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The Forgotten Man – Part Four: The Truth
Season 8 Episode 29
One of Australia’s most respected journalists tells us about his early career on Sydney tabloid The Sun and how he got an exclusive interview with Th…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Forgotten Man – Part Three: The Trial
Season 8 Episode 28
The man accused of John Smillie’s murder finally has his day in court. But the verdict won’t settle the haunting question of his guilt or innocence.
T…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Forgotten Man – Part Two: The Accused
Season 8 Episode 27
Following new information, received six months after the murder of John Smillie, detectives from Sydney’s CIB swoop on their suspect.
What happens ne…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Forgotten Man – Part One: The Murder
Season 8 Episode 26
In September 1935, John Smillie was shot dead in his taxi in western Sydney.
Who had murdered this war veteran, loving husband and doting father? Was…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Comic Book Killer
Season 8 Episode 25
From 1946, Sydney’s Leonard Lawson was a hero to kids for creating the comic book The Lone Avenger. But in reality the young artist was a psychopathi…
1 year, 8 months ago
Weachurch: Werewolf of Pentridge – Part Three
Season 8 Episode 24
A year after he's 'disappeared' into a solitary cage at Pentridge, Weachurch makes a last stab at freedom... and leaves behind a haunting legacy of r…
1 year, 9 months ago
Weachurch: Werewolf of Pentridge – Part Two
Season 8 Episode 23
With Weachurch’s pleas for justice ignored and obstructed as he has punishments piled upon him illegally, he takes desperate action against him enemi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Weachurch: Werewolf of Pentridge – Part Two
Season 8 Episode 23
With Weachurch’s pleas for justice ignored and obstructed as he has punishments piled upon him illegally, he takes desperate action against him enemi…
1 year, 9 months ago
Weachurch: Werewolf of Pentridge – Part One
Season 8 Episode 22
A century before Mark ‘Chopper’ Read became infamous in Pentridge, a convict named Weachurch struck terror into that prison’s warders and from behind…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Murder of Mary Edson
Season 8 Episode 21
The 1931 murder of young Adelaide wife and mother Mary Edson shocked Australia.
But despite this crime’s gruesome details, it was even then a depressi…
1 year, 9 months ago