime and Co...

In this episode we hear from Dimity about the night she was sexually assaulted by a stranger in 2019, the investigation from her perspective, why she chooses to speak about her experience and how she feels about it now. Most importantly though, we learn lots of other things about Dimity. You can support us with a one-off contribution here . You can become a patron here . You can subscribe to Calm...

Detective Leading Senior Constable Brett Sniegowski takes us through the investigation into the 2019 sexual assault of Dimity, who joins us next week. We discuss the criticisms levelled at police by sexual assault victims and their families in the past and how investigators are working to improve their methods. Thank you to Detective Leading Senior Constable Brett Sniegowski and Detective Inspecto...

Show notes for Episode 207: Your hosts are  MeshelLaurie  and  EmilyWebb With thanks to Joe Noonan. “Breaking Ranks: An Amazing true Story of a cop on the line.” Former Detective Joe Noonan’s time in Victoria Police happened to coincide with a very hectic period in history - the 1980s when a bloody battle raged between the armed robbery squad and the fearless armed robbery gangs of...

Bank robbers like Russell ‘Mad Dog’ Cox and Ray Denning were household names in Australia in the 1980s, when they brazenly escaped prison and taunted police for years. Author Mark Dapin joins us to talk about this period in Australian history. Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content. Show notes for Episode 172: Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb With thanks to Mar...

Show notes for Episode 206: Your hosts are  Meshel Laurie  and  Emily Webb With thanks to James Harding and Steve. For one family at least, connecting with James Harding’s Hard Cuddles organisation was the intervention that made the difference. Steve was fresh out of jail when he met James Harding. He was a convicted domestic abuser, helpless against his addiction, on the verge of l...