It's estimated that around one third of sexual assaults committed against Australian children are carried out by other children, according to the Australian Center for Child Protection. Australian children are increasingly displaying harmful sexual behaviours and there's a tendency within our society to minimise it and characterise it as normal sexual development. Our guest on Australian True Crime today, Emma, was the victim of other children's harmful sexual behaviours when she was 13 years ol...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 450
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. A couple of years ago, there was a lady called Lynda living in a small community in Australia, who had bright pink keys. She wanted them to be very visible so that she could find them quickly and get inside her house or car in the event that she was ambushed by her ex-partner. One in night in 2020, though, she didn't make it inside in time, and was bashed and sta...
Mar 02, 2024•14 min•Season 1Ep. 449
A couple of years ago, there was a lady called Lynda living in a small community in Australia, who had bright pink keys. She wanted them to be very visible so that she could find them quickly and get inside her house or car in the event that she was ambushed by her ex-partner. One in night in 2020, though, she didn't make it inside in time, and was bashed and stabbed to death outside her own front door. The following day, when her murder was reported on the news, it was particularly shocking for...
Mar 02, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 448
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. Charlie Bezzina is a former Homicide Detective who has been part of some of the biggest murder trials this country has ever seen. Charlie remains in very high demand, both as a media commentator and as a private investigator. He joins us today to talk about the process of taking a big homicide investigation to trial from the perspective of the detectives involved...
Feb 25, 2024•14 min•Season 1Ep. 447
Charlie Bezzina is a former Homicide Detective who has been part of some of the biggest murder trials this country has ever seen. Charlie remains in very high demand, both as a media commentator and as a private investigator. He joins us today to talk about the process of taking a big homicide investigation to trial from the perspective of the detectives involved. The alleged High Country murder trial regarding former Jetstar pilot, Gregory Lynn, is about to begin in the Supreme Court of Melbour...
Feb 25, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 446
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. Dr Renee Zahnow is an Urban Criminologist, and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland. She joins us today on Australian True Crime to discuss productive ways of thinking about those who criminally offend, keys to prevention for at risk youths, and the harmful results of people ta...
Feb 21, 2024•16 min•Season 1Ep. 445
Dr Renee Zahnow is an Urban Criminologist, and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Senior Research Fellow in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland. She joins us today on Australian True Crime to discuss productive ways of thinking about those who criminally offend, keys to prevention for at risk youths, and the harmful results of people taking justice into their own hands. For Support: Lifeline on 13 11 14 13 YARN on 13 92 76 (24/7 crisis support phone line for Aboriginal...
Feb 21, 2024•47 min•Season 1Ep. 444
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. Dr. Hamish Mckenzie is the Detective Superintendent of the Western Australia Sex Crimes Division. That means he's the boss. As you're about to hear, Sex Crimes is a very challenging area of policing, and Western Australia is the largest single policing jurisdiction in the world. Policing, like everything else, is done differently in WA. But according to Hamish Mc...
Feb 18, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 443
Dr. Hamish Mckenzie is the Detective Superintendent of the Western Australia Sex Crimes Division. That means he's the boss. As you're about to hear, Sex Crimes is a very challenging area of policing, and Western Australia is the largest single policing jurisdiction in the world. Policing, like everything else, is done differently in WA. But according to Hamish McKenzie, child sexual assault is the one area of law enforcement where egos really do take a backseat to results. He joins us on Austral...
Feb 18, 2024•45 min•Season 1Ep. 442
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. Like many of us, our guest today has researched her family tree using an online ancestry website. Unlike most of us, Julie DiBella found a serial killer lurking in hers. Julie has spent the last couple of years researching the crimes of her great great grandfather, Robert Francis Burns, who has gone down in the histroy books as potentially Australia's first seria...
Feb 11, 2024•14 min•Season 1Ep. 441
Like many of us, our guest today has researched her family tree using an online ancestry website. Unlike most of us, Julie DiBella found a serial killer lurking in hers. Julie has spent the last couple of years researching the crimes of her great great grandfather, Robert Francis Burns, who has gone down in the histroy books as potentially Australia's first serial killer. Julie is writing a book about her infamous ancestor, and she joins us on Australian True Crime today to tell us what she's di...
Feb 11, 2024•39 min•Season 1Ep. 440
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. Scott Keighran is a published poet. If you Google him, though, you're more likely to find him described as an associate of the Rebels Motorcycle Club, an arsonist, a kidnapper, a home invader, and an attempted murderer. Scott is well aware that his rap sheet is nothing short of terrifying. He has hurt and traumatized a lot of people. However, in 2016, when an att...
Feb 07, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 439
Scott Keighran is a published poet. If you Google him, though, you're more likely to find him described as an associate of the Rebels Motorcycle Club, an arsonist, a kidnapper, a home invader, and an attempted murderer. Scott is well aware that his rap sheet is nothing short of terrifying. He has hurt and traumatized a lot of people. However, in 2016, when an attempt to intimidate went wrong, he ended up paying a very high price himself. Scott Keighran joins us on Australian True Crime today to ...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 438
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. CW: This episode contains discussions of child sexual assault. Retired Detective Sergeant John Breda narrowly escaped being murdered by an alleged child sex offender, Nick Newman, on January 26th, 2018. It is alleged that Nick Newman was 26 when he entered a sexual relationship with a 14 year old relative of his ex wife. After the child reported Newman to the pol...
Feb 04, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 437
CW: This episode contains discussions of child sexual assault. Retired Detective Sergeant John Breda narrowly escaped being murdered by an alleged child sex offender, Nick Newman, on January 26th, 2018. It is alleged that Nick Newman was 26 when he entered a sexual relationship with a 14 year old relative of his ex wife. After the child reported Newman to the police, he had made threats of "wanting to hunt her down" as well as issuing death threats to his ex-wife and family. He was wanted by the...
Feb 04, 2024•50 min•Season 1Ep. 436
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. Sarah's grandfather murdered her grandmother and hid her under the floorboards. This event has long since fallen from the news, but she joins us to share the many ways it has affected and still affects her family. Sarah is a professional woman. She's married with young children, and she takes great pride in the ordered nature of her life. It's a far cry from the ...
Jan 28, 2024•18 min•Season 1Ep. 435
Sarah's grandfather murdered her grandmother and hid her under the floorboards. This event has long since fallen from the news, but she joins us to share the many ways it has affected and still affects her family. Sarah is a professional woman. She's married with young children, and she takes great pride in the ordered nature of her life. It's a far cry from the chaos left behind for her father's generation by her grandparents, whose marriage came to a violent end in the 1950s. Sarah's peaceful ...
Jan 28, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 434
Infamous corrupt NSW police officer, Roger Rogerson, has died this week at the age of 83 from suffering a brain aneurism. Rogerson was serving a life sentence for the murder of a 20 year old Jamie Gao. His conviction for that murder was somewhat ironic, given he proudly boasted of killing three drug dealers during his police career and gotten away with it. The true extent of Rogerson's corruption and criminal activities may now never be fully uncovered. Ray Mooney, an author, playwright and form...
Jan 24, 2024•37 min•Season 1Ep. 432
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. Infamous corrupt NSW police officer, Roger Rogerson, has died this week at the age of 83 from suffering a brain aneurism. Rogerson was serving a life sentence for the murder of a 20 year old Jamie Gao. His conviction for that murder was somewhat ironic, given he proudly boasted of killing three drug dealers during his police career and gotten away with it. The tr...
Jan 24, 2024•13 min•Season 1Ep. 433
Our guest today is Angie. She was a sex worker and drug user for some years and she sustained a brain injury through an unsuccessful suicide attempt, which accounts for her struggle to think of words sometimes. Angie is one of a kind, as is her wife, Luna, who sat beside her during this recording. And you may hear her chime in from time to time. We've spoken to sex workers before, but never this explicitly. And when I say explicit, I don't mean sexy. I mean, we're going to be talking about viole...
Jan 21, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 430
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 Angie. She was a sex worker and drug user for some years and she sustained a brain injury through an unsuccessful suicide attempt, which accounts for her struggle to think of words sometimes. Angie is one of a kind, as is her wife, Luna, who sat beside her during this recording. And you may hear her chime in from time to time. We've spoken to s...
Jan 21, 2024•20 min•Season 1Ep. 431
On this week of Australian True Crime, we are playing an episode from one of our favourite true crime podcasts, Wanted. Wanted is a show where host Jack Laurence sits down and interviews men and women from around the world who have been or who are currently wanted by authorities. This episode is part one of a three part series on David McMillan. To listen to parts two and three, as well as all other episodes, go check out Wanted , wherever you get your podcasts. Escaping Thai Prison P1 - David M...
Jan 14, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 429
Australian True Crime is taking a well earned week off this week and we wanted to take this opportunity to shine a light on our second podcast called "Can We Be Real?' which is a weekly podcast where our amazing listeners share their deep secrets with us to dissect on the show. So while we take a short break we would love if you could support "Can We Be Real?" which is hosted by Meshel Laurie. The best way to support is to search for "Can We Be Real?" on your podcast app and then either subscrib...
Jan 07, 2024•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 428
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 the last episode of Australian True Crime, our guest Arman Abrahimzadeh OAM told the story of his childhood and adolescence. It was an existence characterized by fear and violence in which he, his sisters and their mother eventually made a pact never to allow anyone to be left alone with his father. The patriarch of the family ruled with violence and financial...
Jan 03, 2024•16 min•Season 1Ep. 427
In the last episode of Australian True Crime, our guest Arman Abrahimzadeh OAM told the story of his childhood and adolescence. It was an existence characterized by fear and violence in which he, his sisters and their mother eventually made a pact never to allow anyone to be left alone with his father. The patriarch of the family ruled with violence and financial control. Nevertheless, Arman's mother and her children did escape with nothing but a few clothes, and they began to create a new life ...
Jan 03, 2024•46 min•Season 1Ep. 426
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. Arman is a high achiever by anyone standards, except possibly those of his own father. As you'll come to learn, Arman grew up in a home ruled by fear, and I must warn you that this will likely be a triggering conversation for anyone with experience of family violence. Arman's storytelling is vivid, and as much as every family is different, he manages to capture s...
Dec 31, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 425
Arman is a high achiever by anyone standards, except possibly those of his own father. As you'll come to learn, Arman grew up in a home ruled by fear, and I must warn you that this will likely be a triggering conversation for anyone with experience of family violence. Arman's storytelling is vivid, and as much as every family is different, he manages to capture so many ways in which his family's story is all too common. This is part one of a two part special. Part two will be available later thi...
Dec 31, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 424
This episode was originally aired on April 12th, 2017. Sallie-Anne Huckstepp had never intended to be a whistleblower, but when her drug dealer boyfriend Warren Lanfranchi was shot and killed by crooked cop Roger Rogerson, she decided to speak out. A call that would eventually end her own life, but she took it regardless. 31 years on since her body was found floating in a duck pond in Sydney’s Centennial Park, her killer is still unknown. But those close to the case have a pretty good guess of w...
Dec 24, 2023•42 min•Season 1Ep. 423
On this episode of Australian True Crime, we're playing an episode from Brent Simpson's podcast, The Clink. . Brent Simpson , who joined us on Monday's Australian True Crime episode, has a story so deep and large, that we've decided to showcase the episode where he provides an in-depth account of his childhood in his own words. It's part 1 of a 2 part series. Be sure to check out the second part, as well as all of his other amazing episodes over at The Clink. You can find them wherever you liste...
Dec 20, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 422
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. Brent Simpson is a former sergeant-at-arms for the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. Considering his childhood was marked by poverty, physical and sexual abuse, it's almost easy to imagine how he found community and connection within the bikie gang. What is hard to imagine, however, is how someone could leave that club and commit their life to mental health advocacy - a ...
Dec 17, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 421
