In 2008, Clare awoke in the.middle of the night to two violent men invading her house, demanding the code to her boyfriend's safe. This episode is the story of Clare's life up until now. A story involving mental illness, drugs and abusive men. It's also a story of recovery, support and family. If you have been affected by anything discussed in this episode you can contact: Lifeline on 13 11 14 13 YARN on 13 92 76 (24/7 crisis support phone line for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people) F...
Jan 29, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 298
Hello loves, we have another podcast recommendation for you, and this one is a bit of a crossover. It is a pop-culture podcast called Tied Up, hosted by two friends of mine Sonia Jahshan and Simon Baggs. I think this episode will be of particular interest to you, because they are talking about Alec Baldwin and whether or not he will face charges for that terrible shooting incident that took place on the set of his film, Rust. You can listen to all other Tied Up episodes, wherever you get your po...
Jan 27, 2023•16 min
Australian True Crime is back for 2023, and we begin this year with the story of Andrew Witton. Andrew was a sailor, surfer and adventurer, who disappeared from his yacht in a remote stretch of the Pacific Ocean in 2007. He was sailing with another man at the time, Simon Golding. As far has Andrew's friends and family are concerned, Simon has yet to provide a satisfactory account of what happened to Andrew on that trip. Andrew's sister, Louise Witton, joins us for this episode. Some of the audio...
Jan 22, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 297
We're taking a little break over Summer and using this time to spotlight some of our favourite true-crime podcasts. Introducing... Hoaxed, the new series from Alexi Mostrous and Tortoise, who brought you Sweet Bobby. In 2014, two children told police a shocking story: that they were being abused by a Satanic cult; a cult headed by their father and by parents and teachers at their school in the wealthy London suburb of Hampstead. The story was a lie. But on the internet, that didn't matter. Hoaxe...
Jan 15, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 296
We're taking a little break over Summer and using this time to spotlight some of our favourite true-crime podcasts. This week we're showcasing Jack Laurence's podcast, One Minute Remaining. Today's episode is the story of David Talley, the man serving an incredible prison sentence. David, like millions of others around the world, struggled with addiction, an addiction to crack cocaine. This addiction would drive David to make poor decisions, decisions that would see him fall into a cycle of pris...
Jan 09, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 295
We're taking a little break over Summer and using this time to spotlight some of our favourite true-crime podcasts. This week we're showcasing True North True Crime. On the night of February 17th, 2018, Ryan Shtuka attended a silent disco followed by an after-party at a house in Sun Peaks resort near Kamloops BC. No one has seen or heard from Ryan since the party. Nearly 5 years have gone by and the Shtuka family still needs answers. Join your hosts as they sit down with Ryan’s mother Heather Sh...
Jan 02, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 294
We're taking a little break over Summer and using this time to spotlight some of our favourite podcasts. Do Go On is a fact based comedy podcast hosted by Melbourne comedians Jess Perkins, Matt Stewart and Dave Warneke. Each week they take it in turns to report on a topic and have covered everything from the life of Dolly Parton to the Chernobyl Disaster, Argentina's Heist of the Century to The History of The Penis. Show notes: In 1982, Chicago was rocked by a terrifying crime. Panic set in as a...
Dec 26, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Season 1Ep. 293
We're taking a little break over Summer and using this time to spotlight some of our favourite true-crime podcasts. This week we're showcasing Ryan Wolf's podcast, GUILT. Show notes: On the 18th June 2012, beloved Pizza shop owner Jordan Voudouris was gunned down in cold blood, in Paeroa, New Zealand. To this day, his killers have never been caught. In this Multi-Part Investigative Podcast Actor/Lawyer Ryan Wolf revisits Jordan's case in the search for answers. In this, Episode Two. Ryan meets a...
Dec 18, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 292
We're taking a little break over Summer and using this time to spotlight some of our favourite true-crime podcasts. This week we're showcasing Jack Laurence's podcast, One Minute Remaining. Show notes: Welcome to episode one of 'One minute remaining' - Today we start the story of Dorice Moore and Abraham Lee Shakespeare, a story that has layer after layer but that is nothing short of mind blowing. I am not here to prove her innocent or guilty I am simply here to allow her to tell her side of the...
Dec 11, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 291
We're taking a little break over Summer and using this time to spotlight some of our favourite true-crime podcasts. This week we're showcasing Michael Adam's Forgotten Australia, with his three part Cairns Grenade Murders series. Part 3: With the accused murderer of Holly Murphy and Kathleen Brown set to go to trial in April 1946, there's a series of shocking secret developments, including a bombshell letter that makes disturbing claims against Queensland's boys in blue. Via the original police ...
Dec 04, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 290
We're taking a little break over Summer and using this time to spotlight some of our favourite true-crime podcasts. This week we're showcasing Michael Adam's Forgotten Australia, with his three part Cairns Grenade Murders series. Part 2: With Detective Senior-Sergeant Frank Bischof in Cairns, Bob Davis soon identifies the murderer. But how far can Bob be trusted? And what is Bischof offering? To read an extract and get 26% off Michael's book Hanging Ned Kelly, you can visit this link here: https...
Dec 04, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 289
We're taking a little break over Summer and using this time to spotlight some of our favourite true-crime podcasts. This week we're showcasing Michael Adam's Forgotten Australia, with his three part Cairns Grenade Murders series. On a hot night in January 1946, two women were cold-bloodedly murdered with a grenade in the centre of Cairns. In this three-part special episode - based on the original police murder file - we take a deep dive into this callous crime, whose solution was frustrated not ...
Dec 04, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 288
In 2017, 21 year old Zac Jones was drunk, on drugs, and driving recklessly in a car with four other passengers. Unable to control the vehicle, they horrifically crashed, but all remarkably survived. This is part two of a two part series hosted by our dear friend, Narelle Fraser about the lives of Zac and his mother Jane. We will hear a side-by-side account from both Zac and Jane about how an educated, intelligent teenager from a loving family ended up falling so badly, and the astonishing ways i...
Nov 27, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 287
In 2017, 21 year old Zac Jones was drunk, on drugs, and driving recklessly in a car with four other passengers. Unable to control the vehicle, they horrifically crashed, but all remarkably survived. This is part one of a two part series hosted by our dear friend, Narelle Fraser about the lives of Zac and his mother Jane. We will hear a side-by-side account from both Zac and Jane about how an educated, intelligent teenager from a loving family ended up falling so badly, and the astonishing ways i...
Nov 27, 2022•59 min•Season 1Ep. 286
Marjorie Norval was a mould breaker. In the 1930s, she was a single, gregarious career woman, living in a hotel in the Brisbane CBD. She worked for the Premiere William Forgan Smith and his wife, which afforded her to live a lifestyle that was out of reach for most women in conservative Brisbane at the time. That lifestyle came to an abrupt end when she disappeared without a trace, one sunny day in 1938. In the days and months to come, four heroic rescuers would die, one of her rumoured lovers w...
Nov 20, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 285
The word most commonly used to describe Rolf Harris at the conclusion of his trial and his spectacular fall from grace was remorseless. He still seemed utterly shameless as revelation after revelation rolled out in front of the world and his real character was exposed. We all got an inkling of the sheer entitlement felt by the man and of his expectation that he should be allowed to go on separating his private and public personas with the complete complicity of everyone around him because he was...
Nov 13, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 284
In 1990, social worker Wendy Davis had her dream job at what was then known as Hollywood Private Hospital in Perth. She was the senior grief counsellor in the palliative care unit. It was intense but rewarding work, and at 40 years of age, life was right on track for Wendy Davis. But It was cruelly taken away from her on her youngest daughter's 11th birthday, when she was violently assaulted by a Telecom technician who was working at the hospital. The technician was charged with common assault, ...
Nov 06, 2022•35 min•Season 1Ep. 283
"Shotgun" Shannon O'Connell is Australia's pre-eminent female boxer. One thing that is absolutely true, is that her toughest opponent is her childhood. She fights it everyday, as do her two brothers, with varying degrees of success. We were introduced to Shannon by a previous guest, Russell Manser from The Voice of a Survivor. He likes to say that boxing has saved more lives than church, and Shannon is definitely one of them. You can keep up to date with all things "Shotgun" Shannon by following...
Oct 30, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 282
Our guest this week, Russell Manser, has an incredible podcast of his own called The Stick Up. Please enjoy this rare interview with Mick Gatto, and check out other episodes of The Stick Up wherever you get your podcasts. Show notes: In this rare interview with ex-underworld figure Mick Gatto, you'll hear about his love for his family, passion for charity and the life altering moments that saw him lose two sons, and end up in jail. Russell talks with a man who speaks his truth. Founder of www.th...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr
Russell Manser is an extraordinary man. He's been in and out of prison since we was literally a child, and when he wasn't inside, he was robbing banks to support a raging heroin habit. As we know, lifestyle habits like that don't come out of nowhere. When Russell decided to face the truth of what had happened to him, it changed his life. Since then, he's changed many lives too. This is a very upsetting story involving serious sexual assault. We've talked around these issues before with other gue...
Oct 23, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 281
In 1993, Paul Denyer murdered Natalie Russell, Elizabeth Stevens and Deborah Fream in the Frankston area. Denyer had also stalked and terrified women - that’s one of the lesser known aspects of his horrendous offending. Now 50, Denyer was sentenced to life in prison without parole, but the sentence was later appealed and reduced to a non-parole period of 30 years, meaning Denyer is eligible for release in 2023. There’s a genuine fear from many that Denyer will be released - from the families of ...
Oct 15, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 280
Our guests for this episode are Therese Fox and Megan Norris. In 2002 friends Therese Fox and Bronwyn Cartwright travelled to Bali – it was a dream trip that the two Geelong nurses had saved hard for. It was Therese’s first trip overseas and away from her young children. On October 12th Therese and Bronwyn decided to go out to Paddy’s Irish Bar for their last night in Bali. Deadly terrorist attacks on Paddy’s Bar and the Sari Club in Kuta’s party precinct killed 202 people - 88 from Australia in...
Oct 09, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 279
Our guest for this episode is Michael Adams, host of the fascinating podcast Forgotten Australia. Michael is a master of deep diving into the archives to tell incredible stories most people have never heard of - many of them about crime and society. From historic news articles - even the smallest of briefs and the mere mention of a name, Michael brings old stories, scandals, oddities and the lives of intriguing people back to life. Michael’s book is HANGING NED KELLY and his podcast is Forgotten...
Oct 02, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 278
In celebration of the release of the brand new season of The Handmaid's Tale, we've invited a couple of friends over to chat about the series with. We're joined today by mega fan Joanna Fleming from Adore Beauty, and from the brilliant Eyes On Gilead podcast, Fiona Williams. So, why a special episode about The Handmaid's Tale on our true crime podcast feed? Well, Margaret Atwood, the author of The Handmaid's Tale famously said that there's no crime against women in the book, that hasn't actually...
Sep 28, 2022•53 min
Lucy Wessell contacted Australian True Crime to tell her family’s story about the unforeseeable and tragic loss of her brother Andrew - who is remembered by them as a kind and gentle man who loved his family, animals, and nature. He was a seasoned traveller who had friends all over the world. Andrew Drake was stabbed to death in 2019. Andrew, 29, died on the lawn of a house in Batemans Bay on the NSW South Coast, as his sister Penny desperately tried to save his life. The property where he was k...
Sep 25, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 277
This is a re-issue of episode 76 from November 2018 In November of 2016, a decade after his death, Michael Atkins finally agreed to tell police where he'd buried the remains of his young lover Matthew Leveson. Matt's tormented parents tell us the twisted tale as to why Atkins will never be convicted in connection with their son's death. Show notes: Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb With thanks to Mark and Faye Leveson. Like us on the Facebook Follow us on Instagram or Twitter Support...
Sep 25, 2022•56 min
This is a re-issue of episode 216 of Australian True Crime. Some of Australia’s most dangerous offenders aren’t housed in prisons because they were judged mentally unfit to stand trial. Dr Danny Sullivan is the Executive Director of Clinical Services at Thomas Embling hospital. It’s been home to some of Victoria's most dangerous people, including Masa Vuktotic’s killer Sean Price, Henry Hammond who murdered Courtney Herron and Bourke Street rampage driver James Gargasoulas. Dr Sullivan joins us ...
Sep 18, 2022•53 min
David Cammarata’s childhood best friend is currently a forensic patient in a secure psychiatric facility. He was found not guilty of the machete murder of his own brother at a suburban shopping centre and of stalking and attempting to murder David, because the judge believed he was suffering from severe mental illness when he committed the offences. David and his family were terrorised for years before his former friend Jonathan was apprehended. Now he lives in fear that he’ll one day be release...
Sep 18, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 276
A repost of episode #103 In loving memory of Uncle Jack Charles. We send our deepest condolences to the people of the Boon Wurrung, Dja Dja Wurrung, Woiwurrung and Yorta Yorta nations on the loss of Uncle Jack Charles. Stolen from his loving family as a child, he embraced all with love and kindness and was a vital artist until the end. --- Jack Charles, known respectfully and affectionately as Uncle Jack Charles is a survivor who has much to tell about life, starting from the impact of being one...
Sep 13, 2022•59 min
Geoff Plunkett's book "Death Row At Truro" investigates the mythology around a case that is often bizarrely overlooking in Australian crime reporting. Geoff joins us today to discuss the seven week serial killing spree committed by Christopher Worrell and James Miller in 1970s Adelaide. For ad-free listening, early access and exclusive content, join Australian True Crime Plus on Apple Podcasts here: http://apple.co/australiantruecrime CREDITS: Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram C...
Sep 11, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 275
