True Crime Conversations explores the world's most notorious crimes by speaking to the people who know the most about them.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 7 days 10 hours 57 minutes
episode 32: A Startling Murder In West Cork
West Cork in Ireland sits on the edge of Europe.
It’s rugged and windy, cold in the winter, and beautiful in the summer.
Since the 1960s, the district has been developed by what the people call ‘blow-ins’. People from around the world who somehow end up in West Cork, hoping to start their lives again.
Often these people are artists or runaways, living in little cottages, desperate for a reset...
episode 31: Did He Really Do It? The Disturbing Case Of Robert Farquharson
It’s Father’s Day, 2005, and Robert Farquharson is driving his three sons, Jai, Tyler and Bayley, home to their mother’s house.
They’d spent the day together, with their mum, Cindy Gambino, helping the boys put together a Father’s Day gift for Robert. It was a framed photo of his three sons, aged 10, seven, and two.
As a treat, Robert took the boys to Kmart where he bought them toys, and then to KFC for dinner in Geelong...
episode 30: Who Killed Leanne Holland?
On the eastern edge of the city of Ipswich in Queensland, lies a small suburb named Goodna.
About 20 kilometres from the Brisbane central business district, Goodna is peppered with Jacaranda, Hoop Pine, and Mango trees, and boasts numerous parks which are frequented by the public.
It was the 26th of September - a spring day - at 1:42pm when two police were stopped in their tracks...
episode 29: The Frankston Murders
It’s a quarter past seven in the evening on Friday, June 11, 1993.
18-year-old Elizabeth Stevens is freezing. She’s soaking wet from the rain, her short hair clinging to her neck.
She steps off the bus which she caught from Frankston to Cranbourne Road, Langwarrin, and hurries towards her aunt and uncle's house where she lives. She doesn’t know she’s being watched...
episode 28: MH17: The Passenger Plane Shot Down From The Sky
It’s just after midday on July 17, 2014, when 283 passengers, and 15 crew members board MH17 at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.
Among the passengers are 12-year-old Mo, 10-year-old Evie, and eight-year-old Otis Maslin, along with their 68-year-old grandfather, Nick Norris. MH17 is bound for Kuala Lumpur International Airport, due to arrive at 6:10am local time. The family would then go on to Perth, Australia, where they live...
episode 27: The Real Life Dr. Death
It was late 2011 when 54-year-old Kellie Martin had her accident.
Along with her husband Don Martin, Kellie was retrieving Christmas decorations from their attic in Garland, Texas, when she missed a step on a ladder.
The fall resulted in a herniated disk in her back, an incredibly painful injury that she treated with physical therapy, muscle relaxers and pain relief. Eventually, her doctor recommended surgery...
episode 26: Life With The Serpent: The Story Of Charles Sobhraj
It was October 18, 1975, when a farmer found the body of a young woman floating face down in the Gulf of Thailand.
Teresa Knowlton was wearing a floral bikini - a detail that journalists would use to eventually brand her murderer 'The Bikini Killer'.
The 21-year-old had traveled to Bangkok, from Seattle in the US, and was following the “Hippie Trail” that would eventually lead her to study Tibetan Buddhism at Kopan Monastery in Kathmandu...
episode 25: The Myall Creek Massacre
It’s an hour and a half before sunset on a Sunday afternoon in June, 1838.
A group of Indigenous Australians, the Wirrayaraay people, are cooking their evening meal. As the day nears its end, things are quiet. Calm.
They’re at Myall Creek Station, in north western NSW, between the towns of Bingara and Delungra...
episode 24: The Devil’s Grip: A Deadly Secret
Seven gunshots ring out through Victoria’s green and vast Barrabool Hills.
On the western outskirts of Geelong, the Barrabool Hills is sparsely populated, best known for grazing sheep and lamb.
It’s the early hours of Wednesday, March 18, 1992, and the sun has not yet risen. Everyone should be asleep.
But those seven gunshots will have killed three people.
For the youngest casualty, 23-year-old Guy, a gunshot shatters his watch...
episode 23: The Good Girls: A Double Tragedy In A Quiet Village
Hanging from a mango tree, on the edge of their village in Uttar Pradesh, are the bodies of two girls.
It’s May 27, 2014, and the sun is just beginning to rise in India’s north. It’s already blisteringly hot, the air thick and overbearing. A man, a member of the village, is the first to see them. The two girls who went missing last night.
Lalli is 14, her lifeless body beside her 16-year-old cousin Padma...