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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
As families lined Sydney Harbour for the New Year’s Eve fireworks, a mass casualty terror plot was underway. An unprecedented police operation knew of the danger, but not the detail, and cops faced a gut-wrenching dilemma over when to act. LISTEN NOW
They swapped coded messages in newspapers and were experts in shaking off police surveillance. This is how old-school criminals at the top of their game earned a not-so-grudging respect from the detectives on their trail.
Anyone who doesn’t think Australia has a problem with Islamic-based terrorism is a fool, with an increase in incidents making it ever more likely that “one of those threats will get through”, says a former counter terror specialist. LISTEN NOW
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