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  • The Phillip Island Murder

    The discovery of the body of Beth Barnard in her Phillip Island farmhouse in 1986, began a homicide investigation that rocked a peaceful community.It also created an enduring mystery, for no one was ever brought to trial for her brutal death, and the main suspect disappeared - never to be seen again.Beth Barnard, a popular and attractive 23-year-old, had been having an affair with a local married ... Read more

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  • The Frankston Murders

    25 Years On

    Twenty-five years ago, serial killer Paul Denyer terrorised the bayside suburb of Frankston.Twenty-five years later, the trauma of his seven-week killing spree still haunts the community.The spate of murders in 1993 touched many more lives than just the three victims.All of Melbourne was gripped with fear, as Frankston and surrounding suburbs were flooded with police hunting the serial killer of ... Read more

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  • Police Stories

    Compelling True Stories from the Frontline of Australia's Police

    From the bizarre to the brutal to the unbelievable, truth is often stranger than fiction, as these fascinating stories testify.Vikki Petraitis has spent hundreds of hours interviewing police - sometimes even accompanying them on active duty - to complete this collection of stories from the frontline of policing. Police officers from many fields have shared some of their best stories: the ones that ... Read more

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  • The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron

    Forty Years Searching for the Phillip Island Murderer

    A murdered young woman; a missing wife; a forty-year mystery.In 1986 on Phillip Island, a young woman called Beth Barnard was savagely murdered and her boyfriend’s wife, Vivienne Cameron, went missing. The police immediately jumped to what they thought was the obvious conclusion: in a jealous rage, Vivienne had killed Beth and then herself. Vivienne’s body was never found.But Vikki Petraitis wasn ... Read more

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  • The Crime Scene Examiner

    Series series Crime Shots
    Forensic evidence is known as the 'silent witness'. Crime scene examiners make the silent witness speak.Sergeant Trevor Evans has been a crime scene examiner for 17 years, and worked the notorious case of murdered baby Jaidyn Leskie in Moe. He also examined the scene of the intriguing, still-unsolved murder of Jane Thurgood-Dove, a mother gunned down in the driveway of her home in Niddrie.Evans ... Read more

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  • Forensics

    True Stories from Australian Police Files

    A fingerprint, DNA screening, strange indentations, and scratches. These are the things that can crack a case that seems impossible to solve.Vikki Petraitis has interviewed police from Australian forensics, fingerprints, homicide and criminal investigation units, resulting in stories such as the woman who drugged and robbed lonely, vulnerable men, the forensic evidence that found the killer of ... Read more

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  • Inside the Law

    25 Years of True Crime Writing

    Vikki Petraitis took to writing true crime because, unlike crime fiction, it was so raw and it told the story of real people, real grief, real loss, real horror.A school teacher by day, Vikki had no idea that writing one book about one unsolved murder would give her a second career that has run alongside her chosen profession for 25 years.She has researched, investigated and written about real ... Read more

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  • Remembering Things Past

    Series series Crime Shots
    In the early 1950s, Rod Braybon's father died, leaving his mother with eight children she couldn't care for.As a ward of the state, Rod ended up at the notorious Bayswater Boys' Home, run by the Salvation Army, near Melbourne.Rod endured years of ill-treatment at the hands of the Salvation Army, then spent a life-time repressing the memories that haunted him.Finally, after seeing an article in a ... Read more

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  • Pandora's Box

    Series series Crime Shots
    In 1996 a neighbour spies three Asian men running out of a court in Glen Waverley. It looks like two chasing one. But when they head towards a nearby car with an open boot, and suddenly the boot closes and there are only two men standing there, the chase takes on a more sinister aspect.Young Steve Tragardh joined the police force when he was 18 and a half; he'd tried uni for a while, but it wasn't ... Read more

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  • The Russell Street Bombing

    Series series Crime Shots
    In 1986 a bomb went off outside the main police headquarters in Russell Street Melbourne.The Russell Street Bombing looks at the consequences of this shocking act of violence from the point of view of an entire city, the police force that was targeted, and in particular one 19-year-old victim.Welcome to Crime Shots - short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present. ... Read more

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  • Once a Copper

    The Life and Times of Brian 'The Skull' Murphy

    Once a copper, always a copper. At least that's how it seems for Brian 'The Skull' Murphy, long-retired but sought out by a trail of journalists and cops who regularly beat a path to his door. Once known as Australia's toughest cop, The Skull was both charged with manslaughter (and acquitted), then awarded a Valour Award for bravery in the line of duty. It is these two sides to the complex man ... Read more

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  • The Dog Squad

    Brilliant and heroic, the police dogs and handlers of the Dog Squad put themselves on the front line every day to fight crime and keep citizens safe.Meet Ruger, the go-get-'em police dog that bit through a couch to catch a cat burglar, and Butch, the courageous dog that put its life on the line to take down a man armed with a knife. There's Michelle, the police detective turned Dog Squad handler, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD