Pearl Harbor and the Pay Car Ambush – Part Two
With the true horror of the pay car outrage revealed – but buried ever-deeper in the war-time newspapers – Sydney police follow promising leads, conduct sweeping interviews and utilise the skills of t...
19 Feb 202331min
Pearl Harbor and the Pay Car Ambush – Part One
Just hours after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, cold-blooded bandits staged a ruthless ambush on a railway pay car crew south of Sydney. In the aftermath of this ambush, homicide detectives faced...
15 Feb 202350min
The Christmas Murder – Part Two
In the weeks after Shirley Butler's murder, newspaper reports hinted that police weren't divulging everything they knew. Then, in June 1953, nearly six months after her death, detectives announced a s...
25 Des 202242min
The Christmas Murder – Part One
Christmas Day 1952 saw three tragedies result in eight sudden deaths in Sydney. But the most haunting of these was the vicious murder of Shirley Butler, a 21-year-old woman whose body was found just a...
18 Des 202241min
The Mayor of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part Four
After Fred Jones's betrayal, with Hayati branded an 'enemy alien', the showman and the performer go head to head in a series of court cases that make headlines all around Australia.You can see a photo...
12 Des 202258min
The Mayor Of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part Three
Who was Frederick Hooper Jones, the man who tried to ruin Hayati Hassid? In this instalment, we look at Fred's life and career as a showman and as a pioneering aviator.Apple - http://apple.co/forgotte...
7 Des 202242min
The Mayor Of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part Two
Having conquered Australia with Tiny Town, Hayati Hassid goes out on his own and falls into the orbit of Frederick Hooper Jones. To heat parts 3 & 4 right now ad-free, become an Apple subscriber or Pa...
4 Des 202236min
The Mayor Of Tiny Town vs Australia's Shiftiest Showman – Part One
From a digitised formerly secret Australian military intelligence file comes one of Forgotten Australia’s strangest stories. In 1911-1912, from Sydney to Brisbane, Perth to Melbourne, and all points i...
1 Des 202247min
