True Crime Conversations explores the stories and the people behind some of the world’s most notorious crimes.
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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...
episode 22: Barrenjoey Road: The Case Of Trudie Jeanette Adams
On today’s episode host Jessie Stephens is speaking with award-winning investigative journalists Ruby Jones and Neil Mercer, co-authors of the book Barrenjoey Road.
For 43 years, the case of Trudie Jeanette Adams has intrigued people on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Trudie decided to hitch-hike home, but she was never seen again.
Ruby Jones first investigated the case for ABC’s Unravel podcast...
episode 21: Finding Cleo: The Story Of A Lost Child
On today’s episode Jessie is speaking with award-winning investigative journalist Connie Walker, whose podcast ‘Stolen’ & ‘Missing & Murdered’ uncovers an overlooked epidemic of violence against Indigenous women and girls in North America.
Her ‘Finding Cleo’ series tells the story of the young Cree girl who was taken from her family by child welfare workers in Saskatchewan in the 1970s, and unearths what truly happened to her.....
episode 20: The Dunblane Massacre: Britain's Deadliest Mass Shooting
It’s a Wednesday morning in March 1996, and the bell sounds at Dunblane Primary School near Stirling in Scotland.
Students scramble to their classrooms, their minds are caught up in homework and friendships, and the game they were just playing in the yard.
A class of twenty-eight Primary 1 pupils, aged between four and six, congregate in the gymnasium, preparing for their morning PE lesson...
episode 19: The Belrose Bomb
It’s June 15, 1998, a cool winter’s evening on Sydney’s northern beaches.
The leafy, quiet and friendly suburb of Belrose is located about 19 kilometres northeast of Sydney’s CBD. For a man named Brett Boyd, it's no accident he lived there.
The 27-year-old had moved away from the bustling nightlife of Kings Cross. His friends were involved heavily in the club scene - some dealing drugs like cocaine...
Introducing Extraordinary Stories: Belle Gibson
We’re popping into your feed to share with you our new episode of Extraordinary Stories: Belle Gibson. Episodes two and three of Extraordinary Stories; Belle Gibson are available exclusively to MPlus members.
To become a member and listen to the full series right now, head to www.mamamia.com...
episode 18: Buried Without A Body: The Murder Of Helen McCourt
It’s 4pm on the 9th of February, 1988.
A 22-year-old woman named Helen McCourt, with long, dark brown hair picks up the phone.
She's about to leave work at the Royal Insurance office in Liverpool, having negotiated with her boss to leave an hour early.
Helen is ringing her mother, Marie...
episode 17: The Husband Poisoner
For Desmond Butler, it began with a headache. Then diarrhoea. Nausea that felt like a hangover.
He was otherwise a healthy man, not yet 30. He shared two children with his wife Yvonne Gladys Butler, a striking woman, small and doll-like. Desmond also attracted the attention of neighbours, with dark, thick floppy hair, an athletic physique and perhaps a wandering eye...
episode 16: The Man Who Murdered Luke Batty
It was February 12, 2014, a hot summer evening, and eleven year old Luke Batty was at cricket practice on a sports oval in the Melbourne suburb of Tyabb.
With blue eyes and dark blonde hair, Luke had just started Year Six. He was happy and empathetic, a best friend to his single mother Rosie.
Rosie was on one end of the cricket ground, and his father, Greg Anderson was at the other...