True Crime Conversations

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True Crime Conversations explores the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them. Hosted by Gemma Bath.

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Fake Identities, Kidnapping...

03.22.2023

In April 1990, a 21-year-old woman was found dead on the side of a highway, one hundred miles outside of Oklahoma City. The investigation into her death, which initially seemed like a straight forward hit-and-run, would lead police to uncover ...

True Crime Conversations episodes:

03.22.2023 Fake Identities, Kidnapping & Murder: Uncovering The True Identity Of Sharon Marshall In April 1990, a 21-year-old woman was found dead on the side of a highway, one hundred miles outside of Oklahoma City. The investigation into her death, which initially seemed like a straight forward hit-and-run, would lead police to uncover ...
03.15.2023 The Secret History Of Catholic Orphanages Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, impoverished populations within urban areas were struggling to keep up with the rising number of abandoned children. And with little support or infrastructure in the way of social and government services, the responsibility to ...
03.08.2023 The Cruise Ship Death Of Dianne Brimble On the 23rd of September 2002, Dianne Brimble stepped aboard what should have been a ten-day cruise through New Caledonia and Vanuatu with her family. But within less than 24 hours, Dianne was found unconscious, in a strangers room. The ...
03.01.2023 The ‘Child Bride’ Who Brought Down Australia’s Biggest Doomsday Cult William Kamm is the self-proclaimed Messiah behind Australia’s biggest doomsday cult. After the inception of The Order of St Charbel in the late 1980s, Kamm spun of web of lies, peddling end of the world prophecies to coerce his trusted ...
02.22.2023 A Deal With The Devil To Find Matthew Leveson In September 2007, after a night out on Sydney’s iconic Oxford Street, 20-year-old Matthew Leveson went missing. Although police investigated his disappearance at the time, it would be a decade before they finally uncovered his body. His 43-year-old boyfriend, Michael ...
02.15.2023 Meet The Woman Who Caught The Mornington Monster Today’s episode is about one of Victoria’s most disturbing cases of familicide. The death of Anna Kemp & her daughter Gracie at the hands of John Sharpe, the husband and father who’s crimes would see him branded ‘The Mornington Monster’. ...
02.08.2023 Inside The Mind Of Australia’s Most Perverted Killer In 1969 Derek Percy was arrested for the brutal killing of 12 year old Yvonne Tuohy. While he was held responsible for that crime, a string of unsolved heinous child murders in the 60s bear chilling resemblance to that violent ...
02.01.2023 Re-Opening The Closed Case Of Sandrine Jourdan Sandrine Jourdan vanished from a Queensland property in July 2012. A coroner would eventually rule her death a probable suicide. But her body has never been found, and while most in her life have concluded Sandrine is probably dead, many ...
01.30.2023 We’ve Got Some News Our host Gemma Bath is taking a short break, while she's on maternity leave a familiar voice will be stepping in to keep the mic warm... Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribe See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
01.25.2023 Daniella Was 15 When She Escaped A Cult Daniella Mestyanek Young was born into the Children Of God religious cult. Her childhood was lived out behind the tall gates of a commune in Brazil, where the children were subjected to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse masked as religious ...
01.18.2023 Gary Jubelin’s Life As A Homicide Detective After 34 years in the police and 25 years in homicide, it was former Detective Inspector Gary Jubelin’s job to catch killers. He worked on some of the biggest criminal cases in Australia, including the Lindt Cafe siege, the Bowraville ...
01.11.2023 Crime Through The Eyes Of A Psychic Detective Debbie Malone is used to sceptics. She’s been brushed aside, turned away, and sworn at by people who say she’s a liar. That she’s making things up. You see, Debbie is a psychic. For the past 30 years, she’s been ...
01.04.2023 Meet The Woman Who Cleans Up Crime Scenes Lee Iordanidis has been cleaning crime scenes for over thirty years. Her job has her brushing up against things most of us couldn't even imagine in our worst nightmares, and on a rare occasion, it even had her coming face ...
12.28.2022 Inside The Mind Of A Criminal Psychologist Tim Watson Munro has sat across from the worst of the worst. Rapists. Terrorists. Mass murderers. Tim’s a psychologist, who started his career in the prison system as the resident psych at Parramatta jail, before turning to the private sector ...
12.21.2022 Catching Sydney’s North Shore Rapist Graham James Kay is known in the media as The North Shore Rapist. In the 1990s he terrorised the suburbs of Balgowlah, Artarmon, Epping, Eastwood, and Wollstonecraft with victims ranging in age from 16 to 39. Today's guest, Craig Goozee, ...
12.14.2022 From Missing To Matricide: Inside Melbourne’s Society Murders In April 2002, millionaire socialite Margaret Wales-King and her husband Paul King disappeared after a dinner at her son Matthew's house in Melbourne. Less than a month later their bodies were found in a shallow grave just outside the city ...
12.07.2022 The Disappearance Of Olivia Newton-John’s Lover On June 30, 2005, Korean American cameraman Patrick McDermott went missing from an overnight fishing trip off the coast of Los Angeles. Initial investigations proved difficult with no other passengers or crew members having noticed his disappearance, but when the ...
11.30.2022 The Cafe Recruiting For One Of Australia’s Most Sinister Cults The Twelve Tribes are a Christian fundamentalist sect with followers all around the world, from Germany to America and even here in Australia. Their cafes in Katoomba and Picton have rave reviews but behind these storefronts is a community masked ...
11.23.2022 The 93 Victims Of Samuel Little Samuel Little is known as the 'most prolific serial killer in US history'. It's believed he murdered more than 90 women over the course of almost four decades before he was finally caught in 2005. In today's episode, journalist Jillian ...
11.16.2022 Is Australia’s Worst Female Serial Killer Innocent? Kathleen Folbigg has been described as 'Australia’s worst female serial killer' and 'Australia’s most hated woman'... but what if she never actually committed the crimes she was convicted of. In 2003 she was found guilty of three counts of murder ...
11.09.2022 The Mysterious Deaths Of Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler In the early hours of New Year’s Day, 1963, the body of a man and woman were discovered on the banks of Lane Cove River in Sydney. They were half naked and arranged bizarrely a few metres apart, but there ...
11.02.2022 Murder In The Goldfields With Caroline Overington On March 19, 2015, Ray and Jennie Kehlet went fossicking with their friend Graham in the goldfields outside Sandstone, WA. A week later when police came across their campsite they found half-empty coffee cups, dirty dishes, and clothes still hanging ...
10.26.2022 A 'Love Triangle' And A Death Sentence In February 2009, 26-year-old Heather Strong went missing. She stopped turning up to her waitressing job at a diner in Florida and stopped contacting her family. Her estranged husband said she'd left the kids with him and was taking some ...
10.19.2022 The Wanda Beach Murders On an overcast January day in 1965, teenagers Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock went missing in the sand hills of Wanda Beach. What happened to them remains one of Australia’s most infamous unsolved murders, despite more than 14-thousand interviews, and ...
10.12.2022 'The Most Violent Woman In Sydney' Iris Webber was no stranger to the inside of a police cell. Labelled a 1920s gangster and the ‘most violent woman in Sydney’ in the history books, she lived during a time in our history when male homosexuality was criminalised ...
10.05.2022 Where Is Theo Hayez? In the early hours of Saturday, June 1st, 2019, 18-year-old backpacker Theo Hayez disappeared from the streets of Byron Bay. He'd been in Australia for six and a half months and was due to head home to Belgium in a ...
09.28.2022 Finding Jill Meagher’s Murderer On Friday September 21, 2012, Jill Meagher went out for celebratory drinks with her colleagues at ABC Melbourne. That night she didn't make it home. It's been 10 years and what happened to Jill continues to haunt the women of ...
09.21.2022 UPDATE: Tasmania’s Most Controversial Murder Conviction In the last week you might’ve seen the news that Sue Neil Fraser, who was found guilty of murdering her partner Bob Chappell aboard their yacht in Tasmania in 2009, has been granted parole. Sue’s expected to leave prison within ...
09.14.2022 Andrea Yates & The Unspeakable Side Of Post Partem Psychosis On the morning of June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates took the lives of her five children in her home in Houston, Texas. After struggling with mental illness throughout her life, it was the birth of Andrea's children that saw her ...
09.07.2022 Gary Jubelin Used To Catch Criminals, Now He Befriends Them After 34 years in the police and 25 years in homicide, it was former Detective Inspector Gary Jubelin’s job to catch killers. He worked on some of the biggest criminal cases in Australia, including the Lindt Cafe siege, the Bowraville ...
08.31.2022 Australia’s Most Notorious Bank Robber In the late 1990s Brenden Abbott was notorious around Australia. Known as 'The Postcard Bandit', he was the most wanted man in the country after escaping prison not once but twice. While on the run it's estimated he robbed up ...
08.24.2022 The Drug Smuggling Grannies In 1977, retirees Vera Hays and Florice Bessire were offered a trip of a lifetime. All they had to do was drive a motorhome from Germany to India for Vera's nephew. What they didn't know was that there'd be two ...
08.17.2022 Melbourne’s First Terror Attack On March 27, 1986, Constable Angela Taylor was standing in front of the Russell Street Police Headquarters complex in Melbourne when a car bomb was detonated, injuring dozens of people. She was the sole fatality from the attack and the ...
08.10.2022 Inside Australia's Most Elaborate Diamond Heist In the 1980s, up to $50 million of Argyle Pink Diamonds were smuggled out of one of the world’s most secure mines, seemingly without anyone noticing. The gems were dispersed from Western Australia around the world to Hong Kong, New ...
08.03.2022 Solving The Somerton Man Mystery After 74 years, Australia’s most baffling mystery has finally been solved. When the body of a man was found slumped on Adelaide's Somerton Beach in 1948, with no clear identity and no clear cause of death, it set off an ...
07.27.2022 The Kingsgrove Slasher From 1956 to 1959, Sydney's southern suburbs were terrorized by a knife-wielding menace known as The Kingsgrove Slasher. He made 18 attacks over that three-year period, with his victims ranging from grown women to a little girl only two years ...
07.20.2022 Tasmania’s Most Controversial Murder Conviction On the night of January 26, 2009, Bob Chappell disappeared from his yacht in Tasmania's Derwent Estuary. Police were alerted to trouble when the boat was seen sinking the next morning. When they examined the scene there were signs of ...
07.13.2022 Melbourne’s Brownout Strangler In 1942, the streets of Melbourne were dim and eery. To assist with World War II efforts, the city was complying with a 'brownout' order, similar to a blackout but less severe. This low lighting was the backdrop for a ...
07.06.2022 The Unsolved Mystery Of Sharron Phillips In 1986, 20-year-old Sharron Phillips disappeared from the side of the road in Wacol, Brisbane. She used a payphone to make two calls to a friend after running out of petrol, but by the time he arrived she was nowhere ...
06.29.2022 The Kidnapping Of Eight-Year-Old Graeme Thorne On July 7, 1960, eight-year-old Graeme Thorne went missing from the corner store near his family's Bondi home. It was five weeks after his parents, Bazil and Freda, had won a massive $100,000 in an Opera House lottery. His disappearance ...
06.29.2022 UPDATE: Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced For Sex Trafficking Crimes News has come through overnight that Ghislaine Maxwell has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking. From 1994 to 2004, Ghislaine Maxwell conspired with her late partner Jeffrey Epstein to recruit, groom, and sexually assault underage girls. ...
06.22.2022 A Doomsday Cult And Two Missing Kids In November 2019, police conducted a welfare check on seven-year-old JJ Vallow. He hadn't been seen since September, and police will come to realise that neither had his teenage sister Tylee. They've stumbled onto a web of lies that are ...
06.15.2022 QLD’s Most Crooked Cops From the late 1950s through to the late 80s, the streets of Queensland were dominated by a trio of crooked cops known as The Rat Pack. They ran a complex system of bribery and extortion as they pocketed the profits ...
06.08.2022 The Family Court Murders Want to hear more about the Family Court Bomber? Find our extra True Crime Conversations episode here. From 1980 to 1985 Sydney was ravaged by a domestic terror crime spree that became known across Australia as The Family Court Murders. ...
06.01.2022 A Day In The Life Of A Crime Scene Cleaner Lee Iordanidis gets a phone call. “Hi Darlin, how are you? How you feeling?” She asks the person on the other end of the line. It’s compassion first, always, and then she gets down to business. She’s been flown to ...
05.25.2022 Ghislaine Maxwell: From Favourite Child To Child Trafficker The name Ghislaine Maxwell is synonymous with one of the most notorious child trafficking crimes the world has ever known. From 1994 to 2004, Ghislaine Maxwell conspired with her late partner Jeffrey Epstein to recruit, groom and sexually assault underage ...
05.18.2022 The Assassination Of Robert Maxwell It’s 4:45am on the 5th of November 1991 and English media mogul Robert Maxwell is aboard his $35 million dollar yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, cruising through water off the Canary Islands in Spain. He’s on the phone with a crew ...
05.11.2022 The Mosman Collar Bomb It’s about 2pm on a crisp Wednesday afternoon in August 2011, and 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver is in her family’s three-story waterfront mansion in the glitzy Sydney suburb of Mosman. She’s studying for her HSC trials, the practice run before the ...
05.04.2022 The Widow Of Walcha It’s just after 2am on an icy, winter morning in 2017. Frost glistens on the paddocks of Pandora, a sprawling property in country NSW owned by local grazier Mathew Dunbar. The old homestead on the outskirts of the town of ...
04.27.2022 New Zealand’s Most Controversial Disappearance It’s New Year’s Eve, 1997, and 17-year-old Olivia Hope is getting ready for a party at Furneaux Lodge, a beautiful old residence that sits at the head of one of the bays and coves that make up The Marlborough Sounds. ...

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True Crime Conversations episodes:

Fake Identities, Kidnapping & Murder: Uncovering The True Identity Of Sharon Marshall

The Secret History Of Catholic Orphanages

The Cruise Ship Death Of Dianne Brimble

The ‘Child Bride’ Who Brought Down Australia’s Biggest Doomsday Cult

A Deal With The Devil To Find Matthew Leveson

Meet The Woman Who Caught The Mornington Monster

Inside The Mind Of Australia’s Most Perverted Killer

Re-Opening The Closed Case Of Sandrine Jourdan

We’ve Got Some News

Daniella Was 15 When She Escaped A Cult

Gary Jubelin’s Life As A Homicide Detective

Crime Through The Eyes Of A Psychic Detective

Meet The Woman Who Cleans Up Crime Scenes

Inside The Mind Of A Criminal Psychologist

Catching Sydney’s North Shore Rapist

From Missing To Matricide: Inside Melbourne’s Society Murders

The Disappearance Of Olivia Newton-John’s Lover

The Cafe Recruiting For One Of Australia’s Most Sinister Cults

The 93 Victims Of Samuel Little

Is Australia’s Worst Female Serial Killer Innocent?

The Mysterious Deaths Of Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler

Murder In The Goldfields With Caroline Overington

A 'Love Triangle' And A Death Sentence

The Wanda Beach Murders

'The Most Violent Woman In Sydney'

Where Is Theo Hayez?

Finding Jill Meagher’s Murderer

UPDATE: Tasmania’s Most Controversial Murder Conviction

Andrea Yates & The Unspeakable Side Of Post Partem Psychosis

Gary Jubelin Used To Catch Criminals, Now He Befriends Them

Australia’s Most Notorious Bank Robber

The Drug Smuggling Grannies

Melbourne’s First Terror Attack

Inside Australia's Most Elaborate Diamond Heist

Solving The Somerton Man Mystery

The Kingsgrove Slasher

Tasmania’s Most Controversial Murder Conviction

Melbourne’s Brownout Strangler

The Unsolved Mystery Of Sharron Phillips

The Kidnapping Of Eight-Year-Old Graeme Thorne

UPDATE: Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced For Sex Trafficking Crimes

A Doomsday Cult And Two Missing Kids

QLD’s Most Crooked Cops

The Family Court Murders

A Day In The Life Of A Crime Scene Cleaner

Ghislaine Maxwell: From Favourite Child To Child Trafficker

The Assassination Of Robert Maxwell

The Mosman Collar Bomb

The Widow Of Walcha

New Zealand’s Most Controversial Disappearance