A major breakthrough: A former unit commander from Australia's hardest supermax prison is charged with three counts of murder in conn...

Episode 5: The arrest

It was a real-life Wolf Creek. In 1978, three friends left Alice Springs on an adventure exploring the Australian outback. Weeks later, a man walking his dog stumbled across their bodies in a remote area of bushland in North Queensland. They’d been hunted down and shot, one of the victims dying as he clutched hold of a tree. Police brought in to investigate were badly injured in a helicopter crash and soon after, the investigation stalled. The Courier-Mail explores one of Australia’s most forgotten mysteries: The Spear Creek murders. The killer is still out there.

True crime

Hear from the detective who recovered Tim Thomson's missing bike in the weeks following the discovery of the three friends' bodies. Who...

Episode 4: Thieves and leads

The investigation into the Spear Creek triple murder takes a hit when several investigators are injured in a helicopter crash while sur...

Episode 3: Crash landing

Karen Edwards, Tim Thomson and Gordon Twaddle set off on their motorbikes for their outback adventure, meeting other travellers along t...

Episode 2: The Mystery Man

In 1978, a couple walking their greyhounds through bushland near Mount Isa discovered the body of a man in a dry creek bed. They alerte...

Episode 5: The arrest

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