This is a preview of our recent ATC Plus episode with Dassi Erlich. Subscribe now to ATC Plus to listen to the whole hour long conversation. Many of you will know the name Dassi Erlich. Along with her sisters, Elly Sapper and Nicole Meyer, Dassi fought a ten year battle to have her former head mistress, Malka Leifer, extradited from Israel to Australia to face trial for sexually abusing them when they were students at the ultra orthodox Adass Israel School in Melbourne. Malka Leifer was found gu...
Jun 19, 2024•14 min•Season 1Ep. 489
This is a re-issue of episode #145, “Disgraced” Paul Dale. Victim or Villain? This week, we released an episode with Retired Homicide Detective, Charlie Bezzina, regarding the murders of Terrence and Christine Hodson. We're re-issuing our two part episode in conversation with Paul Dale, so that he can tell his side of the story, and so that we can go further into detail regarding the many key players involved. Don't forget that Australian True Crime LIVE is coming to Melbourne, Sydney and ...
Jun 16, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 487
This is a re-issue of episode #146, Paul Dale Pt 2. The Crimes in Question #146 This week, we released an episode with Retired Homicide Detective, Charlie Bezzina, regarding the murders of Terrence and Christine Hodson. We're re-issuing our two part episode in conversation with Paul Dale, so that he can tell his side of the story, and so that we can go further into detail regarding the many key players involved. Don't forget that Australian True Crime LIVE is coming to Melbourne, Sydney an...
Jun 16, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 488
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Retired Victorian Homicide Detective Charlie Bezzina joins us to discuss his connection to Nicola Gobbo, also known as Informer 3838. Gobbo, a high-profile lawyer with underworld clients, was also a police informant. While it's disputed who in Victoria Police knew about Gobbo's informant status, it's clear that homicide squad leaders were unaware. Charlie B...
Jun 16, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 486
Retired Victorian Homicide Detective Charlie Bezzina joins us to discuss his connection to Nicola Gobbo, also known as Informer 3838. Gobbo, a high-profile lawyer with underworld clients, was also a police informant. While it's disputed who in Victoria Police knew about Gobbo's informant status, it's clear that homicide squad leaders were unaware. Charlie Bezzina, on call on May 16, 2004, when Terrence and Christine Hodson were found executed in their Melbourne home, was kept in the dark about c...
Jun 16, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 485
Megan Norris joins us again to talk about the case of Robert Farquharson. Farquharson is the Victorian man who was twice convicted of deliberately driving his car into a dam on the night of Father's Day 2005 for the purpose of murdering his three children, Jai, 10, Tyler, 7, and Bailey, 2. He also launched two failed appeals against his convictions. Recently 60 Minutes devoted an entire episode to the story in which they called for yet another review of the evidence. No one knows this case like ...
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 484
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Forensic anthropologist and Criminologist, Dr Xanthé Mallett, has become something of a true crime superstar in recent years. She's extremely qualified, having studied at Cambridge and received a scholarship from the FBI, among other achievements. We're getting to know Dr. Mallett in this episode of Australian True Crime in the lead up to her appearances as...
Jun 09, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 483
Forensic anthropologist and Criminologist, Dr Xanthé Mallett, has become something of a true crime superstar in recent years. She's extremely qualified, having studied at Cambridge and received a scholarship from the FBI, among other achievements. We're getting to know Dr. Mallett in this episode of Australian True Crime in the lead up to her appearances as our special guest live on stage in Brisbane and Sydney in July. There'll be a Q&A during the show, so if this interview with Xanthé sparks q...
Jun 09, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 482
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Alan Bond, "Bondy" as he was known by Prime Ministers and Aussie battlers alike, was unlike the other Australia flamboyant billionaires of the 1980s. He and his wife Eileen, whom he called Big Red, built their fortune from nothing in the suburbs of Perth, and they still wore their humble beginnings on their sleeves when they socialised with royalty. O...
Jun 02, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 487
Alan Bond, "Bondy" as he was known by Prime Ministers and Aussie battlers alike, was unlike the other Australia flamboyant billionaires of the 1980s. He and his wife Eileen, whom he called Big Red, built their fortune from nothing in the suburbs of Perth, and they still wore their humble beginnings on their sleeves when they socialised with royalty. Of course, it all came crashing down in those brutal post stock exchange crash days in the early nineties. Bryce and Alec from our favourite m...
Jun 02, 2024•51 min•Season 1Ep. 486
The true-poo-crime podcast that took 2023 by storm, "Who Shat On The Floor At My Wedding?", is back with a second series. Blushing brides Helen and Karen whose beautiful wedding was sullied by the fact that one of their guests shat on the floor, return with their friend, lead detective Lauren to investigate a new case. And as usual, they will go to extraordinary lengths to crack a case that's not quite serious enough for the police to be interested in. I caught up with Karen Whitehouse and Laure...
May 30, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 485
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Some of you will remember Jodie Bilborough from her appearance on A Current Affair in 2019. One of their reporters traveled to Jordan in the Middle East to meet Jodie, who just won custody of her son, Laith, through the Jordanian courts after his father, her ex-husband, Ismat, had prevented her from seeing him for four years. An allegation in which he denie...
May 26, 2024•16 min•Season 1Ep. 484
Some of you will remember Jodie Bilborough from her appearance on A Current Affair in 2019. One of their reporters traveled to Jordan in the Middle East to meet Jodie, who just won custody of her son, Laith, through the Jordanian courts after his father, her ex-husband, Ismat, had prevented her from seeing him for four years. An allegation in which he denies. The report left us on an optimistic note, although Jodie was still waiting to bring Laith home to live with her as his father had launched...
May 26, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 483
Today I'm showcasing another True Crime podcast I highly recommend you check out. It’s called ‘True Crime City” and spends 12 episodes on the most notorious crimes in each city before moving onto the next city somewhere in the world. So far “True Crime City” has focused its first season on the city of London starting off with the Teddington Towpath Murders” Take a listen to True Crime City wherever you get your podcasts. Listen here on Apple Show Notes: Step into the shadows of London's t...
May 22, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 482
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. On the night of November 16th, 2020, 23 year old Celeste Manno was stabbed to death in her bed. The murderer was a man she'd met very briefly at work over a year before who'd been stalking her relentlessly ever since. Luay Sako, 39, smashed through her bedroom window with a hammer and stabbed Celeste 23 times in two and a half minutes. By the time her mothe...
May 19, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 481
On the night of November 16th, 2020, 23 year old Celeste Manno was stabbed to death in her bed. The murderer was a man she'd met very briefly at work over a year before who'd been stalking her relentlessly ever since. Luay Sako, 39, smashed through her bedroom window with a hammer and stabbed Celeste 23 times in two and a half minutes. By the time her mother, Aggie, was woken by the commotion and made it down the hallway to her daughter's bedroom, it was too late. Earlier this year, Sako was sen...
May 19, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 480
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. David Ranson is one of Australia's most experienced forensic pathologists. I wrote a chapter about him in my book CSI I Told You Lies, in which he described traveling to Holland in 2014 to join the International Victim Identification Team after MH17 was shot down over Ukraine. David also worked in victim identification after the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 a...
May 12, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 479
David Ranson is one of Australia's most experienced forensic pathologists. I wrote a chapter about him in my book CSI I Told You Lies, in which he described traveling to Holland in 2014 to join the International Victim Identification Team after MH17 was shot down over Ukraine. David also worked in victim identification after the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 and the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009. David has given forensic evidence in some of Australia's biggest criminal cases, including those of ...
May 12, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 478
We're bringing a LIVE show of Australian True Crime to Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne this July! You can click here to find tickets for your city. This is an unlocked episode of ATC Plus. To listen to all ATC Plus episodes, plus gain extra benefits such as access to our first 100 episodes, early listening and ad-free episodes, sign up to ATC Plus on Apple Podcats or Acast. Teenagers Abby Williams and Libby German were dropped off at a popular hiking trail near the Monon High Bridge, just outside...
May 10, 2024•1 hr 8 min
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. In Episode 380 of Australian True Crime, we spoke to Anna, one of four women whose evidence convicted former South Australian teacher Trenton John Wickers of indecent assault of children and unlawful sexual intercourse with a child in the 1990s. In November of 2018, Judge Simon Stretton characterised Wickers as a serious repeat offender and sentenced him to...
May 08, 2024•16 min•Season 1Ep. 477
In Episode 380 of Australian True Crime, we spoke to Anna, one of four women whose evidence convicted former South Australian teacher Trenton John Wickers of indecent assault of children and unlawful sexual intercourse with a child in the 1990s. In November of 2018, Judge Simon Stretton characterised Wickers as a serious repeat offender and sentenced him to ten years jail with a non-parole period of eight years. As the end of that minimum jail period draws near, one of the other three women who ...
May 08, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 476
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. It's been quite a season of high-profile defamation cases in Australia in recent years. Geoffrey Rush, Craig McLachlan, Ben Roberts-Smith, and Bruce Lehrmann, to name a few. Along with the risks of airing all of your dirty laundry for the world to see, a defamation case doesn't come cheap either. Lehrmann, who recently lost his defamation lawsuit against Ch...
May 05, 2024•14 min•Season 1Ep. 475
It's been quite a season of high-profile defamation cases in Australia in recent years. Geoffrey Rush, Craig McLachlan, Ben Roberts-Smith, and Bruce Lehrmann, to name a few. Along with the risks of airing all of your dirty laundry for the world to see, a defamation case doesn't come cheap either. Lehrmann, who recently lost his defamation lawsuit against Channel 10, is rumoured to have legal fees amounting to more than 8 million dollars. We're joined on Australian True Crime today by Victoria-Ja...
May 05, 2024•41 min•Season 1Ep. 474
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Anne Manne is a journalist and social philosopher. Her new book, "Crime of the Cross", is about a paedophile network run by members of the Anglican Church in Newcastle in the 1980s and 1990s. It's made me realise that the shocking details of the crimes committed by the Catholic clergy have almost blinded me to some of the other revelations brought into the ...
Apr 28, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 473
Anne Manne is a journalist and social philosopher. Her new book, "Crime of the Cross", is about a paedophile network run by members of the Anglican Church in Newcastle in the 1980s and 1990s. It's made me realise that the shocking details of the crimes committed by the Catholic clergy have almost blinded me to some of the other revelations brought into the light by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013). This story has many similarities to those we've hear...
Apr 28, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 472
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Adrian Trevor Moore is one of Australia's worst rapists, and also a former member of the WA Police. In 2018, investigators began contacting women to tell them that Moore had used the police computer system to run background checks on them. This lead to accusations of predatory behaviour, and eventually a warrant was executed on his home which uncovered a tr...
Apr 21, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 471
Adrian Trevor Moore is one of Australia's worst rapists, and also a former member of the WA Police. In 2018, investigators began contacting women to tell them that Moore had used the police computer system to run background checks on them. This lead to accusations of predatory behaviour, and eventually a warrant was executed on his home which uncovered a trove of photographs and videos of him sexually abusing heavily sedated women. Over 200 individual women were featured in that material. One of...
Apr 21, 2024•43 min•Season 1Ep. 470
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Our guest today is Michelle Liddle. In February this year, she watched for the second time as two teenagers fought for their freedom after taking the life of her fifteen year old son, Angus Beaumont, in a Brisbane park in 2020. They were aged just 13 and 14 at the time of the lethal stabbing. One was on bail for armed robbery and the other was on probation....
Apr 14, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 469
Our guest today is Michelle Liddle. In February this year, she watched for the second time as two teenagers fought for their freedom after taking the life of her fifteen year old son, Angus Beaumont, in a Brisbane park in 2020. They were aged just 13 and 14 at the time of the lethal stabbing. One was on bail for armed robbery and the other was on probation. They both had significant histories of violent assaults. But even though Angus's final moments were captured on CCTV, the boys successfully ...
Apr 14, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 468
This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. Today's episode is the story of one of Australia's infamous, flamboyant 1980s high fliers, the one and only Christopher Skase. Christopher Skase was an Australian businessman who gained notoriety in the 1980s and 1990s. Skase's empire collapsed in the early 1990s due to massive debts and allegations of corporate misconduct. He fled Australia for Spain in 19...
Apr 10, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 467
