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. It was first aired to television in 2004.
Focusing on actual Australian crimes, each episode unfolds the drama minute-by-minute showing viewers the tireless work of detectives, and the scientific procedures required to solve these mysteries.
The series includes exclusive footage that has never been seen outside the courtroom, including police videos, crime scene stills and other forensic evidence.
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Forensic Investigators: Australia's True Crimes is an
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
n
televisionTelevision is a widely used telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images, either monochromatic or color, usually accompanied by sound. "Television" may also refer specifically to a television set, television programming or television transmission...
show hosted by
Lisa McCuneLisa McCune , is a four time Gold Logie Award winning Australian actress, best known for her role as Senior Constable Maggie Doyle in Blue Heelers, and as Lt...
which airs on the
Seven NetworkThe Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by the Seven Media Group. It dates back to 2 December 1970, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Sydney and Melbourne. It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...
. It was first aired to television in 2004.
Focusing on actual Australian crimes, each episode unfolds the drama minute-by-minute showing viewers the tireless work of detectives, and the scientific procedures required to solve these mysteries.
The series includes exclusive footage that has never been seen outside the courtroom, including police videos, crime scene stills and other forensic evidence. Recently the 1st and 2nd seasons have been released on DVD.
The third season featured a new time slot – Wednesday at 8:30pm.
Its not known when, or if the Fourth Season will begin airing.
Season One 2004
- Episode One
- Paul Denyer
Paul Charles Denyer is an Australian serial killer, currently serving 3 consecutive sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period 30 years at HM Prison Barwon for the murders of Elizabeth Stevens, 18, Debbie Fream, 22, and Natalie Russell, 17, in Frankston, Victoria in 1993.Denyer is...
, 21, was responsible for the deaths of three young women (Elizabeth Stevens, 18, Debbie Fream, 22, and Natalie Russell, 17) in the town of Frankston, VictoriaFrankston is the largest city on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. Due to its geographical location at the northern-most point of the peninsula, it is often referred to as the "Gateway to the Mornington Peninsula"....
during 1993. The police had the odds stacked against them and would need to call on all their investigative and forensic skills to solve this crime.
- Episode Two
- A routine run on a quiet weekday morning leads to a gruesome discovery, throwing investigators into one of Australia's most bizarre murders.
- Episode Three
- Four bodies were found shot in a house in an outer suburb of Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth largest Australian city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory, south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
. Inside the house was evidence that would not only lead investigators to the killer, but would uncover a secret buried for three years.
- Episode Four
- Neddy Smith had been given a life sentence when he confessed to the killing of Harvey Jones to his cell mate, giving a detailed account of how he killed him and where. In March 1995 a skull was found at Botany Beach.
- Episode Five
- A mother and her two children were found in their house brutally bashed to death. Was it a robbery gone wrong, or something far more sinister?
- Episode Six
- In April 1999, Maya Jakic's body was found covered under leaves and hidden in bushes out the front of an unused police patrol station in Adelaide, South Australia. Two years later, Japan
is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese student Megumi Suzuki had gone missing and when police discovered her schoolbooks abandoned near a rail over-bridge they knew she had met with foul play.
Season Two 2005
- Episode One
- In December 1994 Andrew Astbury's body was found floating in Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital city and most populous city of the State of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne city centre is the anchor of the larger geographical area and statistical division known as the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area – of which Melbourne is...
's Yarra RiverThe Yarra River, originally Birrarung, is a river in central Victoria, Australia. The lower stretches of the river is where the city of Melbourne was established in 1835 and today Greater Melbourne dominates and influences the landscape of its lower reaches...
. He was a hard working, reliable 25-year-old man from a good family. So why was he murdered? Look at the brilliant detective and forensic science work that helped solve this chilling murder.
- Episode Two
- Queensland Cat Protection Society president Kathleen Marshall is found brutally stabbed to death. In a case involving rumours, cat-fights and fortune telling, the detectives rely on forensics and five tiny spots of blood to separate fact from fiction and point them towards the killer.
- Episode Three
- A young woman's body is found wrapped in plastic. Unidentified for several months, she became known as Jane Doe. Who was she and who wanted her dead?
- Episode Four
- The body of 22-year-old Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is located south of the eastern side of the continent, from which it is separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania – the 26th largest island in the world – and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 500,000 ,...
n Amanda Carter was found alongside the Derwent River. It took 13 years and a revolution in forensic science to finally bring her killer to account.
- Episode Five
- This Granny Killer murdered six elderly women before his year-long reign of terror in Sydney's
Sydney is the largest city in Australia, and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney has a metropolitan area population of approximately 4.34 million and an area of approximately 12,000 square kilometres. Its inhabitants are called Sydneysiders, and Sydney is often called "the Harbour City"...
northern suburbs ended. How was the killer John Wayne GloverJohn Wayne Glover was a British-born Australian serial killer convicted for the murders of six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore....
finally brought to justice?
- Episode Six
- Policewoman Angela Taylor was killed when a car exploded outside Melbourne's Russell Street police headquarters. What clues were found among the debris? Who was responsible?
- Episode Seven
- When the battered body of Darryl Lewis is found dumped outside an ambulance station, police began an investigation that becomes one of the longest running in Queensland's
Queensland is a state of Australia that occupies the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory to the west, South Australia to the south-west and New South Wales to the south. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
history.
- Episode Eight (Part One)
- In 1998, Wollongong, NSW, was gripped by fear after the brutal deaths of shopkeeper David O'Hearn and Lord Mayor Frank Arkell.
- Episode Nine (Part Two)
- After committing two violent murders in Wollongong, NSW, Mark Valera became the youngest offender to receive a life sentence. While he's behind bars his father is brutally killed. But who committed that crime and what was the motive?
- Episode Ten
- When 17-year-old American
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
-born Gabriel Meyer first went missing in the Northern Queensland town of InnisfailInnisfail is a town located in the far north of the state of Queensland, Australia. It is the major township of the Cassowary Coast and is well renowned for its sugar and banana industries but also as being one of Australia's wettest towns...
, it was feared he'd been eaten by a crocodileA crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae . The term can also be used more loosely to include all members of the order Crocodilia: i.e...
, but the truth was far more sinister.
- Episode Eleven
- Samantha Bodsworth's body was found in a Noosa
The Shire of Noosa was a Local Government Area located about north of Brisbane in the Sunshine Coast region of South East Queensland, Australia...
carpark one hour away from her hometown of GympieGympie is a regional city in south eastern Queensland, Australia, approximately north of the state capital, Brisbane. The city lies on the Mary River. Gympie is the administrative centre for the Gympie Regional Council area.-History:...
. The killer thought he'd committed the perfect murder but a little-known area of forensic science would be his undoing.
- Episode Twelve
- Fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Janet Phillips went to a party in her home suburb of Wynnum
Wynnum is a suburb located on the shores of Moreton Bay in Brisbane, Australia, about 16 kilometres east of the CBD. The area was sparsely settled until the arrival of the railway in the late 1880s, but then grew fairly rapidly...
on Brisbane'sBrisbane is the state capital of the Australian state of Queensland and is the largest city in that state. With an estimated population of approximately 2 million, it is also the third most populous city in Australia....
southside in July 1987 and never came back. Not long after she was reported missing her body was found a couple of kilometres away. Police had a strong suspect but they were unable to prove he'd killed the teenager. When DNADeoxyribonucleic acid is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and some viruses. The main role of DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information...
technology later became available they were astounded that their suspect was eliminated. Then, there was a further attack on a girl in Wynnum, with chilling similarities to the way police believed had been murdered 10 years before. Was it the same killer?
- Episode Thirteen
- Danny Wasley and Mark Banks disappear without a trace in Newcastle, NSW during August 1999. In a case involving drug lords, revenge and cold blooded murder, police uncover a tangled web of lies which finds Kevin Naysmith guilty of the two murders which took place at his home and burial of the two bodies in sand dunes at Stockton Beach
Stockton Beach is located north of the Hunter River in New South Wales. It is long and stretches from Stockton, to Anna Bay. Over many years Stockton Beach has been the site of numerous shipwrecks and aircraft crash sites. In World War II it was fortified against a possible attack by Imperial...
.
- Episode Fourteen
- When Peter Astill went missing during August, 1998, it took three months before his decapitated body (missing his head and hands), and also wrapped in a blanket was found stuffed inside a wheelie bin
A wheelie bin is a type of waste container used for general household waste. It uses two wheels that allow it to be easily moved through the owner's property. It is common for people to have multiple wheelie bins that contain different types of waste and can be distinguished by different colours.-...
floating in a river in Lower Colo, NSW. What could have been the perfect murder was proved wrong when the serial number of the wheelie bin fell into the bin after an attempt had been made to remove it. The bin had been silicon sealed and tightened with hex screws. Police crews tracked the bin back to belonging to his next-door neighbour Bruce Patterson who had killed Peter Astill on the outskirts of Sydney, NSW and decapitated the body with an axe which belonged to the victim.
- Episode Fifteen
- An Easter
Easter is the most important annual religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. According to Christian scripture, Jesus was resurrected from the dead on the third day from his crucifixion...
family holiday in 1998 ends in tragedy when a truck collides with a caravan on the Hume Freeway near Violet Town, VictoriaViolet Town is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is in the Shire of Strathbogie local government area. It was a coach stop on the Melbourne to Sydney road...
, killing a 12-year-old boy. The truck driver fails to stop. With no licence plate number and little to go on, finding the person responsible may take a miracle.
- Episode Sixteen
- When caravan park
A recreational vehicle park or caravan park is a place where people with recreational vehicles can stay overnight, or longer, in alloted spaces known as pitches...
manager Angelo Agostinelli went missing from the small town of MillicentMillicent is a small town in South Australia, 400 km south-east of Adelaide, and 50 km north of Mount Gambier. At the 2006 Census, the population was 4,771....
in South AustraliaSouth Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories....
, friends and family called everyone they knew to try and find him. Yet no-one had seen or heard anything.
Season Three 2006
- Episode One – The Valentine's Day Murders
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- Date Aired: 9 August 2006
- Two women are found dead on Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 by many people throughout the world. In the English-speaking countries, it is the traditional day on which lovers express their love for each other by sending Valentine's cards, presenting flowers, or offering...
in a burning massage parlour. The ashen remains uncover not only the killer, but a murder spree spanning 10 years.
- On Valentine's Day 1994, two women were found dead in a burning massage parlour in Sydney. The owner had been stabbed while her employee had been shot three times.
- It appeared that the manager was the target in the frenzied attack. Her husband told police she'd been receiving death threats prior to her death. But whether it was a disgruntled client or a rival business, he was unsure.
- As investigators delved into the manager's past and her final movements, all was not what it seemed. The attacker had started the fire to destroy any evidence but investigators were able to pick through the ashen remains and uncover the truth... a truth that would not only lead to her killer but to a murder spree spanning 10 years.
- Episode Two – Till Death do us Part
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- Date Aired: 16 August 2006
- In a small New South Wales country town, a man arrived home in June 2000 to find his wife of 20 years woman lying dead. After making the grisly discovery, he cradled her body and hysterically called for help.
- After hearing his cries, neighbours called police, who arrived to find the husband in an uncontrollable state of rage. Police at the scene noted his hostile behaviour as unusual. But did that make him the murderer or was he simply a husband grieving in anger for his slain wife?
- Detectives discovered the victim's watch had stopped at exactly 9.14 and 28 seconds. It was potentially the time that she'd been killed. Crime scene examiners also found the scattered remnants of two beer bottles, and a number of bloodied footprints and paw prints on the carpet through most of the house. In the main bedroom, drawers were open, clothes scattered, yet no valuables had been taken. The scene just didn't add up.
- Thanks to a forensic watchmaker's expertise and the purchase of a slab of beer to test some laws of physics, the true picture emerged and the motive for the woman's murder was discovered.
- Episode Three – Flemington Armed Robbery
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- Date Aired: 23 August 2006
- When armed robbers launched a surprise attack on security guards in the process of restocking two ATMs
An automated teller machine is a computerized telecommunications device that provides the clients of a financial institution with access to financial transactions in a public space without the need for a human clerk or bank teller...
in January 2002, they did so in broad daylight along a busy shopping strip just minutes from the heart of MelbourneMelbourne is the capital city and most populous city of the State of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne city centre is the anchor of the larger geographical area and statistical division known as the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area – of which Melbourne is...
. So brazen was the assault, when police arrived moments later one witness told them he thought the balaclava-clad figures must have been making a movie.
- Examining the scene, it was immediately apparent the hold-up had been well-planned. Clearly the bandits were not amateurs. They had managed to escape with $150,000 but who were they?
- Thanks to the help of witnesses and some unusual forensic evidence, that included green floral contact paper and orange rope, detectives were eventually able to identify and capture the two masked men who'd committed this violent crime.
- Episode Four – Turkish Consulate Bombing
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- Date Aired: 30 August 2006
- The Melbourne suburb of South Yarra
South Yarra is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Stonnington and Melbourne...
was rocked by a blast in the early hours of November 23, 1986. A car containing a bomb had exploded in the car park below the Turkish ConsulateThis is a list of diplomatic missions of Turkey, excluding honorary consulates. Turkey is in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia, and projects its influence into these regions through a comprehensive network of diplomatic missions...
, wrecking the building and damaging shops in the area.
- An elite group of Victorian police were called together to find those responsible for the apparent act of terrorism. The discovery of human remains at the crime scene suggested the bomber had been killed in the explosion.
- While the bomber had been blasted beyond recognition, other vital clues had survived the explosion. Identifiable sections of the bomb car and a wallet containing vital links to those involved were recovered.
- Through careful examination of crime scene evidence, investigators were able to identify those responsible. The case was the first act of terrorism investigated and prosecuted in Victoria.
- Episode Five – My Partner, My Killer
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- Date Aired: 6 September 2006
- Patricia Byers and her partner of three years, John Asquith, were enjoying a romantic evening for two aboard the luxury cabin cruiser Misty Blue. Moored near Stradbroke Island
Stradbroke Island, also known as Minjerribah, was a large sand island that formed much of the eastern side of Moreton Bay near Brisbane, Queensland until the late 19th century...
, they enjoyed a meal together and made love before retiring for the night in April 1993.
- Hours later, Asquith awoke covered in blood. He'd been shot in the head. When he found Byers lying on the deck, she claimed they'd been attacked by pirates. When police investigated the incident, they discovered Byers stood to gain almost $300,000 from Asquith's death through life insurance policies. Was she telling the truth about the pirate attack or had she pulled the trigger herself?
- As police delved further into Byers' history, they learned that her defacto husband Carl Gottgens had mysteriously disappeared in 1990. Was she the victim of a series of unfortunate coincidences? Or was she a black widow preying on men for money?
- Episode Six – Who Killed Paul Snabel?
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- Date Aired 13 September 2006
- A man disappears without a trace. When parts of his beloved bike begin appearing in local tips and dams, suspicions of foul play prove correct.
- When Paul Snabel didn't return home for over a week in November 1989, his flatmate became concerned and reported him missing. Police were told he was last seen driving off into the distance on his motorbike, having consumed an entire bottle of whiskey before embarking on his journey home. Had Paul been involved in an accident and was he now lying injured in a ditch somewhere?
- But when the police began their search for the young man, parts of his motorbike began suspiciously appearing in rubbish tips and dams in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. The bike had been systematically dismantled... this had been no accident. Why would Paul destroy his beloved bike? Their hopes for his safe return were rapidly diminishing.
- As detectives delved further into Paul's last known movements, they uncovered a tangled web of lies and deceit. Slowly but surely detectives began to unravel the truth behind Paul's disappearance, relying on forensic evidence to link the offenders to this grisly crime.
- Episode Seven – Truong Kidnap and Murder
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- Date Aired 20 September 2006
- On 29 April 1996, Le Anh Tuan was kidnapped by three men from his Melbourne home. In broad daylight, neighbours watched as he was bundled into the boot of a car. His captors later demanded a $400,000 ransom for his safe return.
- In a series of phone calls, the kidnappers demanded payment and organised for the drop off to happen. But as the undercover operative drove Le's mother to hand over the money, things went horribly wrong.
- On June 7, school boys discovered Tuan's body in a Noble Park
Noble Park is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 26 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Greater Dandenong...
drain. He'd been shot in the head. While police targeted a Hong KongHong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a highly autonomous territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south...
-based drug trafficker as the mastermind behind the kidnap and killing, their job was to link him with his Australian-based operatives.
- What followed was one of the largest and most complex homicide investigations ever undertaken by Victorian Police. It crossed many continents, including the USA, where a Marlboro baseball cap found at the kidnapping crime scene was identified as one of a limited number made as giveaways at duty free outlets within the States. It provided investigators with the breakthrough they needed and led them to the people responsible.
- Episode Eight – Operation Sorbet
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- Date aired: October 4, 2006
- In April 2003, 125 kilograms of heroin with an estimated street value of $160 million landed off the coast of Victoria near the town of Lorne
Lorne is a seaside town on Louttit Bay in Victoria, Australia. It is situated about the Erskine River and is a popular destination on the Great Ocean Road tourist route. The town has a postcode of 3232...
.
- Two men in a rubber dinghy had brought it over from an ocean going vessel called the Pong Su. In the process of meeting their three-man shore party, the dinghy capsized and one of the men drowned.
- The Australian Federal Police
The Australian Federal Police is the federal police agency of the Commonwealth of Australia. Although the AFP was created by the amalgamation in 1979 of three Commonwealth law enforcement agencies, it traces its history from Commonwealth law enforcement agencies dating back to the federation of...
had known about the drug running operation for some weeks and had undercover surveillance in place. But when the arrests occurred they could only find three persons of interest – one was still missing.
- As a special operations group dramatically boarded the fleeing ship, the Victoria Police
Victoria Police is the primary law enforcement agency of Victoria, Australia. , the Victoria Police has over 11,100 personnel along with over 2,400 civilian staff across 339 police stations.-Early history:...
found their missing man and because he held a GPS (Global Positioning System) in his pocket they were able to virtually retrace every step made by the smugglers.
- Like Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel is a fairy tale of Germanic origin, recorded by the Brothers Grimm. The story follows a young brother and sister who discover a house of candy and cake in the forest and a child-devouring witch...
, the forensic team came across breadcrumbs of evidence that would seal the four men's fate and put them behind bars for 16 years.
- Episode Nine – Catch Me If You Can
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- Date Aired: 11 October 2006
- Episode Ten – Park Family Murders
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- Date Aired :18 October 2006
- Episode Eleven – The Sex Worker Murders
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- Date Aired 25 October 2006
Infamous Cases
Throughout all seasons of the show Forensic Investigators has covered a few of Australia's most bizarre and grusome crimes. The show has also covered some infamous serial killers and murderers. Here are some of the infamous crimes the show has covered:
- Paul Denyer
Paul Charles Denyer is an Australian serial killer, currently serving 3 consecutive sentences of life imprisonment with a non-parole period 30 years at HM Prison Barwon for the murders of Elizabeth Stevens, 18, Debbie Fream, 22, and Natalie Russell, 17, in Frankston, Victoria in 1993.Denyer is...
: The "FrankstonFrankston is the largest city on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia. Due to its geographical location at the northern-most point of the peninsula, it is often referred to as the "Gateway to the Mornington Peninsula"....
Serial Killer" murdered 3 women between June and August in 1993.
- Neddy Smith
Arthur Stanley "Neddy" Smith is an Australian criminal who has been convicted of rape, armed robbery and murder.Smith has been serving a life sentence since 1989 and is presently imprisoned in Lithgow Correctional Centre after being moved from Long Bay Correctional Centre in New South Wales,...
: Notorious Sydney gangster linked to several underworld murders during the 1980s. Smith was convicted of (and confessed to) 2 murders, that of Harvey Jones and the other of a tow truck driver.
- John Wayne Glover
John Wayne Glover was a British-born Australian serial killer convicted for the murders of six elderly women on Sydney's North Shore....
: The "Granny Killer" murdered 6 elderly women in broad daylight in MosmanMosman is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mosman is located 8 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the Municipality of Mosman.-Localities:In February...
, New South Wales between 1989 and 1990.
- Russell Street Bombing
The Russell Street Bombing refers to the March 27, 1986 bombing of the Russell Street Police Headquarters complex in Russell Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...
: A car bomb exploded outside the Russell Street Police Headquarters in Melbourne in 1986 killing policewoman Angela Taylor.
- Mark Valera
Mark Valera was convicted in 2000 of the gruesome murders of Wollongong, New South Wales men David O'Hearn and Frank Arkell. He is the youngest man to be given the maximum sentence, that of life without the possibility of parole.- David O'Hearn :David O'Hearn was brutally murdered in his Albion...
: He murdered shopkeeper David O'Hearn and former Mayor Frank Arkell, and planned to murder his father. Later his father was murdered by his best friend on his sister's orders.
- Mark Rust: Murdered Maya Javic in April 1999 near Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth-largest city in Australia, with a population of more than 1.1 million. It is a coastal city situated on the eastern shores of Gulf St. Vincent, on the Adelaide Plains, north of the Fleurieu...
and Japanese student Megumi Suzuki in 2001.
- Richard Leonard
Richard Lawrence Leonard is a British writer and journalist, writing as Dick Leonard, and also a former British Labour politician. He is a pro-European social democrat and a disciple of the late Anthony Crosland....
: In one of Australia's most bizarre murders, murdered Stephen Dempsey in 1994 then him and his girlfriend murdered a taxi driver.
- Allen Thompson: Murdered The Milosevic Family (Rad Miller, her defacto husband Tony and their 2 children) in the ACT in March 1984. Forensic evidence later connected him to the murder of Rad's 2 sisters who had died in a car crash in December 1981, where Thompson was the driver of the vehicle. He was one of Australia's worst killers at the time.
- Lloyd Clark Fletcher: Raped and attempted to murder a young girl in 1977, and later raped and murdered 15-year-old Janet Phillips in 1987. Between 1987 and 1997 he raped and attempted to abduct various other women in Victoria; other crimes were in Queensland.
- Pong Su Incident
The Pong Su incident occurred during April 2003 when members of the Australian Special Operations Command intercepted and boarded the Pong Su, a North Korean ocean freighter in Australian territorial waters...
: A drug syndicate, importation of heroin into Australia.
DVD Releases
In early 2006 the 1st and 2nd seasons of the show were released on DVD. Each episode has bonus features, the main feature is that each episode has a longer running time than when it was shown on TV. All the episodes on the DVD have longer interviews with police, family or friends of the victim or victims and even interviews with family or friends of the killer or killers. There are also more video clips and photos shown of the crime scene.
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