The City Bank Axe Murders – Part Two

The City Bank Axe Murders – Part Two

With the survivors of the bank massacre identifying the axe-wielding maniac, a frantic search is undertaken in western NSW. But if he’s caught, will he escape justice with a plea of insanity?


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Murder On The Dance Floor: Part One

Murder On The Dance Floor: Part One

In 1925 beautiful young Audrey Campbell Jacob shot a young man dead in front of hundreds of revellers during a charity dance in the ballroom of Government House in Perth — and the court case that foll...

29 Jun 201947min

Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part Three

Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part Three

Back in Melbourne in early 1954, James Robert Walker is hellbent on murdering The Brain and The Thing. But after he reluctantly casts himself in the role of protector to a damsel in distress, the vete...

23 Jun 201938min

Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part Two

Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part Two

Having spent half of the 1930s behind bars, murderous gunman James Robert Walker moves back to Melbourne to start a new life on the straight and narrow. There, he meets the sultry Rita, the love of hi...

18 Jun 201934min

Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part One

Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part One

Charismatic crook and killer James Robert Walker pretty much wrote the playbook that Mark “Chopper” Read would later follow. Finally convicted of murder in Melbourne in 1953, he made headlines by dema...

16 Jun 201937min

Bonus Episode — Australia's Original Radio Bad Boy

Bonus Episode — Australia's Original Radio Bad Boy

Long before Mick Molloy or Kyle Sandilands, Arundel Nixon ripped up the radio waves as the risqué “King of the Cads”. For a decade the Cad worked for —and was sacked from — hit stations in Sydney, Mel...

26 Mai 201945min

Bonus Episode — America’s Anti-Rambo In Australia

Bonus Episode — America’s Anti-Rambo In Australia

Radical revolutionaries, maniacal Marines, sexual shenanigans, dodgy dealings, horny hippies, Hare Krishnas and High Court judges: this is the stranger-than-fiction story of American military deserter...

8 Mai 201948min

Bonus Episode — A Gallipoli Story

Bonus Episode — A Gallipoli Story

Private James Coughlan only saw one day of combat — 25 April 1915 at Gallipoli — yet his war would continue at home for years, one of thousands whose quiet fates are often forgotten on Anzac Day. For ...

24 Apr 201933min

Mr White and the Walwa Murder Mystery

Mr White and the Walwa Murder Mystery

This 1939 case seemed ripped from the pages of a detective novel — and may even have been inspired by one. There was the man with the murky past. Sisters who met sudden suspicious deaths. A corpse tha...

4 Apr 201943min

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