Episode Details

Re-released to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the crime that shocked a nation.

On 12 May 1926, south of Kalgoorlie, at an abandoned mine known as Miller's Find, Detective-Sergeant Grenville Purdue makes a horrifying discovery. The biggest manhunt in Western Australia is now on for the murderers of Detective-Inspector John Walsh and Detective-Sergeant Alexander Pitman. 

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They’ll Never Hold Me:

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The Murder Squad:

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Hanging Ned Kelly:

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