True Crime Island

A listeners tale of courage and survival plus a look at the new UK Double Jeopardy laws and how they could affect one well known gangster.

It’s 6:09 AM January 18th 1977 Mt Victoria train station in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. The NSW 46 Class locomotive No.4620 hauling 8 passenger carriages leaves the station with commuters on their way to work in the city, a 126km journey. Along the way it will pick up and set down passengers. After stopping at Parramatta, it had a nonstop run to Strathfield then onward to Sydney. However, m...

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It’s the 11th May 1999. 14-year-old Cleon Jackman is out riding a pushbike near Petry St Langford Western Australia. Suddenly a car swerves around the corner and a man and a woman jump out and chase him down. They then shove him into the car and drive off. Five hours later, Cleon Jackman will be dead. This is the story of how three scumbags, a man and two women, will kidnap, torture and murder at...

Marcus Fiesel was only 3 years old when his foster parents killed him, more on the Grenfell tower disaster and readers comments.

It’s the 22nd March 2012. 30Km’s West of Gloucester NSW Australia. Malcolm John Naden fugitive for 7 years and Australia’s most wanted man is captured in a dramatic police operation. He is wanted for the murder of Kristy Scholes, shooting with intent to murder, aggravated indecent assault and multiple break and enter charges. He was also wanted in connection of the disappearance and suspected murd...

Maintain the rage in this episode of True Crime island Special Edition.

It’s October 1986 Perth Western Australia. Over a five-week period, five women would go missing. Four of them would be murdered, but the fifth is able to escape, and a shocking story of kidnapping, rape and murder is uncovered. This is the story of David and Catherine Birnie, serial killers.

Just before 1AM on the 14th June 2017, a fire broke out in the apartments which quickly spread trapping many of the residents. It is believed at this time, although not confirmed, that the fire started in a 4th floor apartment, when a fridge caught fire.

It’s 19th April 1999, Nothcote, just North East of Melbourne. At around 9 am, neighbours hear the screams of a woman coming from the house of 28-year-old psychotherapist Nicole Amanda Patterson. Thinking it is just a domestic dispute, they decide to ignore the screams as it’s soon quiet. Later that night, Nicole’s mutilated body would be found by a friend that had turned up for a dinner date. This...

Special Edition Update on the Matthew Leveson case from Episode 4. Matthew went missing believed murdered in Sept 2007. His remains have now been found.

Have you ever been travelling and got talking with another fellow tourist and ended up hanging out with them? Well let me tell you a story about John Martin Scripps. Not the guy you want to meet on holiday, and certainly not someone to hang out with, although in the end it was he that would be hanging.

It’s the 8th September 1988, Sutherland Railway Station about 30km southwest of Sydney. Janine Balding has just left the train from work and was walking towards her car in the fading light around 6pm. Here she is confronted by a gang of youths and she is bundled into her car at knife point. Two days later, her body would be found hog tied floating in a dam at Minchinbury around 45 km west of Sydne...

It’s the 4th July 1974. Kings Cross Sydney. Heiress Juanita Nielsen attends a meeting to discuss advertising for the Carousel Club in her newspaper called ‘NOW’. She is never seen again and her body is never found. Was it her opposition to development in the area or something else she was about to expose.

It’s Father’s Day 2nd September 1984. A swap meet at the Viking Tavern Milperra Sydney, has been organized by the British Motorcycle Club. It was to be a family day where enthusiasts would meet, talk motorcycles, buy and sell parts, enjoy a few beers and a pig on a spit. At the end of the day there would be seven dead and twenty-eight wounded. The fight between the Comancheros and Bandido Motorcyc...

Today I am going to tell you a story of greed, fraud, theft and murder. A small-time conman who evolves into a ruthless killer. From the suburbs of North Carolina to the secluded paradise of Bocas del Toro Panama. William Dathan Holbert or Wild Bill as he would become known, would target his victims by befriending them, then killing them for homes and businesses. This is a story of murder in parad...

It’s 7:09am, June 20 1994, Dunedin New Zealand. 22-Year-old David Bain calls emergency services 111. Clearly distressed he tells the operator ‘They’re all dead, they’re all dead’. Police and Ambulance arrive 20 minutes later to a grisly scene. David’s mother, father, two sisters and brother are all shot dead. Four days later, David would be charged with their murder. David says it was his father a...

It’s Sunday the 7th of December 2003. 13 year-old Daniel Morecombe waits at an unofficial Bus Stop under the Kiel Mountain Road overpass in the Woombye district of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. He is on his way to the Sunshine Plaza Shopping Centre for a haircut and to buy Christmas presents for his family. The bus he planned to catch breaks down and the replacement bus fails to stop. The driver...

It’s 5am the 18th November 2011. A fire breaks out at the Quakers Hill nursing home 40km west of Sydney NSW Australia. 14 of the 81 residents of the home would die in the fire or in the period soon after. Roger Kingsley Dean, a registered nurse employed at the home, would ultimately pleaded guilty to, and was convicted in respect of, eleven counts of murder by way of reckless indifference to human...

It’s July 10, 2001, 000 emergency dispatchers receive a phone call from 20-year-old Sef Gonzales, a Phillipino/Australian, who tells them he has just arrived home, found his mother, father and sister murdered and that he had chased off the intruders. Police arrive and find the dead bodies of 46-Year-old Teddy Gonzales, 43-year-old Loiva Gonzales and his 18 year-old sister Clodine. They also see th...

It’s the 1st of March 1989, 82-year-old Gwendoline Mitchelhill is walking down Military Rd Mosman, NSW, Australia on her way home from shopping. She enters the foyer of her building, and as she goes to open her door, she is struck on the head with a hammer. She is repeatedly struck over the head and body and her attacker flees with her purse containing $100. Although she is still alive when school...

It’s August 1st 2010 Kristi Abrahams contacts police and reports that her child 6-year-old Keisha is missing from the Mt Druitt flat she shares with her de facto partner Robert Smith. A large-scale, extensive air, ground and water search gets underway but a week later it is called off as police are unable to locate the missing child. This will be one of the most shocking crimes in Australian histo...

It’s the morning of March 1st 2000 Aberdeen NSW Australia. 45-Year-old John Price or ‘Pricey’ as he was known, had uncharacteristically not shown up at work. His work mates were concerned as Pricey had told his mates the day before that if he didn’t turn up to work the next day that it would be because he was dead. They call police and they go to his 84 St Andrews St residence. What they find woul...

It’s 2:11AM September 23, 2007. 20-year-old Matthew Leveson and his partner 42 yo Michael Atkins leave the ARQ nightclub at Darlinghurst Sydney. Matthew would never be seen again. Almost a year later, Atkins would be charged with his murder. With no body, no blood, no murder weapon and no crime scene, Atkins would be found not guilty of murdering Matthew. The electrician was also acquitted of an a...

It’s Feb 19 2013 Hotel Cecil LA California. After guests complain of discoloured and foul water coming taps and showers, maintenance workers discover the body of a girl in the rooftop water tank. Police would identify the body as 21-year-old Canadian student Elisa Lam, who had been reported missing at the beginning of the month. Is this a case of death by misadventure, was it murder or could it ha...