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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…
11 months, 2 weeks 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'…
11 months, 2 weeks 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…
11 months, 3 weeks 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…
11 months, 4 weeks 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 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 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 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 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 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, 1 month ago