The Many Dead Wives Of Robert Spangler and Crappy Kidnapper Edwin Eastwood... Robert Spangler loved hiking in the Grand Canyon. He also loved being married. What he didn't like was the pesky financial burden of divorce. After the 1990 death of his third wife Donna, whilst hiking in the Grand Canyon, investigators were alarmed to discover his wives often came to grizzly ends that were never anything to do with him. Or were they? In 1972 , unemployed plasterers Edwin Eastwood and Robert Boland dec...
Apr 01, 2019•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 113
Diabolical Doctor Anthony Pignataro and Emma LaDoux and Her Hat Of Doom... In the late 1990’s Anthony Pignataro was a big-shot plastic surgeon in New York. He drove around in his red Lamborghini and gained international fame for inventing a “Snap on” hairpiece that connected to bolts he drilled into the skulls of bald men. His image was shattered in 1997, when Pignataro’s long history of medical malpractice came to light after another death of a patient, and soon afterwards his wife Debbie was s...
Mar 17, 2019•1 hr 25 min•Season 3Ep. 111
The Removal Revelation: The Ron and Dan Lafferty Story... On July 24th, 1984, bearded brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, radicalised by extreme Mormon beliefs and convinced they were prophets from God, forced their way into a duplex in American Fork, Utah. Here they brutally killed their brother's wife Brenda Lafferty and infant daughter Erica, believing they had received a revelation from God in which they were told to “remove” them from the earth. These senseless murders were fuelled by religious ...
Mar 03, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 110
The Green Widow and The Maitland Double Headless Murders... Realising she’d be better off financially as a widow than a divorcee, Mary Ellen Samuels orchestrated the murder of her husband, Hollywood camera operator Robert Samuels. Then to cover her tracks, she organised the murder of the man who she paid to have her husband killed, her daughter’s fiancé Jim Bernstein. In 1941, 14 year old Eric Francis Bowles murdered his magician master “Davo the Magnificent." When Sydney Shelley and his wife El...
Feb 17, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Season 3Ep. 108
The Pettingill Family - The True Animal Kingdom... The phenomenal Australian crime film “Animal Kingdom” is one of our favourites but did you know it’s based on a true story? Ruled by murderous matriarch Kath, the notorious Pettingill family dominated the Melbourne Underworld in the 1970’s and 80’s. They were drug dealers, armed robbers, rapists and murderers. Even police officers were not safe from their reign of terror. This is a tale of extreme drug-use, rampant violent crime and police corru...
Feb 04, 2019•52 min•Season 3Ep. 107
Bushrangers the Kenniff Brothers and Deadly Grandmother Caroline Grills... Paddy and Jimmy Kenniff were cattle-duffers, pony-pinchers and general rabble rousers. They were the last of the great Australian bushrangers. Roaming the land fully armed and living in caves in country Queensland, in the early 1900s. They would come undone due to the brutal murders of an innocent copper, Constable George Doyle, and a bullying station manager, Albert Dahlke. The story of the Kenniff brothers is one of adv...
Jan 20, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 105
Evil Thomas Halliday and The Murder Of Rhoni Reuter... In early March 2006, mother of three, Shelley Stephenson vanished from Mildura in northern Victoria, Australia. Suspicion fell upon her ex-partner Thomas Halliday, who had a history of brutal and stalkerish behaviour. What followed was an amazing police investigation and court case, that yielded some unusual results. Rhoni Reuter was the long-term girlfriend of ex-football player Shaun Gayle, who was seven months pregnant with his baby. Did ...
Jan 07, 2019•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 104
The Identity Theft Murder and Little Tommy the Gun... Sienky Lallemand was a career conman who used his good looks and charm to take advantage of people. He not only slept with Marcus Toney's wife, but also stole his identity and murdered him. This story has everything: blackmail, Whitney Houston impersonators, pipe-bombs and face-altering plastic surgery. On January 8th, 2002, pastry chef, alleged drug dealer and Carl Williams' henchman, Tommy Ivanovic shot motorcyclist Ivan Conabere. The murde...
Dec 24, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 103
Bloody Murder on True Crime Christmas Island!... This is an ad-free bonus Christmas episode that we recorded with our good mate Cambo! On this yuletide special, we’ll be talking about a horrendous Christmas massacre that happened in Covina and a bunch of ridiculous Chrissy crimes from all around the world. As always, we had a blast recording with Cambo! So, grab a beer and pull up a deck chair - we certainly partook in a few adult beverages ourselves while recording this one. We hope everyone ha...
Dec 22, 2018•59 min•Season 2Ep. 102
The Pied Piper of Tucson and The Ballad of Justin Cox... Serial killer Charles Howard Schmid Jr was a bizarre young man who dyed his hair black and tanned his face with make up. He drew a mole on his cheek to look meaner and stuffed his boots full of tins cans and rags in an attempt to disguise his tiny stature. He was also an unlikely cult hero to the disaffected youth of Tucson in the early 1960's. Justin Cox had always had a problem with managing his anger. A devastating life change, mixed wi...
Dec 10, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 101
The Michael Kanaan Story - Special Edition... To celebrate our 100th Episode we’ve joined forces with Cambo Ford to bring you Bloody Murder on True Crime Island: The Michael Kanaan Story! Michael Kanaan is an Australian triple murderer from Sydney. He was second in charge of the notorious gang DK’s Boys who controlled the cocaine trade in Kings Cross in the late 90’s and were involved in all manner of tomfoolery, their violent crimes included kneecapping, extortion and shooting cops. Most of Syd...
Nov 25, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 100
The Vampire of Paris and Gangster Chow Hayes... Nicolas Claux was a blood-drinking, cannibalistic hospital worker whose hobbies included desecrating graves and worshipping Satan. Nicknamed "The Vampire of Paris," this death-obsessed ghoul decided to kill someone, because…well it fit his image. Chow Hayes was a violent, sadistic standover man, and murderer. In 1930, Chow became the first Australian criminal to be described by police as a "gangster". He would graduate from child thug to celebrity ...
Nov 12, 2018•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 98
Murderous Mary and the Vanishing of Paddy Moriarty... Described as a woman with "lovely russet hair, fine blue eyes, of normal build, with nice shapely hands" Mary Pearcey was a rather unconventional English woman who was convicted of murdering her lover's wife and child. She was sentenced to dangle on the end of a noose for her crimes. This is a patron request for Emily Kirkpatrick On a hot December afternoon in 2007, 70 year Paddy Moriarty and his dog went missing in Larimah in the Northern Te...
Oct 28, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 97
Bloody Babs and You Me Car Park Now!... Nicknamed "Bloody Babs" by the press, vamp from the wrong side of the tracks, Barbra Graham had multiple convictions for disorderly conduct, vagrancy, suspicion of prostitution and perjury by her early twenties. In 1953, she stepped it up a notch when she and her no-good boyfriend murdered 64-year-old widow Mabel Monohan in the course of a robbery. One drunken night in 2011, Richard Devries found himself on the wrong end of a punch over a car parking space...
Oct 15, 2018•59 min•Season 2Ep. 96
The Killer Bride and Take my Last Beers and I'll Kill You... Ashley Laney and Tracey Humphrey were married on the 4th of July, 2003. The next day, Ashley murdered Tracey’s ex-girlfriend Sandra Rosso, who was due to go to court to testify against him in an assault case. Did Ashley commit this murder of her own accord, or was she just a puppet for her controlling new husband? Ever heard someone say ‘touch my beer and I’ll kill you’? Usually this is just an expression, but not for Northern Territor...
Oct 08, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 95
The Lies of Teri Deneka and The Chicken Millionaire... Divorced father of two Don Huckstep thought he’d met the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with on match.com. But as his wedding to Teri Deneka grew closer, he discovered the woman of his dreams wasn’t just a pathological liar, she was also a murderer. In January, 2008 chicken millionaire Gerardus Heijne, a 100kg bodybuilder, and his boyfriend of 25 years, Frank Cianciosi were having a god awful row. Their fight began when Frank ...
Sep 30, 2018•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 93
The Sinister Minister and The Mad Scientist... Pennsylvania Pastor AB Schirmer’s wives had an unfortunate habit of dying suddenly in - rather ridiculous circumstances. Due to his stature, nobody thought to be suspicious of their deaths. But after the suicide of his mistress Cindy Musante’s husband, everything started to come undone for the Sinister Minister. In Tasmania in 1983, Rory Jack Thompson strangled his ex-wife. He then cut her up into 91 pieces and flushed her down the toilet. Was this ...
Sep 23, 2018•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 92
The Abduction of Stephanie Slater and Murder by the River Lark... Michael Sams was a one legged rapist, murderer and piss-poor extortion artist. After he abducted real estate agent Stephanie Slater, the police thought she was dead for sure, but she courageously managed to survive 8 days in his captivity. In 2005, the small village of Fornham St Martin in Suffolk was horrified when the scorched body of Dawn Walker was found by the River Lark. Who would murder such a loved 37 year old in such a he...
Sep 16, 2018•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 91
The Friendship of Mariette Bosch and When Patrick Crowe met Christopher Brilliantes... Wealthy South African woman Mariette Bosch was a having an affair with her best friend Ria Wolmarans' husband Tienie. Impatient for him to leave her, Mariette murdered Ria so she and Tienie could live happily ever after...but did they? Patrick Crowe was a young apprentice chef who decided to get on the piss with two mates. His good night turned bad when he ran into three rowdy teenage girls, who called in rein...
Sep 10, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 90
The Millionaire, the Architect and the Chorus Girl and The Boob Butts Boob Murder... Harry Thaw was an entitled sadist who abused his wife Evelyn Nesbit and believed a famous architect named Stanford White was the cause of all the issues in his life. After murdering Stanford, Harry expected he'd hailed as a hero – and due to a huge media campaign organised by his doting mother, for a while there he was. When Mirinda Boob conspired with her lover Ronald Heichel to kill her husband Samuel Boob, sh...
Sep 02, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 88
Australian Gothic - The Murder of Angelo Agostinelli... In May 1994, caravan park owner Angelo Agostinelli went missing from the small town of Millicent in South Australia. The gossip around town was that he'd run off with another woman, but as days turned into weeks an intricate murder conspiracy unfolded. Angelo's disappearance sent the community into a frenzy and it was hard to differentiate fact from fiction amid all the increasingly outrageous rumours and that were being thrown around. In t...
Aug 26, 2018•42 min•Season 2Ep. 87
The Quiet Dell Murders and Two Home Invasions in West Sydney... Herman Drenth was a vile pig of a man with several aliases who trotted his way into women’s lives through lonely hearts club letters that were made of lies. Once under his spell, he not only robbed them of everything they had but sometimes murdered them and their children. A violent home invasion in Sydney in 2002 turned deadly when father of two, 53 year old Joseph Logozzo was shot and killed. The following police investigation and...
Aug 19, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 86
The Absurdly Motivated Murder of Joey Fisher and The Stalking Murder of Adriana Donato... Surgeons wife and mother of 5 Dora Cisneros was very upset that her 17-year-old daughter Christina's boyfriend Joey Fischer had broken up with her. When nagging Joey to get back with Christina and even offering to bribe him to do so failed, Dora decided to organise his murder with the help of a local fortune-teller. In the outer suburbs of Melbourne in 2012, Adriana Donato was senselessly murdered by her ex...
Aug 12, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Season 2Ep. 85
The Hunter Killer Club and The Gun Alley Murder of 1921... Florida couple Deidre Hunt and her boss/lover Konstantinos Fotopoulos committed the shooting murders of two men. One of which was supposed to kill Fotopoulos' wife so they could get the insurance money and the other who threatened to blab to the authorities about a counterfeit money scheme they were involved in. This case has so many ridiculous twists and turns it belongs in a Coen brothers movie! In 1921, in Gun Alley, Melbourne, Austra...
Jul 29, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 83
The Watery Graves of Tom and Jackie Hawks and Two Time Murderer Anthony Sullivan... Loving couple Tom and Jackie Hawks had retired early to live an adventurous life on the sea in their boat "the Well Deserved." After the birth of their first grandchild they decided to move to Arizona. Failed child actor Skylar Deleon and his wife answered an ad to buy the boat, after hatching a plan to murder the Hawks and steal all their hard earned possessions. Anthony Ramon Sullivan was a knucklehead drug dea...
Jul 22, 2018•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 81
The Murders of Denise Huber and Tosha Thakkar... 23–year–old Denise Huber went missing in the early hours of June 3rd, 1991, after attending a Morrisey concert. It would take three years and a strange series of events before her family would discover what had happened to her and how she ended up in John Famalaro's freezer. Daniel Stani-Reginald had a very traumatic childhood, so much so it turned him into a psychopath and potential serial killer. After years of schooling himself in the art of mu...
Jul 15, 2018•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 80
The Murders of Ramon Navarro and Alan Henry... Talented actor Ramon Navarro was a big star in Hollywood during the silent era. His career faded over the years, but he still enjoyed entertaining young male escorts with stories of his time in the spotlight. This is how he met hustlers the Ferguson brothers, who would end his life during an alcohol fuelled Halloween Eve. Alan Henry thought Gloucester in country NSW would be a good place to retire, but after his wife passed he found that he need som...
Jul 08, 2018•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 79
The Murders of Aaron Pajich and Matthew Digby... Vile goblins Jemma Lilley and her house mate Trudi Lenon had a selfish and stupid plan to make history as serial killers. Their first and only victim was Aaron Pajich, a trusting 18 year old computer game enthusiast with Asperger's syndrome, who was friends with Trudi's son. After Lauren Batcheldor's house was burgled in 2010, she and Richard Walsh decided to take the law into their own hands. It would set off a chain of events that led to the kid...
Jul 02, 2018•55 min•Season 2Ep. 78
Spree Killer Carl Brown and the Murder of Joseph Durrant... 51 year old Carl Robert Brown was a High School teacher who refused to seek help for his deteriorating mental health. After being put on forced leave to seek psychiatric counselling, he massacred eight people in a Miami, Florida welding shop and headed towards the school, loaded with guns and ammo. In 2007, a Western Sydney Australia Day party went horribly wrong for Joseph Durrant after an argument with his short-tempered neighbour Kat...
Jun 24, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 77
The Murders of Sophie Lionnet and Senior Constable David Rixon... 21 year old Sophie Lionnet was a shy and reserved French woman working as a nanny in the UK. Her delusional employer Sabrina Kouider, believed Sophie was colluding with her ex Mark Walton, a founding member of Irish boyband Boyzone, to drug and sexually assault her family, so they tortured her to death. On an overcast morning in March 2003, Senior Constable David Rixon pulled over ice addicted knucklehead Michael Allen Jacobs for ...
Jun 17, 2018•52 min•Season 2Ep. 76
