Real Crime: Australian Detectives Podcast
1) REWIND | The Sydney Bra Boys murder
Sydney standover man Tony Hines' body was found strewn against a cliff face in Maroubra in 2003. How did police begin their investigation, and what contributed to the eventual outcome of the case? For...Show More
2) FORENSICS | The Ucar Family Murder-Suicide
Five bodies. Three generations. One room. Zero answers. In 2008, a luxury home in California’s Orange County became the site of an unimaginable discovery. Inside were the decomposed bodies...Show More
3) JUDGEMENTS | The Claremont Serial Killer [R v Edwards]
In the 1990s, young women began vanishing from Perth’s wealthy suburb of Claremont. The disappearances sparked fear across the city, and launched Australia’s longest-running homicide inves...Show More
4) REWIND | The Yorkshire Ripper
A merciless serial killer terrorised women in the United Kingdom with a spate of brutal attacks, leaving police and forensic experts stumped. Now, almost 50 years later, forensics has learned, and bui...Show More
5) DETECTIVES | Surviving the Russell Street Bombing
In 1986, a car bomb ripped through Melbourne’s Russell Street Police Headquarters, killing one and injuring 21. It was Australia’s first taste of domestic terrorism, a shocking ‘reve...Show More
6) JUDGEMENTS | The man who proved Australia was never 'empty' [Mabo v QLD]
In 1992, the High Court handed down a ruling that shattered centuries of denial. Eddie Mabo’s fight for recognition overturned the legal fiction of terra nullius and forever changed Australia&rs...Show More
7) REWIND | The Boggo Road Prison escape
In March 1991, five violent offenders stole a prison garbage truck and smashed their way through the gates of Brisbane’s notorious Boggo Road Gaol. The pursuit that followed left the country and...Show More
8) FORENSICS | Bones in a Victorian Mineshaft
In 2006, underworld figure Lee Patrick Torney vanished without a trace. Nearly a year later, forensic anthropologist Dr. Soren Blau was lowered into an abandoned mineshaft outside the old gold-mining ...Show More
9) BONUS | The fugitive who outsmarted police for 30-years
In 2021, a neatly dressed man in his 60s walks into a Sydney Police Station. He looks like a regular guy. But police are stunned - this isn’t just any man. It’s Darko Desic. A fugitive who...Show More
10) JUDGEMENTS | The Brisbane toolbox murders [R v Daniels & Ors]
Two people vanish without a trace from Logan, south of Brisbane in Queensland. They hadn’t been seen in days. Their phones rang out. Their social media...silent. Something had happen...Show More