Prime suspect’s son: ‘My father killed Sharron Phillips’
The son of the prime suspect in the 1986 disappearance of Sharron Phillips called a retired detective in 2016 to confess his father’s guilt, an inquest has been told.
Cold Cases
‘Came up fist fighting’: Inquest told Sharron battled for her life
The former sister-in-law of the prime suspect in Sharron Phillips’ disappearance has told an inquest of admissions he made to her.
Is this Ivan Milat’s first murder victim?
A chilling new investigation claims Ivan Milat killed his first victim 50 years ago – 20 years before his backpacker murder spree.
Murder suspect a prude with secret taste for porn, prostitutes
Harold Janman trying to pick up women at bus stops doesn’t make him the Tynong North killer. But the fact he lied about it might.
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Mystery caller says Gaye is under ‘20 feet of water’
A transcript reveals a well-spoken man called police twice in 1973 with information about where the body of missing airforce policewoman Gay Baker’s body was hidden – but its location remains a mystery. LISTEN TO PART 1 OF OUR PODCAST.
Podcast: Missing policewoman warned off new job
An air force policewoman who went missing nearly 50 years aho had been warned of the dangers of taking a part-time job as a “hostess”. LISTEN NOW
New podcast dives into mysterious cold case murder
The disappearance of Gaye Baker in 1972 is one of the state’s most baffling mysteries. As police launch a fresh appeal and reward, our new Person Of Interest podcast explores the events before she vanished without a trace. LISTEN TO EPISODE 1.
‘No accident’: Huge reward in cold case death
Their son went missing six years ago in Queensland’s southwest and his death was ruled as ‘likely misadventure’. But Jason Vance’s parents, and the police, say there is more to this cold case than meets the eye, and a huge reward is now on offer to catch a killer.
Gary Jubelin: ‘I won’t give up on William Tyrrell’
It is the case that continues to haunt all of Australia – especially the detective tasked with finding just what happened to William Tyrrell. Retired Detective Inspector Gary Jubelin, now an investigative reporter with The Sunday Telegraph, breaks his silence on the case.
Now Milat’s dead we could find answers on slain girls: ex-cop
A retired police detective remains convinced now-dead serial killer Ivan Milat was involved in the deaths of two North Queensland region girls nearly five decades ago, as he explains why now’s the time for an inquest.
Inside the tangled web of the 1998 Coburg car-bomb
It was the murder that stunned Melbourne, and has had police stumped for 21 years. The investigation into the death of John Furlan in a large-scale car-bomb explosion still remains unsolved, despite the severity of the explosion.
Secrets police fear Milat has taken to his grave
Ivan Milat took to his grave the true number of people he killed with two top former detectives — retired chief superintendent Wayne Gordon and retired Assistant Commissioner Clive Small — estimating the toll to be at least 13, and likely far higher.
Highway horror: The brutal deaths of 21 people
Three decades since one of Australia’s worst road accidents – the Cowper bus crash – a new podcast series will unearth brutal details of the horror tragedy which killed 21 people. “It was pineapple, diesel and fear,” witnesses recount of the smell from the horrendous scene.
DNA hit solves cold case Hills rape
A knife-wielding rapist who attacked an Adelaide Hills woman as she slept has finally been found and convicted of the crime more than a decade after he fled into the night.
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