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*** Special Edition *** Bigfoot, Kray Twins and Hijacking Oct 22, 2017

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We update the Elisa Curry mystery and go back in time to October 1967 and 1977. There is Bigfoot, UK organised crime with the Kray twins and an Airline Hijacking that goes on and on.

Episode 26 - Santa Never Made It Into Darwin Oct 15, 2017

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It’s late afternoon Christmas Eve 1974, Darwin Australia. For several days, Tropical Cyclone Tracy has been monitored off the coast of the Northern Territory. It’s overcast, there are low clouds and it’s raining hard. As wind’s pick-up residents begin to realise Cyclone Tracy is going to pass over not around the city. In the end 71 people will die and over 90% of homes in Darwin are badly damaged or demolished. This is the story when Santa Never made it into Darwin.

*** Special Edition *** Cannibals Guns Rage and More Oct 09, 2017

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The Cannibals Couple, the Vegas shooting, Missing Elisa Curry, Mat Leveson and Grenfell updates and I lose it over pathetic sentencing.

Episode 25 - The Luna Park Ghost Train Fire Oct 01, 2017

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It’s the night of June 9th 1979 at Luna Park, Sydney. As the slogan says, you go there ‘Just for Fun’, however by the end of the night a fire breaks out in the Ghost Train Ride and seven people would die.

Episode 24 - The Murder of Jacob Munro Sep 24, 2017

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This is a story of how not to run an illegal weed growing operation and how you should choose your employees well.

Happy 1st Birthday Edition Sep 17, 2017

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Come and join in on the first birthday celebration of True Crime Island.

*** Special Edition *** Murder Babes and more Sep 10, 2017

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It’s May 25 2017 and a 22-year-old karaoke bar worker from Khon Kaen, Miss Warisara Klinjui or Amm as she was known, is found brutally murdered. Not only will her murder be shocking, but what happens as police track her killers and eventually take them into custody, will make you shake your head at the media, the police and society in general. This is the story of the ‘Murder Babes’

Episode 23 - The Pickup Truck Killer Sep 04, 2017

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It’s early March 2012. Julsin Salangsing a driver from Chumpon Tha Sae district in Thailand, is found murdered by the side of the road and his pickup truck is missing. With his face bashed in by a rock, a later autopsy would show, he had been poisoned by insecticide. This won’t be the last driver to be found this way. This is the story of Nirut Sonkhamhan, the Pickup Truck killer.

*** Special Edition *** The Matthew Leveson Coronial Inquiry Aug 27, 2017

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Hi Islanders. Tonight I have an update from the final three days of the Matthew Leveson Coronial Inquiry that resumed last week including the full statement form Matthews parents Mark and Faye Leveson.

Episode 22 - The Murder of Deborah Gardner Aug 20, 2017

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It’s October 14, 1976 on the Kingdom of Tonga an archipelago of 169 islands in the Pacific Ocean. Deborah Gardner a 23-year-old American Peace Corps volunteer is heard screaming from her room by a local boy. He runs in to see a tall westerner dragging her body out through the doorway but then drops her body and makes a getaway on a bicycle. There hasn’t been a murder in Tonga for seven years. Will justice be served.

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