True Crime Conversations

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...

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...

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...

It’s a warm morning in August, 2009, when 26-year-old Dalia Dippolito decides to go to the gym.

Dalia has long brown hair, tanned skin, and has only recently started working out. She leaves her house just before 6am, and drives the two kilometres from her house in Palm Beach, Florida, to the local gym.

In the months prior, she’d started exercising with her husband, 38 year old Michael Dippolito...

Aileen Wuornos stares down the barrel of the camera, her eyes looking almost black.

Her mousy brown hair is pushed back off her face, revealing a pink face. But the most notable thing about the mug shot, taken in front of a bright blue backdrop, is the expression on her face. A snarl. Like she is a moment from breaking out into laughter.  

She would go on to say, “I’m one who seriously hates human life and would kill again…...

It was 6am on March 1, 2000, when John Price’s neighbour noticed his car was still in the driveway. It struck him as unusual. 

John’s supervisor noticed his absence at work too. An off-handed comment he’d made the day before made his co-workers feel uneasy.

At 8:10am, Officer Matthews and Officer Furlonger arrived at John’s home. 

His front door was locked...

It’s Boxing Day, 1964, when a 26-year-old man named Ian Brady, and a 22-year-old woman named Myra Hindley, attend a fair in Ancoats, an area in Manchester, North West England. 

The pair had met three years prior when Myra had developed an infatuation with Ian. Finally, Ian showed interest and asked her to the movies. They have been inseparable ever since, although their relationship is anything but conventional...

It’s October 24, 1997, and 25-year-old Anu Singh, a promising young law student, invites friends over for a dinner party. 

She lives in a Canberra townhouse with her 26-year-old boyfriend Joe Cinque. 

The pair met two years prior at a night out in Newcastle. He was said to be immediately taken by Singh, and they quickly became inseparable. 

But something wasn’t right about this dinner party...

In 1983, in Manhattan Beach, California, one woman named Judy Johnson put forward an allegation. 

Her two-and-a-half-year-old son was, at the time, attending McMartin preschool. Johnson claimed that her son had been sexually abused by a teacher at the school named Ray Buckley. Her claims were unlike anything police had heard before. Although there was no evidence of abuse taking place, police decided to send a form letter to about 200 parents of students at the pre-school...

It’s a bleak, cold morning, on July 4, 1975. 

A 34-year-old man named Eddie Trigg waits inside the Carousel Cabaret nightclub, known to most as a seedy bar located in the heart of Sydney’s Kings Cross. 

But that’s not why Eddie, with a beard and sharp hazel eyes, is there. After all, it’s just past 10:30am. He is there to meet someone...