Craig Foster is a former Socceroo captain, TV presenter, law student - he’s even won the odd Logie Award. But at his core, he’s just a guy from rural Australia, hoping to make an impact on the world. When he heard Hakeem al-Araibi had been wrongfully detained in a Thai prison, Foster reacted the only way he could. He quit his job, packed up his life and went overseas to save a man he’d never met. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 29, 2023•45 min•Season 4Ep. 70
Tony Hoang was a teenage drug dealer hanging out with violent gangs and feeding a raging heroin habit. Not far away, Russell Manser had robbed his first bank at 22 - the first in a string of several violent burglaries. This is how they escaped the deadly world of crime. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 26, 2023•49 min•Season 4Ep. 69
Nader Hamdan was just 16 when he punched a cop in the jaw and grabbed his gun. On the other side of New South Wales in Redfern’s notorious streets, Jeffrey Morgan was running riots with police and robbing banks. Both men were heading to an early grave or life behind bars. Instead, they turned their troubled lives around. This is their redemption story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 22, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 68
In part two of Gary's chat with Damien they talk about his incredible survival and how his positive attitude and drive helped push him forward and achieve what many thought was going to be impossible. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Season 4Ep. 74
Private Damien Thomlinson is a former member of the elite 2nd Commando Regiment of the Australian Army who was terribly injured after a bomb explosion in Afghanistan. His inspiring journey back from the dead stands as proof that no challenge is too great and that the ANZAC spirit is truly alive and well. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 15, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 73
There's been a lot of headlines about the William Tyrrell investigation recently. This is what Gary Jubelin has to say. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 15, 2023•3 min•Season 4Ep. 72
Imagine if your loved one suddenly vanished. Just disappeared into thin air with no trace left behind. Every year in Australia, 38,000 missing persons reports are made. While many are found, thousands are left with no answers. Former cop-turned-reporter Meni Caroutas, host of The Missing Australia podcast, talks to Gary about some of the most chilling unsolved investigations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 12, 2023•41 min•Season 4Ep. 65
King's Cross in the '80s for a young cop was like Mardi Gras, the circus and New Year's Eve all rolled into one. Whatever you wanted, you could get it. For former detective Meni Caroutas, working the glitter strip was his dream job - until everything suddenly came crashing down. Meni joins Gary to chat about the moment his career ended, and how it led him to his lifelong mission of finding missing persons. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 08, 2023•53 min•Season 4Ep. 64
Here's a special treat - the first few chapters of Gary's book I Catch Killers from Audible. Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of a homicide detective. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 07, 2023•23 min
A Bunnings employee and a nail gun. That was the key to foiling a potentially very deadly Christmas terrorist attack in Victoria. AFP's Lindsay Hall and Amanda Glover walk Gary through some of their biggest stings. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 05, 2023•50 min•Season 4Ep. 63
As acting members of the Australian Federal Police, Amanda Glover and Lindsay Hall have spent more than 40 years investigating police fraud, drug crimes and preventing terrorist attacks. The duo sit down with Gary to chat about the tricks they use to catch crims, and Glover reveals how she busted a suspicious family daycare syndicate that falsely claimed $13 million of taxpayer money. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 01, 2023•54 min•Season 4Ep. 62
Adults-only funny man Paul Fenech has written a Bogan Bible, holds a record for the most amount of swearing on TV, and he’s thong-slapped his fans right around Australia. Working his way up from cleaner to comedian, he’s walked a fine line between humour and causing offence. But Pauly tells Gary the one time he took it too far. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 28, 2023•50 min•Season 4Ep. 61
Paul Fenech is the Logie-winning Maltese-Australian comedian who created smash hits Pizza, Housos and Bogan Hunter. But he says woke sensibilities have changed so much that his career would be impossible today - and he’s waiting for the day he gets cancelled. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 24, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 60
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Having spent 18 years behind bars, ex-bikie Matt Law knows the problems of prison better than anyone. He’s lived much of his adult life maximum security, he’s been addicted to opiates, but now he’s found a new sense of calm. Working as a peer mentor, Matt is helping ex-prisoners find their feet upon release. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 21, 2023•44 min•Season 4Ep. 59
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Matt Law has spent half his life in jail. When he was a kid, he escaped a difficult home life and became a ward of the state. As he got older he searched for a tribe and found it - in an outlaw bikie gang. Matt takes us into the dark world of bikie life, revealing the strict club rules and what it takes to be nominated. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 17, 2023•48 min•Season 4Ep. 58
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Fingerprints identify the victim as 26-year-old Kelly Hodge, but a killer is still on the loose. Homicide detective Charlie Bezzina talks us through each of the five suspects, only to end up with dead ends, until months later they receive a call. This is what led them to her murderer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 4Ep. 57
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. A naked body was found wrapped in a blanket on the side of the road. Legendary homicide detective Charlie Bezzina takes us through every step of the investigation as the cops experienced it, in real-time, revealing the vital clue that led them to the killer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 10, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 56
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. What do you get when you combine a mushroom dealer and a prison sentence? In Andrew Hamilton's case, the answer is comedy gold. In part two Andrew takes Gary through his time behind bars and the prison food reviews that helped launch his stand-up comedy career. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 07, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 55
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Andrew Hamilton was a PR young-gun with a bright future, he also owned a high-profile pizza shop in Potts Point. From the outside everything looked great. But underneath it all Andrew had a secret life as one of Sydney's biggest magic mushroom dealers, and his gambling and drug addictions were running rampant. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 03, 2023•52 min•Season 4Ep. 54
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Enjoy a sneak peak into the new series, The Missing Australia. Episode one is here for your listening pleasure. Former cop-turned-reporter Meni Caroutas investigates some of Australia's roughly 2,600 unsolved missing persons cases. If you enjoy this episode, you can listen early and ad-free to The Missing Australia podcast now on Crime X+. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jun 02, 2023•40 min
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Nicole Madigan felt like she couldn't escape her stalker Karissa as she continued to bombard her with endless harassment. Finally, she was pushed too far. In part two Nicole talks to Gary about the long process to get justice and protect herself and her family. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 31, 2023•55 min•Season 4Ep. 53
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Nicole Madigan is an accomplished and confident journalist, but her life was totally turned upside down by the actions of a stalker. In part one, she tells Gary how a chance encounter with a stranger led to a campaign of abuse and harassment that would last for years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 27, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 52
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. He walked beside John Ibrahim for a decade, and now Neil Cummins tells us why he had to walk away. He also shares what it was like to pick up the pieces of his life and rebuild into something stronger. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 24, 2023•47 min•Season 4Ep. 51
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Neil Cummins has dealt with bikie brawls, street fights and the general chaos that was life on the streets of King's Cross. Neil worked his way from nightclub doorman to personal bodyguard to John Ibrahim, the king of the cross himself, today he takes us into the seedy underbelly of that time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 20, 2023•54 min•Season 4Ep. 50
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Chris O'Connor was the lead investigator on Task Force ‘Spectrum’ which was responsible for investigating the abduction and sexual assault of several schoolgirls in Victoria and sadly the murder of one of those girls. This case is wildly known as the Mr Cruel Investigation. Today Chris gives us a rare inside look into the decades-long investigation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 17, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 49
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Chris O'Connor is a former Detective Senior Sergeant specialising in Sex Crime Investigation and during his 36-year career in the Victorian Police, he was widely regarded as one of the most experienced detectives in this field. In part one, Gary and Chris talk about what it was like investigating some of the worst predators in the country, from child abusers to a man who was purposefully infecting people with HIV. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 13, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 48
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. The road to recovery is seldom a straightforward and easy path. Duncan Burns cheated death and walked away from his club, but it took some more hard lessons to put him on his current mission as a youth worker looking to keep young offenders out of detention centres and change the way we look at crime. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 10, 2023•50 min•Season 4Ep. 47
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Duncan Burns was a lost young man searching for a tribe when he first met a bikie gang member who introduced him to a lifestyle of fast rides, fast living and plenty of drugs. Unfortunately for Duncan, this world isn't one you can survive in long and in 2005 he was shot in a gang war and left dying in the gutter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 06, 2023•49 min•Season 4Ep. 46
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Looking at Nader Hamdan's early life, a betting man might expect him to end up in and out of jail - or even dead. But Nader defied the odds through grit, determination and his unrelenting passion for becoming a champion boxer. In part two of his chat with Gary, Nader talks about what gave him the drive to change and what he wants to tell young men who are struggling to stay on the right side of the law. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
May 03, 2023•44 min•Season 4Ep. 45
Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Nader 'Lionheart' Hamdan is a legend of the boxing world, in 2003 he was ranked number two in the world in the middleweight division, just behind Oscar De La Hoya. But Nader's rise to the top wasn't easy, he was troubled and violent in his youth, in part one he talks about his years in a juvenile detention centre after an incident with a policeman's gun. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Apr 29, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 44
