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Forgotten Australia

True crimes, dark histories, unsolved mysteries, eccentric personalities and strange happenings: Forgotten Australia is history as you've never heard it before. Each episode brings to life people and ... Read more

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The Masked Murderer

The Masked Murderer

On a Saturday night in June 1928 a masked gunman shot and killed sisters Esther Vaughan and Sarah Falvey in the lolly sh... Read more

4 Aug 2019

59mins

Ranked #2

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The Body On The Train

The Body On The Train

In 1919 Australia was baffled by a real-life mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes when the body of a young man was discover... Read more

26 Oct 2019

59mins

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Tracker Riley: Outback Hero — Part One

Tracker Riley: Outback Hero — Part One

For nearly 40 years, Aboriginal tracker Alexander Riley chased down thieves, fugitives and murderers in outback NSW — an... Read more

28 Dec 2019

47mins

Ranked #4

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The Mystery of Marjorie Norval

The Mystery of Marjorie Norval

It was the Teacher’s Pet-style mystery that gripped Australia 80 years ago. Brisbane socialite Marjorie Norval disappear... Read more

12 Dec 2018

46mins

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Murder On The Dance Floor: Part One

Murder On The Dance Floor: Part One

In 1925 beautiful young Audrey Campbell Jacob shot a young man dead in front of hundreds of revellers during a charity d... Read more

29 Jun 2019

47mins

Ranked #6

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Sole Survivor

Sole Survivor

In June 1946 a crew of four sailing the ketch Nova down the New South Wales coast vanished with their boat in bad weathe... Read more

29 Sep 2019

52mins

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The Murderous Mrs Mitchell — Part One

The Murderous Mrs Mitchell — Part One

She dropped a headless torso into the Yarra River and shot her ex-husband full of holes — and these were just two of the... Read more

11 Mar 2019

47mins

Ranked #8

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The Model & The Murder Case — Part Two

The Model & The Murder Case — Part Two

In 1954 popular Sydney model Shirley Beiger went on trial for the shooting murder of her boyfriend, with the already sen... Read more

12 Oct 2019

56mins

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Mr White and the Walwa Murder Mystery

Mr White and the Walwa Murder Mystery

This 1939 case seemed ripped from the pages of a detective novel — and may even have been inspired by one. There was the... Read more

4 Apr 2019

43mins

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Side Note: From Model To Movie Star

Side Note: From Model To Movie Star

In the mid-1950s, Jeanette Elphick, an Australian model known as "The Face", reinvented herself as Hollywood movie star ... Read more

19 Oct 2019

40mins

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Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part One

Australia's Most Vicious Gunman: Part One

Charismatic crook and killer James Robert Walker pretty much wrote the playbook that Mark “Chopper” Read would later fol... Read more

16 Jun 2019

37mins

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The Model & The Murder Case — Part One

The Model & The Murder Case — Part One

In 1954 glamorous Sydney model Shirley Beiger shot her lover dead outside a Sydney nightclub. But why did she kill him —... Read more

6 Oct 2019

37mins

Ranked #13

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Unfriendly Fire: The Murder Of Cathy Wayne

Unfriendly Fire: The Murder Of Cathy Wayne

Just hours before Apollo 11 landed on the moon on 20 July 1969, young Australian pop star Cathy Wayne was shot dead on s... Read more

14 Jul 2019

42mins

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Australia's First Supermodel — Part Two

Australia's First Supermodel — Part Two

Having achieved fame as a fashion model in Paris and London by 1935, Margaret Vyner set her sights on the movies — findi... Read more

7 Feb 2020

49mins

Ranked #15

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The Botanic Gardens Massacre

The Botanic Gardens Massacre

While the random mass shooting that inspires a further murder spree seems a very modern and very American phenomenon, th... Read more

5 Dec 2018

35mins

Ranked #16

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The Comic Book Killer

The Comic Book Killer

From 1946 Sydney’s Leonard Lawson was a hero to kids for creating the comic book The Lone Avenger. But in reality the yo... Read more

19 Dec 2018

37mins

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