Pearl Harbor and the Pay Car Ambush – Part One

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 an unprecedented task. How could they get the public’s attention – get the information they needed to catch these killers – when all anyone could talk about was the new and unprecedented threat to Australia?


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Blue Murder On The Golden Mile — Part Two

Blue Murder On The Golden Mile — Part Two

On 12 May 1926, south of Kalgoorlie, at an abandoned mine known as Miller's Find, Detective-Sergeant Grenville Purdue makes a horrifying discovery. The biggest manhunt in Western Australia is now on f...

24 Nov 202136min

Blue Murder On The Golden Mile — Part One

Blue Murder On The Golden Mile — Part One

In April 1926 Detective-Inspector John Walsh and Detective-Sergeant Alexander Pitman disappeared while investigating gold thefts around Kalgoorlie. It was nearly two weeks before they were missed. Whe...

22 Nov 202137min

Reprise — Murder On The Dance Floor — Part Two

Reprise — Murder On The Dance Floor — Part Two

Season Five is just around the corner. We're kicking off with an episode called Blue Murder On The Golden Mile. It’s a killer tale set in 1926 and it takes us inside what was then the most intensive m...

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Reprise — Murder On The Dance Floor — Part One

Reprise — Murder On The Dance Floor — Part One

Season Five is just around the corner. We're kicking off with an episode called Blue Murder On The Golden Mile. It’s a killer tale set in 1926 and it takes us inside what was then the most intensive m...

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Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part Three (Season Finale)

Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part Three (Season Finale)

In the wake of the massacre, Dr James Patrick Murray makes a series of surprising moves that further his infamy in Australia and across the British Empire.Listener Desiree Pettit-Keating, of Bendigo R...

8 Okt 20211h 6min

Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part Two

Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part Two

Dr James Patrick Murray takes the brig Carl to the sunny South Seas and into a heart of darkness beyond the imagination of even Joseph Conrad. In this nightmare of his creation shooting dozens of defe...

27 Sep 202153min

Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part One

Australia's Slave Ship Massacre — Part One

150 years ago today — 13 September 1871 — Australian slavers — aka 'blackbirders' — fired their guns into the hold of the brig Carl, where they had imprisoned 160 South Pacific Islanders they had rece...

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Australia's First UFO Wave — In 1909

Australia's First UFO Wave — In 1909

Months before Australia's first heavier-than-air flights, people from Sydney to Hobart, Goulburn to Kalgoorlie, Melbourne to Perth reported seeing strange lights in the night skies. These mystery airs...

6 Sep 202147min

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