This episode discusses domestic violence and the murder of children. Anthony Harvey was obsessed with serial killers, and in order to cope with life, he created a fantasy world in which he was a serial killer. He decided to make this fantasy a reality, and begin “hunting”, but in order to do so, he needed to eliminate those closest to him. In September 2018, Anthony Harvey murdered his wife, his three young daughters, and his mother-in-law, in a violent attack a judge deemed to be “so far beyond...
Oct 20, 2019•57 min•Season 6Ep. 3
LISTEN TO WOMEN, FOLKS. Phew, now we’ve got that out of the way. This is the story of Catherine and David Birnie, sure, but more importantly, it’s the story about a survivor, Kate Moir, and how her ingenuity, bravery, and commitment to the truth led to the arrest of two serial murderers and rapists. Kate survived an abduction, several rapes, imprisonment, and narrowly escaped being murdered, but when she went to the police, they tried to ‘stitch her up’ into giving a false report. But Laura Hanc...
Oct 06, 2019•1 hr•Season 6Ep. 2
No episode today friends! But we have a quick message for you about why and what is happening in the MITLOO world! If you like what we do please consider supporting us on PATREON Subscribe to the podcast on ITUNES , STITCHER , SPOTIFY or your podcatcher of choice . Find us on FACEBOOK , TWITTER , INSTAGRAM or EMAIL us on [email protected] www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murder-in-the-land-of-oz . Support this show http://supporter.acast.c...
Sep 22, 2019•7 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Welcome to our first episode of our Western Australia season! Fair warning, this episode discusses the death of children. Remember when we said we weren’t gonna cover child murder cases? We’re massive liars. Life’s tough out there for a kid in 1907. You have to write on a literal rock at school, the only thing you have to play with is a hoop and a stick, there are no video games yet, and you’re dodging the Grim Reaper at every turn. If the ol’ infant mortality rate doesn’t get you, or the common...
Sep 08, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Throughout our South Australia season, we’ve unintentionally covered a number of cases that have involved missing persons. Approximately 38,000 people are reported missing in Australia each year, and 99.5% of those that are reported missing are located. There are currently 1600 long-term missing persons cases in Australia. In this Very Special Episode, we want to shine a light on some of these long-term missing cases in true MITLOO fashion – one per each state in Australia. We also discuss what ...
Sep 01, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Oof, you guys. This hit home. Carly Ryan was a bright, loving young girl who had a solid relationship with her mum, Sonia. Carly was a typical teenage girl in 2006 – she loved emo music, alternative fashion, and she was heavily invested, like we all were back in the glory days, in her MySpace profile. On MySpace, she met a guy – Brandon, who liked all the things Carly liked, and most importantly, liked Carly. Carly and Brandon began an online relationship, but Carly found out that Brandon was no...
Aug 25, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Listener warning: this episode will discuss paedophilia, sexual abuse, murder, torture, dismemberment, and other gross things we’ve managed to repress from our psyches. If you want your psyche to remain intact, consider not listening to this episode. It’s fine, we understand. This week, we look back on how the Snowtown murders all began, what made John Bunting and Robert Wagner the people they would become, and the evidence that Jamie Vlassakis gave at trial that put them behind bards for good. ...
Aug 12, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Be warned, this episode covers some seriously fucked up shit. This episode will discuss paedophila, sexual abuse, assault, torture, murder, dismemberment, and many other horrific things. Listener discretion isn’t just advised, it’s mandatory. We explicitly stated at the start of this season that we weren’t gonna cover Snowtown… and yet here we are. The Snowtown murders, or the Bodies in the Barrels murders, is the name given to a series of killings committed in the nineties in Adelaide, South Au...
Jul 29, 2019•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 4
It’s kind of a Criminal Minds -style cliché to have a murderer be motivated by his sexual inadequacies, but truth is sadly often much worse than fiction. Mark Errin Rust was a sexual predator, rapist, arsonist, and murderer who was convicted of the sexual assault and murder of two women, 30-year-old Maya Jakic, and 18-year-old Megumi Suzuki. Maya Jakic had been murdered and left in the bushes outside the old Payneham police station in Adelaide, South Australia, in April of 1999. Calls were made ...
Jul 15, 2019•57 min•Season 5Ep. 3
This bad boy has been the big kahuna of Australian mysteries for a long time, and it’s time for your girls to take a swipe at the Somerton Man, the mystery man whose body was found lying on Somerton Beach in Adelaide in 1948. The man had no identification, no money, no labels on his clothes, and a mysterious clue in his pocket – a rolled up piece of paper bearing the words tamam shud , meaning ‘the end’ or ‘finished’. To solve the mystery of how he died, the police first had to establish who the...
Jun 30, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 5Ep. 2
South Australia, we’ve been waiting to get inside you for a long, long time. To start our journey around Australia's most messed-up state, we have the Truro murders, the name given to the truly traumatic series of serial murders committed by Christopher Worrell and James Miller. From 1978 to 1979, a series of human remains were located in remote bushland near the town of Truro, eighty kilometres away from Adelaide, South Australia. As more bodies turned up, police became convinced they’d found t...
Jun 16, 2019•43 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Conspiracy time! Environmental activist and political leader Brenda Hean went missing in 1972 after her plane mysteriously vanished while she was on her way to the nation’s capital to protest the government-sponsored flooding of Lake Pedder. Brenda had been fighting the government and the Hydro-Electric Commission, who’s damming system was to flood the lake, at every turn. She formed the United Tasmania Group, the world’s first Green political party, to try and save the lake. But the government ...
Jun 02, 2019•43 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Tassie has a reputation of being an inbred backwater twenty years behind the rest of Australia, and to a certain extent that’s true (less so with regards to the inbreeding perhaps). But sometimes, Tassie is ahead of the times. That was the case when the murder of David Crawford caused a breakthrough in forensics. Murdered brutally with an axe in his own home, police quickly zeroed in on a suspect – friend and neighbour, Ivan Jones. The police needed a way to destroy Jones’ alibi, and they found ...
May 19, 2019•44 min•Season 4Ep. 4
In this bonus episode, we discuss the infamous murder of JonBenet Ramsey, and have a surprisingly civil debate about the possible perpetrators of this horrible crime. EPISODE NOTES: Six year old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered on Christmas Eve of 1996. The crime has never been solved, and ever since then, literally thousands of people have been considered suspects or persons of interest in the case. But many people believe that the perpetrator was much closer to JonBenet - a member of her own famil...
May 12, 2019•55 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Warning: this episode contains brief mention of sexual assault, and not at all brief mentions of cannibalism. All of Australia has some pretty messed up history from the convict days, but that shit reaaally got concentrated in Tassie. The convicts of Van Diemen’s Land, as it was known back in the day, were some of the weirdest, most brutal, and most messed up lads around. Alexander Pearce was perhaps the best example of this. A career criminal, alcoholic, occasional bushranger, and semi-constant...
May 09, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Interstate communications have broken down! And your hosts will be getting back to you as soon as they can! (Which will be Friday) If you like what we do please consider supporting us on PATREON Subscribe to the podcast on ITUNES , STITCHER , SPOTIFY or your podcatcher of choice . Find us on FACEBOOK , TWITTER , INSTAGRAM or EMAIL us on [email protected] www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murder-in-the-land-of-oz . Support this show http://s...
May 05, 2019•5 min•Season 4Ep. 2
For our second Tassie episode, we cover one of the worst mass shooting in Australian history. The shooter was Martin Bryant, a 25 year old man with the IQ of an eleven-year-old. Having the mind of a child didn’t stop him from getting his hands on a bunch of semi-automatic weaponry and murdering 35 people and wounding 23 more at Port Arthur Historic Site on April 28, 1996, though. The massacre lead to a massive overhaul of Australia’s gun control laws. The ability to purchase firearms were severe...
Apr 21, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Please note, this episode discusses crimes against children. Was a man convicted of the murder of a nine year old boy in Tasmania in 1975 responsible for some of Australia’s most well known unsolved crimes? Investigation by retired detective Gordon Davie uncovered that wherever James O’Neill went, children seemed to go missing. After years of investigation and interviews with O’Neill, Davie uncovered evidence linking O’Neill with crimes not only in Tasmania, but in Victoria, Western Australia, a...
Apr 08, 2019•52 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Welcome to Ned Kelly Part Two! We left our heroes (?) in Stringybark Creek, just after murdering a small handful of policeman. Ned’s fame would absolutely skyrocket from this act, and then, as now, public opinion was divided – did Ned act in self-defence? Or was he nothing more than a cold-blooded murderer? With the gang now outlawed, they were forced to spend most of their time isolated in the Victorian bush, relying on a network of supporters to get by. Hundreds of police were out scouring the...
Mar 24, 2019•1 hr 36 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Ned Kelly: outback legend, or cowardly criminal? You decide! In this kind-of-a-bonus-but-not-really episode, we tackle an Aussie icon, none other than Edward Kelly, better known as Ned, and his gang of rambunctious friends. Some people (Ellen) believe that Ned was a hero, a legend, and a man of the people. Sure he stole a few horses and killed a few cops, but what else are you gonna do in the outback in the late 1800s? Some others (Jess) believe that Ned Kelly was a bad man, actually, and we sho...
Mar 10, 2019•1 hr 21 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Peter Dupas is one of the most horrific and violent serial killers in Australian history. When Nicole Patterson’s brutally mutilated body was discovered on April 19, 1999, the police followed a trail of breadcrumbs that led them to Peter Dupas’ door. The sheer brutality of Nicole’s murdered indicated to police that she was not Dupas’ first victim, so they cracked open the cold case files and looked backwards to any cases that contained Dupas’ horrific signature – the removal of his victim’s brea...
Feb 24, 2019•40 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Ted Bundy has been talked about extensively in the past few weeks after a whole host of Ted Bundy #content has been released. Much of the chatter online has focused on whether or not media such as this glorifies Ted Bundy and makes him seem like some kind of serial killer rockstar. As always, your girls had some feelings, and rather than clogging up half of a real episode with our opinions, we thought we’d fire off a quick discussion episode to air our thoughts. There’s been a lot of chatter onl...
Feb 17, 2019•27 min
In Melbourne, Victoria during the Second World War, electric lights were turned off or lowered at night to prevent aerial attacks from the Japanese. The war, which had confined itself to the Northern Hemisphere for the most part, was slowly creeping down the Pacific, and Melbourne was enjoying the subsequent influx of thousands of American soldiers stationed nearby. Many a young Aussie lady was swept off her feet by the charming, cashed-up Yankees. But the fascination turned to fear when the lig...
Jan 27, 2019•33 min•Season 3Ep. 3
On March 23, 2004, John Sharpe shot a spear into his wife Anna’s head while she was sleeping. On March 27, he did the same to his nineteen month old daughter Gracie. He then concocted an elaborate ruse, pretending that Anna was still alive, and that she had left John for another man. Anna’s family and friends were immediately suspicious. They didn’t believe that a dedicated, loving mother like Anna would up and leave her husband and child for a flight of fancy. When the truth surrounding Anna an...
Jan 13, 2019•51 min•Season 3Ep. 2
What started out as a simple guest segment on Musicals Taught Me Everything I Know somehow ballooned out to this glorious 40 minutes of discussion about musical murders. If you like what we do please consider supporting us on PATREON Subscribe to the podcast on ITUNES , STITCHER , SPOTIFY or your podcatcher of choice . Find us on FACEBOOK , TWITTER , INSTAGRAM or EMAIL us on [email protected] www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murder-in-the-...
Dec 30, 2018•47 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Jill Meagher was a 29 year old Irish woman living in Melbourne with her husband, Tom. She was a bright, funny, loving young woman, who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. On the 21st of September 2012, Jill went to a bar on Sydney Road in Brunswick with some colleagues. She left around 1:30am, to walk the few blocks back to her home and her husband. She never made it home. When her husband awoke to find her missing, he immediately contacted the police. What followed was a fast an...
Dec 16, 2018•56 min•Season 3Ep. 1
A brief update episode to discuss the new developments in the trial and sentencing of the murderer of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and Khandalyce. If you like what we do please consider supporting us on PATREON Subscribe to the podcast on ITUNES , STITCHER , SPOTIFY or your podcatcher of choice . Find us on FACEBOOK , TWITTER , INSTAGRAM or EMAIL us on [email protected] www.thatsnotcanonproductions.com Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/murder-in-the-land-of-oz . Support this sh...
Dec 04, 2018•13 min•Season 2Ep. 8
In the early 90s, three children went missing from the same street over the course of four months. If it had happened in Sydney, we’d never hear the end of it, but because the kids were Indigenous, and lived in Bowraville, one of the state’s poorest towns, barely anyone has heard of the case. More than twenty years later, the white man responsible for the children’s murders has never been convicted. This week we look into the Bowraville murders, to try and figure out exactly why justice has neve...
Dec 02, 2018•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 7
What do you call a doctor that graduates at the bottom of his class? A doctor. What do you call a doctor that graduates at the bottom of his class, gets sanctioned for professional misconduct, gets their license revoked, manages to get a job as Director of Surgery at a large regional hospital, and causes the deaths of thirteen odd patients? Doctor Death. Doctor Jayant Patel worked at the Bundaberg Base Hospital in Queensland, Australia, from 2003 to 2005. In that two year span, the hospital rece...
Nov 18, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 7
The Wanda Beach Murders are possibly Australia’s most well-known cold case. The 1965 murder of Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock devastated the nation, and to this day police are still trying to piece together the circumstances of their deaths. In this episode, your girls discuss one of the most likely suspects, a serial killer who travelled across the US, luring girls to their deaths by posing as a photographer. In 1965 though, he was just another Aussie teenager… one who happened to matc...
Nov 04, 2018•51 min•Season 2Ep. 5
