Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Australia’s Most Notorious Bank Robber
Season 3 Episode 37
In the late 1990s Brenden Abbott was notorious around Australia.
Known as 'The Postcard Bandit', he was the most wanted man in the country after esc…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Drug Smuggling Grannies
Season 3 Episode 36
In 1977, retirees Vera Hays and Florice Bessire were offered a trip of a lifetime. All they had to do was drive a motorhome from Germany to India for…
3 years, 6 months ago
Melbourne’s First Terror Attack
Season 3 Episode 35
On March 27, 1986, Constable Angela Taylor was standing in front of the Russell Street Police Headquarters complex in Melbourne when a car bomb was d…
3 years, 7 months ago
Inside Australia's Most Elaborate Diamond Heist
Season 3 Episode 34
In the 1980s, up to $50 million of Argyle Pink Diamonds were smuggled out of one of the world’s most secure mines, seemingly without anyone noticing.…
3 years, 7 months ago
Solving The Somerton Man Mystery
Season 3 Episode 33
After 74 years, Australia’s most baffling mystery has finally been solved.
When the body of a man was found slumped on Adelaide's Somerton Beach in 1…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Kingsgrove Slasher
Season 3 Episode 32
From 1956 to 1959, Sydney's southern suburbs were terrorized by a knife-wielding menace known as The Kingsgrove Slasher.
He made 18 attacks over that…
3 years, 7 months ago
Tasmania’s Most Controversial Murder Conviction
Season 3 Episode 31
On the night of January 26, 2009, Bob Chappell disappeared from his yacht in Tasmania's Derwent Estuary. Police were alerted to trouble when the boat…
3 years, 8 months ago
Melbourne’s Brownout Strangler
Season 3 Episode 30
In 1942, the streets of Melbourne were dim and eery. To assist with World War II efforts, the city was complying with a 'brownout' order, similar to …
3 years, 8 months ago
The Unsolved Mystery Of Sharron Phillips
Season 3 Episode 29
In 1986, 20-year-old Sharron Phillips disappeared from the side of the road in Wacol, Brisbane. She used a payphone to make two calls to a friend aft…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Kidnapping Of Eight-Year-Old Graeme Thorne
Season 3 Episode 28
On July 7, 1960, eight-year-old Graeme Thorne went missing from the corner store near his family's Bondi home. It was five weeks after his parents, …
3 years, 8 months ago