Dead Bodies Podcast

Santa Claus has given everyone the wrong impression, that you can slide down a chimney. But you’re more likely to get stuck.

In this episode Dee Dee looks at a number of dead bodies found in chimneys, including Robert Thompson, found 28 years after he went missing.

Sharnelle confesses to taking sneaky peeks at gruesome crime scene photos in the newsroom.

Most of us bury our dead, but not Carl Tanzler. Dee Dee tells us about this eccentric man who kept the body of the love of his life in his home for years.

Sharnelle has a fun fact about shoes found at crime scenes.

The girls talk to crime scene cleaner Peter Guerin.

Sharnelle and Dee Dee talk to a man, who has seen not one but three dead bodies.

The most interesting is without a doubt the body of his friend Theresa Verity Crowe who was murdered in a loft in Prahan, Melbourne in 1980.

Hugo was the last person to see the victim before she was

murdered and one of the first people to find her body.

He helped detectives for years until they found his friend’s murderer.

Sharnelle tells the story of the glamorous event that went ahead despite a dead body on the red carpet, and she serves up a slice of baby pizza.

Dee Dee tells the shocking story of dismembered bodies hidden in a tree.

The girls discuss “Where would you hide a dead body?”

Dee Dee tells the story of the little girl found under the floor of a house being renovated in San Francisco in 2016.

Sharnelle talks about a headless body found on the train tracks.

The girls talk to forensic counsellor John Merrick, author of Stories From The Morgue

Sharnelle has been looking through Victorian-era newspapers, where the bodies of babies and children were found in the classifieds.

Dee Dee recalls a severed penis found at Flinders Street Station in Melbourne, the hunt for the body that went with it, and the gruesome story that unfolded.

The girls talk to Tony Tardio who was traumatised as a young man when he saw a dead body on the train tracks.

Dee Dee tells the story of one of the most famous dead body photos of all time: Evelyn McHale, who jumped from the Empire State Building.

Sharnelle tells of the bloody ending to her search for a missing body, and looks at the legendary crime scene photographer Weegee.

The girls speak to journalist Brett McLeod who hadn’t seen a dead body well into his adult life. And then he was sent to cover the horror of the aftermath of the tsunami that hit Aceh in 2004.

TV crime and court reporter Sharnelle Vella has seen more dead bodies than she can count. Veteran radio host Dee Dee Dunleavy has never seen one.

In this introduction to Series One of Dead Bodies, Sharnelle tells of the first time she saw a dead body at a tea plantation when she was just a child.

Their special guest Peter “Grubby” Stubbs tells the story of what he was forced to do with a dead body.

Have you ever seen a dead body? People find dead bodies everywhere, under floorboards, inside chimneys, and in their homes. They’re at crime scenes, disaster scenes and in morgues. There have been dead bodies on the red carpet, in cannibals’ dens, and even advertised in the classifieds.

In this series, experienced crime and court reporter Sharnelle Vella, and veteran radio host Dee Dee Dunleavy look at where dead bodies have been found, how they got there, and most importantly, the effect on people who found them.

We talk to people who deal with death daily as part of their jobs, and people who weren’t prepared for the shock of finding a dead body.

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