Reprise — Murder On The Dance Floor — Part Two

Note: This episode - like all old and new regular episodes - is free for everyone to listen to. I'm very pleased to present an exclusive audio version of the first 20 pages of my new book Hanging Ned ...

25 Sep 202241min

While 1950s eccentrics Bea Miles and Rosaleen Norton are well remembered, Luba Shishova was twice as wild yet she's all but forgotten. Dubbed a ‘one-woman Russian Revolution’, this chaotic beauty cut ...

12 Sep 202255min

On this day in 1922, Henry Lawson died at the age of 55. In this episode, we revisit his death and the pomp, circumstance and furore of his funeral, while also weighing the claim the Aussie bard of th...

1 Sep 202243min

After the discovery of new evidence, the police and the crown prosecutor are determined to see Dot's killer swing from the gallows at Long Bay Gaol.To support Forgotten Australia: patreon.com/forgotte...

13 Aug 202256min

With the coronial inquest used to build a case against the chief suspect in the murder of Dot Everett, witness 'Miss X' tells the court sordid stories about the man she's sure is a brutal sex maniac.Y...

10 Aug 202250min

While the newspapers reported detectives investigating Dot's murder had reached a dead end, the opening of the coronial inquest revealed the cops believed they had the maniac responsible dead to right...

7 Aug 202243min

In the days following the discovery of Dot Everett's body, Newcastle police are joined by a star Sydney CIB detective. They have to catch the killer before he strikes again. Part 3 of The Vampire Murd...

3 Aug 202241min

In November 1937, Dorothy May Everett was murdered in the grounds of the elite Newcastle school where she worked as a live-in kitchen maid. The case was a front-page sensation – as was what came after...

31 Jul 202238min