On the 4th of August 1986, an open letter was published in The Age from a group calling themselves the Australian Cultural Terrorists, taking responsibility for the theft of a Picasso from the National Gallery of Victoria. Staff hadn't noticed The Weeping Woman was missing until reading the letter, which prompted a large, cross-border police investigation. The group was demanding more funding for independent, community artists, and threatened to destroy the $2M AUD painting if their demands were not met.

On the 12th of September 2014, William Tyrrell and his sister were playing hide and seek at their foster grandmother's house, on a quiet cul-de-sac in Kendall, New South Wales. After taking a photo of William in his spiderman costume, his foster mother went inside to make a cup of tea. That was the last time William was seen, and after a 6-year investigation with almost 700 persons of interest, police still aren't certain what happened to the little boy in the spiderman suit.

When New Zealand police were alerted to the body of a young woman in a drainage canal in suburbian Auckland in February 1992, they almost immediately categorised the death as an accidental drowning despite many indicators of foul play. After the body was identified as 12-year-old schoolgirl Agnes Ali'iva'a, police still didn't properly investigate the possibility that Agnes was murdered, and to this day the case remains unsolved.

From 1979 to 1983, 5 young men were murdered in Adelaide, all as a result of similar injuries. While police initially didn't link the deaths, a pattern soon emerged and investigators began to suspect there were multiple offenders. While it has never been officially uncovered, 'The Family' is believed to involve a number of high-profile doctors, lawyers, and even TV personalities who targeted young men from the LGBT+ community in Adelaide.

On the 21st of January 2003, a 35-year-old New Zealand man, Antonie Dixon, attacked two women who lived at his Pipiroa home with a samurai sword. This horrific attack was just the tip of the iceberg in this story, which involves another murder, a hostage situation, and ends in Dixon's tragic prison-cell death in 2009.

That's a wrap! Thank you so much for all your support during "Season One" of Bad Apple! We will return in 2021 with new episodes. In the meantime, we hope you all have a safe and happy holidays, how ever you celebrate. If you've liked the show so far, leave us a review! Until next time, Helen and Rylee.

On the 10th of February 1966, two teenagers left a rock-and-roll dance in Shepparton, Victoria to go for a drive, but they never returned. Shortly after, there was a number of connected sexual attacks in Melbourne's Eastern suburbs which went unsolved for the next decade. The Shepparton attack was linked to the Melbourne attacks by a young fingerprint expert, but the offender, known by the media as 'Mr Stinky' due to his offensive body odour, was not caught until almost 20 years after his first known attack.