It's the 26th January, 1966, and it's a stinking hot summer's day in Somerton Park, South Australia, and hundreds of beach goers are cooling off at popular Glenelg Beach. The Beaumont Children, Jane aged 9, Arnna aged 7, and Grant aged 4, were amongst them, enjoying a swim and a play before catching the 12:00 o'clock bus back home, their mother Nancy waiting for them....

Only they didn't get off the 12:00 o'clock bus, nor did they get off the next one at 2:00 o'clock, and soon Nancy and the children's father Jim, were living every parents worst nightmare and reporting their three precious children missing. Soon enough the whole of Australia knew about these missing children and then the world, and despite all the attention their disappearance garnered and eye witnesses who saw the children at the beach that day, it appeared they simply vanished without a trace. 

Join Belinda over a coffee or two as she takes a deep dive into Australia's longest running missing person's case - The Beaumont Children. 

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It's the 29th January, 2009, and four year old Darcey Freeman is on the way to start her first day of kindergarten. Her dad, Arthur Freeman, is driving her, along with her brothers six year old Ben and two year old Jack, to meet her mum, Peta, at the school and they can all be there for Darcey's big day.

But when Arthur Freeman crosses Melbourne, VIC's West Gate Bridge on the way to the meet up he stops his car in the busy five lane roadway and gets out. What happens next will leave onlookers and a country in complete and utter shock. 

Join Belinda over a coffee or three as she dives into to devastating murder of Darcey Freeman. 

TW - This episode discusses the murder of a young girl. Listener discretion is advised. 

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It's October 1997, and it's the Labor Day three day weekend in Bega, NSW, Australia a picturesque country town neat the NSW/VIC border. Best friends Lauren Barry, 14, and Nicole Collins, 16, were keen to celebrate their upcoming birthdays and the long weekend with a campout with some friends. 

All was going well until the girls decided they wanted to go to a party in a nearby town saying they were going to walk there. They bid their friends goodbye and were never seen alive again. 

A few weeks later, career criminals Leslie Camilleri and Lindsay are arrested and charged with the girls' murders, but the true horrors of what those girls were put through was far worse than anyone had feared. 

Join Belinda over a coffee - a strong coffee - or two as she discusses the brutal murders of two best friends who were only trying to get to a party and crossed paths with pure evil. 

TW - This episode discusses sexual assault and murder of two young girls so listener discretion is advised. 

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Karen MacKenzie was a 31 year old single mother making a good life for herself, her 16 year old son Daniel and her daughters Amara, 7 and Katrina 5, on their rural farm in Western Australia's Greenough,. The family loved their farm life and the small farming community loved them.

All that changed when one night, in the early hours of February 22, 1993, Karen, Amara and Katrina were brutally hacked to death as they slept, Daniel meeting the same fate when he went to see who was paying the family a visit. The scene was so horrific, so horrible, seasoned police threw up when they were greeted with it and many stopped working homicide cases not long after.

Who would want to butcher this young family and why? Join Belinda over a cuppa or two as she looks into the murders of a much loved family and one of Australia's most disturbing murder cases. 

TW - This case discusses sexual assault of a corpse and a young child. Listener discretion is advised. 

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It's a cold winter's night in 1979 when John Godson and his two young sons, Damien and Craig, decide to take one last ride on Sydney's Luna Park's famous Ghost Train before heading home. Nearby, friends Richard, Michael, Jonathan, Seamus, all 13 years old, and 12 year old Jason make the same decision.

Only one of them would make it out alive.

What happened on that June night not only killed seven people, and in one case, wiped out a woman's entire family, it exposed a seedy underbelly of corruption and crime and left a mourning country demanding answers....ones we are still waiting for today. A truly infuriating and heartbreaking case. 

Join Belinda over a coffee or two as she dives into the Ghost Train Fire and explores why many of us don't think it was a simple accident. 

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It's May 1999, and acting on a tip off, police enter a vacant bank in the sleepy town of Snowtown, South Australia, and what they found would shock even the most seasoned detectives and the world. 

There, in six sealed barrels filled with acid, were the bodies of eight people. Some were dismembered, some crammed in with another victim, all having suffered a horrific end....but this was only the beginning as more bodies were discovered and police soon realised they had not only one, but several, serial killers on their hands and they were working together. 

Join Belinda over a strong cuppa as she dives into the grisly Snowtown murders and discovers who the victims in the barrels and shallow graves were, and who had put them there. 

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John Edwards was a man with a past. A past filled with domestic violence and ex partners and children who were terrified of him. When John met and married Olga, a young and beautiful Russian woman, the abuse continued and when she gave birth to their two children Jack and Jennifer, sure enough the abuse included them as they grew.

Eventually Olga grew tired of John's abuse and left with the children, which only further enraged John and on the afternoon of 5th July, 2018, John carried out his form of revenge and shot his two beautiful children to death. 

Join Belinda over a coffee or three as she takes a dive into the heartbreaking murders of Jack and Jennifer Edwards and the systematic failures that were meant to protect them from their father, but instead gave the man with a violent past a gun permit.

TW - This episode discusses the murder of two young teenagers - listener discretion is advised. 

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Sian Kingi was a kind hearted and popular twelve year old girl. She was popular among her friends, caring, loved netball, her parents and animals...and it would be her love for animals that would lead her to fall into the trap of two depraved, sadistic monsters who had decided that that day, November 27, 1987, would be the day they finally acted out their sick fantasies.

What happened when Sian crossed paths with Barrie Watts and Valmae Beck  would destroy a family and a Queensland community and leave a country vying for blood. 

Join Belinda over a coffee or two as she takes a dive into the heartbreaking murder of Sian Kingi.

TW - This episode discusses the rape and murder of a young girl  - listener discretion is advised. 

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On a cold September evening in 1994, Cabramatta, NSW, local politician John Newman was gunned down in his driveway in front of his terrified fiancee. John, a Cabramatta local since he was a child, was a formidable figure in local and state politics and was very vocal about the rise in drug use and gang related crime the area. And for John, the cause of this problem sat squarely at the feet of Vietnamese migrants who moved to the area and in particular one called Phuong Ngo, a migrant who had migrated to Australia after the Vietnam war and was one of John's biggest political opponents. 

There was no love lost between the two, and when John was shot dead that September night, Phuong was quickly named as the prime suspect. But it would be many years and many trials before the public got any answers, and even then, many people thought the wrong man ended up being jailed. 

Join Belinda over a cuppa or two as she discusses Australia's first political assassination. Belinda will also be discussing a fantastic book she had the pleasure of reading - A Marked Man - The Questionable Conviction of Phuong Ngo By Carlotta McIntosh - which offers an intimate insight into the murder, the man accused of doing it and the environment at the time, by a well respected Australian journalist who was in the front row for all of it. 

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Fifteen year old Melbourne teen Rachel Barber was thriving. The bubbly and popular teen with the striking green eyes had a loving and caring family, a boyfriend who adored her and was pouring all her energy into her first true love - dance. What Rachel didn't know was she also had an admirer, Caroline Reed, a family friend, who was bitter and jealous of Rachel's looks and the life she was carving out for herself. So, rather than come up with a plan to thrive like Rachel was, she decided she was going to become Rachel. 

Join Belinda over a coffee or two as she looks into the disturbing and heartbreaking 1999 murder of Rachel Barber, the stunning dancer and much loved daughter and sister, at the hands of someone who was meant to be a friend. 

This episode discusses the murder of a young person. Listener discretion is advised. 

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