The Backpacker Murders, Part Two
Police have just uncovered a fifth body in Belanglo State Forest. The victims span years of disappearances but a pattern is appearing; they all vanished while hitchhiking along the hume highway. Task ...
19 Jan 23min
The Backpacker Murders, Part One
For decades, the road between Sydney and Melbourne has been a trusted passage — a route taken by families, freight drivers, and young travellers chasing work or experience. In the late 1980s, hitchhik...
12 Jan 26min
The Savoy Christmas Fire
In Kings Cross during the summer of 1975, the Savoy Hotel is one of many old boarding houses offering cheap beds to those with nowhere else to go. But on Christmas morning, neighbours look up to see r...
10 Dec 202527min
Suzanne & Susan
In 1977 Collingwood was a dense, close-quartered neighbourhood in Melbourne's inner-north. Its narrow terraces lived in by factory workers, students, artists and independent women carving out their ow...
17 Nov 202527min
The Baby Farming Murders
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child murder. In 1892, Sydney was a city balancing progress and poverty. Thanks to social stigma and economic hardship, unwanted pregnancies were growing...
10 Nov 202526min
Mr Cruel, Part Two
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child sexual assault and murder. Mr Cruel has been keeping Melbourne’s North-East suburbs in a tight grip of fear. This is now his third confirmed home i...
27 Okt 202526min
Mr Cruel, Part One
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of child sexual assault. Between 1987 and the early 1990s, Melbourne’s suburbs experienced a series of highly organised and disturbing home invasions. The i...
20 Okt 202522min
The Brownout Strangler
Warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence against women.In 1942, wartime Melbourne lived under the dim, uneasy glow of the brownout; a city cloaked in half-darkness to hide from Japanese...
13 Okt 202523min
