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Case 278: Alma Tirtschke (Part 2/2)
Colin Ross maintained his innocence for the murder of Alma Tirtschke right up until his execution. Could he have been telling the truth?
Case 278: Alma Tirtschke (Part 1/2)
When 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke failed to return home after running an errand for her family, they were immediately concerned. Alma was a dutiful child who did what she was told and respected her elders…
Case 276: Claire Acocks & Margaret Penny
May 3 1991, was a typical Friday for 58-year-old Margaret Penny. In the afternoon, she visited the Old London Coiffure in the heart of Portland…
Case 271: Bonnie Clarke
When six-year-old Bonnie Clarke is murdered in her bed in the middle of the night just four nights before Christmas in 1982, Melbourne detectives are certain they know who’s responsible: Bonnie’s mother, Marion…
Case 265: Marea Yann
For Marea Yann, two things mattered most in life – family and community. When the 69-year-old was found violently bludgeoned to death in her Healesville home…
Case 263: Kim Barry
When Brian and Beverly Barry returned from a weekend away to discover their 19-year-old daughter Kim was gone, they initially assumed she was out with friends…
Case 252: Margaret Maher, Mersina Halvagis & Nicole Patterson
When Melbourne women Margaret Maher, Mersina Halvagis and Nicole Patterson were found brutally murdered in the late 1990s…
Case 249: Lorraine Wilson & Wendy Evans
When trainee nurses Lorraine Wilson and Wendy Evans failed to return to work in Sydney after a holiday around Australia…
Case 243: Deidre Kennedy
On April 14 1973, the Kennedy family awoke in their Ipswich, Queensland unit to discover the unthinkable. 16-month-old Deidre Kennedy was…
Case 238: Renae Marsden
20-year-old Renae Marsden was a bright and bubbly young woman who valued her family above all else. Her mother, Teresa Marsden, was therefore shocked…
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…