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This Week in 1904: Rampaging Percy Ramage – Part Two
Season 9 Episode 23
Did you have to be crazy to take on 10 cops at once? Was Percy Ramage 'perfectly insane'? The question was key but Melbourne’s best and brightest jus…
1 year, 4 months ago
This Week in 1904: Rampaging Percy Ramage – Part One
Season 9 Episode 22
In Melbourne and Geelong from the 1890s, Percy Ramage saw red whenever he saw the cops. Known as 'The Policeman Puncher', he was such a 'human tiger'…
1 year, 4 months ago
Short: Cocaine Kurtz
Season 9 Episode 20
This German-born thug's misadventures included shooting his dad in the butt, taking to the bush as an escapee, doing time in a POW camp, selling coca…
1 year, 4 months ago
This Week in 1978: Dead End – The Bloody Last Stand of a Brazen Bank Bandit
Season 9 Episode 21
A Brisbane armed robber had hit three banks in twelve months. In the second week of April 1978, the cops had laid a trap he couldn’t escape. Until he…
1 year, 4 months ago
This Week in 1953: One Murderous Cop, Two Serial Killers & Roy Cohn Runs Riot Against the 'Reds'
Season 9 Episode 19
It was a big week for true crime and the Red Scare. In Sydney, Roger Rogerson’s future hero, Detective-Sergeant Ray ‘the Gunner’ Kelly, was in court …
1 year, 5 months ago
This Week in 1928: Cocaine Raids, Razor Gangs, Racist Orgy Conspiracies and Girl Bosses vs Man Worms!
Season 9 Episode 18
In a bumper episode brought to you by the newfangled "Electric Newspaper" of 1928, Sydney and Melbourne cops carry out spectacular public raids to sa…
1 year, 5 months ago
Short: Murder at the Melbourne Races
Season 9 Episode 14
In 1906, when a young bookie tried to cheat his customers, he died as the very public victim of a bloodthirsty mob of Melburnians. His murder left th…
1 year, 5 months ago
This Week in 1903: Gaslight in Perth – Bella Heckler, the Reverend and the Rape Scandal
Season 9 Episode 17
In the third week of 1903, Perth was transfixed by one of the most sensational libel cases in Australian history. The legal action had been brought b…
1 year, 5 months ago
This Week in 1977: Just Like Jaws
Season 9 Episode 16
This week was a busy one – a royal visit from the Queen, the Centenary Test and mad bulls running through the streets of Melbourne. But no story was …
1 year, 5 months ago
This Week in 1952: Miss Kangaroo & the Great Koala Heist
Season 9 Episode 15
Long before Crocodile Dundee put Australia on the map for American moviegoers, Miss Kangaroo was sent to the USA on a similar mission. But this young…
1 year, 6 months ago