An aspiring rapper, battling drug addiction raided a home in inner Sydney in August 2018. Armed with a blank-firing pistol and knuckledusters, 30-year-old Jett McKee broke into the home of Blake Davis, a 31-year-old actor and martial arts enthusiast, and Hannah Quinn, a 26-year-old former kindergarten teacher. McKee fled after the robbery and was chased down….with Davis later striking him with a samurai sword killing him. The ensuing NSW Supreme Court trial, in late 2020, had to consider self-de...
Jul 02, 2025•30 min•Season 3Ep. 224
One of your family members could be missing, and your DNA could help find them. Associate Professor Jodie Ward is the former Program Lead of the National DNA Program for Unidentified and Missing Persons at the Australian Federal Police. Now completed, the program was funded by the Confiscated Assets Account, in a nationwide effort to find or identify people who are unaccounted for. In this episode, Jodie takes us through exactly what the program did and how it's helped track down and identify hu...
Jul 01, 2025•32 min•Season 3Ep. 217
12-year-old Terry Floyd disappeared from the Pyrenees Highway outside Avoca in June 1975. His brother Daryl has spent the last 50 years searching for him. Daryl has teamed up with renowned Victorian detective Charlie Bezzina to help find his brother and to bring the man they believe was responsible for abducting and murdering Terry, to justice. In this episode of Crime Insiders | Detectives Brent Sanders and Charlie Bezzina take a deep dive on the evidence Charlie has uncovered and why the alleg...
Jun 29, 2025•42 min•Season 3Ep. 222
The team at Crime Insiders is really excited to bring you a new series on LiSTNR. You're going to love it. Secrets we Keep: Lone Actor is a deep dive on the worst terror attack carried about by an Australian. The Christchurch attack, where 51 people were tragically murdered. Australia has never carried out an official investigation into who or what led the terrorist to violence. So those of us interested in and concerned by crimes like this, and importantly the victim community in New Zealand, s...
Jun 29, 2025•4 min•Season 3Ep. 221
The Truro Murders case is one of Australia's most chilling serial murder investigations. It involves the deaths of seven young women in South Australia during the mid-1970s. The primary perpetrators were Christopher Robin Worrell and James William Miller, whose actions and subsequent trial have left a lasting impact on the Australian criminal landscape. Worrell died before being brought to justice, Miller was found guilty of six of the seven murders despite claiming he had nothing to do with the...
Jun 25, 2025•27 min•Season 3Ep. 221
The AFP and customs intercept hundreds of tonnes of narcotics every year. But, the techniques of criminals and smugglers are becoming more complex, and unfortunately, more effective. Nigel Phair is a former Australian Federal Police Officer who took on a range of high profile drug importation cases. This saw him intercepting large quantities of drugs, investigating their origin and surveilling their eventual destination in Australia. Understand this work and hear Nigel walk host Brent Sanders th...
Jun 24, 2025•30 min•Season 3Ep. 220
Ned Kelly was executed in 1880, yet he remains one of the most iconic and divisive figures in Australian history. For more than a century, a question has haunted historians, scientists, and the public alike: What happened to his remains? In this episode, we follow the high-stakes forensic investigation that set out to uncover the truth. Professor David Ranson from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, takes host Liz Porter inside the two-year effort to reconstruct history from fragments ...
Jun 22, 2025•37 min•Season 3Ep. 219
68-year-old Allan Charles Gibson shot his wife at their Traralgon home in the early hours of April 14, 2016. He then tried to take his own life, but failed. Police arrested Gibson and tried him for murder. His defence team argued he was suffering from dementia and argued the court ought to take his mental condition into consideration. In this episode of Crime Insiders | Judgements, we go into the courtoom to discover if the court believed Gibson's dementia was a contributing factor in the murder...
Jun 18, 2025•25 min•Season 3Ep. 218
How do forensic investigators decipher the scene of a violent car crash? Why is the filament in a brake light so important? And what evidence can lead investigators down the wrong path? Dr Raphael Grzebieta is an expert in car crash analysis, and has worked for decades in the field. His goal is to bring road safety to the fore of transport conversations, and he refuses to acknowledge car crashes as accidents, claiming there is always a reason. Join former Crime Insiders Forensics host Kathryn Fo...
Jun 17, 2025•38 min•Season 3Ep. 217
As a child, Craig Doran dreamt of being a policeman. He was obsessed with Sherlock Holmes. Craig ended up working for Queensland Police for 22 years. In this episode of Crime Insiders, Craig tells us about an investigation into a complex bank loan scam and how he and his team managed to keep the perpetrator in Australia to be convicted. In the second half of this episode, Craig tells us about Comtrac - a company he founded - that uses AI-enhanced investigation management software to boost produc...
Jun 15, 2025•44 min•Season 3Ep. 216
A quiet suburb. A brutal murder. What happens when someone kills - but isn’t sane enough to be found guilty? Marita Cunningham was charged with murdering 81-year-old May Richie in 2016. A neighbour discovered May dead inside her apartment, her body covered in pillows and shopping bags. An autopsy found she’d died by asphyxiation and had been beaten with her own walking cane. Marita was arrested trying to flee the scene. Witnesses described Marita’s unsettling behaviour earlier that day, includin...
Jun 11, 2025•25 min•Season 3Ep. 215
The world's most notorious criminals, unknowingly spilling their secrets on a 'secure' app run by... the cops. That's exactly what happened in Operation Ironside, a covert operation run by the FBI in collaboration with the AFP. Chris Craner is one of Australia’s most experienced tactical operators. His 30-plus-year career had him at the forefront of some of the country’s most intense and high-stakes investigations, including Ironside and the Lindt Cafe Siege. In this episode hosted by Brent Sand...
Jun 10, 2025•38 min•Season 3Ep. 214
When Bob Chappell vanished from his yacht in Hobart, suspicion quickly turned on his partner, Sue Neill-Fraser, an unassuming woman who soon found herself at the centre of one of Australia’s most controversial murder cases. But behind the headlines lies a deeper story - one of forensic failure, investigative tunnel vision, and a conviction that may never have happened if all the available avenues had been investigated. In this episode, former detective Colin McLaren unpacks the crucial DNA evide...
Jun 08, 2025•45 min•Season 3Ep. 213
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, rugby league was a code looking to expand nationally after the success of its premier competition in Sydney. Clubs emerged in Brisbane, Newcastle, and the Gold Coast. Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation took the growth in the sport as an indication it ought to expand even further and plotted a coup, to take the running of the code out of the hands of the establishment - the Australian Rugby League. What followed was a war that ripped the sport apart with Murdoch ...
Jun 04, 2025•26 min•Season 3Ep. 212
Semen is the crack cocaine of the fly world, and while maggots love a corpse, flies feast on live human flesh and fluids. So, could a fly frame you for murder? And how do police differentiate fly 'artifacts' from human biological material at a crime scene? These are all things forensic biologist, Dr Annalisa Durdle has studied. Join former Crime Insiders Forensics host Kathryn Fox as Annalisa redefines what it means to be a 'fly on the wall'. If you or someone you know is experiencing, or at ris...
Jun 03, 2025•35 min•Season 3Ep. 211
2.7 million Australians aged 18 and over have experienced stalking. One in 5 women and over 1 in 15 men. What are the warning signs, and what should you do if you or someone you know is being stalked? In this follow-up episode of Crime Insiders | Detectives Brent Sanders talks with Di McDonald, the founder of Stalking Awareness Day Australia - herself a victim of stalking - about what to do if you, a friend or a loved one is being stalked. Di and Brent are also joined by former Victorian police ...
Jun 01, 2025•35 min•Season 3Ep. 210
Andrew Kalajzich was a big-time businessman in Manly, Sydney in the 1980s - a titan of the time. While he portrayed the role of a loving family man, behind the scenes he was plotting to murder his wife. Kalajzich commissioned a hitman to shoot his wife, Megan. The hitman had six attempts. In this episode of Crime Insiders | Judgements, we learn how and why Kalajzich killed his wife, and what the court heard were the motivations and clandestine plans to carry out the hit. See omnystudio.com/liste...
May 28, 2025•24 min•Season 3Ep. 209
Two cousins, both wives to the same man, found dead under mysterious circumstances. Was this the world's unluckiest husband, or a serial wife killer? Former detective Peter Seymour has dedicated over two decades of his life to the people of Western Sydney, serving in the NSW Police as both a detective and police prosecutor. In this episode, Brent Sanders talks to Peter about the shockingly bizarre investigation of Thomas Keir, and the life-altering case that pushed Peter to his limits, prompting...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 3Ep. 208
The 1994 bombing of the Adelaide National Crime Authority sent shockwaves across Australia. It was a brutal act that killed a police officer and seriously injured others, sparking one of the most daring undercover operations in our history. But this police sting had an unusual weapon - forensics. With red phosphorus linking the bombs and a drug manufacturing business run by a key suspect, and forensic experts involved in the operation, this was a rare moment where science went on the offensive. ...
May 25, 2025•50 min•Season 3Ep. 207
23-year-old Celeste Manno had her life brutally taken from her by a man who had relentlessly stalked her, despite Celeste going to great lengths to protect herself legally. Her killer only received a 36-year sentence. A punishment Celeste's family and many others believe is not nearly severe enough given the gravity of his crimes. Visit justiceforceleste.com to learn more about Celeste's story and how you can support her family's fight for justice. This episode references violent crime and men's...
May 21, 2025•31 min•Season 3Ep. 206
Stalking is disturbingly common, yet often misunderstood by wider society. Professor Troy McEwan from the Swinburne University of Technology is a forensic psychologist specialising in understanding, assessing, and treating stalking behaviour. In this episode with former Crime Insiders Forensics host, Kathryn Fox, hear about the 5 different types of stalkers, and gain insights into their problematic behaviours. If you or someone you know is experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, domestic, fami...
May 20, 2025•36 min•Season 3Ep. 205
Di McDonald was a victim of a stalker, who terrorised her and her family. She finally re-claimed her life with the help of former Victorian police officer Rebecca Norris. In this episode of Crime Insiders | Detectives, Brent Sanders talks to Di about how she overcame the fear and torment of her stalker and why she calls Beck Norris, her 'guardian angel'. Di went on to establish Stalking Awareness Day Australia - May 24. If you or someone you know is experiencing, or at risk of experiencing, dome...
May 18, 2025•55 min•Season 3Ep. 204
On August 3, 2011, Paul Douglas Peters, a 50-year-old Australian businessman, entered the Mosman home of 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver on Sydney’s affluent North Shore and strapped what appeared to be a bomb around her neck. The device, later revealed to be a hoax, was accompanied by an extortion note demanding money from her wealthy family. What followed was a 10-hour ordeal for Madeleine, an international manhunt, and a legal process that captivated the public and media alike. See omnystudio.co...
May 14, 2025•25 min•Season 3Ep. 203
In 2004, outside a pub, Australian Cricket legend David Hookes died. A manslaughter charge was laid, and a trial ensued. But no one was convicted, why? What were the processes that lead to the verdict, and how were the police involved? As well, what Underbelly doesn't show you. An unprecedented look at the killing of Alphonse Gangitano and the chaos which proceeded it - and, the Frankston Serial Killer Paul Denyer, and how he was caught. Charlie Bezzina is an unrelenting legend of Victorian Poli...
May 13, 2025•32 min•Season 3Ep. 202
Erin Patterson has been charged with the murders of three relatives and the attempted murder of another; after allegedly serving up a beef Wellington dish laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms at a lunch at her home in 2023. She’s pled not guilty to all charges. In this special series of The Briefing, Holly Mitchell unpacks day 10 of the trial in under two minutes. For daily updates on the Erin Patterson triple murder trial, follow The Briefing , new episodes drop every evening for the durati...
May 13, 2025•2 min•Season 3Ep. 201
Saturday, October 12th, 2002. A warm night in Bali’s bustling Kuta Beach. Bars packed with tourists, music pumping. Then - devastation. Two massive explosions rip through popular Paddy’s Bar and the Sari Club across the road. 202 lives were lost, 88 of them Australians. In the wreckage, tiny clues told a story. Copper wires, fragments of tartan fabric, the surprising absence of a crater. Australian Federal Police Forensic chemist David Royds arrived at the scene just 48 hours later. Sifting thro...
May 11, 2025•43 min•Season 3Ep. 201
The Fine Cotton Scandal of 1984 is a notorious event in Australian horse racing history, where a syndicate attempted to rig a race by substituting a slow horse with a faster one. The plan, led by John Patrick Gillespie, involved a series of desperate measures that ultimately failed, leading to a national scandal that exposed corruption in the racing industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 07, 2025•27 min•Season 3Ep. 200
Victoria Police have a new Chief Commissioner - Mike Bush. Mike is the former New Zealand Commissioner of Police and has had a decorated career. However, his time as a Detective and a lead investigator saw him take on some gruesome and confronting cases - a far stretch from the press conferences and media appearances as commissioner. Last year, Mike joined Crime Insiders Detectives host, and fellow former NZ cop, Brent Sanders, to talk about some of the most memorable cases from his 40+ year car...
May 07, 2025•34 min•Season 3Ep. 199
In 2016, a mum of three and a wannabe serial killer became two of Australia's most calculated female murderers. Dr Kari Pitts is a forensic chemist and trace evidence expert, who has worked on over 300 criminal cases, including homicides, violent assaults, arson, and fatal hit-and-runs. In this episode, Kari explains how a dyed blue hair and some carpet helped convict Perth's female thrill kill pair. Kari also tells former Crime Insiders Forensics host Kathryn Fox about an initiative she pioneer...
May 06, 2025•40 min•Season 3Ep. 199
Nick Kaldas is an Australian law enforcement legend with a career spanning over 40 years. From undercover ops and hostage negotiations, to rebuilding Iraq’s police force post Saddam Hussein, Nick has seen it all. In this episode of Crime Insiders Detectives, Nick shares jaw-dropping stories from the front lines with host Brent Sanders. He'll reveal the emotional toll of policing, the brutal reality of insurgency, and the silent crisis of veteran mental health. This episode has descriptions of vi...
May 04, 2025•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 198
