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Tara Schultz and the Price of Survival - #149 Mar 18, 2020

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Tara Schultz is a survivor of many crimes perpetrated against her in childhood. She joins us to share some uncomfortable truths about the difficulties of meeting the ongoing financial costs of her survival.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 149:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Tara Schultz

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Narelle Fraser meets Victor Peirce at the shops - #148 Mar 11, 2020

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Narelle Fraser thought her number was up when she ran into the notorious armed robber Victor Peirce at the shops. She also gives us an update on an unsolved case from her days in the sex crimes squad.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 148:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Narelle Fraser

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Journalist Anthony Dowsley on Paul Dale, Lawyer X et al. A Different Perspective - #147 Mar 11, 2020

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Anthony Dowsley’s dogged reporting over several years unmasked lawyer Nicola Gobbo as a police informant and has played a significant role in exposing some of the unorthodox methods employed by Victoria Police in their desperate war against the underworld in the early 2000s.

Entire interview available on Patreon.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 147:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Anthony Dowsley

Listen to Part 1 of our interview with Paul Dale

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Paul Dale Pt 2. The Crimes in Question #146 Mar 04, 2020

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“Disgraced former Drug Squad Detective” Paul Dale was charged with robbery, and then with murder. Some find it hard to believe he’s not in jail or dead, he says he’s an innocent victim of the Lawyer X scandal. You be the judge.

Purchase COPS, DRUGS, LAWYER X AND ME by Paul Dale and Vikki Petraitis.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 146:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Paul Dale and Vikki Petraitis

Listen to Part 1 of our interview with Paul Dale

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“Disgraced” Paul Dale. Victim or Villain? - #145 Feb 26, 2020

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“Disgraced former Drug Squad Detective” Paul Dale has seen his reputation so destroyed that his lawyer says he’s virtually beyond defamation. As his biographer Vikki Petraitis puts it, he’s been accused of everything, and yet, he’s never been convicted of anything. Is he the victim of a huge conspiracy, or the luckiest villain in the ongoing saga of the Melbourne Gang war? You be the judge as he joins us to tell his story over two weeks.

Purchase COPS, DRUGS, LAWYER X AND ME by Paul Dale and Vikki Petraitis.

Show notes for Episode 145:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Paul Dale and Vikki Petraitis.

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Missing No More – the Gruesome Truth of the barrel at the barbecues - #144 Feb 19, 2020

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Two “missing” women are found to have suffered similar gruesome fates. Author and journalist Liz Porter returns to tell us the truth about Sylvia Cave and Edwina Boyle.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 144:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Liz Porter

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Defending the Indefensible - #143 Feb 12, 2020

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Tim Marsh defends people we call monsters. He’s Chief Counsel at Victoria Legal Aid, and in the last year alone he’s represented 2 men charged with crimes that rocked the nation. Tim joins us to tell us why he does it, how he copes with it, and about the surprising encounter with a victim’s family member that devastated him.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 143:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Tim Marsh.

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105 signs of Recent Injury - #142 Feb 05, 2020

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Jamie Pultz is a former Queensland police officer who’ll soon be launching a podcast investigation into the murder of Leanne Holland. He talks to us about that and about his last podcast project, Beenham Valley Road. We also check up on one of the most memorable guests from Beenham Valley Road.

This episode features the Beenham Valley Road theme song, “Piece is Heaven” by Pete Allen Music. Available on itunes.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 143:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Jamie Pultz

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Special Extra: Clunes Cluedo Episode One Jan 29, 2020

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This is the first episode of Alice Mitchell’s podcast about Nina Nicholson’s unsolved murder, Clunes Cluedo. You’ll find it sometimes overlaps with this week’s episode of ATC, but it’s well worth listening to both because there are some really special details included in this one.

You can subscribe to Clunes Cluedo wherever you get your podcasts.

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Alice Mitchell

More about #JusticeforNina at Instagram/clunescluedo

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Justice for Nina - Clunes Unsolved - #141 Jan 29, 2020

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Alice Mitchell is the second cousin of a young woman called Nina Nicholson who was murdered in 1991 on the porch of her home in Clunes, Ballarat (VIC). Nina was a paediatric nurse who was heading out to work when she was attacked. Her murder is still unsolved.

Alice, who is a private investigator, has become the family sleuth in this case and is letting people know about Nina's case and wants to get a second coronial inquest to look at the murder.

Warning: please be advised this episode contains graphic content.

Show notes for Episode 141:

Your hosts are Meshel Laurie and Emily Webb

With thanks to Alice Mitchell

More about #JusticeforNina at Instagram/clunescluedo

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If you have any information on the cases covered by this podcast, please contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.