Voices for the Victims
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Visit website →In 1980, nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from a campsite at Airs Rock. Her mother claims a dingo had taken her. Two years later, the question of what happened was tested in court. Told through the witnesses and evidence presented at tria
On a Monday morning in December 2014, customers sit down for coffee in Martin Place. Minutes later, a shotgun is produced and the doors are locked. For the next seventeen hours, a group of hostages move when instructed, speak when permitted, and wait
Sydney, December 1988. Twenty-seven-year-old American mathematician Scott Johnson is found dead at the base of cliffs at North Head. He had moved to Australia to build a life with his partner, splitting his time between Canberra and Sydney while comp
Sydney, July 1960. Eight-year-old Graeme Thorne disappears while waiting for a lift to school in Bondi. His family are ordinary — a travelling salesman, his wife, and their two children, living in a rented duplex. Three weeks earlier, however, Bazil
Police have unearthed a total of seven bodies when they conclude their search at Belanglo State Forest. Attention now turns away from the forest and toward finding who is responsible. Thanks to Paul Onions, a survivor of an earlier attack in the same
Police have just uncovered a fifth body in Belanglo State Forest. The victims span years of disappearances but a pattern is appearing; they all vanished while hitchhiking along the hume highway. Task Force Air has been formed to coordinate the invest
For decades, the road between Sydney and Melbourne has been a trusted passage — a route taken by families, freight drivers, and young travellers chasing work or experience. In the late 1980s, hitchhiking along this corridor is common and unremarkable
In Kings Cross during the summer of 1975, the Savoy Hotel is one of many old boarding houses offering cheap beds to those with nowhere else to go. But on Christmas morning, neighbours look up to see residents trapped behind windows and smoke pouring
In 1977 Collingwood was a dense, close-quartered neighbourhood in Melbourne's inner-north. Its narrow terraces lived in by factory workers, students, artists and independent women carving out their own lives in the inner city. On Easey Street, two su
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child murder.
In 1892, Sydney was a city balancing progress and poverty. Thanks to social stigma and economic hardship, unwanted pregnancies were growing and as a result “baby farming” began to quietly
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child sexual assault and murder.
Mr Cruel has been keeping Melbourne’s North-East suburbs in a tight grip of fear. This is now his third confirmed home invasion and second kidnaping, with no sign of hi
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child sexual assault.
Between 1987 and the early 1990s, Melbourne’s suburbs experienced a series of highly organised and disturbing home invasions. The intruder would tie up the parents, cut the phone
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence against women.
In 1942, wartime Melbourne lived under the dim, uneasy glow of the brownout; a city cloaked in half-darkness to hide from Japanese bombers. By day it bustled with soldiers, trams
In April 1935, a tiger shark at Sydney’s Coogee Aquarium regurgitated a human arm, setting in motion one of Australia’s most bizarre crimes. The case quickly grew into a tangled investigation, involving a crime underworld, a high-speed chase and the
Warning: This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence, child murder and domestic violence
In March 2004, Anna Kemp and her toddler daughter, Gracie, vanished from their home in Mornington, Victoria. The case began as a simple missing perso
The Argyle Diamond Mine - located in the remote East Kimberley region of Western Australia - was producing more than a third of the world’s diamonds by volume. The majority of these diamonds were small and brown-toned, but Argyle’s global reputation
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault, child sexual abuse, drug use, torture and mutilation.
Only meters from his home, 15 year old Richard Kelvin is hastily abducted by several people. Being the son of a local news presenter
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of sexual assault, child sexual abuse, drug use, torture and mutilation.
The murders in Adelaide didn’t stop with Alan Barnes and Neil Muir. Two more boys - 14 year old Peter Stogneff and 18 year old Mark
Warning: This episode contains themes of pedophilia, sexual assault and mutilation.
In Adelaide, following the notorious murder of criminal lawyer Derrance Stevenson, dubbed “body in the freezer”, a series of even more horrific murders would occur.
In June 1979, the quiet suburb of Parkside was rocked by a chilling discovery—a prominent barrister found dead, concealed inside a freezer in his own home. The case that followed gripped South Australia, weaving together a tangled web of secrets, com
On a cool spring night in September 2012, a young woman named Jill Meagher vanished from the streets of Brunswick, just minutes from her home. In a city known for its safety and vibrant culture, her disappearance struck a nerve. As days passed with n
In April 2002, a well-known Melbourne couple vanished without a trace after a quiet family dinner in the affluent suburb of Glen Iris. Their disappearance would spark a major police investigation, drawing in detectives, media, and a stunned public. W
On the 1st of January, 1915, in the remote mining town of Broken Hill, New South Wales, a New Year’s Day picnic train was ambushed by two armed men. The attackers opened fire without warning, killing four civilians and wounding at least seven others.
Katherine Knight is one of the most chilling figures in Australian criminal history, often mentioned in the same breath as Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer. A former abattoir worker from rural New South Wales, she appeared to be just another volatile woman
Before the infamous Port Arthur Massacre, an often forgotten massacre took place in the quiet suburb of Strathfield Sydney on August 17, 1991. In just minutes, Wade Frankum killed seven people and injured six others before taking his own life. The St
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are warned that this story details the accounts and names of deceased persons.
Since the fateful day in 1986 when Yindjibarndi boy, John Pat, died in police custody, the 28th of September h
Frederick Deeming is not only Australia’s most notorious criminal of the 19th century, but also one of the world’s first ever recorded serial killers. With over 35 aliases, the globetrotting conman has left a hazy trail of crimes that may never fully
The Perth suburbs of 1986 were thrown into fear when multiple young women suddenly started to go missing. Too late for several victims but thanks to one, police eventually discovered the “house of horrors” where sadistic couple Catherine and David Bi