True Crime Conversations

Laura McConnell grew up in a fundamentalist sect with no name.

Along with no official title, the group also claims to have no registration around the world, no formal hierarchy, and no official places of worship.

According to Laura, it's this secrecy and denial that has allowed abuse to flourish within the community. She joins us today to expose what she witnessed and experienced inside the group she calls The Truth.

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Guest: Laura McConnell

Host: Gemma Bath

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Johan Duflou has seen a lot of dead bodies. 

In his four decades as a forensic pathologist, he estimates he?s done about 200 autopsies a year. Sometimes the people on his table have been the victim of a crime. Sometimes they?ve simply died unexpectedly and he?s been tasked to find out why.

As he?ll tell you, the job is not like what you see in movies or on TV.

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Guest: Johan Duflou

Host: Gemma Bath

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Audio Producer: Scott Stronach

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Mamamia?s True Crime Conversations is back for 2024, exploring the world?s most notorious crimes, by speaking to the people who know the most about them. 

And over the next month we're taking you behind the scenes of crime, interviewing a forensic pathologist, a cult survivor, a forensic scientist who uses insects and other small creatures to help solve crimes, and the world?s first and only Coffin Confessor.

Hear True Crime Conversations? Behind The Scenes Of Crime Special throughout February, right here on your favourite podcast app.

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Host: Gemma Bath

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In 2023, Malka Leifer was sentenced to 15 years in prison for 18 counts of sexual abuse against Dassi Erlich and her little sister.

Leifer was the sisters' former high school principal, and when whispers of their allegations came to light in 2008, she fled from her home in Melbourne to Israel before any formal complaint could be made. 

It took 70 extradition hearings and 13 years to bring her back to Australia. But finally last year, Dassi was able to breathe a sigh of relief. Leifer was finally going to pay for what she?d done. 

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Guest: Dassi Erlich

You can find out more about her memoir In Bad Faith here.

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Audio Producer: Thom Lion

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In 2016, Gypsy Rose Blanchard pled guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. 

She admitted to planning and orchestrating the stabbing death of her mother Dee Dee at the hands of her boyfriend Nick Godejohn, who was convicted of first-degree murder.

Nick remains behind bars, but in December 2023, Gypsy was released after serving eight years of her sentence. 

This case is about more than just murder. It?s one of the most famous cases involving the alleged diagnosis of Munchausen by proxy - known nowadays as ?Factitious disorder imposed on another?.

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Guest: M.J. Pack

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Stevie Munro is a Senior Correctional Officer with Moree Court Escort services, in charge of things like processing offenders who?ve just been arrested, and escorting them to and from court.

She deals with prisoners from all over Australia, and has seen it all. Kicking, screaming, lashing out, attempted suicide?

She is dealing with people during their most emotional times in prison. But as she will explain, her toughest days have nothing to do with the criminals themselves. 

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In the lead-up to the Beijing Winter Olympics, the world began to wonder how and if Peng Shuai would be used in the games, and whether the IOC was going to have anything to say to the Chinese Government about their silencing of the tennis star. So how did the Chinese propaganda juggernaut shift its attention to the global sporting stage? And what happens when the international community?s peak sporting body is accused of silencing a sexual assault survivor?

Plus, we investigate China?s Me Too movement. What does the story of Peng Shuai tell us about feminism in China?

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For three long weeks in November 2021, the tennis community, news organisations and human rights advocates the world over had one question; Where Is Peng Shuai? In the aftermath of a Weibo post detailing allegations of sexual assault against one of China?s top political figures, concerns for Peng Shuai's freedom were escalating swiftly. Then suddenly, proof of life. On this episode, we?ll learn more about the Chinese propaganda machine, and how it?s working to convince the world of Peng Shuai's safety, whilst censoring her story.

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It was after 10 pm, on November 2nd, 2021 when 35-year-old Peng Shuai - China?s beloved global tennis star - sat down and began typing. Truncated sentences of an open letter, detailing an affair and sexual assault involving one of China?s highest-ranking political figures, would go on to rock the international community. It took only a few minutes before the post had amassed thousands of shares, likes, and comments. But within half an hour, it vanished. And moments later, so too did Peng Shuai.

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Belle Gibson spent years lying about her health. From those early skater chatroom claims that she had died on the operating table during heart surgery, to a terminal brain cancer diagnosis, and finally, revelations that cancer had spread through her entire body. She had built a business out of peddling her strategy for treating that cancer; with food. She said it was curing her, and could (for a small fee) cure you, too. But in March 2015, everything came undone, and it wasn't only Belle's followers who wanted answers. The police did too.

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Belle Gibson was travelling to Queensland for a funeral when she was first contacted by Melbourne newspaper, The Age. Reporters were seeking clarification. They wanted to know exactly how much of the money that Belle was making was going to charity. By 2015, The Whole Pantry had become a hugely successful app, blog and book. Belle had always publicly pledged that a sizeable chunk of the money it was making was being redistributed to charities and various worthy causes, but was that true? In this episode of Extraordinary Stories, we?ll learn how it all came crashing down for the so-called 'Wellness Warrior,' Belle Gibson, and how a woman who once provided hope for some of the nation's most vulnerable people, exploited them for cash and clout.

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Belle Gibson spent years lying about her health. From those early skater chatroom claims that she had died on the operating table during heart surgery, to a terminal brain cancer diagnosis, and finally, revelations that cancer had spread through her entire body. She had built a business out of peddling her strategy for treating that cancer; with food. She said it was curing her, and could (for a small fee) cure you, too. But in March 2015, everything came undone, and it wasn't only Belle's followers who wanted answers. The police did too.

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On a summer evening in January 1983, 10-year-old Louise Bell went missing from her bedroom in Adelaide's Hackham West. 

It was a case that horrified Australia, as every parent's worst nightmare became reality for the Bell family. How could a young girl tucked up in her bed in a safe, suburban neighbourhood just go missing in the middle of the night? 

It would take 30 years, and advances in DNA technology, to find out who was responsible for the disappearance of Louise Bell. 

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Guest: Candice Prosser

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The Murdaughs were one of South Carolina's most prominent legal families for nearly a century. They were so influential in the area, that locals nicknamed the county they practised in ?Murdaugh country.? 

But in 2019 a fatal boating accident put the family under a microscope, and what was uncovered about the Murdaughs over the next four years is almost too shocking to believe.

This story is complicated. You?re about to hear about the deaths of five people in South Carolina, all with ties to the Murdough family.

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Guest: Michael DeWitt, author of The Fall of the House of Murdaugh 

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On a Sunday night in August 1987, 18-year-old Julian Knight unleashed terror on the streets of Melbourne. 

It was just after 9:30pm when the recently discharged army cadet opened fire on innocent civilians, murdering seven people and seriously injuring 19 more.

After the incident, a group of psychologists were tasked with analysing Knight to try to understand the motivations of such a callous, unprovoked attack. Our guest today was part of that team.

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Guest: Tim Watson-Munro

Tim's joined us before to discuss black widow killers and also his career as a criminal psychologist. 

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In May 1965 a horrific discovery was made at a Darwin post office. 

A package carrying the remains of a newborn baby boy had been sent there from the Russell Street post office in Melbourne. The sender and the intended recipient were unable to be identified at the time.  

Now, almost 60 years later, there are new leads in the case. Finally, after all this time, detectives might be on the precipice of solving this cold case.

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Guest: Meni Caroutas, Host of The Missing Podcast

Host: Gemma Bath

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The murder of Lynette Dawson was a crime that unravelled in real-time via a podcast called The Teacher?s Pet in 2018. It was a groundbreaking investigation. One that forced police to re-investigate things they?d filed away as unimportant decades prior. 

Shanelle Dawson, Lynette's daughter, had already pieced together the truth before investigative journalist Hedley Thomas came knocking. But his podcast helped put her father behind bars. 

Since then, Shanelle has released her own story, in her own words via a memoir called My Mother?s Eyes. On this episode of True Crime Conversations, she joins Mamamia's Mia Freedman to give incredible insight into what it?s like to grow up with a father who did an unthinkable crime, and spent years lying to her about it.

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Guest: Shanelle Dawson

Interviewer: Mia Freedman

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Malcolm Naden was once Australia's most wanted man. 

The prime suspect for the murder of his neighbour, as well as in the disappearance and suspected murder of his cousin, Naden was on the run from 2005 until 2012. 

Today?s guest, Dimity Clancey, followed this story as it unfolded and was the journalist who first acquired and published Naden?s confession in 2016. 

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Guest: Dimity Clancey. You can watch her award-winning coverage of Malcolm Naden's confession here.

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On New Year?s Eve, 1927, Ethel Griggs and her baby daughter Alwyn returned home to Victoria after six months away in Tasmania. 

After eating supper with her husband Ethel quickly became ill, and just over 48 hours later she was pronounced dead.

At first, it was thought to be heart trouble or even sea sickness that caused her death, but when police exhumed her body just two weeks after Ethel was laid to rest, they found enough arsenic inside her stomach to kill not just Ethel, but several people.

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Guest: Michael Adams, host of the Forgotten Australia podcast and author of The Murder Squad. You can listen to his past episode with us about The Murder Squad here.

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For more than a century, Australia's infamous Pentridge Prison was an ominous presence just 30 minutes away from Melbourne?s CBD.

A place of murder and mayhem, it was home to Victoria?s worst criminals. Everyone from Ned Kelly and Chopper Read, to mass murderers Julian Knight and Craig Minogue.

Pentridge officially closed in 1997 after decades of controversy. Over the years, everybody in Victoria had an understanding that Pentridge was a bad place, and the criminals who spent time inside can attest to that. They describe it as hell. 

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Guest: James Phelps, author of Australia's Most Infamous Jail: Inside the walls of Pentridge Prison

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Over the last two years, Indigenous Affairs Reporter Douglas Smith and his team have been looking into the deaths of six Indigenous women, from three different states across Australia.

Each case occurred in different jurisdictions, involving different individuals, but the investigation conducted by Doug's team uncovered a commonality that is impossible to ignore. 

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Guest: Douglas Smith host of the Dying Rose podcast.

Host: Gemma Bath

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In June 1987, Australia's top end lost it's innocence.

The murders of five tourists across the Northern Territory and Western Australia marred the reputation of this idyllic tourist region, sparking fear in locals and visitors alike.

These horrific events sparked one of the biggest manhunts in Australian history and saw today's guest, Former WA Police Inspector Bob Brown, on the front lines of the hunt for Josef Thomas Schwab: ?The Kimberley Killer? 

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Guest: Former WA Police Inspector Bob Brown

Host: Gemma Bath

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In 2018, Hedley Thomas? podcast The Teacher's Pet captivated millions of listeners around the world as he unravelled the disappearance of Lynette Simms in real time, week by week.

Throughout his meticulous investigation more evidence and information came to light, leading to the arrest of Lyn's former husband Chris Dawson.

In 2022, Hedley found himself a witness in Dawson's high-profle murder trial. He joins us today to discuss the podcast that landed Hedley in the courtroom, and Dawson behind bars. 

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Evaristo Salas Junior was just 16 when he was sent to an adult men?s prison convicted of the murder of Jose Arreola in 1995. 

But in the nearly three decades since his conviction, the evidence has been re-examined in great detail. Cracks, lies and omissions have been uncovered by journalists and documentary makers alike, leading to Evaristo's exoneration and release in August of this year. 

So how did this happen? How did the justice system fail him so monumentally, and why did it take so long to get him out?

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Guest: Jack Lawrence, host of the One Minute Remaining podcast. 

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In October 1992, 12-year-old Rhianna Barreau disappeared. 

On the day she went missing it was school holidays, and Rhianna had spent the morning wandering to the local shops to buy her American pen pal a Christmas card. When her mother got home at 4pm, expecting to find Rhianna, she was nowhere to be found. 

It's one of South Australia's most enduring cold cases. Her disappearance didn?t just change the lives of her family, it changed her community and the streets of Adelaide forever.

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Guest: Rebecca Brice

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In September 1988 a campaign of terror was unleashed upon Perth?s Chinese community through a series of targeted firebombings that decimated a number of restaurants around the city.

The motive behind the attacks was impossible to ignore, but it would take a drastic escalation of violence for WA police to start taking the firebombs seriously.

Once they finally started to piece the crimes together and close in on the culprits, police realised they?d happened upon a plot in the making that was a lot more sinister than the destroying of restaurants. 

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Guest: Alex Mann and Crispian Chan

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For nearly half a century, Australia was engaged in a shameful and shocking practice that would tear babies from the arms of their mothers, sometimes before they ever even laid eyes on their precious little faces.

Today, Amelia Oberhart shares with us the journey of her discoveries about her mother?s life before she was born in her podcast, Secrets We Keep,  Shame, Lies and Family?and in the process of unveiling her own story, found the buried stories of women whose numbers will shock you. 

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Guest: Amelia Oberhardt

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In Australia in the 1920s a 'murder wave' gripped the country, as the desperation of The Great Depression rippled through society.

Cases like The Human Glove, The Hammer Horror, The Park Demon, The Bungendore Bones, and most famously The Pyjama Girl, were splashed across tabloid headlines. At the same time a new age of methods and technologies were being rolled out to help investigate crimes that would've previously gone unsolved.

In NSW there was an elite group of hardened and cunning detectives who were tasked with solving all these crimes. They became known as The Murder Squad. 

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Guest: Michael Adams

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Last week, 33-year-old nurse Lucy Letby was found guilty of murdering seven newborns, and attempting to kill six others who were under her care in 2015 and 2016.

During her time in the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital in northwestern England, her colleagues noticed a significant rise in the number of babies dying and suffering serious collapses in the unit. 

Police and medical experts were called in for a large-scale investigation and discovered one common factor linking these occurrences: Lucy Letby. 

She's only the fourth woman in UK history to receive a whole-life sentence, earning her the title of Britain?s worst modern day child serial killer.

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Karen Bell met Gary Poxon in 1993. She was 17, he was 29. 

By 2008, the pair were living in an isolated farmhouse in Pericoe with their three children - Maddie, Jack and Bon. Their 15 year long relationship was filled with emotional and physical abuse, with multiple AVOs taken out against Gary to protect Karen. He faced charges more than once for assaulting her, but he'd never once hurt their kids. 

They were his trump card. Every time Karen tried to leave Gary he would withhold them. 'You can go,' he would tell her, 'but the kids stay with me.' It was an impossible position.

Eventually Karen fled, fearing for her life if she stayed. It would be the last time she ever saw her children alive.

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What little kid doesn?t want their Dad to take them to the shop and get them a kinder surprise?

That?s what Ramazan Acar told his ex partner Rachelle D?Argent in November 2010, when he turned up at her Melbourne home, breaking yet another intervention order that she had taken out against him. He just wanted to take his daughter to the little shop down the road and get her a treat.

But Yazmina Acar would never return from that trip with her dad. Angry and upset over his perception that he was being wronged by his ex, Acar took the innocent little girl, just a few days shy of her third birthday, and ran. What happened next will haunt Rachelle for the rest of her life.

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In January 2009, Darcey Freeman?s father, Arthur Freeman, was driving her to her first day of school when he acted out of revenge. He threw his four-year-old daughter off Melbourne?s 58-metre-high West Gate Bridge. Darcey?s mother, Peta Barnes never got the chance to say goodbye to her only daughter.

Today, we are joined by Megan Norris, the author of Look What You Made Me Do: Fathers Who Kill, to examine Peta?s story and how the system placed blame on everyone but the aggressive and abusive father.

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You can listen to our first-hand interview with Michelle Steck here.

In 1993, Michelle Steck lost her daughter Kelly at the hands of her former partner Kevin East. It was an horrific act classified as retaliatory filicide, when domestic violence perpetrators use their children to get back at their partners who dare to leave them. 

Today we're joined by Megan Norris, the author of Look What You Made Me Do: Fathers Who Kill, to examine Michelle's story and the systemic failures that left a vulnerable little girl at the mercy of her violent and abusive father.

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When Bevin and Brad Simmons went missing off the coast of the Cape York Peninsula in 2003, a massive air, land and sea search was launched to find the pair.

The operation covered a huge area but in the days and weeks that followed, no evidence was found. Not their boat, not a body, not even a piece of fishing gear that may have floated away if they'd capsized.

To this day, the final resting place of Bevin and Brad is unknown. But the story uncovered during the investigation - of an ongoing turf war between two rival fishing families, that seemingly took a fatal turn - would eventually lead to charges being laid.

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The notorious Whisky Au Go Go nightclub fire in Brisbane in 1973 left behind questions that remain unanswered to this day.

Who was really behind it, who was there that night, why did 15 people have to die and did it go beyond just criminal activity to include corrupt police too?

But the deaths of 15 people that night wouldn?t be the only ones linked to the blaze.

When the McCulkins, 34 year old Barbara, 13 year old Vicky and 11 year old Leanne went missing in 1974, the investigation into their disappearance would find very little.

But a confession from another criminal many years later, would send two men to jail and again cause the convictions around the Whiskey Au Go Go fire to be questioned. 

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The Whisky Au Go Go Fire is just as much a mystery today as it was in the hours after the tragedy that took the lives of 15 people in Fortitude Valley on March 8th 1973.

Police would start a major investigation that would drag in some of Brisbane?s most well known criminals, gangsters, bosses and violent offenders who had spent time together in jails over decades, creating networks and ties that spread down the coast into Sydney.

But the investigation would also expose police and political corruption, with a group of officers, who were on the take from those very criminals, potentially using this fire to help some club owners cash in.

Was it meant to escalate as it did? Were those 15 people meant to be victims or were they just in the wrong place at the wrong time with an arson attack that went far more successfully than the perpetrators planned?

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In 1992, career criminal Peter Gibb met prison guard Heather Parker while serving a 12-year sentence at the Melbourne Remand Centre. Heather claimed she didn?t notice Peter at first, but she quickly became smitten and their relationship developed from flirtatious to physical.

When their affair was exposed Heather was immediately transferred, with communication between the two forbidden. But they couldn?t be stopped, and with the help of another inmate acting as their middleman, the pair hatched a plan to break Peter out of prison. Their escape sparked one of Australia's largest criminal pursuits and saw Heather and Peter dubbed Australia?s Bonnie and Clyde.

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You can listen to our interview with a second victim or Dr Reeves here.

In the later months of 1995, 28-year-old Jayne Mansfield found herself in need of an obstetrician. She was pregnant with her first baby and, as most first-time mums do, she put her trust in the medical professional her GP had referred her to - a doctor named Graeme Reeves at The Hills Hospital in Sydney?s Baulkham Hills.

Throughout her pregnancy care, Jayne felt there was something not quite right about her doctor, but it wasn?t anything specific, nothing she could really put her finger on. And as far as she knew she was receiving expert care? who was she to question the methods of a doctor with the relevant qualifications and over a decade of experience?

In 1996, Jayne delivered her bouncing baby boy, and the unnerving memories of her obstetrician?s strange behaviours quickly disappeared in the busy haze of new parenthood. It would be years before she saw his face again, this time it was on the TV during the news, the words The Butcher Of Bega emblazoned under his image. 

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Listen to our interview with a survivor of the Butcher Of Bega here.

In 2011 gynaecologist Graeme Stephen Reeves was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm on one of his patients. A case that was just one of many allegations of heinous offences against his female patients, that dated back nearly two decades. 

Claims of assaults, molestation and mutilation plagued his career from the 90s, and in 1997 the NSW medical board banning Reeves from practising obstetrics. Despite that, he took a job in 2001 as a specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist for the Greater Southern Area Health Service, working unregistered in Bega and Pambula. 

When he was finally struck off the medical register in 2004, a trail of traumatised women were left in his wake, most too embarrassed or mortified to tell their stories. But the ones that did pushed for reform, so that no other women would ever go through what they had. 

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Pentecostalism has been practised in Australia since the 1920s. But it wasn?t until husband and wife team Brian and Bobby Houston launched Hillsong church in 1983 that Pentecostal Christianity really began to surge in popularity.  

From its humble beginnings in Sydney?s Baulkham Hills, by 2018 Hillsong had 80 branches in 21 countries. But after a spectacular and meteoric rise to international popularity, over the last several years Hillsong has been dogged by controversy. Allegations of fraud, coercive control, and abuse eroding its stronghold on Pentecostal believers. 

But what?s life actually like inside this megachurch? And what next for the followers who've been left disillusioned.

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Earlier this week, in an historic decision, the NSW attorney general made the extraordinary announcement that Kathleen Folbigg had been granted a pardon after 20 years in prison.

In 2003, Kathleen was sentenced to thirty years for the murders of three of her children and the manslaughter of a fourth. And while she always maintained her innocence, it wasn?t until a second inquiry into Kathleen's convictions, that new scientific developments led to revelations that three of her children could have died of natural causes.

As the dust settles from this week?s announcement, attention has turned to understanding the failures that put her in jail, the scientific advancements that freed her, and quashing her convictions once and for all. 

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The latest episode of her podcast, Motive & Method, saw Xanthe and her cohost interview Kathleen's best friend Tracy Chapman. Listen here.

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After 20 years behind bars, Kathleen Folbigg has been pardoned, and released from prison.

A landmark inquiry saw NSW?s top prosecutor accept there was reasonable doubt about her convictions over the deaths of her four children.

If you?re not aware or Kathleen?s story, you?re about to hear our episode with investigative journalist Jane Hansen who unpacked the forensic evidence that was to be examined in the inquiry. The evidence that has now led to Kathleen Folbigg?s freedom...

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In November, 1994, 16-year-old Gordana Kotevski was abducted while walking home from a local shopping centre in the Newcastle suburb of Charlestown.

Gordana was just moments from her aunt's front door when she was dragged into a white Toyota Hilux by two men, and never seen again. 

Her loved ones have spent years since her kidnapping in an unrelenting search for answers. But despite wide scale police searches and multiple eye-witness accounts, as well as ongoing public appeals and rewards, Gordana?s body has never been found.

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Listen to part two of this conversation with Nino, here. 

In the mid 90s, the Stoccos seemed like any other Aussie family. A mum and dad, Connie and Gino, and their two teenage kids, Mark and Christina.

But in 1997, the breakdown of this seemingly happy family marked the beginning of a dark new chapter for Gino of crime and violence. It was a path he wouldn?t walk alone though, as little by little, Gino?s son Mark, would join him in his offending. What started as stolen groceries or a fall out with an employer would manifest into serious lawlessness. The likes of which would see the pair listed amongst Australia?s most wanted criminals. 

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The murders of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in June 1970 were labelled the death of innocence in New Zealand, and would go on to become one of the country?s most infamous cold cases. 

In the immediate aftermath, a man named Arthur Allan Thomas was found guilty of the crime. His fate sealed by a piece of evidence so compelling that a jury had no doubt he was the killer. A piece of evidence that years later would be revealed to have been planted. 

Thomas was granted a royal pardon after serving nine years in prison. But the question of who really killed Harvey and Jeannette Crewe remains to this day.

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The phenomenon of stalking is as prolific as it is insidious. The breadth of quiet suffering perpetrators calculate and inflict on their subjects often leads to victims being completely unable to identify what?s happening to them, and to seek help.

Journalist Nicole Madigan was stalked by a woman she barely knew for three years. Her experience led her to investigate the power, fixation and control that drives stalkers, and the havoc they wreak on the lives of their victims. 

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Michelle Burgess is one of Australia?s most infamous ?black widows? - a term given to female psychopaths who either kill or organise other men to kill other men.

In 2001, Michelle plotted two murders. The targets were her husband Darren, and a woman named Carolyn Matthews - a mother of three whose husband Kevin had become involved in an affair with Michelle.

While Michelle & Kevin would only see through one half of this twisted plan before they were stopped, they would eventually be served with two of the longest non-parole periods in South Australia's history.

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In 2010, 52-year-old Des Campbell was found guilty of murdering his wife Janet Fisicaro. The pair had only been married six months when they embarked on a camping trip in the Royal National Park, south of Sydney. A trip that sadly only Des would survive. 

Initially he would tell police that Janet had fallen from a 50-metre cliff, but investigators would soon come to realise that the 49-year-old hadn?t fallen at all? she?d been pushed.

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You can hear his previous episode of True Crime Conversations about Melbourne's Brownout Strangler here.

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In January 2016, 49-year-old Karen Chetcuti was viscously attacked on her property in Whorouly, a rural town in north-eastern Victoria.

What happened to Karen at the hands of her neighbour, Michael Cardamone, was described as so unfeeling, so excessive and sadistically executed that those prosecuting him worked to make sure that Michael would never walk freely amongst the community again. 

The Chetcuti family?s lawyer, John Suta, joins us today to discuss the investigation and legal proceedings that eventually saw Karen's killer put behind bars for the rest of his life.

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In the early 1990s, 21-year-old Paul Denyer terrorised the Victorian suburb of Frankston. He preyed on the local women; stalking, abducting and eventually murdering three young victims.

Their names were Elizabeth Stevens, Deborah Fream and Natalie Russell.

But after three decades behind bars, a parole board in Victoria must now consider an application to free the man behind what became known as the Frankston Murders.

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