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Too deadly to let live
Season 1 Episode 64
The story of Gavin 'Capable' Preston, a notorious Melbourne criminal whose extreme violence inevitably caught up with him.
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2 years, 6 months ago
Worms in the Apple Isle - part 3
Season 1 Episode 63
Did imprisoned child killer James Ryan O'Neill take the Beaumont children in 1966?
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2 years, 6 months ago
Worms in the Apple Isle part 2
Season 1 Episode 62
Shane Barker was killed in his driveway in 2009 but the case went cold. For a decade, his former parents-in-law lived a quiet life in rural Tasmania,…
2 years, 6 months ago
Worms in the Apple Isle part 1
Season 1 Episode 61
Self-described 'mad scientist' Rory Jack Thompson decided to make his wife vanish by cutting her into tiny pieces. The grotesque crime committed exac…
2 years, 6 months ago
When lightning hit the Higgins house
Season 1 Episode 60
The Higgins family was filled with media high-flyers. But when a stranger entered their lives, a storm started brewing.
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2 years, 6 months ago
Death in the driveway
Season 1 Episode 59
When concreter Salvatore Rotiroti was found bashed to death outside his Geelong home, it opened up fractures in his sprawling family. And it left a s…
2 years, 7 months ago
Dying Rose
Season 1 Episode 56
WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. Reporter Douglas Smith joins the show to outline his new podcast series about investigations into the deaths of indigeno…
2 years, 7 months ago
BONUS EPISODE The "human glove" murder mystery
Season 1 Episode 57
WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. In the depths of the 1930s depression, a grusome find shocked the nation. And it would take a true detective and some br…
2 years, 7 months ago
Echoes of the Great Train Robbery
Season 1 Episode 50
It's been 60 years since perhaps the most famous heist in the world. Andrew Rule tells the story of the crime and its links very close to home.
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2 years, 7 months ago
BONUS EPISODE: Andrew Fraser in his own words: Part 5
Season 1 Episode 55
Last year the late gangland lawyer sat down with Andrew Rule to talk about the crooks he defended and his own problems with the law. This episode was…
2 years, 7 months ago