Australian
Case 231: Anna-Jane Cheney
In 1994, 29-year-old Adelaide lawyer Anna-Jane Cheney was looking forward to her dream wedding. But just six weeks before she was due to walk down…
Case 217: Kathleen Marshall
In March 1998, members of the Cat Protection Society in Brisbane, Australia were shocked at the murder of one of their own, a 52-year-old Veterinarian named Dr Kathleen Marshall…
Case 207: Suzanne Armstrong & Susan Bartlett
In early January 1977, residents of Easey Street in Melbourne’s inner-city suburb of Collingwood noticed they hadn’t seen the tenants at number 147 for several days…
Case 203: Bob Chappell
On January 26 2009, defacto couple Bob Chappell and Sue Neill-Fraser spent the public holiday working on their yacht, The Four Winds, in Tasmania’s Sandy Bay.
Case 199: Truro
During the summer of 1976 and 1977, seven young women mysteriously disappeared from the streets of Adelaide. Veronica Knight, Sylvia Pittman, Julie Mykyta, Connie Iordanides, Vicki Howell, Tania Kenny, and Deborah Lamb were all last seen near main roads or waiting at bus stops…
Case 191: Sheree Beasley
Melbourne psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs was used to dealing with sex offenders. Many of her clients were men who had been referred to her through the court system after committing terrible crimes…
Case 186: The Bowraville Murders
When 16-year-old Colleen Walker suddenly vanished from the New South Wales town of Bowraville in September 1990, her family and friends knew something was terribly wrong…
Case 183: The MacKenzie Family
In February 1993, a tragedy struck that would put a Western Australian town on the map for all the wrong reasons. 31-year-old single mother Karen MacKenzie and her three children, Daniel, Amara and Katrina were all sleeping peacefully…
Case 174: Vicki Arnold & 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, residents of Adelaide were gripped by fear when several young men began to go missing under mysterious circumstances…
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…