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True Crime Island

True Crime stories from around the world.
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Prison Sex and Other Things

Prisons guards having sex with inmates, surely not. But that’s not the way they roll at Kempsey Prison where even the evillest of inmates get a bit of boom boom. This plus more on True Crime Island tonight.

Aug 05, 201834 min

Episode 49 - The Killing of Joe Cinque

It’s the 26 October 1997, Canberra Australia. 25-year-old Anu Singh call 000 emergency to report her 26-year-old boyfriend Joe Cinque in need of assistance. By the time paramedics arrive, they can’t help Joe. Police would later arrest Singh and charge her with murder. This case will bring on the rage.

Jul 30, 201855 min

Episode 48 - The Tragic Story of Tiahleigh Palmer

It’s 2015, Queensland Australia. A 12-year-old girl is in the foster care of the Thorburn family. It’s no ordinary family, they are nothing but sick, twisted and incestuous. As you’ll see tonight, nothing is taboo at the Thorburn’s. This is the story of the rape and murder of Tiahleigh Palmer.

Jul 15, 201830 min

Episode 47 - What Is Wrong With People

This week I go through a few news items and I just have to say ‘What is wrong with people’ because you know, I find I just keep saying it this week. Some rage and some laughs.

Jul 10, 201835 min

The Marvin Heemeyer Tapes in Full

These are the full tapes of the Killdozer guy Marvin Heeymeyer the subject of last weeks Kildozer episode. This is not an episode, just an appendix.

Jul 06, 20182 hr 37 min

Episode 46 - Marvin Heemeyer Killdozer

Marvin Heemeyer 52-year-old muffler man has issues with locals and authorities over fines and property. Eventually he has had enough and builds the ultimate destruction machine and unleashes it on the neighbourhood. This is the story of the Killdozer.

Jul 01, 20181 hr 13 min

Episode 45 - Roxanne Hayes

When Lawrence Singleton brutally raped, mutilated and left Mary Vincent for dead in 1978, he would only serve a sentence of 8 years and 4 months. In 1997 he would commit the ultimate crime, he would murder a 31-year-old mother of three. This is the story of Roxanne Hayes.

Jun 19, 201832 min

Episode 44 - Mary Vincent

It’s the 29th September 1978, 15-year-old Mary Vincent is hitching a lift to her Grandfathers house in LA. A van pulls up and Mary is offered a lift by a 51-year-old guy with a beer gut wearing overalls. Two other hitch hikers she is standing with warn her not to accept the lift but she ignores them. She would soon find out this decision would be a grave mistake.

Jun 11, 201837 min

Episode 43 - Robert F Kennedy 50 Year Special

It’s been 50 years since that day in June 1968 when Robert F Kennedy was gunned down at the The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Tonight I’ll go over the life and death of RFK.

Jun 03, 201857 min

Episode 42 - The Kimberley Killer

It’s June the 9th 1987. Police are alerted when two men fail to return to their wives after scouting out fishing spots near the Victoria River in the Northern Territory Australia. Police would later find two shallow graves on the banks of the river. This is the story of Joseph Schwab, the Kimberley Killer.

May 27, 201842 min

Episode 41 - Graham James Kay The North Shore Rapist

Graham James Kay The North Shore Rapist. It’s 17th April 2018. A teenage girl at a local shopping centre is allegedly grabbed by the hips and attempted to be kissed by a high-risk sex offender who was granted bail in 2015 after serving 18 years for raping women.

May 13, 201853 min

*** Special Edition *** Joseph DeAngelo The Golden State Killer

The Golden State Killer, the Original Night Stalker, Visalia Ransacker, East Area Rapist, the East Bay Rapist, and the Diamond Knot Killer. He stalked, raped, robbed and murdered throughout the 70’s and 80’s and up until the 25th April he was walking the streets as a free man.

Apr 28, 201849 min

Episode 40 - The Greenough Family Massacre

It’s the 22nd February 1993, Karen McKenzie and her three children Daniel, Amara and Katrina are all hacked to death in a crime so shocking that the details of these killing are sealed by the courts not to be released to the public. This shocking act will not only affect the rural Western Australian town of Greenough but it will shock the nation and the world. This is the story of the Greenough Family Massacre

Apr 22, 201853 min

*** Special Edition *** - Murder Island Crossover

The story of the Batavia was one of the most mysterious sea disappearances after it vanished in 1629, there had been numerous searches in efforts to locate the missing ship. It wouldn’t be until 1963 the wreckage of the missing ship would be found. Combined with what was found on a nearby island. It became one of the most horrific mysteries in history.

Apr 15, 2018

Episode 39 - The Hungerford Massacre

It’s the 19th August 1987, Hungerford England. 27-year-old Michael Robert Ryan goes on a shooting spree killing 16 people, 1 dog and seriously injuring 15 others. 6 Hours later, barricaded in a school classroom, Ryan would commit suicide with a single gunshot to the head. This is the story of the Hungerford Massacre.

Apr 07, 201859 min

*** Special Edition *** - The Kobe School Killer

It’s May 27, 1997 Kobe Japan, the head of Jun Hase, a student at Tainohata Elementary School, was found in front of the school gate hours before students arrived for classes. A note, written in red pen, was found stuffed in the mouth of the disembodied head identifying the killer as "Sakakibara." This is the story of The Kobe School Killer.

Apr 01, 2018

Episode 38 - Barlow and Chambers

It’s the 7th July 1986. Kevin John Barlow and Brian Geoffrey Shergold Chambers are escorted to the gallows at Pudu Prison Kuala Lumpur after being sentenced to death for drug trafficking. Despite appeals from as high up as the Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, Barlow and Chambers would be the first westerners to hang under Malaysia’s tough new drug laws.

Mar 25, 201842 min

Episode 37 - Armin Meiwes the Cannibal

Posted by Franky on November 19, 2001 at 2:36PM I search a young boy between 18 and 25 y/o. Have you a normal body, I butchering you and eat your horny flesh. Franky. This is the story of Armin Meiwes, Der Metzgermeister.

Mar 20, 201837 min

Episode 36 - Was It Really Suicide?

It’s the 21st June 1989, Kenneth Wayne Banks is found by his fiancé in the bathroom suffering from a gunshot wound to the stomach. Before emergency services could reach him, he would die. Beside him was a scribbled final will. Was it really suicide?

Mar 11, 201842 min

*** Special Edition *** - Grenfell and Leveson Updates

Tonight on Special Edition, 74-year-old woman becomes the latest victim of the Grenfell Tower fire and two others are in court for fraudulently claiming assistance. Also the details of the funeral for Matthew Leveson and the award given to his parents.

Mar 04, 2018

Episode 35 - Murderer John Ernest Cribb

It’s August 11, 1978 Baulkham Hills north-west of Sydney. 28-year-old John Ernest Cribb out on parole for Armed robbery abducts Valda Connell, 39, who had just come home in her car with two of her six children, Sally, 10, and Damien, 4. What happens next would shock the nation.

Feb 25, 201837 min

*** Special Edition *** - A Cold Case Solved and a Murder in Thailand

His name is Gregory Keith Davies, for 32 years he would hold a nasty secret until one day a cold case investigation would uncover his dark past. Also, tonight I will go over the death of Benjamin Robb who lost his life at a Bar in Pattaya Thailand the victim of a violent attack.

Feb 18, 201827 min

Episode 34 - The Murder of Philip Quayle

It’s February 26, 2015 Cairns Australia. Philip Quayle, 27, is found dead by a passer-by around 3.25am near the intersection of Spence and Taylor streets. Thug Jake Desmond Livingstone 19, just out of prison on parole, had attacked Philip knocking him to the ground and then held him in a headlock until Philips was dead.

Feb 12, 201825 min

Episode 33 – The Murder of Karen Chetcuti

On the 14th July 2015 Michael Cardamone is released on parole after serving around six years of a 9-year sentence for raping a 15-year-old girl. On the 12th January 2016, just 182 days later, Cardamone abducts and murders 49-year-old Karen Chetcuti. What happened on that night would shock the nation.

Feb 04, 201852 min

Episode 32 - The Murder of Lyndsay Van Blanken

It’s the 10th January 2004. At an apartment block in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, residents complain about a bad smell that had been coming from the ground floor storeroom for some time. The building’s maintenance guy investigating the cause of the odour would make a shocking discovery.

Jan 28, 201838 min

Episode 31 - The Murder of Sofia Shu

It’s the 26th June 2006, Canning Vale, Western Australia. An 8-Year-Old girl is at the Livingston Shopping Centre with her uncle, brother and sister. Also at the shopping centre was pure evil. What would happen that day would shock the nation. This is the story of the murder of Sofia Shu.

Jan 14, 201832 min
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