True Crime Island

Hi Islanders. Tonight I have an update from the final three days of the Matthew Leveson Coronial Inquiry that resumed last week including the full statement form Matthews parents Mark and Faye Leveson.

It’s October 14, 1976 on the Kingdom of Tonga an archipelago of 169 islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Deborah Gardner a 23-year-old American Peace Corps volunteer is heard screaming from her room by a local boy. He runs in to see a tall westerner dragging her body out through the doorway but then drops her body and makes a getaway on a bicycle. There hasn’t been a murder in Tonga for seven years. Will justice be served.

A listeners tale of courage and survival plus a look at the new UK Double Jeopardy laws and how they could affect one well known gangster.

It’s 6:09 AM January 18th 1977 Mt Victoria train station in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. The NSW 46 Class locomotive No.4620 hauling 8 passenger carriages leaves the station with commuters on their way to work in the city, a 126km journey. Along the way it will pick up and set down passengers. After stopping at Parramatta, it had a nonstop run to Strathfield then onward to Sydney. However, minutes out of Parramatta, a combination of factors would cause Australia’s worst ever train accident.

It’s the 11th May 1999. 14-year-old Cleon Jackman is out riding a pushbike near Petry St Langford Western Australia. Suddenly a car swerves around the corner and a man and a woman jump out and chase him down. They then shove him into the car and drive off. Five hours later, Cleon Jackman will be dead. This is the story of how three scumbags, a man and two women, will kidnap, torture and murder at the most gruesome and shocking level.

Marcus Fiesel was only 3 years old when his foster parents killed him, more on the Grenfell tower disaster and readers comments.

It’s the 22nd March 2012. 30Km’s West of Gloucester NSW Australia. Malcolm John Naden fugitive for 7 years and Australia’s most wanted man is captured in a dramatic police operation. He is wanted for the murder of Kristy Scholes, shooting with intent to murder, aggravated indecent assault and multiple break and enter charges. He was also wanted in connection of the disappearance and suspected murder of his cousin, Lateesha Nolan. Media will call him an expert bushman, but in reality, he is just an idiot surviving by stealing what he can and living rough in the bush.

Maintain the rage in this episode of True Crime island Special Edition.

It’s October 1986 Perth Western Australia. Over a five-week period, five women would go missing. Four of them would be murdered, but the fifth is able to escape, and a shocking story of kidnapping, rape and murder is uncovered. This is the story of David and Catherine Birnie, serial killers.