True Crime Conversations

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

https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/true-crime-conversations/

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 40m. Bisher sind 266 Folge(n) erschienen. Dies ist ein wöchentlich erscheinender Podcast.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 7 days 10 hours 14 minutes

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episode 16: The News Snowtown Victims Families Have Been Dreading


In May 1999, two detectives followed a trail of suspicious missing persons cases to an old, red-brick bank in Snowtown, South Australia. 

As they head inside, they head straight for the bank’s vault where they find six large plastic barrels containing human remains. They also find handcuffs, knives, a saw, boxes of disposable gloves and bottles of hydrochloric acid...


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episode 15: A Triple Murder And A Broken System


In May 2016, police arrived at a farmhouse in Hillier, north of Adelaide. The scene that awaited them was horrifying beyond words. 

Stephen Graham Peet had just murdered three people. The bodies of his girlfriend, Adeline Yvette Rigney-Wilson, and her two young children were inside. 

But as his crimes unravelled in court, something became clear. Those two little kids shouldn’t have died. Their deaths, at least, were preventable...


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episode 14: According To A Criminologist, Keli Lane Shouldn’t Be In Prison.


On September 12, 1996, Keli Lane gave birth to a baby girl at Auburn Hospital in western Sydney. Two days later that baby seemingly disappeared. 

After years of investigation, Keli was convicted of her daughter's murder in 2010 and sentenced to 18 years behind bars. But did they get it wrong?

Keli Lane’s story has been compared to the wrongful conviction of Lindy Chamberlain. It’s been pulled apart and analysed for years...


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episode 13: Dorothea Puente: The Serial Killer Granny


To the outside world, Dorothea Puente presented herself as a kind grandmotherly figure who cared for the disabled and vulnerable residents of her boarding house in downtown Sacramento. But behind closed doors, nothing was as it seemed…

Not only was she stealing the money of her tenant, but she was also a serial killer. Allegedly murdering up to nine people...


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episode 12: Secrets On Death Row: America’s ‘Killer Clown’


John Wayne Gacy is one of the worst serial killers in American history, murdering at least 33 teenage boys and men in the late 1970s.

He was executed by lethal injection in 1994, but many are confident he killed even more victims than the ones he admitted to, and took plenty more secrets to the grave.

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episode 11: Inside The Rise & Fall Of Ruby Franke


Ruby Franke and her husband Kevin started posting their family online in 2015 under the pseudonym 8 Passengers. Things like birthday parties, grocery hauls, tips on getting toddlers to sleep through the night, and Sunday baking. It was an all-access pass inside their lives, and people loved it.

But over the years, the criticism grew about the way Ruby and Kevin were choosing to discipline their kids...


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 March 20, 2024  59m
 
 

episode 10: How A Perth Girl Ended Up In A Thai Prison


Holly Deane-Johns grew up in a wealthy area of Perth. When her family’s real estate business went bust, her mother started a successful escort agency to keep their lavish lifestyle intact. But her parent’s relationship was abusive, and when they finally split Holly’s mum met someone new that changed everything. 

Simon was a heroin addict. Pretty soon her mother was too, and the family’s comfortable lifestyle collapsed as addiction took over...


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 March 13, 2024  1h9m
 
 

episode 9: Scotland’s ‘Lynette Dawson’ Case


In April, 1998, Arlene Fraser disappeared from her home in Elgin, north-east Scotland.

On a seemingly normal Tuesday morning, the 33-year-old waved her two children off to school and was never seen again.

Arlene’s disappearance sparked the biggest missing person search in Scotland’s history. To this day her body has never been found...


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 March 6, 2024  1h7m
 
 

episode 8: ‘Sit Down & Shut Up. The Man In The Coffin Has Something To Say’


Bill Edgar is the world's only Coffin Confessor.

He attends people’s funerals, sits quietly amongst the mourners, and then at a time pre-determined by the deceased, he stands up and confesses.

Sometimes, it’s a shocking secret. Sometimes, it's their last wish. 

What started as a favour for a friend, has turned into Bill's life calling. And as he’ll tell you, it’s not an easy job, but it’s worth it...


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 February 28, 2024  42m
 
 

episode 7: The Woman Solving Crimes With Bugs


Insects never lie. And in Paola Magni’s job, she's the person who helps translate what these tiny little witnesses have to say to give justice to victims of crime. 

Known as Australia’s ‘bug whisperer’, Paola is the global face of the specialist forensic science that uses insects and other small creatures to help solve murders, suspicious deaths and cold cases.

She joins us today to take us behind the scenes of forensic entomology...


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 February 21, 2024  39m