Loose Units: The Podcast

The Assad regime has toppled, and left behind a surreal cache of treasures. John ruminates on their worth, before he and Paul chat about a recent grisly find at Sydney airport.

John and Paul take a blow-by-blow look at the case dividing a small town, and captivating true crime obsessives the world over.

On today's Loose Ends, John (eventually) makes a truly odd admission about a shameful deep from his past.

In 1989, 24-year old Tracey Wigginton committed a murder which consumed the public's attention - and with good reason. Was her moniker accurate? Did Brisbane briefly fall prey to a vampire, or was this nothing more than a tragedy amplified by the tabloids?

Paul tells John about a Bitcoin heist, before he and John take a look at the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year. Will John accept Rizz?

In 1989, an assassination and a federal police investigation led to Paul's descent into nightmare. John takes Paul on a trip back in time in this look at a notorious Australian cop-killing.

John walks Paul through a case from back in 2005, where he bodies of a retired couple were found strangled in their home.