Australian True Crime

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Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide’s Family Murders with Debi Marshall Sep 09, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 228 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

Veteran journalist and True Crime author Debi Marshall joins us to talk about her new book, Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide’s Family Murders. It follows on from her Foxtel series and podcast, Frozen Lies.

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Chapelwaite Special Extra Episode Sep 01, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 226 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

This is a special extra episode of ATC to celebrate the release of ‘Chapelwaite’, inspired by the Stephen King short story ‘Jerusalem’s Lot’ on Stan. You can sign up for your 30-day free trial at stan.com.au

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Dr Joanna Glengarry Forensic Pathologist Aug 29, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 225 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

Dr Joanna Glengarry studied for 8 years to be a surgeon but not long after completing her studies and entering the theatre she realised her true passion was forensic pathology. In her native Auckland, that meant another 5 years of formal study, just to get an introduction at the city mortuary. She was taken on as a Saturday volunteer.

Fortunately for Joanna, but unfortunately for Auckland, the mortuary was severely understaffed, and they had a lot of violent deaths, so she quickly picked up more shifts, even paid ones, and in no time at all Dr Glengarry became a very handy forensic pathologist. SO handy in fact that she was poached of course, by the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine or VIFM in Melbourne.

Dr Glengarry is one of the pathologists featured in my book CSI Told You Lies.

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Squizzy Taylor Australia’s first flashy Gangster Aug 22, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 224 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

Squizzy Taylor was Australia’s first flashy Gangster. He set the standard so many still try to emulate today. Squizzy courted the media, flaunted an extravagant lifestyle and never laid low. Historian Roy Malloy joins us to talk about the incredible exploits of Squizzy and his associates.

You can buy Roy’s book, Squizzy Taylor, The Forensics, The Man, The Vendetta, here.

You can also keep up with Roy on Facebook;

https://www.facebook.com/roymaloy

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Bikies, the Mount Panorama riots and the lure of the open road with Boris Mihailovic Aug 15, 2021

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Boris Mihailovic is a former outlaw motorcycle club member, a journo and magazine editor and writer, and author of three books - My mother Warned Me about Blokes Like Me, At the Altar Altar of the Road Gods and The Wisdom of the Road Gods.

You can find out more about Boris and read his provocative musings at his website borismihailovic.com Boris co-hosts a popular podcast MotoPG.

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New Hope for the Unidentified Aug 08, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 222 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

New Hope for the Unidentified

There are around 500 sets of unidentified human remains stored in mortuaries around Australia. There are also over 2000 people registered as long-term missing persons. No doubt, some of them are the same people, so why have none of these mysteries been solved? There is new hope.

For more information about Australian Missing Persons -

https://www.missingpersons.gov.au/

The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine.

https://www.vifm.org/

Dylan Redman’s Facebook page dedicated to the search for his brother Owen –

https://www.facebook.com/HelpFindOwen/

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Missing Suzie Lawrance Aug 01, 2021

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Suzanne Lawrance, known as Suzie, has been missing from Healesville, Victoria since February 7 1987 after walking home from a 21st birthday party at the town’s Memorial Hall.

We speak to Suzie’s family - Liz Westwood and Tony Lawrance and Suzie’s friends, Tracey Squires, Natalie Tulipano, Matthew Hughes and Glenn Taylor in this episode.

If you have any information that could help find out what happened to Suzanne Lawrance call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or report online at crimestoppersvic.com.au

For more information about Australian missing persons go to the Australian Federal Police’s National Missing Persons Coordination Centre website.

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The Coffin Confessor spills people’s secrets from beyond their graves Jul 25, 2021

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CONTENT WARNING: this episode discusses suicide, sexual abuse and assault.

Private investigator and entrepreneur Bill Edgar had a traumatic childhood. Childhood sexual assault, life on the streets and a stint in Brisbane’s notorious Boggo Road Jail with some of Australia’s worst criminals, Bill found many ways to survive. In adulthood, Bill has built a loving home and family life with his wife Lara and their children and grandchildren.

He’s a voice for the voiceless and has carved a unique position for himself as “The Coffin Confessor” where he attends funerals on behalf of the deceased and tells their secrets from the grave. Bill has had thousands of requests from around the world for his services.

It’s a one-of-a-kind job and as you’ll discover Bill is an extraordinary man.

Bill has detailed his extraordinary life journey in his autobiography THE COFFIN CONFESSOR.

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The Abortion Clinic Murder and the High Court drama that followed Jul 19, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 219 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb:

On 16 July 2001, security guard Steven Rogers was shot dead at his workplace, a Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne.

Clinical psychologist Dr Susie Allanson who worked at the clinic was on-sight that day and she joins us to tell us about it, along with lawyer Lizzie O’Shea who represented the clinic in the Supreme Court Case against protesters who'd harassed staff and patients for years before the crime.

They’ve detailed how one man's murder changed the future of women’s rights in their book Empowering Women: From Murder & Misogyny to High Court Victory (Wilkinson Publishing). Susie Allanson's book is Murder on his Mind: The Story of Australia's Abortion Clinic Murder

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Vale Sandra Pankhurst The Trauma Cleaner Jul 11, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 218 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

The legendary Sandra Pankhurst, made famous as The Trauma Cleaner in the brilliant book by Sarah Krasnostein, passed away last week. Although she battled health issues for some years, Sandra never lost her sense of humour, her incredible generosity or her capacity for love. She was genuinely one of the most loving human beings I’ve ever met.

A lot of the actual cleaning that Sandra and her team of trauma cleaners did, was in the homes of hoarders. They were hired by councils around Melbourne to go in and clean up homes that were made literally uninhabitable by people who were emotionally unable to throw anything away.

Hoarding is actually a mental illness, and Sandra understood that implicitly. She approached hoarding clean up jobs as mental health jobs, and she went into those people’s homes with compassion and sensitivity, and never wearing any kind of protective gear, not even rubber gloves which is extraordinary given the various bio hazards she often faced.

We're re issuing our Sandra Pankhurst episode this week in her honour. She will be greatly missed.

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