A case that started a manhunt, and ended in tragedy. A quiet town in the Blue Mountains, thrown into chaos by a shooting and the police's effort to track down the offender. 

Alan Leek is a 35-year veteran of the NSW Police. He spent almost his entire career as a detective.  For much of his life, violent crime was on his door step, and it was up to him to take it on - whilst balancing, life, family and more.

In this Rewind episode of Crime Insiders we begin with a horrific double murder in the Blue Mountains….

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In the winter of 1988, two gold prospectors were scouring the picturesque Mount Firebrace in Victoria… when their search unearthed something far more chilling than treasure. Inside a disused mine shaft, they found a decomposed, mummified, headless body. 

For local police and Melbourne’s elite homicide squad, it was a mystery frozen in time.

Could forensics bring the truth to light?

That's what today’s guest, forensic pathologist Professor David Ranson, set out to uncover.

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An aspiring rapper, battling drug addiction raided a home in inner Sydney in August 2018.

Armed with a blank-firing pistol and knuckledusters, 30-year-old Jett McKee broke into the home of Blake Davis, a 31-year-old actor and martial arts enthusiast, and Hannah Quinn, a 26-year-old former kindergarten teacher.   McKee fled after the robbery and was chased down….with Davis later striking him with a samurai sword killing him.

The ensuing NSW Supreme Court trial, in late 2020, had to consider self-defense, excessive force, and what occurred after the robbery, culminating in a manslaughter conviction for Davis and an accessory conviction for Quinn.

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One of your family members could be missing, and your DNA could help find them. 

Associate Professor Jodie Ward is the former Program Lead of the National DNA Program for Unidentified and Missing Persons at the Australian Federal Police. Now completed, the program was funded by the Confiscated Assets Account, in a nationwide effort to find or identify people who are unaccounted for.

In this episode, Jodie takes us through exactly what the program did and how it's helped track down and identify hundreds of missing Australians. 

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12-year-old Terry Floyd disappeared from the Pyrenees Highway outside Avoca in June 1975. His brother Daryl has spent the last 50 years searching for him. 

Daryl has teamed up with renowned Victorian detective Charlie Bezzina to help find his brother and to bring the man they believe was responsible for abducting and murdering Terry, to justice.

In this episode of Crime Insiders | Detectives Brent Sanders and Charlie Bezzina take a deep dive on the evidence Charlie has uncovered and why the alleged offender has never been charged.

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The team at Crime Insiders is really excited to bring you a new series on LiSTNR. You're going to love it.

Secrets we Keep: Lone Actor is a deep dive on the worst terror attack carried about by an Australian. The Christchurch attack, where 51 people were tragically murdered. 

Australia has never carried out an official investigation into who or what led the terrorist to violence. So those of us interested in and concerned by crimes like this, and importantly the victim community in New Zealand, still have questions about how this attack happened. 

Secrets we Keep: Lone Actor is a new investigative podcast series that tries to answer those questions, and uncovers new theories and evidence on the Christchurch terrorist’s trajectory to violence.

It’s called Secrets We Keep: Lone Actor. 

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The Truro Murders case is one of Australia's most chilling serial murder investigations.  It involves the deaths of seven young women in South Australia during the mid-1970s.

The primary perpetrators were Christopher Robin Worrell and James William Miller, whose actions and subsequent trial have left a lasting impact on the Australian criminal landscape.

Worrell died before being brought to justice, Miller was found guilty of six of the seven murders despite claiming he had nothing to do with the deaths of the women.

In this episode of Crime Insiders | Judgements, South Australia's Truro Murders.

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The AFP and customs intercept hundreds of tonnes of narcotics every year. But, the techniques of criminals and smugglers are becoming more complex, and unfortunately, more effective. 

Nigel Phair is a former Australian Federal Police Officer who took on a range of high profile drug importation cases. This saw him intercepting large quantities of drugs, investigating their origin and surveilling their eventual destination in Australia. 

Understand this work and hear Nigel walk host Brent Sanders through how the police undertake these investigations and how things have changed over the years. 

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Ned Kelly was executed in 1880, yet he remains one of the most iconic and divisive figures in Australian history.

For more than a century, a question has haunted historians, scientists, and the public alike: What happened to his remains?

In this episode, we follow the high-stakes forensic investigation that set out to uncover the truth.

Professor David Ranson from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, takes host Liz Porter inside the two-year effort to reconstruct history from fragments of bone, historical news clippings, and long-forgotten medical records, eventually untangling fact from folklore.

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68-year-old Allan Charles Gibson shot his wife at their Traralgon home in the early hours of April 14, 2016.  He then tried to take his own life, but failed.

Police arrested Gibson and tried him for murder.  His defence team argued he was suffering from dementia and argued the court ought to take his mental condition into consideration.

In this episode of Crime Insiders | Judgements, we go into the courtoom to discover if the court believed Gibson's dementia was a contributing factor in the murder of his wife.

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