Secrets of the Underworld

Former detective Mick Suesskow takes us inside the world of organised crime, from Western Sydney street work to Asian crime syndicates, illegal firearms, drug labs, bikie shootings and homicide investigations. But behind the big arrests and high-risk jobs is the toll it took, the trauma, the drinking, and the moments that stayed with him long after the shift ended. See omnystudio.com/listener for...

Rita grew up with secrets, fear and a father who lived two very different lives — gentle and loving one moment, feared and powerful the next. In this episode, she opens up about witnessing violence as a child, discovering who her father really was, and how she turned trauma into healing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aubrey Black was raised Mormon, bullied at school, and became a young single mum — but no one could have predicted where her life would end up. In this unfiltered episode, Aubrey opens up about entering the adult industry in her late thirties, making serious money, dealing with stalkers, protecting her family, and why the comeback might be bigger than anything she’s done before See omn...

In this powerful episode, Antoinette Lattouf reveals the personal toll of her ABC battle, the panic attacks, death threats, courtroom gamble, and the moment she finally won. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He was a country kid with a cricket career ahead of him  until one violent night changed everything. After a brutal assault left him with brain bleeds, PTSD and a body he had to rebuild from scratch, Mr Ink turned pain into armour. What followed was a life no one saw coming: gym obsession, adult films, OnlyFans controversy, public fallout with Bonnie Blue, and a reputation that followed him e...

Former crime-scene cleaner Donna reveals what happens after the police leave from blood-soaked murder scenes and decomposed bodies to meth labs, hoarder homes and the cases she can never forget. She shares the confronting reality of making a scene safe again, the strange encounters that still haunt her, and the heartbreaking regret that changed the way she saw her work forever. See omnystudio.com/...

Content warning: This episode discusses suicide, mental health struggles and traumatic injury. Please seek support if these topics raise concerns for you. In this deeply personal episode of Secrets of the Underworld , Neil “The Muscle” Cummins sits down with Trent, who shares how a devastating childhood accident, family breakdown and years of mental health struggles pushed him into som...

She left Ireland with a one-way ticket, picked broccoli in rural Queensland, wore a pink hard hat in traffic control — and somewhere between the farm and the city, found herself standing in a Brisbane strip club on her first night, walking out three grand richer. From topless waitressing at bucks parties to building an OnlyFans following from scratch, Ruby is refreshingly honest about the in...

Before she was a WBC champion throwing punches on the world stage, Chloe Chaos was a shaved-head kid from Melbourne's outer north — taekwondo champion, angry at a world she couldn't make sense of and carrying a grief no twelve-year-old should ever know. In this raw and wide-ranging conversation, Neil sits down with the professional boxer and all-round firecracker to unpack the story behind t...

Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of child sexual abuse, grooming, domestic violence, suicide, and the loss of a child. Listener discretion is advised. Eslana Lower has rebuilt herself from the ground up - more than once. Raised in housing commission poverty, subjected to abuse and neglect from the age of five, she left home at fifteen with nothing and spent years forging herself...

He grew up in Broadmeadows, survived abuse, lived on the streets as a teenager, and ended up in Boggo Road Prison at seventeen — and somehow came out the other side as one of Australia's most unique entrepreneurs. Bill Edgar is the man they call The Coffin Confessor. For a fee, he'll crash your funeral and read the message you were too scared to deliver in life. But that's just one chapter i...

He came from Turkey with a background in boxing, martial arts and fashion modelling. He ended up on the Gold Coast — and for the next four decades, Jimmy Ozturk became the face of its nightlife. Working across more than 30 venues as a promotion manager — from Penthouse to Rose and Crown, Bourbon Bar, Crazy Horse, Players and 21 years at Hollywood Showgirls — Jimmy built a reputat...

Saurora is back — and this time, nothing is off limits. In part two, Neil and Saurora go deeper into the world of disability sexuality: carers in the room, clients on the edge of suicide, and the kinks and fetishes that most people wouldn't even know existed. She opens up about losing her father just weeks before this conversation, the bullies from school now sliding into her DMs, and why he...

She's worked with clients on ventilators. She's been briefed by mothers before sessions begin. And she believes disabled people have the same sexual needs, fantasies and rights as everyone else - they're just never allowed to say it. Saurora is a sex worker, sexologist, and fierce advocate for disability sexuality. In this episode she takes us inside her work: the practical realities of intimacy w...

Amanda Householder grew up inside the troubled teen industry — not as a student, but as the daughter of its operators. Her parents ran Circle of Hope Girls Ranch in rural Missouri, a facility that used religion, forced labour, isolation and physical abuse to control the young women in their care. Amanda takes us from her earliest memories of life inside faith-based group homes, to the moment...

* Content warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of domestic violence, sexual assault and coercive control. * For sixteen years, Zoe lived with a man she believed was troubled but trying — a husband who attended church, raised a family and told her his mental health was to blame for his behaviour. Behind closed doors, the abuse was relentless: physical, psychological, financial a...

Marina Lacerda returns to finish her story — and this time, she goes deeper. In this second conversation, Neil and Marina explore the psychological grip Jeffrey Epstein held over his victims, the chilling way he wielded power and control and how Marina's childhood trauma shaped her ability to survive what others couldn't fully comprehend. She opens up about the abusive marriage she stayed in...

Marina Lacerda arrived in New York from Brazil as a child, hoping for a better life with her mother. Instead, she found herself trapped in years of abuse at home — and then, at just 13 years old, was introduced to Jeffrey Epstein. In part one of this conversation, Marina shares how her traumatic upbringing made her vulnerable to exploitation, how Epstein groomed her and used her to recruit o...

Neil Cummins has spent his career standing between the public and Sydney's underworld — but this time, he's the one in the hot seat. In a rare role reversal, Neil opens up to his producer about the doors he worked, the people he protected, and the world he left behind. From his first gig running security,to becoming John Ibrahim's most trusted man, Neil pulls back the curtain on what it real...

Freelance journalist Nicole had no idea that a chance encounter at a kids' footy catch-up would upend her life for the next three years. A brief, strange interaction with a woman at the sidelines seemed harmless enough — until the messages started. What began with a vulgar Facebook message quickly escalated into relentless contact across every platform Nicole used. In this episode, Neil spea...

Marissa Rose has spent 14 years as a paramedic — chased out of houses, holding arterial bleeds with her bare hands and sent alone to crashes in the middle of nowhere on her first day on the job. But long before the ambulance, she was a little girl making tea at four years old, hands shaking, never knowing if it would be good enough. In Part 2, the conversation goes to the darkest places: the...

Marissa Rose has spent 14 years as a paramedic — chased out of houses, holding arterial bleeds with her bare hands and sent alone to crashes in the middle of nowhere on her first day on the job. But long before the ambulance, she was a little girl making tea at four years old, hands shaking, never knowing if it would be good enough. In Part 1, Neil traces the line from a traumatic, abusive c...

Chris Alchin grew up in Western Sydney with big ambitions and a double life. By day, he was breaking records in real estate. Behind the scenes, he was deep in a world of bikie clubs, drug trafficking and serious violence — a world that eventually caught up with him. In this episode, Chris gives Neil an exclusive account of how a kid from Penrith with a strict father and a restless streak end...

Jimmy Judge went from an angry kid in Townsville to Australian amateur boxing champion — then walked away from it all. Now he's a professional food challenge competitor with a growing online following, and he's about to step back into the ring. Neil sits down with Jimmy to trace the full journey: a childhood shaped by his mum leaving when he was 11, boxing saving him from himself, winning th...

DCM. If you know, you know. For those who came of age on Oxford Street in the 90s and 2000s, the name alone brings it all back — the darkness at the top of those stairs, the lasers cutting through the smoke, the bass you felt before you even got through the door. Neil sits down with two of DCM's own — a veteran doorman and a DJ who played the room in its prime — to dig into what...