Australian
Case 174: Vicki Arnold and Julie-Anne Leahy
One cold winter night in 1991, best friends Vicki Arnold and Julie-Anne Leahy vanished from their town of Atherton, Queensland. The two women had left for a late-night fishing trip…
Case 167: Jai, Tyler & Bailey Farquharson
In Australia, Father’s Day falls on the first Sunday of September and is typically a time for families to gather together and celebrate…
Case 166: The Family
In 1979, young men began to go missing in and around Adelaide. It began with the disappearance of 17-year-old Alan Barnes, then 25-year-old Neil Muir…
Case 163: Joanne Ratcliffe & Kirste Gordon
On August 25 1973, 12,000 South Australian National Football League spectators packed into Adelaide Oval, as the North Adelaide Roosters took on the Norwood Redlegs…
Case 158: Russell Martin
31-year-old Russell ‘Stabba’ Martin was well known around the small town of Stawell in Victoria’s west. A staple of the local pubs…
Case 152: Cindy & Mona Lisa Smith
When police arrived at a crash site on Enngonia Road on the morning of Sunday, December 6 1987, it was immediately clear that this was no…
Case 150: The Murchison Murders
After the Western Australian gold rush of the late 1800s, there was little work available in the isolated Murchison region…
Case 149: Anan Liu
On the morning of September 15 2007, an elderly couple were walking through Melbourne’s Southern Cross Station when they noticed…
Case 143: Leigh Leigh
Teenagers in the New South Wales town of Stockton Beach were excited as they gathered at the North Stockton Surf Club to celebrate the sixteenth birthday…
Case 142: The Churchill Fire
Australia is no stranger to bushfires. But when Victorian Premier John Brumby warned residents that the weather conditions…
Case 136: Azaria Chamberlain
On August 17 1980, the Chamberlain family were camping at Uluru when Lindy Chamberlain went to put her nine-week-old daughter Azaria…
Case 133: Tom & Eileen Lonergan
When American couple Tom and Eileen Lonergan set out to visit Australia, they were particularly looking forward to putting their diving skills…
Case 131: Mr Stinky
During the 1970s and 80s, a series of terrifying sexual assaults occurred inside homes throughout the Victorian suburb of Donvale…
Case 130: Joe Cinque
On Sunday, October 26 1997, an emergency services dispatcher in Canberra received a hysterical call from a young woman who refused to…
Case 128: Joan Vollmer
When 49-year-old Joan Vollmer begins acting strangely, her husband Ralph blames spiritual problems and turns to…
Case 125: The Angels of Wynarka & Belanglo
In mid-July 2015, a motorist was travelling down the Karoonda Highway in South Australia when he pulled over near the small town of Wynarka to urinate…
Case 122: Leeann Lapham
In Australia, one woman is killed by her current or former domestic partner every week. So when 29-year-old Leeann Lapham went missing from her…
Case 113: Brendan Bernard
In February 2015, Victorian police were called to the eastern banks of the Maribyrnong River in Moonee Ponds after two passersby made a grim discovery…
Case 112: Rachel Barber
15-year-old Rachel Barber was thrilled to make the move from conventional high school to a special performing arts school in Melbourne’s…
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 5)
Accused serial killer, 51-year-old Ivan Milat sat motionless before the court as he faced trial for what became known as ‘The Backpacker Murders.’..
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 4)
At 6:36 am on May 22 1994, a team of heavily armed police surrounded the Cinnabar Street home of Ivan Milat…
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 3)
After a witness comes forward to report a suspicious incident that occurred near Belanglo years earlier, the investigation quickly gains momentum…
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 2)
After the remains of two bodies are found in Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales police establish a task force to oversee the investigation into the double homicide…
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 1)
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, backpackers from across the globe flocked to Australia in search of sun, surf and adventure…
Case 105: Louise Bell
On the evening of January 4 1983, 10-year-old Adelaide schoolgirl Louise Bell said goodnight to her parents and retired to the bedroom…
Case 103: The Gonzales Family
On 10 July 2001, New South Wales police received a frantic phone call from 21-year-old Sef Gonzales. He’d just returned home to discover…
Case 102: Britt Lapthorne
21-year-old Britt Lapthone developed a passion for travel at a young age, so it came as no surprise to her friends and family when she…
Case 101: Sian Kingi
12-year-old Sunshine Coast schoolgirl Sian Kingi was looking forward to her friend’s upcoming birthday party…
Case 100: The Beaumont Children
On January 26 1966, siblings Jane, Arna and Grant Beaumont joined the hundreds of Adelaide residents who flocked to Glenelg beach…
Case 91: Carly Ryan
In 2006, Myspace was the biggest social media platform in the world, surpassing Google as the most visited website…