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Australian True Crime

Think nothing ever happens in your town? Australia’s suburbs are home to some of the most mysterious and disturbing true crime cases in the world. Meshel Laurie is a true crime obsessive, and with the help of expert interviews with writers, victim/survivors, investigators and perpetrators, she probes the underbelly of our towns and suburbs, and uncovers the darkness at the heart of Australian life.

Copyright: © Meshel Laurie

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Online Child Exploitation – Lux’s Destruction Jul 04, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 217 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

Australian journalist Eileen Ormsby literally wrote the book on the Dark Web. In fact, she’s written 7 books about it, but it was her first book, “Silk Road”, released in 2014, about the so-called eBay of hard drugs, that began the exposure of the darkest corners of the internet to the world.

A year after Silk Road’s release, Eileen sat in a courtroom looking at a man who was once the internet’s most wanted and illusive trafficker of violent child abuse material. His online name was “Lux”, but his true identity was shocking.

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The good old mental health defence. Jun 27, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 216 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

Dr Danny Sullivan is the Executive Director of Clinical Services at Thomas Embling hospital, Melbourne's Secure Mental Health Hospital, which houses patients with varying levels of security clearance including some who've committed extremely violent acts, but who the court has deemed to ill to be held responsible.

You can find out more about the work of Forensicare at https://www.forensicare.vic.gov.au/

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You can support us with a one-off contribution here.

You can become a patron here.

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The Devil is in the detail. Where is Amber Haigh? Jun 20, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 215 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

Amber Haigh has been on the missing persons list since 2002. At that time, she was 19 years old, the mother of a newborn, residing in the NSW town of Young, with the parents of her former boyfriend, who were reportedly the last people to see her alive.

Shaun McMahon, from the True Blue Crime podcast joins us to tell us the chilling story of Amber’s disappearance.

You can pre order Meshel’s book CSI Told You Lies here.

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If you have any information on the cases covered by this podcast,

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Beenham Valley Update Jun 13, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 214 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

Many things have changed since Jamie Pultz and I last spoke about Kirra

McLoughlin’s death and the podcast it inspired, called Beenham Valley Road.

Most notably, we don’t have to use the pseudonym “Jason” when talking about her

partner anymore. That’s because Queensland’s Deputy Coroner named him as the

person responsible for her death last week in the inquest brought about in no

small part by Jamie’s podcast.

He joins us again to recap and update.

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On the Trail of the Serpent Jun 08, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 213 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

Julie Clarke and her husband Richard Neville wrote the book On the Trail of the Serpent, The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj upon which the

Netflix series The Serpent is based. Julie is our guest this week.

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Troll Hunter Ginger Gorman May 30, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 212 of Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

Ginger Gorman is an award-winning journalist and the author of Troll Hunter. She’s always had great passion for her work, and she’s been driven by equal parts creativity and curiosity. In 2011, those forces led her to a home in Far North Queensland to record an interview with a family. It was meant to be a short radio piece about diverse families, but Ginger had no way of knowing that it would change her life and lead her into some of the darkest corners of the modern world.

Links to get your tickets to our live shows. Starting in Melbourne but heading out around the country over the coming months.

The Karralyka theatre in Ringwood on May 28.

https://www.karralyka.com.au/Theatre/Touring-and-community/Meshel-Laurie-Australian-True-Crime-Podcast

The Yarraville Club June 12.

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/australian-true-crime-blood-ties-with-meshel-laurie-emily-webb-tickets-152031796195

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Short Cut Troll Hunter Ginger Gorman May 30, 2021

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This is an Australian True Crime short cut. It’s an abridged version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.

Australian True Crime with Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

Ginger Gorman is an award-winning journalist and the author of Troll Hunter. She’s always had great passion for her work, and she’s been driven by equal parts creativity and curiosity. In 2011, those forces led her to a home in Far North Queensland to record an interview with a family. It was meant to be a short radio piece about diverse families, but Ginger had no way of knowing that it would change her life and lead her into some of the darkest corners of the modern world.

Links to get your tickets to our live shows. Starting in Melbourne but heading out around the country over the coming months.

The Karralyka theatre in Ringwood on May 28.

https://www.karralyka.com.au/Theatre/Touring-and-community/Meshel-Laurie-Australian-True-Crime-Podcast

The Yarraville Club June 12.

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/australian-true-crime-blood-ties-with-meshel-laurie-emily-webb-tickets-152031796195

See you there.

You can support us with a one-off contribution here.

You can become a patron here.

You can subscribe to Calm Ya Farm here.

You can visit the Calm Ya Farm website here.

Like us on Facebook

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Support us on Patreon

Visit our Bookshop

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Short Cut My Father The Murderer May 23, 2021

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This is an Australian True Crime short cut. It’s an abridged version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed.

Journalist Nina Young made a podcast documenting her search for the truth about her father. It’s called My Father the Murderer.

Nina uncovered much more than she could ever have imagined, and more than her mother Denise had ever wanted to know. Both Nina and Denise join us to talk about their impressions of the man in question, Allen Ladd and his crimes. We’ll also talk about the profound impact on their relationship of not talking enough about him for most of Nina’s life and then talking about little else for the last two years.

The book, My Father the Murderer is available now.

Links to get your tickets to our live shows. Starting in Melbourne but heading out around the country over the coming months.

The Karralyka theatre in Ringwood on May 28.

https://www.karralyka.com.au/Theatre/Touring-and-community/Meshel-Laurie-Australian-True-Crime-Podcast

The Yarraville Club June 12.

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/australian-true-crime-blood-ties-with-meshel-laurie-emily-webb-tickets-152031796195

See you there.

You can support us with a one-off contribution here.

You can become a patron here.

You can subscribe to Calm Ya Farm here.

You can visit the Calm Ya Farm website here.

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My Father the Murderer May 23, 2021

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Show Notes Ep 211

Journalist Nina Young made a podcast documenting her search for the truth about her father. It’s called My Father the Murderer.

Nina uncovered much more than she could ever have imagined, and more than her mother Denise had ever wanted to know. Both Nina and Denise join us to talk about their impressions of the man in question, Allen Ladd and his crimes. We’ll also talk about the profound impact on their relationship of not talking enough about him for most of Nina’s life and then talking about little else for the last two years.

The book, My Father the Murderer is available now.

Links to get your tickets to our live shows. Starting in Melbourne but heading out around the country over the coming months.

The Karralyka theatre in Ringwood on May 28.

https://www.karralyka.com.au/Theatre/Touring-and-community/Meshel-Laurie-Australian-True-Crime-Podcast

The Yarraville Club June 12.

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/australian-true-crime-blood-ties-with-meshel-laurie-emily-webb-tickets-152031796195

See you there.

You can support us with a one-off contribution here.

You can become a patron here.

You can subscribe to Calm Ya Farm here.

You can visit the Calm Ya Farm website here.

Like us on Facebook

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Visit our Bookshop

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Dr Ahona Guha works with stalkers May 16, 2021

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Melbourne-based forensic and clinical psychologist Dr Ahona Guha joins us to discuss her work with people who display abnormal behaviours from stalking to arson.

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