45 Best Australian Crime Podcasts

1. Casefile True Crime

Australia
Casefile True Crime Podcast, or simply Casefile, is a weekly true crime-themed podcast that first aired in Australia in January 2016 and hosted by an ...Australian man who remains anonymous. The series deals with solved or cold criminal cases, often related to well-known murders and serial crimes.more
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65.3K 56.2K 55.8K 1 episode / week Avg Length 59 min Jan 2016
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2. Life and Crimes with Andrew Rule

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Andrew Rule is one of Australia's most prolific journalists and authors. In Life and Crimes, the Sunday Herald Sun columnist shines a light on the... dark corners of Australian life, from the story behind the biggest mysteries to the characters of yesterday and the crims of today. Produced by Jonty Burton.more
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427.3K 355.1K 1 episode / week Avg Length 33 min Aug 2017
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3. Australian True Crime

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Australia's suburbs are home to some of the most mysterious and disturbing true crime cases in the world. Meshel Laurie is a true crime obsessive.... Emily Webb is a true-crime author. And together with expert interviews with writers, victims, investigators, and perpetrators, they probe the underbelly of our towns and suburbs and uncover the darkness at the heart of Australian life.more
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71.8K 1.8K 51.4K 2 episodes / week Avg Length 30 min
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4. True Crime Conversations

Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, Australia
True Crime Conversations explores the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them. Hosted by Jessie Stephens.... more
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1.3M 99.5K 3 episodes / month Avg Length 51 min Jun 2019
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5. NSW Police State Crime Command Investigations

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The NSW Police Force is reaching out to the public seeking information to resolve long-standing cold cases, from missing person investigations to homi...cides, domestic violence, and sexual crimes. State Crime Command takes you into the minds of the investigators as they work to close active cases and bring justice for victims.more
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1.4M 216.2K 3 episodes / year Avg Length 28 min Jul 2020
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6. The Crime Couch with Rochelle Jackson

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Crime Couch podcast is a casual yet intimate chat hosted by journalist and true crime author Rochelle Jackson and cops, crooks, and interesting in...dividuals.more
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126 8 3 episodes / month Avg Length 25 min Feb 2021
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7. Policing Australia: The Official Podcast of the Australian Police Journal

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Join host Jason Byrnes as he discusses new APJ articles as well as interviews authors and other people of note, about serious crimes, police history, ...contemporary developments in policing, and future initiatives.more
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3.3K 157 1 episode / month Avg Length 38 min
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8. I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
After 34 years in the police and 25 years in homicide, Detective Inspector (retd) Gary Jubelin is tracking down the detectives who inspire him, crimin...ologists, lawyers, forensic experts, and the odd hardcore criminal - extracting their tricks of the trade. Gary's guests reveal the untold true stories of Australia's most terrifying crimes and insights into the criminal underworld that will leave you fascinated, on the edge of your seat, and horrified in equal measure.more
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1.3M 221.2K 2 episodes / week Avg Length 61 min Apr 2020
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9. Loose Units: The Podcast

Australia
The true-crime book Loose Units, out now through Penguin Publishing (and in bookstores everywhere), had one thing it couldn't do: it couldn't fit ever...ything. So each week, Paul and John will sit down and delve into cases too surreal, brief or contentious to fit into the book.more
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1 episode / week Avg Length 28 min Dec 2018
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10. Monsters Who Murder | Serial Killer Confessions

Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia
The podcast divides listeners as we bring unique insights and interviews with the world's most notorious serial killers. Our case files bring you ...the facts, but our exclusive interviews show you another side - the human side. Amanda Howard is a best-selling true-crime author who doesn't just talk about serial killers; she talks to them. Now Amanda is sharing almost 30 years' worth of research, including letters and never-before-heard recordings that will shed new light on famous cases.more
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2.6K 1.8K 1 episode / week Avg Length 55 min Jun 2018
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11. Claremont Serial Killings

Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Ever since the shocking deaths of three young women in 1996 and 1997, the Claremont serial killings' unanswered questions have remained one of the... biggest mysteries in WA history. Any hope of justice in the tragic deaths of Ciara Glennon, Sarah Spiers, and Jane Rimmer seemed bleak for more than 20 years, with police coming unstuck and no sign of a breakthrough. Now, we bring you into the courtroom and walk you through all the revelations, allegations, and talking points as the historic court case unfolds.more
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340K 194K 1 episode / quarter Feb 2019
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12. The Disappearance of Des

On August 2nd, 1979, Desmond Francis Carr went to work alone on the road in outback Western Australia. 40 years on, and he has never been seen again. ...The Missing Persons Podcast Network was developed to create awareness for the 38,000 missing persons in Australia right now. We aim to bring you these stories with the hope of finding answers for the people left behind.more
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61 23 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 11 min Jul 2019
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13. Adam Shand At Large.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Adam Shand At Large takes you into the curious mind of Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist and author Adam Shand. Adam brings an independen...t and forthright view of our world fashioned from 35 years of journalism. This is a search for truth in engaging human stories from voices you rarely hear in Australian media. No brief, no limits, just stories that matter to you.more
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536 1.8K 5 episodes / year Avg Length 29 min Mar 2018
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14. Dad's Gone

Jorn Jesper Jensen disappeared in June 2017. He was last seen at his home on Sunday afternoon. The next day his garage door was open, his car was miss...ing, and there was blood across his kitchen floor. Dad's Gone is the story of Jorn's disappearance, how it's torn a family apart, and how one sister believes that something more sinister happened to her Dad. more
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61 23 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 18 min Jan 2021
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15. Dead Bodies Podcast

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
People find dead bodies everywhere, under floorboards, inside chimneys, and in their homes. They're at crime scenes, disaster scenes, and in morgues. ...There have been dead bodies on the red carpet, in cannibals' dens, and even advertised in the classifieds. In this series, experienced crime and court reporter Sharnelle Vella and veteran radio host Dee Dee Dunleavy look at where dead bodies have been found, how they got there, and most importantly, the effect on people who found them.more
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2.6K 210 2 episodes / quarter Avg Length 46 min Jun 2018
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16. Unravel True Crime: Snowball

Australia
Unravel True Crime is a podcast where, each season, some of Australia's best journalists investigate unsolved crimes.
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915K 121.3K 1 episode / week Avg Length 32 min May 2018
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17. True Crime Island

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
True Crime stories from around the world.
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2.5K 4.9K 3 episodes / week Avg Length 47 min Sep 2016
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18. Crime Fiction Friday with Emily Webb

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
If you're always looking for your next thriller or whodunnit, join Emily Webb (writer and co-host of Australian True Crime Podcast) for Crime Fiction... Friday, where she'll be talking to some of the most successful authors in the genre about how they create their characters, their stories, and their crime scenes. Of course, you'll meet new writers on the scene too.   more
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95 9 episodes / year Avg Length 30 min Nov 2020
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19. Naked City

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Take a journey into the dark depths of the Australian criminal underworld with Australia's most formidable crime reporter - John Silvester.
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369.6K 950K 1 episode / week Avg Length 28 min Mar 2020
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20. CrimPod

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
The Australian Institute of Criminology's podcast series. In this series, we want to share with you some of the latest research on a range of cont...emporary crime and justice issues affecting Australia. We'll talk about some of the research we're doing at the Institute, but also explore some of the research we're funding our academic partners to undertake in universities across Australia.more
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23.4K 10.4K 2 episodes / year Avg Length 19 min
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21. Best Served Cold

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Real-life partner's in crime Tama J and Laura Elise, delve into the world of true crime in a totally healthy way and not creepy. Join the duo in Bored... Millennial's new true-crime series, Best Served Cold. Together they'll discuss all things underworld; serial killers, cults, conspiracy theories, and good ole fashioned murder.more
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6K 2.6K 15 episodes / year Avg Length 59 min May 2020
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22. Loose Ends. The Singh Family Tragedy.

Welcome to Loose Ends. The Singh Family Tragedy. The vicious, callous, extremely brutal murder of 3 young siblings in Brisbane Queensland in 2003. ...The bodies found in a hot, bubbling spa bath days later. An exhaustive 5 plus year police investigation resulted in the arrest and conviction of Max Sica, boyfriend of one of the victims and suspect from day one of the police investigation. When you join the many dots in the Crown circumstantial case, Max Sica is the obvious offender. But why are there so many loose endsmore
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13 episodes / year Avg Length 46 min
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23. MISSING OR MURDERED

In 2005 in a small country town in Queensland, Australia, Katie O'Shea vanished. For 15 years, her daughter Lily wants to know the answer to one ques...tion. Is her Mum Missing, or was she Murdered?  more
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61 23 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 11 min Jun 2020
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24. My Dad and Son are missing

Australia
Damien Dickies dad Robert went missing in June 2016, then 9 days later, his only son Dylan also went missing. This is his story.
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61 23 2 episodes / year Avg Length 10 min Apr 2020
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25. Narelle Fraser Interviews

Australia
Narelle Fraser was in the Victorian Police Force for 27 years, 15 of which were spent as detectives dealing with everything from a stolen bicycle to a... stolen life. However, Narelle's career was cut short when she succumbed to PTSD, retiring in 2012 and reinventing herself as a public speaker and occasional guest on the Australian True Crime Podcast. In NFI, Narelle examines the human side of the impact of crime in a compelling and emotive series of podcasts.more
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899 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 55 min Oct 2020
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26. On Guard - Stories From Inside Australia's Toughest Prisons

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
On Guard is a podcast that takes the listener behind the scenes to uncover what really goes on behind bars, as former correctional officers share shoc...king secrets from the frontline of working with some of Australia's most infamous criminals. If you want to listen to all eight episodes of On Guard, read the articles associated with the podcast episodes.more
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427K 355.1K 1 episode / year Avg Length 37 min Dec 2020
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27. The Teacher's Pet

Australia
Lyn and Chris Dawson appear to have the perfect marriage. He's a star footballer and popular high school teacher. She's a devoted wife and mother. The...y share a beautiful home above Sydney's northern beaches. But when Lyn goes missing, dark secrets are buried. This is no fairytale but a sordid story of strangely close twin brothers, teenage student lovers, and probable murder. The Australian's Hedley Thomas digs deep into a cold case that has been unsolved for 36 years, uncovering startling new evidence.more
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936.2K 813K 3 episodes / year Avg Length 57 min May 2018
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28. Who the Hell is Hamish?

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
He was born Hamish Watson, a surfie dude from Sydney, but he could morph into whatever you needed him to be. Hamish is due to be sentenced to jail in ...early 2019 for swindling a handful of victims out of more than $7m. But these crimes are just the final pages in a resume too thick to staple; for decades, he's duped victims in the US, Canada, Britain, Hong Kong, and Australia. So how did he do it? How did he evade authorities around the world for so long, and what's he done with all those tens of millions of dollars he stole?more
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936.1K 813K Feb 2019
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29. What happened to Zac?

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Zac Barnes went missing at the age of 18. That was 3 years ago. His family is still no closer to finding out what happened to Zac. The Missing Persons... Podcast Network was developed to create awareness for the 38,000 missing persons in Australia right now. We aim to bring you these stories with the hope of finding answers for the people left behind.more
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61 23 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 10 min Nov 2019
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30. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN TRUE CRIME

Telling the stories that led to the fallacy that South Australia is the murder capital of the world
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128 13 episodes / year Avg Length 10 min
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31. Busted

BUSTED cuts through the fluff of the mainstream news by bringing you everything you need to know about crime in your community, whether it's crimi...nal thugs being caught smuggling in cheap, fake products or dodgy dealers getting stung selling drugs to fund their lavish lifestyles.more
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18.7K 5 episodes / year Avg Length 10 min
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32. Bloody Murder - A True Crime Podcast

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nominated for 4 Australian Podcast Awards, including 2019 Best Independent True Crime. Barney Black and Tara Sariban discuss the dark details of lesse...r-known true crime stories from Australia and worldwide. As avid listeners of true crime podcasts, they aim to add to the conversation by talking about murders that haven't been done to death on other shows. Their humor comes from some rather unusual places but never at the expense of the victims or their families.more
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2.4K Oct 2017
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33. Naumenko - The Podcast

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
In his early life, Ryan Naumenko was involved in Melbourne's criminal underbelly. He was once associating with the mafia, scammers, con artists, and d...rug dealers. Eventually, Ryan saw that his life wasn't going to end well, so he decided to change. He is now a completely reformed man, a father, and an advocate for Aussie prison inmates who, up until now, haven't had a voice. If you enjoy controversial podcasts, this is the podcast for you.more
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3.7K 51 1 episode / quarter Avg Length 27 min Jul 2020
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34. Grave Tales Australia: the series

Australia
Meet the people who were willing or unwilling participants in the events that made headlines. In cemeteries, gravestones hint at our history tales of ...unsolved murders, love lost, mystery, tragedy, health epidemics, scandal, and sacrifice. Grave Tales reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final resting places. Thoroughly researched by journalists Helen Goltz and Chris Adams.more
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2.3K 1 episode / month Avg Length 18 min
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35. Murder in the Land of Oz

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Who said nothing ever happens in Brisbane? Join hosts Jessica Kate and Ellen Rose as they dig up the skeletons buried in their own backyard. They take... you on a macabre tour around Australia's third-largest city - home to the Stefan Needle, the Brown Snake, the crushing feeling that you're trapped in a dead-end town that you can never leave, and some of the most brutal murders in Australian history.more
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2.2K 118 May 2018
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36. The Sure Thing

Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia
The Sure Thing is the untold story of how two university friends hatched a near-perfect crime, only undone by the desire for more. Angus Grigg pieces ...together Australia's biggest insider trading scam in a new six-part podcast from The Australian Financial Review.more
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182.4K 348K 2 episodes / year Avg Length 17 min Feb 2021
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37. On This Day In Crime

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
A comical(ish) True Crime Podcast featuring Tragedy and Disaster, Celebrity Scandal and Blunders, Famous Executions and Infamy.
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14.6K 29.1K Jul 2020
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38. Capital Crime Files Podcast

Australia
Exploring the unsolved & unexplained at the heart of a nation. Season 1 - Keren Rowland: The 50-year mystery. Over half a century, within the orbit of... the Australian capital, Canberra, there have been multiple mysterious disappearances and murders, specifically of young women. Each remains unsolved. Many of them bear chillingly similar hallmarks to each other, heightening the gnawing dread: could any of them be linked most insidiously? This podcast is an original, in-depth investigation into all of the cases.more
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962 145 Nov 2020
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39. Murderlaide

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
An Australian true-crime podcast based in Adelaide, a city of churches and sinners. Adelaide has a reputation it can't seem to shake, the murder capit...al of Australia. This podcast has a distinctly laid-back approach to the gruesome topics covered. Seeking to shed light on many under-reported cases, the semi-anonymous host flies solo most of the time with the occasional guest host, gin & tonic. The podcast is accidentally funny and also has a serious in-your-face feel that is truly Australian.more
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2.2K 68 May 2021
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40. True Blue Crime

Australia
Join hosts Shaun and Chloe each week as they discuss an Australian criminal case, deep-diving into perpetrators' backgrounds, details of crimes, impac...t on victims, and effects on the community.more
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827 Feb 2019
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41. Beenham Valley Road

Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Beenham Valley Road is a true-crime podcast taking a look into the tragic murder of 27 yr old Kirra McLoughlin from Wolvi, Queensland. Hosted by two e...x-cops who actually met Kirra.more
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6.2K 65 1 episode / year Avg Length 31 min Apr 2019
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42. Koala Crimes: An Australian True Crime Podcast

Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Koala Crimes is a true-crime podcast covering exclusively Australian cases. Hosted by Samantha Melanie, we'll be discussing an Aussie case, which will... include solved and unsolved cases, as well as missing persons and the occasional mystery.more
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Mar 2021
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43. Dead Wrong

Queensland, Australia
Dead Wrong is the explosive untold story of the bizarre shooting of Jeffrey Brooks, where everything pointed to murder but family, friends, and crime ...experts say a botched police investigation let a cold-blooded killer slip away. This is a special investigation by The Courier-Mail's Kate Kyriacou and Peter Hall.more
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645.7K 156K Jun 2018
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44. Cop Tales

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Daily Telegraph crime editor Mark Morri interviews former police officers about their big cases.
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1.3M 221.2K Oct 2016
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