Weachurch: Werewolf of Pentridge – Part One
A century before Mark ‘Chopper’ Read became infamous in Pentridge, a convict named Weachurch struck terror into that prison’s warders and from behind its bluestone walls he loomed large as an Australi...
24 Jun 202452min
The Murder of Mary Edson
The 1931 murder of young Adelaide wife and mother Mary Edson shocked Australia.But despite this crime’s gruesome details, it was even then a depressingly familiar sort of outrage committed by a depres...
20 Jun 202432min
The Meticulous Maniac – Part Two: We Have All Got To Die Sometime
With Kingsgrove people reeling from the outrage committed on Paterson Avenue, Sydney detectives swarm the streets to piece together what happened, who was responsible and why the madman struck at belo...
5 Jun 202447min
The Meticulous Maniac – Part One: The Good Doctor
In 1956, Sydney’s usually sedate southern suburbs were stalked by not one but two bloodthirsty men. While the Kingsgrove Slasher’s reign of terror would last years but result in no deaths, the Meticul...
3 Jun 202450min
The Deadwood Dick Murders – Part Three
Jack Brown — murderer of three people, supposedly inspired by reading Deadwood Dick pulp novels — went to trial in October 1906. But could a boy who reckoned he’d slaughtered his best friends in the n...
26 Mai 202427min
The Deadwood Dick Murders – Part Two
Following the supposedly Deadwood Dick-inspired murders committed by Jimmy and Joe Governor, Jack Underwood and Thomas Quinlan, in July 1906 Australia was rocked by a new outrage attributed to “pernic...
23 Mai 202436min
The Deadwood Dick Murders – Part One
Deadwood Dick was the first pop culture superhero – 50 years before Batman — and he was the first such character to spark widespread moral condemnation as a "cause" of crime. In Australia from the 189...
20 Mai 202444min
The Nature of the Scorpion – Part Three
Having escaped prison, fled interstate and joined the army under yet another new name, George Blunderfield seeks reinvention and redemption on the Western Front — but his true nature compels him to co...
5 Mai 202449min
