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  • 40. Murder on the Banshee

    23:18||Ep. 40
    On the night of the 23rd of December 1909, yacht club employee Frank Passmore wakes to find an older woman sitting outside the Royal Perth Yacht Club. Soon after, the young caretaker of the yacht Banshee, appears and tells Frank the woman is his granny. Frank can tell they have both been drinking. Before long, the pair climb into a dinghy and row out across Perth Water, disappearing into the darkness,

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  • 39. Gonzales Family Murders

    32:59||Ep. 39
    On the 10th of July 2001, police enter a North Ryde home and find three members of the Gonzales family murdered. Teddy, Loiva and their eighteen-year-old daughter Clodine appear to have been brutally attacked one by one throughout the house. Signs of robbery and racial hatred point investigators in several directions.
  • 38. The Claremont Killings, Part Three

    24:20||Ep. 38
    After years of attacks, disappearances and false leads, the Claremont investigation finally begins to narrow. The answer does not come from one confession or one witness. It comes through old exhibits, new testing, and a chain of evidence that slowly leads police to a man who had been there all along.
  • 36. The Claremont Killings, Part Two

    26:31||Ep. 36
    In the years before Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Siara Glennon vanish from Claremont, three other women are attacked across Perth. One wakes in her own bedroom. One is targeted at work. One is taken after a night out. At first, the cases appear separate. Decades later, they will begin to connect.
  • 35. The Claremont Killings, Part One

    27:28||Ep. 35
    In mid-1990s Perth, Claremont was a familiar nightlife strip where young people moved between venues and waited for taxis home. But when three women vanish after nights out there, a place of routine turns into one of Australia’s most infamous crime scenes.
  • 34. The Bowraville Murders

    33:33||Ep. 34
    In 1990, three Aboriginal children vanish from the same small community in Bowraville within five months. What follows is a story of fear, suspicion, failed investigations, and families left carrying the search for justice themselves.
  • 33. Told Through Trial: The Chamberlain Case

    42:56||Ep. 33
    In 1980, nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain disappeared from a campsite at Airs Rock. Her mother claims a dingo had taken her. Two years later, the question of what happened was tested in court. Told through the witnesses and evidence presented at trial, this episode follows how the infamous case unfolded before a jury.