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6th of November 1984 Melbourne Cup Day

They say it’s ‘the race that stops a nation’. Australia’s most famous horse race, it’s also a world-class one that’s among the top sporting events in the world - sitting alongside other famous races like the Kentucky Derby in the USA and The Royal Ascot in England.

But in 1984 Melbourne Cup Day wasn’t a day to be celebrated by Kylie Maybury and her family.

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss this heart-wrenching murder of an innocent young girl who was taken from her family far too young, and the subsequent arrest in 2016 of a vile old man named Gregory Keith Davies.

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1. The Queen v Davies [2017] VSC 800 (21 December 2017)
2. Mugshots 3 by Keith Moor
3. Six-year-old Kylie Maybury’s 1984 Melbourne Cup Day kidnap, and rape and murder, faces fresh investigation by Victoria Police, by Keith Moor, Herald Sun
4. Kylie Maybury’s killer trapped by mix of new age science and old fashioned policing, by John Silvester, The Age
5. Gregory Davies pleads guilty to murder of six-year-old Kylie Maybury 30 years ago, by Adam Cooper, The Age
6. Suspect charged over 1984 killing of six-year-old Kylie Maybury, By Nino Bucci, Tammy Mills and Allison Worrall; The Age
7. Kylie Maybury, 6, was murdered on a family errand. 32 years later, police swoop, by John Silvester, The Age
8. Man accused of Kylie Maybury’s murder lived a quiet life in tiny town, Nino Bucci, The Age
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Senior Constable Robert Richardson arrived with his tracking dog named Zuma. Zuma was given the scent and quickly began tracking down Dath St towards Vernon Terrace and around to an underground car park beneath a commercial brick building.

Within this dark underground carpark were a number of commercial-sized dumpsters. Zuma indicated strongly towards one of the bins. Police swooped in swiftly and quietly, surrounding the bin, guns drawn...

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss this unnerving case from 2014 that begins on the shores of tropical Sumatra, Indonesia, and goes all the way around the world, ending up in Teneriffe, Brisbane, Queensland.

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1. Coroners Court of Queensland - Inquest into the deaths of Marcus Peter Volke and Mayang Prasetyo, 19 May 2017
2. Inquest into deaths of Brisbane chef Marcus Volke, partner Mayang Prasetyo continues, Kate Kyriacou, The Courier-Mail, May 16, 2017
3. Dark story behind the murder-suicide of Mayang Prasetyo and Marcus Volke in Teneriffe, Kate Kyriacou, The Courier-Mail, October 10, 2014
4. Killer chef Marcus Volke, who murdered and dismembered partner Mayang Prasetyo, mourned at Ballarat funeral service, David Hurley, Herald Sun, October 16, 2014
5. Vigil for Mayang Prasetyo, ABC, By Nic MacBean
6. Paper’s ‘transphobic’ coverage of a brutal murder-suicide prompts outrage in Australia, By Abby Ohlheiser, The Washington Post, October 7, 2014
7. Wikipedia - Sumatra
8. Wikipedia - Ballarat

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20th of January 2017 Windsor, Melbourne, Victoria.

At around 8am, a channel 9 news team were covering a story about a man who had been viciously stabbed by his own brother, outside their mother’s apartment. The victim was fighting for his life in hospital.

The channel 9 reporter discussing the crime was interrupted by a maroon Holden Commodore, which pulled up slowly behind her.

The driver leaned out the window, smiling, and looked directly at the camera.

‘That’s me they’re looking for” he yelled, before driving off.

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss the mentally unstable and drug-addicted history of this driver, who would go on to drive through Melbourne’s CBD in an erratic and violent fashion. They discuss the police pursuit policy and subsequent response, and the tragic attack that would ultimately take the lives of 6 innocent people, and wound approximately 30 more.

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1) The making of the Bourke Street murder- Four Corners

2) Time bomb- The making of a killer- ABC

3) Bourke Street tragedy: Driver appeared on TV hours before pedestrians killed - The Age

4) Bourke Street drive James Gargasoulas found guilty of six murders- ABC

5) James Gargasoulas to face victims’ families as sentencing nears for Bourke St murder of six- news.com.au

6) Melbourne rampage killer sentenced to life in prison- news.com.au

7) Extraordinary footage captures alleged Bourke St attacker driving Recklessly on Flinders Street- 3AW radio

8) Guide to Coober Pedy- Australia

9) Melbourne Assessment Prison- Corrections, Prisons and...

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The house was dark and every door to the place was locked. Constable Macarty eventually found a bedroom window that was ajar, and managed to pry it open and slide into the dark house. He went to the front door and let Detective Wild in, before the pair turned the lights on and had a wander around.

They walked back down the hallway and into the bedroom where Macarty had gained access - and it was here the pair noticed both single bed mattresses in the room were soaked with blood, with spatter flanking the adjacent walls...

Join Shaun and Chloe as they delve into the details of this mysterious case, and explore the burning question: who murdered the Crawford family?

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This episode was produced by True Blue Media using the open source materials referenced below: 

1. Almost Perfect by Greg Fogarty
2. Chilling twist that could reveal hiding place of suspect in 'darkest' cold case - 7 News, 31 October 2017
3. Police hunt 'evil dad', Elmer Crawford - Keith Moor, HeraldSun, February 11, 2008
4. The Crawford Family Murder - Wikipedia

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The Honolulu Strangler is an unidentified - and Hawaii's first known - serial killer, who was responsible for the murders of five women in Honolulu between 1985 and 1986. The killer has not been caught, and he may have had more victims.

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss the crimes, the victims, and the signature MO of this perpetrator. They also discuss other potential victims and the prime suspect.

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Honolulu Homicide: Murder and Mayhem in Paradise by Gary Dias and Robbie Dingeman

Breaking Homicide - Season 1, Episode 5

Various articles from the Honolulu Star Advertiser newspaper archives

Various news reports by KHON2 News

Wikipedia.org and referenced original sources

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In the digital age, a world where we are all so connected it seems like we all know so much about other people. No one could simply vanish, could they? Someone would know something, someone would post something online, someone would say something. That wasn't the case for Tej Chitnis. He left for university like any other day 3 years ago and he was never seen again...

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss this disturbing and sad local disappearance. They also discuss some show updates to finish season 2.

If you have any information about Tej's whereabouts, please contact Crimestoppers

In 2019, National Missing Persons Week falls on 4-10 August, and is centred on the theme of ‘Individuals Not Statistics’.

Please visit the following websites for more information:

https://missingpersons.gov.au/search/vic/tej-chitnis

https://mpan.com.au/nmpw19/

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9th of May 1999, Snowtown, South Australia

Jamie and David made the trip to Snowtown, where Jamie had organised for them to check out a cheap computer a mate of his was selling. $200 - a deal that was too good to pass up. They arrived in around an hour, parked out the front of the old bank building and wandered inside.

David saw the computer and then he saw John Bunting, who he knew. 'This is the computer,’ Bunting said, and a second later, his offsider Wagner had David by the throat, and they handcuffed the terrified young man. They led him into an area that had once been a bank manager’s office, and proceeded to make him handover his wallet, PIN, and recite a number of phrases and words into a recording device.

David, shaking like a leaf, turned to his stepbrother and said ‘Jamie, am I going to go home?’

‘Yes,’ Jamie said. ‘Do you promise?’ David asked again. ‘I promise,' Jamie said.

Then Bunting put on Live’s Throwing Copper album, and a maniacal grin spread across Wagner’s face. David wasn’t going home...

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss one of Australia's most brutal and notorious series of serial murders. In part two, they focus on the victims and the police investigation that led to the grisly discovery of the bodies in the barrels within a disused bank vault in Snowtown.

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1. 'Snowtown' by Jeremy Pudney
2. 'Killing for Pleasure' by Debi Marshall
3. Crime Investigation Australia - ‘Snowtown: Bodies in the Barrels’ S1E9

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Tuesday 16th of August, 1994, Lower Light, 50 kilometres north of Adelaide, South Australia.

No wind and no rain - the perfect conditions for brothers Jack and Ron Finch to conduct weed spraying on their 4000 acre farm. The brothers worked tirelessly all morning. After lunch, they returned to their arduous work, spotting what appeared to be a fox burrow up ahead. Ron pointed it out and Jack manoeuvred the car around the obstacle, before they happened upon a bone. They both took it for a sheep bone at first, but a closer look confirmed otherwise. It was a human skull. ‘That’s no burrow,’ Ron said, 'that’s someone’s grave back there...'

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss one of Australia's most brutal and notorious series of serial murders. In part one, they focus on the nucleus of perpetrators and their backgrounds.

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1. 'Snowtown' by Jeremy Pudney
2. 'Killing for Pleasure' by Debi Marshall
3. Crime Investigation Australia - ‘Snowtown: Bodies in the Barrels’ S1E9

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On 25 April 1978, Bill and Valda Thomas were mushrooming in remote bushland alongside Swamp Road near the South Australian town of Truro, when they stumbled upon what they thought was the bone from the leg of a cow. When they couldn't shake the image from their minds, they returned to the area two days later for another look. Upon closer inspection, they saw that the bone had a shoe attached; inside the shoe was human skin and painted toenails...

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss this slow-burning case about a series of missing women who would remain unconnected until the discovery of several sets of human remains in remote bushland near Truro in 1979. The disappearances were becoming more frequent, until they suddenly stopped. Police would discover from a tip-off there was good reason for that, and their subsequent interview of a submissive and infatuated wingman would paint a horrifying picture of a dominant young and charismatic psychopath.

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1. Australia's Serial Killers by Paul B Kidd
2. The Truro Murders: The Sex Killing Spree Through the Eyes of an Accomplice by Ryan Green
3. The Killing Fields of Truro - Crime Investigation Australia
4. Archived newspaper articles from Adelaide Now, Adelaide Advertiser, and News.com.au

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The bodies of five young men were discovered in the broader area of Adelaide between the years 1979 and 1983. All of the bodies displayed signs of brutal sexual torture, leading to their deaths. Some were mutilated and dismembered.

A doctor was tried and acquitted for one of the murders, and an accountant was imprisoned for life for committing another. But four of the murders remain technically unsolved. The popular theory is that many more people were involved than just this solitary accountant from an outer Adelaide suburb.

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss these series of abhorrent crimes that shocked the state of South Australia. They discuss the victims, their families, the police investigation, the arrests and trials, and finally, 'The Family'. If Bevan Spencer von Einem didn't act alone, then who else was involved?

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This episode was produced by True Blue Media using the open source materials referenced below: 

1. Young Blood: The Story of the Family Murders by Bob O'Brien
2. The Butchered Boys by Crime Investigation Australia
3. https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/the-family-murders.983092/
4. Newspaper articles from the Age, the Herald, ABC, the Australian, Adelaide Now, and Daily Mail
5. ITNJ's Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Human Trafficking & Child Sex Abuse
6. Unresolved Podcast - The Family Murders. Check out this great podcast by our friend Micheal Whelan.
7. Wikipedia - specifically information on the Murder of George Duncan

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