Crime Insiders

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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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.

A warning: this episode includes mention of self harm. If you need someone to talk to, call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

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How do forensic investigators decipher the scene of a violent car crash? Why is the filament in a brake light so important? And what evidence can lead investigators down the wrong path?

Dr Raphael Grzebieta is an expert in car crash analysis, and has worked for decades in the field. His goal is to bring road safety to the fore of transport conversations, and he refuses to acknowledge car crashes as accidents, claiming there is always a reason. 

Join former Crime Insiders Forensics host Kathryn Fox as she unpacks the work of Raphael, and uncovers just how he and other investigators come to their forensic conclusions. 

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As a child, Craig Doran dreamt of being a policeman. He was obsessed with Sherlock Holmes. Craig ended up working for Queensland Police for 22 years.  

In this episode of Crime Insiders, Craig tells us about an investigation into a complex bank loan scam and how he and his team managed to keep the perpetrator in Australia to be convicted. 

In the second half of this episode, Craig tells us about Comtrac - a company he founded - that uses AI-enhanced investigation management software to boost productivity by mapping exhibits to key offence elements and generating briefs of evidence. It's saving police hundreds of hours of desk time, enabling more officers to return to the streets.

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A quiet suburb. A brutal murder. 

What happens when someone kills - but isn’t sane enough to be found guilty? 

Marita Cunningham was charged with murdering 81-year-old May Richie in 2016. 

A neighbour discovered May dead inside her apartment, her body covered in pillows and shopping bags. An autopsy found she’d died by asphyxiation and had been beaten with her own walking cane. 

Marita was arrested trying to flee the scene.  

Witnesses described Marita’s unsettling behaviour earlier that day, including outbursts in public, talking to herself, and showing up at her ex’s apartment uninvited.  

The court had to decide whether Marita was guilty of murder – or not guilty by virtue of mental illness. 

Should someone who kills, but genuinely doesn’t know reality from delusion, be found guilty of murder? 

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The world's most notorious criminals, unknowingly spilling their secrets on a 'secure' app run by... the cops. That's exactly what happened in Operation Ironside, a covert operation run by the FBI in collaboration with the AFP.

Chris Craner is one of Australia’s most experienced tactical operators. His 30-plus-year career had him at the forefront of some of the country’s most intense and high-stakes investigations, including Ironside and the Lindt Cafe Siege. 

In this episode hosted by Brent Sanders, Chris shares exclusive details about the Lindt Cafe Siege, and pulls back the curtain on Ironside. Hear how authorities infiltrated the underbelly of organised crime syndicates, seizing millions in dirty cash, blocking large importations of drugs and intercepting homicide plots.

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