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The Terrible Mr Thomas – Part One
Season 6 Episode 3
Lionel Charles Thomas went by a lot of aliases. But by any name, he was one nasty character. In this instalment, we chronicle his early criminal care…
3 years, 1 month ago
Pearl Harbor and the Pay Car Ambush – Part Two
Season 6 Episode 2
With the true horror of the pay car outrage revealed – but buried ever-deeper in the war-time newspapers – Sydney police follow promising leads, cond…
3 years, 1 month ago
Pearl Harbor and the Pay Car Ambush – Part One
Season 6 Episode 1
Just hours after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, cold-blooded bandits staged a ruthless ambush on a railway pay car crew south of Sydney. In the …
3 years, 1 month ago
The Christmas Murder – Part Two
Season 5 Episode 23
In the weeks after Shirley Butler's murder, newspaper reports hinted that police weren't divulging everything they knew. Then, in June 1953, nearly s…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Christmas Murder – Part One
Season 5 Episode 22
Christmas Day 1952 saw three tragedies result in eight sudden deaths in Sydney. But the most haunting of these was the vicious murder of Shirley Butl…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Mayor of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part Four
Season 5 Episode 21
After Fred Jones's betrayal, with Hayati branded an 'enemy alien', the showman and the performer go head to head in a series of court cases that make…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Mayor Of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part Three
Season 5 Episode 20
Who was Frederick Hooper Jones, the man who tried to ruin Hayati Hassid? In this instalment, we look at Fred's life and career as a showman and as a …
3 years, 3 months ago
The Mayor Of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part Two
Season 5 Episode 19
Having conquered Australia with Tiny Town, Hayati Hassid goes out on his own and falls into the orbit of Frederick Hooper Jones. To heat parts 3 & 4 …
3 years, 4 months ago
The Mayor Of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part One
Season 5 Episode 18
From a digitised formerly secret Australian military intelligence file comes one of Forgotten Australia’s strangest stories.
In 1911-1912, from Sydne…
3 years, 4 months ago
The Cairns Grenade Murders Part 3
Season 5 Episode 17
With the accused murderer of Holly Murphy and Kathleen Brown set to go to trial in April 1946, there's a series of shocking secret developments, incl…
3 years, 5 months ago