Ranked #1
The Masked Murderer
The Masked Murderer
On a Saturday night in June 1928 a masked gunman shot and killed sisters Esther Vaughan and Sarah Falvey in the lolly sh... Read more
4 Aug 2019
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59mins
Ranked #2
The Body On The Train
The Body On The Train
In 1919 Australia was baffled by a real-life mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes when the body of a young man was discover... Read more
26 Oct 2019
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59mins
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Tracker Riley: Outback Hero — Part One
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28 Dec 2019
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47mins
Ranked #4
The Mystery of Marjorie Norval
The Mystery of Marjorie Norval
It was the Teacher’s Pet-style mystery that gripped Australia 80 years ago. Brisbane socialite Marjorie Norval disappear... Read more
12 Dec 2018
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Ranked #5
Murder On The Dance Floor: Part One
Murder On The Dance Floor: Part One
In 1925 beautiful young Audrey Campbell Jacob shot a young man dead in front of hundreds of revellers during a charity d... Read more
29 Jun 2019
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Sole Survivor
Sole Survivor
In June 1946 a crew of four sailing the ketch Nova down the New South Wales coast vanished with their boat in bad weathe... Read more
29 Sep 2019
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Ranked #7
The Murderous Mrs Mitchell — Part One
The Murderous Mrs Mitchell — Part One
She dropped a headless torso into the Yarra River and shot her ex-husband full of holes — and these were just two of the... Read more
11 Mar 2019
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47mins
Ranked #8
The Model & The Murder Case — Part Two
The Model & The Murder Case — Part Two
In 1954 popular Sydney model Shirley Beiger went on trial for the shooting murder of her boyfriend, with the already sen... Read more
12 Oct 2019
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56mins
Ranked #9
Mr White and the Walwa Murder Mystery
Mr White and the Walwa Murder Mystery
This 1939 case seemed ripped from the pages of a detective novel — and may even have been inspired by one. There was the... Read more
4 Apr 2019
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43mins
Ranked #10
Side Note: From Model To Movie Star
Side Note: From Model To Movie Star
In the mid-1950s, Jeanette Elphick, an Australian model known as "The Face", reinvented herself as Hollywood movie star ... Read more
19 Oct 2019
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40mins
Ranked #11
Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part One
Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part One
Charismatic crook and killer James Robert Walker pretty much wrote the playbook that Mark “Chopper” Read would later fol... Read more
16 Jun 2019
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Ranked #12
The Model & The Murder Case — Part One
The Model & The Murder Case — Part One
In 1954 glamorous Sydney model Shirley Beiger shot her lover dead outside a Sydney nightclub. But why did she kill him —... Read more
6 Oct 2019
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37mins
Ranked #13
Unfriendly Fire: The Murder Of Cathy Wayne
Unfriendly Fire: The Murder Of Cathy Wayne
Just hours before Apollo 11 landed on the moon on 20 July 1969, young Australian pop star Cathy Wayne was shot dead on s... Read more
14 Jul 2019
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42mins
Ranked #14
Australia's First Supermodel — Part Two
Australia's First Supermodel — Part Two
Having achieved fame as a fashion model in Paris and London by 1935, Margaret Vyner set her sights on the movies — findi... Read more
7 Feb 2020
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49mins
Ranked #15
The Botanic Gardens Massacre
The Botanic Gardens Massacre
While the random mass shooting that inspires a further murder spree seems a very modern and very American phenomenon, th... Read more
5 Dec 2018
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Ranked #16
The Comic Book Killer
The Comic Book Killer
From 1946 Sydney’s Leonard Lawson was a hero to kids for creating the comic book The Lone Avenger. But in reality the yo... Read more
19 Dec 2018
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37mins