Australian True Crime Podcast

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.

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When it comes to reporting a sexual assault – if the assault has just happened,

·      go somewhere safe, call triple 0 and ask for police.

·      Don’t disturb the area where the assault happened.

·      Don’t bath or shower.

·      Don’t eat or drink anything.

·      Don’t wash or discard the clothing you wore during the assault.

When it comes to reporting historical sexual assault,

that’s any sexual assault that happened days, weeks, months or even years ago, it’s never too late.

Delays in reporting sexual assault are very common for lots of reasons.

If you wish to report historical sexual abuse involving institutional or religious organisations, there’s a dedicated taskforce you can contact. It’s called the Sano Taskforce. You can phone 1800 110 007, or email sanotaskforce@police.vic.gov.au

All of this information is available on the Victoria Police Website.

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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 Inspector Juliann Goldrick, and thank to Victoria Police Media.

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When it comes to reporting a sexual assault – if the assault has just happened,

·      go somewhere safe, call triple 0 and ask for police.

·      Don’t disturb the area where the assault happened.

·      Don’t bath or shower.

·      Don’t eat or drink anything.

·      Don’t wash or discard the clothing you wore during the assault.

When it comes to reporting historical sexual assault,

that’s any sexual assault that happened days, weeks, months or even years ago, it’s never too late.

Delays in reporting sexual assault are very common for lots of reasons.

If you wish to report historical sexual abuse involving institutional or religious organisations, there’s a dedicated taskforce you can contact. It’s called the Sano Taskforce. You can phone 1800 110 007, or email sanotaskforce@police.vic.gov.au

All of this information is available on the Victoria Police Website.

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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 the day.

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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 Mark Dapin

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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 losing his children and still blaming his partner for his troubles. He’s now sober and helping other men through the Hard Cuddles program.

Both Steve and James Harding join Emily Webb for this episode of Australian True Crime.

You can find out more about James Harding and Hard Cuddles here.

For free phone counselling 24 hours a day you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14

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Alcoholics Anonymous Australia

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Narelle Fraser and her mentor Lorraine Blackwell discuss the beginning of Victoria Police’s SOCIT, the Sexual Offence and Child Abuse Investigation Teams , among other things. This was originally a Patreon-only episode but we’ve released it as a special companion episode to this week’s main show.

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Show notes for Episode 206:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Narelle Fraser and Lorraine Blackwell.

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A mother from country Victoria wants us to know what it’s really like, day-by-day, for a family after they report their daughter’s rape by a family friend.

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Show notes for Episode 205:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Travis Winks.

Shattered, 67 days to a family’s Self-Destruction

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Ellery Kane’s life is non-stop crime. By day Ellery is a forensic psychologist and she evaluates prison inmates in California, most of whom have committed murder or another serious crime and have been in jail for a very long time, and are coming up for parole. Ellery’s the author of the detective thriller series featuring Criminal Psychologist Olivia Rockwell and Detective Will Decker. The first book in this series is Watch Her Vanish.

An episode of Crime Fiction Friday with Emily Webb.

Your host is Emily Webb

Emily is the author of Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurses Who Kill http://clandestinepress.net/products/angels-of-death

Thanks to Ellery Kane

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Travis Winks talks about the chain reaction of events that turned his normal, Queensland family into a tragic, sensational headline.

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Show notes for Episode 204:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Travis Winks.

Shattered, 67 days to a family’s Self-Destruction

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Phia Power’s brother Corey wasn’t exactly a model citizen, but should that make us any less interested in seeing justice for his murder? 

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Show notes for Episode 203:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Phia Power.

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Neil Mercer and Ruby Jones are still investigating the crimes of Neville Tween, who stalked Sydney’s Northern Beaches without apparent impunity in the 70s and 80s. He trained up dozens of other sex offenders and released them into the community too. How did he get away with so much for so long? The unsolved disappearance of Trudy Adams was just the beginning. The book, Barrenjoey Road is out now, through ABC books.

You can go back to the beginning with the ABC podcast, Barrenjoey Road, here.

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Show notes for Episode 193:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Neil Mercer

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After World War II, Sydney experienced a crime wave and it was women who were the perpetrators. The household poison thallium, normally used to kill rats, was the murder weapon to kill husbands and other inconvenient family members.

Unlike arsenic or cyanide, thallium is colourless, odourless and tasteless; victims were misdiagnosed as insane malingerers or ill due to other reasons.

Dr Tanya Bretherton has delved into these cases of these women and the ways and reasons why they committed their deeds for her book The Husband Poisoner.

Show notes for Episode 192:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Dr Tanya Bretherton

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Author Brian Willams is back with another deep dive into crime - this time the baffling Tynong and Frankston North Serial Killings that are still unsolved 40 years since the discovery of three female murder victims who were ritualistically concealed in Victorian bushland.

We also spoke to Brian for Episode #59 about serial killer Martha Needles.

Show notes for Episode 191:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Brian Williams

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There was a time in Australia where crime was hectic - armed robberies, a racket in stolen goods like stereos that could be sold quickly, an explosion in the heroin trade, shocking gun crimes including at Hoddle Street Melbourne, Strathfield Plaza in Sydney and Port Arthur in Tasmania . 

Even former Prime minister the late Bob Hawke and his family were directly touched by the impacts of the drug trade when he and then wife Hazel spoke to the nation about their daughter’s heroin addiction. 

By 2000, Australia had the highest rate of burglary, the highest rate of assault, sexual assault and robbery and the second highest rate of motor vehicle theft among 25 countries included in an international crime victim survey, included the United States, the UK and Europe. 

But then something happened.

Researchers Don Weatherburn and Sara Rahman explored the downward trend in crimes that’s become the book The Vanishing Criminal.

Show notes for Episode 190:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Don Weatherburn

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The Claremont Serial Killer. Bret Christian is a journalist from Perth, in fact he's a newspaper owner and he's been following the Claremont serial killer case from the very beginning. Now, after sitting through every day of the trial he's written the definitive book, Stalking Claremont, and he joins us exclusively to talk about it. 

I've read it and it's great. It's a very intense story, especially when you think about what a great mystery it was for so long. To find out how obvious this guy actually was... well it's just mind-boggling. I hope you like the episode. “After The Night” The Stan Original documentary series about Perth's first serial killer is streaming now.

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Show notes for Episode 189:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to this week's guest Bret Christian, whose new book “Stalking Claremont” is available now.

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Hi friend. We're back next week with all new Australian True Crime but in the meantime, please give our new show Calm ya Farm a try. It’s a short drop of practical wisdom from unlikely gurus. This one is Home and Away’s Irene!

More calming ideas at our website.

Thank you to Uncle Jack Charles for the Acknowledgement of Country.

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Another instalment of our Spotlight series, where we showcase one of our favourite podcasts.

Stalking is prevalent in Australia. There are hundreds of cases reported every year. These people’s existence have been besieged by a stalker. Survivors often are voiceless and have no place to tell their stories. This podcast is giving a voice to these victims. A place to tell their stories. Hopefully we can help others who are in this terrible situation to fight back.

Bringing up children is a hard job any day of the week. But throw into the mix two young children with maladaptive behaviour, and a young mother who has just undergone spinal surgery, leaving her in a wheelchair during recuperation. Now, what was needed here was a nanny who could fly in like Mary Poppins and help Shannon with the children and chores. What flew in was a mother's worst nightmare.

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If you or someone you know is being stalked please reach out for help:

Literally millions are stalked every year, yet there is still so much stigma, silence, and shame around this subject. It’s time we speak up. Together, we can all break the silence on this unacceptable, illegal, and far-too-widespread behaviour.

Australia: 1800737732

1800 RESPECT

UK: 020 3866 4107

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The 2nd part of the Still Not Asking For It podcast, presented by Rory Banwell.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

The Still Not Asking For It Project was born in July 2014. Rory was pregnant and when her and her partner discovered they were pregnant with a girl, the first thing someone said was 'well, time to buy a gun'; it was then that the shocking nature of embedded rape culture slapped me across the face.

Australian girls have a 1 in 4 chance of being sexually assaulted at some time in their life. Australian men have a 1 in 23 chance (80% of those assaults occurring before age 10), members of LGBTQIA+ community have a 1 in 2 chance and rates of sexual assault for those with an intellectual disability stand at 90%. We have a problem and SNAFI aimed to do something about it.

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A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this podcast. In particular Tullia Connor for her guidance, support and time. 

To the participants, this project wouldn't have been possible without you.

Thank you for sharing your stories and for helping me to create a powerful piece of art.

Hear the 2nd part of this podcast here.

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Our Spotlight Series continues with the Still Not Asking For It podcast, presented by Rory Banwell.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

The Still Not Asking For It Project was born in July 2014. Rory was pregnant and when her and her partner discovered they were pregnant with a girl, the first thing someone said was 'well, time to buy a gun'; it was then that the shocking nature of embedded rape culture slapped me across the face.

Australian girls have a 1 in 4 chance of being sexually assaulted at some time in their life. Australian men have a 1 in 23 chance (80% of those assaults occurring before age 10), members of LGBTQIA+ community have a 1 in 2 chance and rates of sexual assault for those with an intellectual disability stand at 90%. We have a problem and SNAFI aimed to do something about it.

Music courtesy of bensound.com

A big thank you to everyone who contributed to this podcast. In particular Tullia Connor for her guidance, support and time. 

To the participants, this project wouldn't have been possible without you.

Thank you for sharing your stories and for helping me to create a powerful piece of art.

Hear the 2nd part of this podcast here.

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IG: @rorybanwell @stillnotaskingforitproject

Website: @stillnotaskingforit.org

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Introducing Birds Eye View. This is the first episode of the award-winning podcast made by the women inside the Darwin Correctional Centre.

For more info, check out their website here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Thank you to the producers of Bird's Eye View, Story Projects in the NT.

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It’s not Friday but welcome to Emily Webb’s new podcast Crime Fiction Friday! Every week Emily talks to one of the world’s most successful authors about their work and inspiration 

Subscribe here. 

With thanks to Uncle Jack Charles for the acknowledgement of country. 

Show notes for Episode 188:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to S.R. White

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Nicole Lee’s husband raped her virtually every day for years on end and pled guilty to doing so in court. The Judge praised him in his sentencing remarks as a quiet, gentle man. Then the Victorian Government made Nicole fight through the courts again for the right to tell her own story. She and Nina Funnell join us to make it heard. 

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1800RESPECT if you or someone you know has been effected by sexual assault. 

https://www.1800respect.org.au/

Show notes for Episode 187:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Nicole Lee and Nina Funnell

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Perth was terrorised in the 1960's by an illusive night stalker. He killed men and women, in different ways and ran the police in circles. And that’s just the beginning of this extraordinary story. Film maker Thomas Meadmore has made a 4 part documentary series on Stan and he joins us from Covid lockdown in London to talk about it.

“After The Night” The Stan Original documentary series, streaming from November 29.

Show notes for Episode 186:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Thomas Meadmore

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Bob Brown was part of an elite police team who were flown in to catch a killer stalking the outback in 1987. This man had randomly executed five people at remote camping sites in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. More than thirty years on he and his team were recognised with a Bravery Award from the West Australian Government for their actions in stopping a German national Joseph Schwab from killing more people. Bob tells us his story.

Show notes for Episode 185:

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Former Detective Peter Seymour and his team took a crushing not-guilty verdict and turned it into motivation to keep digging. They solved a cold case and uncovered a truly chilling story.  

Show notes for Episode 184:

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For Mental Health support contact Beyondblue.org.au or Sane.org.au

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Kylie Nicholas is mesmerising. Her younger sister Nicole was chosen at random by serial killer Peter Dupas in 1999. It changed Kylie’s life in the most unexpected ways.

Show notes for Episode 183:

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Former homicide detective Jeff Maher talks to us about the case that finally exposed Australian serial killer Peter Dupas.

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Listen to episode 183: Amazing Grace found in loss to a serial killer

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Journalist Nina Funnell is exposing the Victorian Governments latest bizarre proposed legislative changes. This time they are trying to wipe the names of victims from history.

Show notes for Episode 182:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Nina Funnell and Chrissie Foster

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Jim Griffin was a nurse in the children’s ward of Launceston hospital for 18 years until 2019. He was also a prolific paedophile. Journalist Camille Bianchi’s podcast The Nurse examines who knew, and for how long. 

You can support the LetUsSpeak campaign at https://au.gofundme.com/f/stop-silencing-survivors

Show notes for Episode 181:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Camille Bianchi

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#LetHerSpeak Janelle O’Connor’s sexual assault. WARNING – VIOLENT CONTENT - #159 (mentioned in this episode)

The counselling and crisis support services for victims of child sexual assault in Northern Tasmania referenced by Camille are Laurel House and Enterprising Aardvark.

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The inquest into the shocking murders of teenagers Jack and Jennifer Edwards by their father John has revealed his history of family violence and stalking. Journalist and author Megan Norris joins us to talk about her research into the correlation between stalking and murder.  

Show notes for Episode 180:

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The Suzy Lamplugh Trust, mentioned in this episode: https://www.suzylamplugh.org/

Damen Stephens Melbourne stalker jailed, mentioned in this episode: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/disgraceful-stalker-jailed-for-torching-mum-s-house-knifing-diners-20180810-p4zwqy.html

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Do “disgraced” lawyer Nicola Gobbo and “disgraced” former drug squad detective Paul Dale deserve to be given a platform to tell their sides of their stories?

Show notes for Episode 179:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Rachael Brown and Vikki Petraitis

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The Wives and Girlfriends of some of Australia’s most feared men. Author and journalist Rochelle Jackson tells their stories in her book Partners and Crime, going behind the headlines and hype to reveal what it is really like to live with men who are outside the law, like the infamous Chopper Read, the organised crime boss Bob Trimbole and armed robber Fred Cako.

Show notes for Episode 178:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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Kaz Schaffer is using TikTok to demand answers from the small group of people she believes know what happened to her little sister Kylee who’s been missing since 2004. 

Show notes for Episode 177:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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The article and facebook page mentioned in this episode:

https://www.macleayargus.com.au/story/4856111/mothers-desperate-plea-for-daughter/

https://www.facebook.com/austmissingpersons/

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Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content and reference to suicide. Listener discretion is advised.

Lyn Cecil believes her son Adam was murdered. At what point would you “just accept” he’d died of suicide and stop fighting? 

Show notes for Episode 176:

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If you or someone you know has been effected by suicide, or need support or advice for mental health, you can reach out to the following free services:

Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 / https://www.beyondblue.org.au

Lifeline: 13 11 14 / https://www.lifeline.org.au

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Paul Verhoeven’s second book about his father John’s time in NSW police is another fantastic, action-packed and funny read. This time it’s John’s time in the Forensics Unit under Paul’s microscope. 

Electric Blue also covers some interesting father-son territory including a very difficult period in both their lives during which Paul was brutally bullied. You can hear more about that in a companion episode of The Nitty Gritty Committee also featuring Paul and John Verhoeven, here.

Show notes for Episode 175:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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If you or someone you know is being bullied, contact The Bully Project: https://thebullyproject.com.au/get-help/

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Warning: please be advised this episode contains accounts of sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.

Journalists Nina Funnel and Sherelle Moody discovered a very big problem with a new piece of legislation passed in Victoria in February 2020. They’ve been helping rape survivors lobby the Victorian Attorney-General Jill Hennessey for several months demanding a fix for the problem without meaningful engagement let alone success. On August 26, Nina published an opinion piece about the legislation on news.com.au which has caused major upheaval in the survivor community and terse acknowledgement from Government, (along with a healthy dose of gaslighting from certain sections of the media.)

Nina Funnell joins us with the facts, as does a newly silenced survivor. 

1800RESPECT if you or someone you know has been effected by sexual assault. 

https://www.1800respect.org.au/

The #LetUsSpeak initiative and campaign.

https://rasara.org/let-us-speak

Show notes for Episode 174:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Nina Funnell and Anonymous Rape Survivor

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This episode is a repost of episode #159, originally published on May 21st 2020.

Janelle O’Connor was the first person in the State of Tasmania to exercise her right to be named as a rape survivor, on the 24th of April 2020. Up until then it was illegal for rape survivors to self-identify. Janelle and NinaFunnel, the founder of the #LetHerSpeak campaign join us to explain the legal changes, and Janelle tells us her story. 

WARNING – This is an extremely disturbing story, please exercise discretion. 

Show notes for Episode 159:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Janelle O’Connor and Nina Funnell

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Gary Jubelin didn’t always catch his killer, but he did always give 100% of himself to the job and to the victims. 

Faye Leveson and her husband Mark joined us in episode 76 to talk about the 10 year search for their son Matthew’s remains. It was Gary Jubelin who finally helped them find him. Both Jubelin and Faye Leveson join us to talk about the bond between homicide detectives and families. 

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 173:

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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:

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Patricia Simmons is a child protection worker. Her commitment to helping children find safety is rooted in her own dysfunctional childhood and in her relationship with her baby brother Robert.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 171:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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Thank you to Suzie Ratcliffe from Leave a Light on Inc for connecting us with Patricia Simmons. You can support Leave a Light On over at Facebook.

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Simon Fenech’s ice addiction transformed him from an athlete, husband and father with a 5 bedroom house and a Harley to a former inmate lining up for food parcels at inner city churches. How did he lose so much and how has he found so much more? He joins us to explain.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 170:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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Liz Colenso discovered as an adult that she was adopted. Her search for her biological mother uncovered a tragic and frightening story. 

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 169:

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For Confidential information, counselling and support service for family violence 1800 Respect on 1800 737 732 

Lifeline 131 114

Men's Referral Service on 1300 766 491 

The website of the Victorian Adoption Network for Information and Self Help (VANISH) has lots of information and links to other similar support organisations around Australia for people who have been adopted www. vanish.org.au

Woman who killed ‘had hell on earth’ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=h-NjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VJIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6934%2C6183761

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There are people in Adelaide who know who murdered Emma Pawelski and why. Her mother and her sister are desperate for them to come forward and tell them. 

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 168:

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Canberra mum Tara Costigan was holding her newborn baby when her ex-partner murdered her in front of her other small children. Although he’d been verbally abusive, it was the first time he hit her. 

Heidi Lemon has written a book with Tara’s family and she and Tara’s Aunt Maria join us to talk it.

Source audio: 7.30 Report https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/family-speaks-of-tara-costigans-life-and-death/7642974

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 167:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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If you or someone you know is a victim of sexual assault, or domestic or family violence contact:

1800 Respect (1800 737 732)

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Relationships Australia (1300 364 277)

WithRespect (1800 542 847 or visit www.withrespect.org.au)

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Old School Nitty Gritty Committee is back!

Maggie Kerr is an astrologer of over 30 years’ experience. She says everything that’s happening right now is just down to patterns and it’s all linked to things that’ have happened before.

Today, Maggie’s telling us what patterns are playing out right now and in our immediate future.

Show notes for Episode 721:

Your host is Meshel Laurie

With thanks to guest Maggie Kerr https://www.universalastrology.com.au/

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Keith Banks was a clean living country boy when he joined QLD Police in the 70s but it took him to some very dark places. He joins us to talk about it.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 166:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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The murder of 14-month-old Jaidyn Leskie is officially unsolved. Journalist and author Michael Gleeson explains the prosecution’s theory as to how he died and the many distractions that prevented his killer seeing justice.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 165:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Michael Gleeson from The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

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Journalist Paul Cochrane was learning the ropes in regional news when he found himself covering the biggest story of his life, an arson attack in a remote Queensland fruit-picking town that took the lives of 15 young backpackers. He and other witnesses, survivors and victims’ families are revisiting the tragedy 20 years on in a podcast, Childers The Full Story and he joins us to tell us about it. 

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 164:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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Lisa Harnum’s life and death changed the way we think, talk and report about domestic violence in Australia. Former Daily Telegraph Chief Court Reporter and author of The Fall, Amy Dale joins us to explain.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 163:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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Stunning young model and dancer Revelle Balmain disappeared in November 1994, just days before realising her dream off moving to Japan to perform. When the police got involved, they discovered her secret life. 

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 162:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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Two wealthy Sydney-siders get more than they bargain for when they team up with 2 small-time criminals in this extraordinary depression-era story of two unsolved murders and one nauseous shark.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 161:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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Visit our Bookshop to find Shark Arm: A Shark, A Tattooed Arm and Two Unsolved Murders

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Paul Bellia was just 16, hanging out with his friend Ricky Balcombe in the local shopping mall on a Friday afternoon when an older man walked up to them and stabbed Ricky to death in 1995. Paul spent the following 23 years caught between police asking him to testify against their main suspect and the many intimidating people in his community warning him not to. Some of whom had once been his friends. He also had his own demons to deal with.  

The events during and after the trial that saw Ricky’s killer finally convicted, seemed to prove Paul was right to be intimidated. 

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 160:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Greg Dundas

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Janelle O’Connor was the first person in the State of Tasmania to exercise her right to be named as a rape survivor, on the 24th of April 2020. Up until then it was illegal for rape survivors to self-identify. 

Janelle and Nina Funnel, the founder of the #LetHerSpeak campaign join us to explain the legal changes, and Janelle tells us her story. 

WARNING – This is an extremely disturbing story, please exercise discretion. 

Show notes for Episode 159:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Janelle O’Connor and Nina Funnell

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Although Queensland police visited Brett Peter Cowan just days after Daniel Morcombe first disappeared in 2003, it took 8 years, an inquest and an incredibly intricate covert operation for them to find a way to convict him of Daniel’s abduction and murder.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 158:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Kate Kyriacou

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To celebrate our first Australian True Crime online livestream this Saturday Night, starring Narelle Fraser and Ron Iddles, we’re releasing an extra episode this week. It’s another in the series of Narelle Fraser Conversations.

Join us for our very first video live stream event, this Saturday May 16th at 8pm, Narelle Fraser and Ron Iddles, and some other surprises. Purchase your tickets here > https://bit.ly/2L1XK9m

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 157:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Narelle Fraser and Kira Olney

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The rape and murder of country schoolteacher Stephanie Scott by school handyman Vincent Stanford just a week before her wedding shocked Australia. Journalist Monique Patterson was the editor of the local paper The Leeton Irrigator at the time, she talks to Emily about the week between Stephanie’s disappearance and the day her remains were found, and the lasting impact on the community. 

Plus we catch up with Jamie Pultz from “Beenham Valley Road” about his latest podcast, “Who Killed Leanne Holland.”

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 156:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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Patrick Tidmarsh is a leading authority on sexual offending, and the investigation of sexual crime. He trains and lectures investigators all over the world on how to improve their response to both offenders and victims. 

Narelle Fraser is a former Rape Squad and the Homicide Squad Detective with a focus on victims.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 155:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Patrick Tidmarsh and Narelle Fraser

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Our most requested case. Journalist and author Caroline Overington has tirelessly researched the disappearance and search for 3-year-old William Tyrell and gained exclusive interviews with many members of his family. She presents a thorough, fair and moving portrait of all involved, and most importantly, renews faith that William will be found. She joins us to talk about her book, “Missing William Tyrell”.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 154:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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Retired Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Sandra Nicholson isn’t the kind of person who seeks attention. Fortunately Narelle knows what an impressive copper lurks beneath the mild-mannered exterior of this quietly spoken lady. She’s even sent other coppers to jail. Sandra Nicholson is a hands-on, supportive leader, but she’s no pushover.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 153:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Retired Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Sandra Nicholson

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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 the podcast before.

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Show notes for Episode 152:

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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.

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Show notes for Episode 151:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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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. 

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Elmer Crawford committed the ultimate crime of family violence in a callous and calculated way, but what he did next remains a fascinating mystery.

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Show notes for Episode 150:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Greg Fogarty

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Meshel is locked inside with her children and her mother. It's only been a week and it's hell. Her friend comedian Nelly Thomas has a bit of practice but she still loses it sometimes. They have some interesting, unexpected guests lined up, and there's already an episode to sample on Meshel's Nitty Gritty feed. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/meshel-lauries-nitty-gritty-committee/id980139628#episodeGuid=4c9c8dc6-1d26-4445-9a3b-cc9cbfbebf81

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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.

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Show notes for Episode 149:

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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.

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Show notes for Episode 148:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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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.

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Show notes for Episode 147:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Anthony Dowsley

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“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.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 146:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Paul Dale and Vikki Petraitis

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“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 judge as he joins us to tell his story over two weeks.

Show notes for Episode 145:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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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.

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Show notes for Episode 144:

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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 content.

Show notes for Episode 143:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

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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 Music. Available on itunes. 

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Show notes for Episode 143:

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With thanks to Jamie Pultz

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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 Webb

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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 wants to get a second coronial inquest to look at the murder.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 141:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Alice Mitchell 

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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 

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“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.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 139:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Dr Troy McEwan and Chloe Hooper

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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.

Thanks to Fiona’s immense efforts The “no body, no parole” legislation was introduced. The Strubers will never be released from prison because they deny they murdered Bruce. 

Fiona still holds hope Bruce's remains will be found and continues to push for information so she can bring Bruce home. Fiona tells us about her latest step in her quest to find Bruce. 

Previously we spoke with author Robert Reid who wrote about the case in his book Murder on the River of Gold (episode 122).

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 138

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Fiona Splitt 

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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 recently axed Sunday night program.

Patrons will receive an extra episode in coming weeks, in which Graham speaks specifically about the notorious Sunday Night "ambush."

Show notes for Episode 137:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Graham Stafford

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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:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Robin Bowles

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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

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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.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode #134:

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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:

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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 Parent’s Nightmare, Belinda Hawkins joins us to tell us about the Jock Palfreeman she knows.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 132:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Belinda Hawkins

The Australian Story episode Crime and Punishment

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Michael McGurk was murdered with a single gunshot to the head outside his family home in Cremorne in 2009. He described himself as a businessman but others, including politicians and royalty said he was an extortionist, a fraudster and an arsonist. He confided in our guest, legendary journalist Kate McClymont about who he thought might kill him just 10 days before his death.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 129:

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Dianne Brimble died an unnecessary death in the company of strange, cruel men on a cruise she’d saved years for. She’s had no justice, but her ex-husband still fights for her dignity.

Read the Inquest into the death of Dianne Brimble - Findings Only.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains accounts of sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.

Show notes for Episode 126:

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Narelle is back with a case that’s very close to her heart because it’s connected to her time working with her favourite boss Lorraine Blackwell at Broadmeadows CPS. Lorraine pioneered a victim-focussed approach to the investigation of sexual assault and her influence can still be seen in the Victorian Police force today.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains accounts of sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.

Show notes for Episode 125:

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The Wettenhall Family murders rocked the small community of Barrabool in Victoria. The revelations that came to light in the aftermath however, reflected the sad state of affairs for so many living in regional Australia.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 123:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Neal Drinnan and Bob Perry.

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