‘Kept me awake at night’: Top cop’s bikie fears
Shootings, murders, arson and brawls – Justine Saunders has seen it all and she feared it was just the start of even worse. Listen to Lady Justice Podcast Ep 8.
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How Aussie FBI-trained ‘Mindhunter’ caught a rapist
She is one of few Australians to have trained at the FBI Academy featured in The Silence of the Lambs. As a criminal profiler, Kris Illingsworth has cracked some of the biggest cases in Australia. NEW PODCAST
‘Half a suburb’ dug up in gangland skeleton hunt
Underworld assassin Terrence Blewitt had been missing for 12 years, his fate unknown, until a gangland murder case led a tenacious cop to literally dig up the brutal answers. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Carl cop’s horror discovery on Eddie’s ‘Millionaire’
As Eddie McGuire broke the news to quiz show contestant Sara Morse that Carl Williams had been killed in jail, he had no idea of her key role in a secret Christmas Day liaison with the gangland killer. NEW PODCAST.
Top cop stalked by infatuated axeman crim
He was a tomahawk-wielding husband betrayed by his wife and a mate. She was the cop simply trying to handle his assault case with respect. What he did next was as bizarre as it was scary. HEAR THE PODCAST
‘Mother of Satan’ bomb almost blew up an Aussie city
It’s the explosive of choice for terrorists and just the tiniest amount can cause serious injuries. So when three kilos was discovered, bomb technician Jodie Pearson had to take drastic action. LISTEN TO EPISODE TWO OF OUR PODCAST
‘I know what blast damage can do to a human’
When a senior police officer was murdered by a car bomb, investigators had to search for a secondary explosive. The blast site was too far away to use the robot, so they had to send in Australia’s first female technician. LISTEN TO HER STORY.
Inside the bomb-making school for cops
They have built everything from a collar bomb to pressure cooker bombs and explosives used in car bombs. But the students are not terrorists, they are Aussie police officers. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Inside the minds of Australia’s worst sex monsters
The secret to taking down a sexual predator is to get inside their head – and even develop a rapport with them, according to the woman who brought down one of Australia’s worst paedophiles. NEW PODCAST.
How top cop caught Victoria’s worst sex monster
A former female detective who brought down a Victorian Catholic priest who became one of Australia’s worst serial paedophiles has revealed how they finally caught him. NEW PODCAST.
Top cop’s ‘gut feeling’ about MP’s murder
She was one of the first officers at the scene of the murder of Labor MP John Newman. And Detective Superintendent Deborah Wallace has her own theory about who was responsible. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
How top cop helped catch Anita Cobby’s killers
When former Constable Deborah Wallace was working the police switchboard, investigators got her to re-enact Anita Cobby’s final hours. It changed her career forever. LISTEN TO EPISODE ONE OF THE PODCAST.
The ‘gang buster’ cop who made bikies cry
In her 36 years on the force, Detective Superintendent Deborah Wallace has taken on bikie, Middle Eastern and Asian gangs, earning herself the nickname ‘gang buster’. Now she reveals in our new podcast how she stared down a bikie boss and won. LISTEN TO THE FIRST EPISODE.
The ‘gang buster’ cop who made bikies cry
In her 36 years on the force, Detective Superintendent Deborah Wallace has taken on bikie, Middle Eastern and Asian gangs, earning herself the nickname ‘gang buster’. Now she reveals in our new podcast how she stared down a bikie boss and won. LISTEN TO THE FIRST EPISODE.
Detectives lift lid on nation’s most gripping cases in Police Tape podcast
Real police. Real cases. Extraordinary insights. Step behind the police tape with the detectives who investigated some of Australia’s most compelling crimes in our exciting podcast series, Police Tape, hosted by Merrick Watts.
Three crimes driving more Aussie cops undercover
New figures reveal how often police are using undercover stings to expose crime, as a brave female rookie cop details the shocking end to her first secret mission in the latest Police Tape podcast.
Did Mr Cruel keep on killing?
Mr Cruel terrorised Melbourne, progressing from frightening child abductions to murder. Then he disappeared without a trace. Could a calculating killer like this really just stop?
Undercover cop: Drug kingpin wanted sex
Alone and terrified in Hong Kong, the Aussie cop was already sweating that her drug mule cover would be blown. The last thing she needed to deal with was a randy gangster. LISTEN NOW
Ex-CIA spy stunned by Aussie rookie undercover cop
Intelligence experts from as far as the CIA are amazed Australian police pulled off an undercover sting on a drugs cartel in which a rookie cop took the rare step of smuggling heroin out of Hong Kong. LISTEN NOW
One of these men is Australia’s most evil crim
Criminal psychologist Tim Watson-Munro gives his verdict on a rogues’ gallery of Australian criminals and reveals who is the nation’s most evil man. LISTEN NOW
Sins of Milat: Why he won’t confess
Abduction and murder became an obsession for Ivan Milat, but he was never crazy, says Tim Watson-Munro, who takes us inside the warped world confronting a criminal psychologist in our new Police Tape podcast. LISTEN NOW
Why truckie’s freak death haunts former cop
Ten years after innocent truck driver Bob Knight was killed by a ‘gangster’s’ stray bullet in the unlikeliest of circumstances, former cop Mark Smith still can’t come to terms with the shocking ‘sliding doors’ moment. LISTEN NOW
How conman ‘jockey’ took punters for a multimillion-dollar ride
A conman who swindled millions from punters after persuading them he was a Melbourne Cup-winning jockey with inside knowledge of fixed races is back in Sydney after jail time for another major scam in the US. LISTEN NOW
Criminals’ money to help cops with PTSD
Seized criminal assets are funding a major new initiative to tackle PTSD in police, with a confronting movie spearheading the $6m campaign. It comes as one former cop breaks down in tears telling Police Tape about the cases he’s seen. WATCH AND LISTEN NOW
Crims convert to ‘Prislam’ as terror groups target Supermax
Criminals are being pressed into an extreme form of Islam — dubbed Prislam — in our jails, while al-Qaeda and IS have been discovered trying to make contact with terrorists held at our highest-security prison.
Scarface’s brush with Sydney’s most dangerous
His career brought him into contact with colourful characters and hardened crims such as Neddy Smith and Michael Hurley, but what really happened to earn detective Mark Smith the nickname Scarface? LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
Who knew what on night Hutchence died
An actress was forced to deny “some sex and drug-crazed orgy”; TV star Paula Yates unjustly cried murder at Live Aid hero Bob Geldof — then blamed a sex game gone wrong. But Michael Hutchence’s own words reveal the truth of his final hours. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST
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