Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans

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...

It's a cold winter's day, 1907,  in the Western Australia suburb of East Perth, and 7 year old Annie Morris dies from a suspected dose of diphtheria, her 5 year old sister Olive meeting the same fate only a few months later. Nearly a year to the day, 14 year old Arthur died the same way and when his brother George started displaying the exact same symptoms of the illness that took his si...

It's a rainy winter's night in July 2001, and 21 year old Sef Gonzales has just returned from a night out with a friend to find his entire family brutally murdered in their family home in North Ryde, NSW. Police are baffled. Teddy, Mary and Clodine Gonzales didn't have an enemy in the world - who would want them dead? What they find is web of lies and greed... all pointing to an ene...

On the 1st March, 1989 82 year old Gwendolin Mitchellhill is found dead at the entry to her Mosman, NSW, apartment building, the supposed victim of a horrific fall. Only a few weeks later, 84 year old Lady Ashton is found dead in the garbage bin area of her apartment building, having supposedly suffered the same fate as Gwendolin. Then another elderly lady is found dead, and another.....and it is...

It's an average weekday morning in April 2012, when Gerard Baden Clay calls police and casually informs them that his wife and the mother of his three young daughters, Alison, is missing. It seems the popular real estate agent and adored mum hadn't returned from her morning walk. She just up and vanished it would seem.  What happens next will uncover Gerard's web of lies, abuse and...

It's a summer's night in January 1996, and 18 year old Sarah Spiers is enjoying a night on the town with her friends in the popular Western Australia city of Claremont. Deciding to call it a night, Sarah bids her friends farewell and leaves them to catch a taxi home. She is never seen alive again.  A few months later, 23 year old Jane Rimmer is out in Claremont with friends, when she dec...

It's Fathers Day 2005, and recently separated dad Robert Farquharson has his three young sons, Jai, Tyler and Bailey. After taking the boys to their favourite take away for dinner, Robert made the drive back to his ex wife's house to drop the boys home - only Robert would be the only one to survive that drive. Robert's car was found in the bottom of a dam the next day, his three son...

It's a hot summer's day on the 11th January, 1965 and 15 year old best friends Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock have made their way to Wanda Beach with Mariann'e siblings to cool off with a swim. After lunch, the girls leave the children on the beach while they go back to collect their bags, and they are not seen again until their bodies are found the next day, hidden in the...

The day is 17th August 1991, and it's a sunny Saturday afternoon in the NSW suburb of Strathfield, and many are out taking advantage of the warm winter weather by shopping or catching up with friends at Strathfield Plaza.  Little did the shoppers enjoying a coffee in the popular 'The Coffee Pot' cafe know there was a wannabe killer amongst them, and he was ready to put his plan of m...

April, 2015, and NSW school teacher, Stephanie Scott, is excitedly counting down the days until she marries her high school sweetheart, Aaron. On Easter Sunday, only days before she was due to be wed, wanting to make sure her students and teacher covering her role had all they need, Stephanie headed to the school where she taught to finalise a few things. She was never seen alive again. What unfol...

As Belinda is on a little break, let's take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans most popular and disturbing episodes. A reminder - what is in the past, doesn't always stay buried.  NEW EPS COMING EARLY JULY 2025 Like what you hear? Have a crime you'd like covered in this podcast? Send me a text! I'd love to hear from you! Support the show Fo...

As Belinda is on a little break, let's take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans most popular and disturbing episodes. A reminder - what is in the past, doesn't always stay buried.  NEW EPS COMING EARLY JULY 2025 Like what you hear? Have a crime you'd like covered in this podcast? Send me a text! I'd love to hear from you! Support the show Fo...

As Belinda is on a little break, let's take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans most popular and disturbing episodes. A reminder - what is in the past, doesn't always stay buried.  NEW EPS COMING EARLY JULY 2025 Like what you hear? Have a crime you'd like covered in this podcast? Send me a text! I'd love to hear from you! Support the show Fo...

It's November, 1989, and 14 year old school girl Leigh Leigh is excited to attend her first ever birthday party, a 16th birthday party to be held at the beach house at Stockton Beach, NSW, Australia. What happened not long after Leigh Leigh arrived would leave the young girl drunk, distressed, sexually assaulted, assaulted and brutally raped and murdered. What happened after her body was foun...

It's a cold June night in Samford, QLD, Australia, 1913, and father of five James Mitchell is out looking for his daughter, Ivy, who hadn't returned from a play date with her friend. Her friend lived on a neighbouring farm and Ivy had made the short walk home many times beforehand, so her father was worried that she had not returned home. Two sets of footprints led James to the local sch...

On the 2nd February, 1986, nurse Anita Cobby, finished work for the day and had dinner with friends. At around 9pm that night, her friend dropped her off at Central Station so she could make her way home. Anita waved goodbye to her friend and boarded a train bound for Blacktown, NSW. It would be the last time her friend would see her alive.  What would follow would see Anita subjected to hours of...

For three decades, from the 1970' to the late 90's, a predator stalked and raped innocent women in the Melbourne, VIC, area and surrounds. This man was arrested for his crimes time and time again, and despite police warnings, was released time and time again, only stopping when he was finally arrested for murder.  Join your host, Belinda, over a cup of coffee or two as she looks into the...

August 19th, 1986 started like any other day for mother Tess Knight and her daughter, Samantha. But by the time the sun went down taht day, Tess would be living every parents worst nightmare - her precious daughter Samantha had come home from school and simply vanished. What happened next would bring about one of the biggest missing persons searches Australia had ever seen, and would expose a most...

This episode takes us to the beautiful suburb of Perth, Western Australia, and between 1958 and 1963, locals and police were at the mercy of a brazen thief, who bounced from grand theft auto to breaking and entering. But all that changed on the morning of Australia Day, January, 1963, a gunshot rang out in the dead of night, that marked the start of a massacre, where no-one, no matter where they w...

Most of us like to unwind by enjoying a cold drink or two with our loved ones. Whether that is while we are on vacation, or just relaxing after a hard day, or week, at work, the bar/pub is a place where we can relax, take a breath and catch up with friends. But what happens when a man, who is doing the exact same thing, gets kicked out of the bar you are at for disorderly conduct, and rather than...

August 1992, and the idyllic rural town of Bargo in New South Wales, is rocked by the senseless and cold blooded murder of nine year old schoolgirl, Ebony Simpson.  Ebony's killer, a father himself, wasn't too hard to catch, however, with sightings of a strange man in a car hanging by the area's schools and the bus stop where Ebony walked home from everyday. He even joined the large...

Sydney, NSW, 1961 and the body of a man is found stabbed to death in a public bath, his genitals cut clean off and thrown into Sydney Harbour. What followed after this grim discovery was only the beginning for the serial killer the media quickly dubbed 'The Mutilator' and left 3 more men dead, genitals removed on all but one, and police at a loss as to who the killer was, until the kille...

In October 1986, pretty university student Mary Neilson goes missing without a trace. Then another girl goes missing, and another, and unbeknownst to police, there is a serial killer couple making the rounds in the working class West Australian suburb of Willagee and surrounds, looking for the next pretty girl to satisfy the sadistic couples lust for abduction, rape and murder, with the woman sign...

It's a freezing cold winter night in June 1993, Frankson VIC, and 18 year old Elizabeth Stevens is due home from school. When she didn't come home, her worried relatives search for her, but to no avail and report her missing to the police. When her severely bashed and beaten body is discovered the next day, police or locals have no idea the hell the next few weeks would unleash on them a...

On a summer's day in February 1921, in a small country town called North Motton, located in Tasmania, Australia, 13 year old Chrissie Venn set off to run errands for her mother, as chore she had done many times before. Only on this day, she didn't come home. She was found, days later, brutally murdered, sexually assaulted and stuffed in a tree stump. What followed the discovery of Chriss...