Trace

Trace episodes:

• 05.24.2022

  PRESENTS — Someone Knows Something: The Abortion Wars

  Someone Knows Something: The Abortion Wars is the latest investigation from our friends at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Documentary maker David Ridgen teams up with journalist Amanda Robb to examine the 1998 murder of Robb's uncle, a New York abortion...

  
• 04.01.2022

  S1 Bonus | Maria James inquest finding

  A Victorian Coroner has failed to name a killer in the 1980 cold case of Maria James. Her sons are devastated. But there's still hope, in leads yet to be chased by police.

  
• 11.03.2021

  S1 Bonus | The Inquest

  The new coronial inquest into the murder of Maria James has wrapped up. Will the Coroner be able to name her killer? And of the police exhibits that haven't disappeared, what DNA testing can be done? This episode nears us...

  
• 09.05.2021

  S1 | The Inquest Begins

  For 41 years, Mark and Adam James have lived in a holding pattern, not knowing who killed their mum, Maria. But they might finally be close to answers.

  
• 08.12.2021

  S1 Bonus | Breakthrough in Maria James cold case

  The discovery of a police exhibit - thought to be missing for around three decades - could finally help unmask the killer in the 1980 cold case of Maria James.

  
• 07.12.2021

  Introducing: Unravel Juanita

  In 1975, Australia was transfixed by the disappearance of Juanita Nielsen. Juanita was a journalist, fashion model, socialite and Sydney's most famous anti-gentrification activist. 46 years later, the new series of Unravel True Crime looks into Juanita's suspected murder – who might...

  
• 12.16.2020

  S2 BONUS — The Price

  The Royal Commission has released its final report into defence lawyer turned police informer Nicola Gobbo.

  
• 10.20.2020

  Introducing: Brainwashed from CBC Podcasts

  Brainwashed from CBC Podcasts investigates the CIA's covert mind control experiments - from the Cold War and MKULTRA to the so-called War on Terror.

  
• 09.21.2020

  S2 08 | End game

  We reveal the story of Nicola Gobbo's audacious bid to return to Australia.

  
• 09.14.2020

  S2 07 | Reckoning

  Everything unravels, for Nicola Gobbo and Victoria Police. Their secret is out.

  
• 09.07.2020

  S2 06 | Whatever it takes

  Nicola hits rock bottom, but Victoria Police wants her to take on a new role ... as a witness.

  
• 08.31.2020

  S2 05 | Glittering prize

  Nicola wants to be the best source ever, and she leads police to the biggest target of all: the mafia. Her double life is getting riskier, but she can't stop. This episode charts an addiction and a crash.

  
• 08.24.2020

  S2 04 | Rubicon

  Nicola crosses the point of no return and becomes a police informer. She'll represent clients, while passing on the underworld's secrets to Victoria Police.

  
• 08.17.2020

  S2 03 | The darkest night

  A drug house burglary smells of police corruption and a police informer is executed.

  
• 08.10.2020

  S2 02 | One of the crew

  As the gangland war explodes, both police and criminals start questioning Nicola's allegiances. Where do her loyalties lie?

  
• 08.03.2020

  S2 01 | Nicola

  We meet Nicola Gobbo in a secret location, in hiding, now that her double life as a police informer is out, and she begins telling us her full story.

  
• 07.27.2020

  INTRODUCING Trace season 2 - The Informer

  Lawyer Nicola Gobbo represented some of Australia's most dangerous criminals, all the while secretly working as a police informer. Why did she do it?

  
• 02.25.2020

  INTRODUCING... The Eleventh

  How much do you really know about the sacking of Gough Whitlam on November 11, 1975? You've probably heard his famous "well may we say" speech made on the day he was dismissed. But do you properly understand the extraordinary events leading...

  
• 03.13.2019

  INTRODUCING – Unravel Season 3

  Trace fans should know that there are now three seasons of the Unravel True Crime podcast available. Their latest story Last Seen Katoomba takes a deep dive into the case of 19-year-old Belinda Peisley who went missing from the...

  
• 12.31.2018

  Summer Listening Tip: Binge on Unravel

  Trace fans should know there are now two seasons of the ABC podcast, Unravel True Crime, available.

  
• 12.03.2018

  S1 07 | Hope

  More than a year on from their plea for a new coronial inquest, the James brothers get a decision. Will they finally get answers to the burning questions they've carried for 38 years about the murder of their mother? And what about...

  
• 10.19.2018

  SPECIAL EVENT: The Trace team talks tactics for finding Maria James' killer

  In their first reunion since Trace launched, former detective Ron Iddles, Maria James’s son Mark James and journalist Rachael Brown got together for a special live event at the Wheeler Centre. They discuss the challenges of reviving the cold case, its...

  
• 08.06.2018

  An invitation to a Trace special event

  Rachael Brown is taking part in a panel chat at Melbourne's Wheeler Centre with Maria's oldest son Mark James, and retired homicide detective, Ron Iddles. It's their first appearance together to discuss the case and its insistent questions. How has the investigation affected them? Buoyed...

  
• 06.12.2018

  S1 06 | Limbo

  New evidence has been found. So can police test it for a trace of the killer? What happened to crucial documents? And a new confession. It is nearly a year since the James brothers applied for a new coronial inquest into...

  
• 06.04.2018

  Introducing… UNRAVEL

  Get a sneak preview of UNRAVEL, a new ABC podcast that follows Australia's best journalists as they investigate unsolved crimes. Our Season 1 story, Blood On The Tracks, investigates the suspicious death of 17-year-old Mark Haines, whose body was...

  
• 11.16.2017

  Someone Knows Something – preview

  This original Canadian true-crime podcast examines unsolved cases of the missing or murdered. Each season focuses on a single cold case in the hope of uncovering new information, while also exploring the affects each case has had on the families...

  
• 09.06.2017

  S1 05 | Wait

  The fall-out from major revelations in the Maria James cold-case continue, as her sons make a desperate plea to the Coroner.

  
• 08.02.2017

  Trace | Your questions answered

  For a closer look at the making of Trace and its implications, join Rachael Brown and Annabel Crabb for a Facebook Live at 4pm AEST Thursday 4 August, on the ABC RN Facebook page.

  
• 07.12.2017

  S1 04 | DNA

  There's a major break in the case, as Trace uncovers a police bungle in the murder of Maria James. But it only serves to throw up more questions than answers, as the James brothers continue their desperate search for justice.

  
• 07.05.2017

  S1 03 | Sins

  A second person of interest emerges within the church. Rachael Brown investigates their past and discovers a dark and disturbing history.

  
• 07.04.2017

  BONUS | How your leads are helping the investigation

  Since Trace was first released, the ABC has received over 50 emails from the community with leads and tip offs. In this bonus update, reporter Rachael Brown follows up with two women who got in touch to say they saw...

  
• 06.27.2017

  S1 02 | Confessions

  Rachael Brown's investigation into the death of Maria James turns to the local Church, and Rachael tracks down a new witness who saw someone covered in blood around the time of Maria's death.

  
• 06.20.2017

  S1 01 | Bookshop murder

  On a winter morning in June 1980, Maria James turned to her son Mark and looked him in the eyes. "If anything happens to me, look after your brother." Later that day she was found stabbed to death at the...

  
• 06.16.2017

  INTRODUCING: Trace, series 1 — Bookshop Murder

  June, 1980, suburban Melbourne: Mother of two Maria James is stabbed to death in the back of her bookshop. Her killer has never been found. Was it a scorned lover? A random stranger? Or was Maria's murder tied up in...