List of Australian crime podcasts
This is a list of Australian crime podcasts. Podcasting, and in particular true-crime related podcasts which deal primarily with serial murders, kidnappings, disappearances, and unsolved crimes, became popular as a media format in Australia from 2016. While some podcasts are privately produced, many are created by investigative journalists within media outlets such as The Daily Telegraph, The Australian, ABC, or SBS. Most detail individual cases across a short series of episodes (e.g. Cop Tales at 1 episode) while others (e.g. Australian True Crime Podcast) issue individual, or sometimes serial, episodes on different cases every week.
Most podcasts act to provide background detail on already well known cases (e.g. A Perfect Storm and the Chamberlain case) while also updating cases for recent developments, investigations, or trials (e.g. Claremont: The Trial). Others, particularly with cold cases, make appeals to the public for information (e.g. The Alibi).[1] Some have also been criticised as potentially complicating, or compromising, ongoing police investigations (e.g. The Teacher's Pet).[2] Some shows have become well known internationally (e.g. Casefile True Crime Podcast) and others have gone on to provoke significant breakthroughs (e.g. Trace, which in 2019 prompted the parliament of Victoria to change legislation, which allowed the state coroner to then commence a new inquest into the Maria James murder case[3][4]).
List
Podcast | Year | Topic/person covered | Host | Produced by | Ref |
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A Perfect Storm | 2019–2020 | Azaria Chamberlain | John Buck | Seven West Media | [5] |
All Aussie Mystery Hour | 2018-present | ||||
Annette: Cold Case Unlocked | 2019 | Annette Deverell | Carla Hildebrandt | Australian Community Media | [6] |
Australian True Crime Podcast | 2017–present | various | Meshel Laurie; Emily Webb | Australian True Crime Podcast | [7] |
Bad Detective: The Rogerson Files | 2016 | Roger Rogerson | Mark Morri | The Daily Telegraph | [8] |
Beenham Valley Road | 2019 | Kirra McLoughlin | Tom Daunt; Jamie Pultz | Six10 Media | [9][10] |
Birds Eye View | 2020 | Darwin Correctional Centre inmates | StoryProjects | [11] | |
Bloody Murder | 2017-present | various | Tara Sabian; Barney Black | Bloody Murder Podcast | [12] |
Bowraville | 2016 | Bowraville murders | Dan Box | The Australian | [13] |
Casefile True Crime Podcast | 2016–present | various | Anonymous | Casefile Presents | [14] |
Chasing Charlie | 2020 | Paul Bryan Gill | Julia Robson | [15] | |
Claremont Serial Killings | |||||
Claremont: The Trial | 2019–present | Claremont serial killings | Natalie Bonjolo; Tim Clarke; Alison Fan; Kate Ryan | The West Australian | [16] |
Cop That | Six10 Media | ||||
Cop Tales | 2016 | Ross Edwards | Mark Morri | The Daily Telegraph | [17] |
Dead Bodies | |||||
Eight Minutes | 2018 | David Breckenridge | Nicole Hogan | The Daily Telegraph | [18] |
Felon True Crime Podcast | 2016–2018 | various | (not stated) | Felon | [19] |
Frozen Lies | 2019 | Derrance Stevenson | Debi Marshall | Foxtel | [20] |
Gate Crash | 2018 | Nathan Garriock | Nicole Hogan | The Daily Telegraph | [21] |
Gone Girl: Abduction at the beach | 2016 | Cheryl Grimmer | Mark Morri | The Daily Telegraph | [22] |
How I Survived | 2018–present | various | Beth Young | Pacific Podcast Network | [23] |
I Catch Killers | 2020 | various | Gary Jubelin | True Crime Podcasts | [24] |
Investigates | 2018–2020 | various | Pacific Podcast Network | [25] | |
I Swear I Never | |||||
Life and Crimes | 2017; 2018–present | various | Andrew Rule | Sunday Herald Sun | [26] |
Little Boy Lost | 2017 | William Tyrell | Lia Harris | The Daily Telegraph | [27] |
Little Girl Lost | 2017 | Leanne Holland | (not stated) | 7 News | [28] |
Lost in Larrimah | 2018 | Paddy Moriarty | Kylie Stevenson; Caroline Graham | The Australian | [29] |
Lost in Sydney | 2018 | various | Jake McCallum | NewsLocal | [30] |
Monster Trial: Ivan Milat | 2019 | Ivan Milat | The Daily Telegraph | [31] | |
Monsters Who Murder | 2018-present | various | Amanda Howard; Robert McKnight | Monsters Who Murder | [32] |
Murder Archives | 2018-2019 | various | Emma Curtin; Simon Curtain | [33] | |
Murder Down Under | 2017-2018 | various | Dork Team (Benjamin Latter; Neah Dawn) | [34] | |
Murder in the Land of Oz | 2018=-present | various | Jessica Kate; Ellen Rose | That's Not Canon Productions | [35] |
Murderlaide: City of Churches | 2019–present | various | Ann | [36] | |
Naked City | |||||
Pendulum | 2019 | Margaret Kirstenfeldt | Paula Doneman | 7 News | [37] |
Phoebe's Fall | 2016; 2018 | Phoebe Handsjuk | Michael Bachelard; Richard Baker | The Age; The Sydney Morning Herald | [38] |
Police Tape | 2019 | various | various | True Crime Australia | [39] |
Predator | 2019 | Leonard John Fraser | Michelle Gately | The Morning Bulletin | [40] |
Problem Child | 2019 | Keli Lane | Wicked Crime Podcast | [41] | |
Ron Iddles: The Good Cop | 2019 | Ron Iddles | Foxtel | [42] | |
Ron Iddles: The Ricky Balcombe Murder | |||||
SBS True Stories (series 3) | 2016 | George Duncan; The Family Murders | Mark Whittaker | SBS | [43] |
Searching For Rachel Antonio | 2016 | Rachel Antonio | David Murray | The Courier-Mail | [44] |
Silent Waves | 2019 | Raquel O’Brien | Raquel O’Brien | Casefile Presents | [45] |
Spear Creek | 2019 | Mount Isa Murders | The Courier-Mail | [46] | |
The Alibi | 2015; 2019 | Denise Govendir; Eva Webel | Yoni Bashan; Claire Harvey | The Sunday Telegraph | [47][48] |
The Disappearance of Des | 2019 | Desmond Carr | Missing Persons Podcast Network | [49] | |
The Lady Vanishes | 2019 | Marion Barter | Bryan Seymour | 7 News | [50] |
The Last Voyage of the Pong Su | 2019 | Pong Su incident | The Age; The Sydney Morning Herald | [51] | |
The Lighthouse | 2019 | Theo Hayez | David Murray | The Australian | [52] |
The Missing | 2019 | various | Meni Caroutas | Podular | [53] |
The Rock Star & The Nanny | 2019–2020 | Penny Hill | Mary-Ann Harris | Pacific Podcast Network | [54] |
The Teacher's Pet | 2018 | Lynette Dawson | Hedley Thomas | The Australian | [55][2] |
Trace | 2017–2018 | Maria James | Rachael Brown | ABC | [56] |
True Blue Crime | 2019–present | various | Shaun; Chloe | True Blue Crime | [57] |
True Crime Conversations | 2019–present | various | Jessie Stephens | MamaM!a | [58] |
True Crime Down Under | |||||
True Crime Island | 2016-present | various | Cambo | True Crime Island | [59] |
True Crime Sisters | 2017-2019 | various | “Harry”; “Bill” | True Crime Sisters Podcast | [60] |
True Crime Story Time | 2017–present | various | Casey; Samantha | True Crime Story Time | [61] |
Understate: Lucille Butterworth | |||||
Unravel True Crime (4 series) | 2018–2019 | Mark Haines; Trudie Adams; Belinda Peisley; Lezlie Manukian | Allan Clarke; Ruby Jones; Gina McKeon; Ollie Wards | ABC | [62][63] |
Unspeakable: Understanding sexual crime | 2017 | Sexual offence reporting | (not stated) | Victoria Police | [64] |
Warlord | 2016 | Farhad Qaumi; Brothers for Life | Claire Harvey; Yoni Bashan | The Sunday Telegraph | [65] |
What happened to Zac? | 2019 | Zac Barnes | Nova | [66] | |
Where's William Tyrell? | 2019–2020 | William Tyrell | Lia Harris; Natarsha Belling | TenSpeaks | [67] |
Who Killed Leanne Holland? | [68] | ||||
Who The Hell Is Hamish? | 2019 | Hamish Watson | Greg Bearup | The Australian | [69] |
Wrong Skin | 2018–2019 | Julie Buck; Richard Milgin | Richard Baker | The Age; The Sydney Morning Herald | [70] |
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