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. Hedley Thomas is the National Chief Correspondent for The Australian and the investigative journalist behind Australia's most groundbreaking True Crime podcasts. Many of you will be familiar with Hedley's podcasts. Titles such as The Teacher's Pet, Shandee's Story and The Night Driver. Now Hedley's back with a new series called Bronywn, in which he's investigatin...
Jul 03, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 496
Hedley Thomas is the National Chief Correspondent for The Australian and the investigative journalist behind Australia's most groundbreaking True Crime podcasts. Many of you will be familiar with Hedley's podcasts. Titles such as The Teacher's Pet, Shandee's Story and The Night Driver. Now Hedley's back with a new series called Bronywn, in which he's investigating the 1993 disappearance of Lennox Head woman Bronwyn Whitfield. Hedley Thomas joins us on Australian True Crime to talk about Bronwyn,...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 495
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 2006, Adelaide teenager Carly Ryan thought she'd met the boy of her dreams on social media by the name of Brandon Kane. Brandon was a character invented by pedophile Garry Francis Newman, who was in his fifties at the time and communicating with literally hundreds of underage girls around the world, posing as a boy their age. Newman enlisted his own teenage so...
Jun 30, 2024•16 min•Season 1Ep. 494
In 2006, Adelaide teenager Carly Ryan thought she'd met the boy of her dreams on social media by the name of Brandon Kane. Brandon was a character invented by pedophile Garry Francis Newman, who was in his fifties at the time and communicating with literally hundreds of underage girls around the world, posing as a boy their age. Newman enlisted his own teenage son to help him groom the girls and try to persuade them to meet him in person. In February 2007, Newman and his son traveled to Adelaide...
Jun 30, 2024•59 min•Season 1Ep. 493
The jury's verdict has just been announced for the Gregory Lynn case regarding the deaths of Russell Hill and Carol Clay in 2020. This is from my other podcast "Can We Be Real?", so it's going to sound a little different to what you're used to from an Australian True Crime episode. Click here to listen to "Can We Be Real?" on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Australian True Crime LIVE is coming to Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne this July! It'll be full of special guests and Q+A...
Jun 25, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 492
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. Captain Moonlite was a very different character compared to other famous Australian Bushrangers. Despite the fantastic nickname there's been conspicuously little information available about him. That was until journalist and author, Garry Linnell started looking into the story. The result is a great book that uncovers some surprising aspects of Moonlite sto...
Jun 23, 2024•16 min•Season 1Ep. 491
Captain Moonlite was a very different character compared to other famous Australian Bushrangers. Despite the fantastic nickname there's been conspicuously little information available about him. That was until journalist and author, Garry Linnell started looking into the story. The result is a great book that uncovers some surprising aspects of Moonlite story. Aspects some say are the reason he hasn't been eulogised like his contemporaries. Click here to purchase Garry's book "Moonlite: Th...
Jun 23, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 490
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
