Australian True Crime

Gary Raymond worked some of the highest profile and most challenging cases in NSW policing in living memory, including the brutal abduction and murder of Anita Cobby and the drive-by shooting of 5-year-old Tess Debrincat. He was also deployed to assist Sri Lankan authorities in body recovery after the 2006 Boxing Day Tsunami. His life outside of policing is unlike any we’ve heard described on...

Narelle Fraser dusts off her celebrated interviewing skills for a special series of episodes of Australian True Crime to be featured intermittently throughout the year. In this episode the speaks to legendary Senior Crown Prosecutor Michele Williams QC. Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content. Show notes for Episode 151: Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb Wit...

We caught up with Yvie Jones from Gogglebox and I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here for a YouTube Livestream on Friday night. Here are some highlights. We’ll be doing it again this Friday from 6pm and we’d love you to join us on the Australian True Crime Podcast YouTube channel .  Subscribe to Welcome To Hell on the Nitty Gritty Committee Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

Greg Fogarty, author of ALMOST PERFECT: The true story of the Crawford family murders joins us to discuss the story of Elmer Crawford, the "ordinary" family man who hatched an extraordinary plan. Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content. Show notes for Episode 150: Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb With thanks to Greg Fogarty Like us on Facebook ​ Follow us on Ins...

Tara Schultz is a survivor of many crimes perpetrated against her in childhood. She joins us to share some uncomfortable truths about the difficulties of meeting the ongoing financial costs of her survival. Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content. Show notes for Episode 149: Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb With thanks to Tara Schultz Follow Tara on Twitter Like...

Narelle Fraser thought her number was up when she ran into the notorious armed robber Victor Peirce at the shops. She also gives us an update on an unsolved case from her days in the sex crimes squad. Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content. Show notes for Episode 148: Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb With thanks to Narelle Fraser Get tickets to Narelle's live s...

Anthony Dowsley’s dogged reporting over several years unmasked lawyer Nicola Gobbo as a police informant and has played a significant role in exposing some of the unorthodox methods employed by Victoria Police in their desperate war against the underworld in the early 2000s.  Entire interview available on Patreon . Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content. Show notes f...

“Disgraced former Drug Squad Detective” Paul Dale was charged with robbery, and then with murder. Some find it hard to believe he’s not in jail or dead, he says he’s an innocent victim of the Lawyer X scandal. You be the judge. Purchase COPS, DRUGS, LAWYER X AND ME by Paul Dale and Vikki Petraitis. Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content. Show notes for Episode 146: Y...

“Disgraced former Drug Squad Detective” Paul Dale has seen his reputation so destroyed that his lawyer says he’s virtually beyond defamation. As his biographer Vikki Petraitis puts it, he’s been accused of everything, and yet, he’s never been convicted of anything. Is he the victim of a huge conspiracy, or the luckiest villain in the ongoing saga of the Melbourne Gang war? You be the jud...

Two “missing” women are found to have suffered similar gruesome fates. Author and journalist Liz Porter returns to tell us the truth about Sylvia Cave and Edwina Boyle. Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content. Show notes for Episode 144: Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb With thanks to Liz Porter Like us on Facebook ​ Follow us on Instagram or Twitter S...

Tim Marsh defends people we call monsters. He’s Chief Counsel at Victoria Legal Aid, and in the last year alone he’s represented 2 men charged with crimes that rocked the nation. Tim joins us to tell us why he does it, how he copes with it, and about the surprising encounter with a victim’s family member that devastated him.   Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic cont...

Jamie Pultz is a former Queensland police officer who’ll soon be launching a podcast investigation into the murder of Leanne Holland. He talks to us about that and about his last podcast project, Beenham Valley Road. We also check up on one of the most memorable guests from Beenham Valley Road.  This episode features the Beenham Valley Road theme song, “Piece is Heaven” by Pete Allen Mus...

This is the first episode of Alice Mitchell’s podcast about Nina Nicholson’s unsolved murder, Clunes Cluedo. You’ll find it sometimes overlaps with this week’s episode of ATC, but it’s well worth listening to both because there are some really special details included in this one.  You can subscribe to Clunes Cluedo wherever you get your podcasts.  Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily...

Alice Mitchell is the second cousin of a young woman called Nina Nicholson who was murdered in 1991 on the porch of her home in Clunes, Ballarat (VIC). Nina was a paediatric nurse who was heading out to work when she was attacked. Her murder is still unsolved.   Alice, who is a private investigator, has become the family sleuth in this case and is letting people know about Nina's case and wan...

Author Liz Porter, Author of Crime Scene Asia, tells us the unbelievable and disturbing case of Sydney-based Singaporean student Ram Tiwary who spent eight years in a NSW jail for a double murder that he didn't commit. Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content. Show notes for Episode 140: Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb With thanks to Liz Porter  Like u...

“Two things can be true at once,” and arson is part in Australia’s bushfire story. Dr Troy McEwan is an associate professor in clinical and forensic psychology at Monash university. Her research is focussed on the assessment and treatment of stalking, domestic violence and arson.   Chloe Hooper, author of excellent books The Arsonist and The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island. Warni...

Fiona Splitt started an intense advocacy campaign in Queensland to have the "no body, no parole" legislation introduced after the murder of her partner Bruce Schuler in 2012. Bruce was gold fossicking in the remote Palmerville Station area in Cape York, Australia when he was murdered. His body has never been found and a rogue, outback couple Stephen and Dianne Struber were convicted of his murder....

Graham Stafford served 15 years for the brutal rape and murder of his girlfriend's 12-year-old sister Leanne. The conviction was overturned in 2009, but Stafford is still locked in a legal battle with the QLD Police Service to have a report into their handling of the case made public. In the meantime he still faces scepticism and innuendo, including from a controversial episode of Channel 7's rece...

12-year-old Leanne Holland was brutally raped and murdered in Ipswich, QLD in 1991. Her sister's boyfriend, Graham Stafford was convicted of the crime, but he maintains his innocence, and the investigation has been found wanting. Robin Bowles included his story in her book Rough Justice, and she joins us to talk us through the case. NEXT WEEK, Graham Stafford joins us. Show notes for Episode 136:...

Perth Brothel owner Shirley Finn's 1975 unsolved murder looms large over the city, with men at the highest levels of government and policing suspected of involvement. Journalist Juliet Wills, author of Dirty Girl: The State Sanctioned Murder of Brothel Madam Shirley Finn , joins us. Show notes for Episode 135: Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb With thanks to Juliet Wills For more about t...

From bank robbing football players to drug-dealing football players and stand-over men, (who used to be football players). Ok, they're not all football players. In their new book "Gangland, this Unsporting Life" Susanna Lobez and James Morton have applied their meticulous reporting skills to the intersection of Australian sport and Australian crime. It's very fertile ground. Purchase Gangland: Thi...

When Julie was a teenager in 1970s Australia, she and her friends decided to try their hands at drug smuggling. It didn't turn out well, despite the assistance of the Victorian Narcotics Squad. Show notes for Episode 133: Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb With thanks to Julie Like us on Facebook ​ Follow us on Instagram or Twitter Support us on Patreon Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on...

Australian Jock Palfreeman has been in a Bulgarian prison since 28 December 2007 when he was taken into custody for the stabbing murder of Andrei Monov. He says Monov and his friends were attacking two young Roma men, known colloquially as “gypsies”, and he was defending them. The victim’s father says he’s a monster. Australian Story producer and author of the Palfreeman family’s story, Every Pare...

The “Milat family insider” quoted extensively in Australian media this week is actually our friend Amanda Howard, from the "Monsters Who Murder" podcast. She gives us an update and an insight into her work, as well as a prediction as to whether we can expect a death bed confession. Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content. Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb With th...

Amanda Howard, the Serial Killer Whisperer joins us again to talk about the holes she believes are in the case against Ivan Milat. Amanda corresponds with Milat in jail. Show notes: Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb With thanks to Amanda Howard. Like us on the Facebook ​ Follow us on Instagram or Twitter Support us on Patreon Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...