Podcast Episodes

The Myall Creek Massacre

Season 2 Episode 25

It’s an hour and a half before sunset on a Sunday afternoon in June, 1838.

A group of Indigenous Australians, the Wirrayaraay people, are cooking their evening meal. As the day nears its end, things …

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

The Devil’s Grip: A Deadly Secret

Season 2 Episode 24

Seven gunshots ring out through Victoria’s green and vast Barrabool Hills. 

On the western outskirts of Geelong, the Barrabool Hills is sparsely populated, best known for grazing sheep and lamb. 

It’…

Published on 4 years, 5 months ago

The Good Girls: A Double Tragedy In A Quiet Village

Season 2 Episode 23

Hanging from a mango tree, on the edge of their village in Uttar Pradesh, are the bodies of two girls.

It’s May 27, 2014, and the sun is just beginning to rise in India’s north. It’s already blisteri…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Barrenjoey Road: The Case Of Trudie Jeanette Adams

Season 2 Episode 22

On today’s episode host Jessie Stephens is speaking with award-winning investigative journalists Ruby Jones and Neil Mercer, co-authors of the book Barrenjoey Road.

For 43 years, the case of Trudie J…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

Finding Cleo: The Story Of A Lost Child

Season 2 Episode 21

On today’s episode Jessie is speaking with award-winning investigative journalist Connie Walker, whose podcast ‘Stolen’ & ‘Missing & Murdered’ uncovers an overlooked epidemic of violence against Indi…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

The Dunblane Massacre: Britain's Deadliest Mass Shooting

Season 2 Episode 20

It’s a Wednesday morning in March 1996, and the bell sounds at Dunblane Primary School near Stirling in Scotland. 

Students scramble to their classrooms, their minds are caught up in homework and fri…

Published on 4 years, 6 months ago

The Belrose Bomb

Season 2 Episode 19

It’s June 15, 1998, a cool winter’s evening on Sydney’s northern beaches.  

The leafy, quiet and friendly suburb of Belrose is located about 19 kilometres northeast of Sydney’s CBD. For a man named B…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

Buried Without A Body: The Murder Of Helen McCourt

Season 2 Episode 18

It’s 4pm on the 9th of February, 1988. 

A 22-year-old woman named Helen McCourt, with long, dark brown hair picks up the phone.

She's about to leave work at the Royal Insurance office in Liverpool, h…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

The Husband Poisoner

Season 2 Episode 17

For Desmond Butler, it began with a headache. Then diarrhoea. Nausea that felt like a hangover.  

He was otherwise a healthy man, not yet 30. He shared two children with his wife Yvonne Gladys Butler…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago

The Man Who Murdered Luke Batty

Season 2 Episode 16

It was February 12, 2014, a hot summer evening, and eleven year old Luke Batty was at cricket practice on a sports oval in the Melbourne suburb of Tyabb.

With blue eyes and dark blonde hair, Luke had…

Published on 4 years, 7 months ago