The Assassination of Colin Winchester... Colin Winchester was the Assistant Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police and the commander of the ACT police force. When he was assassinated in his driveway in the summer of 1989, the nation was sent into a state of shock. These feelings were taken over by anger as the investigation dragged on, u ...…

Neddy Smith Special Edition... Neddy Smith is one of Australia's most infamous and feared criminals. Partnering with the likes of other underworld figures, including Graham “Abo” Henry and Christopher “Mr Rent-a-kill” Flannery, Neddy tore through Sydney's underworld in the 1970's and 80's. Robbing, raping, selling heroin and murdering with near ...…

Motivated To Death and Dino the Sunshine Boy... In 2009, motivational speaker and self-help author Jeffrey Locker was stabbed to death in his car in East Harlem. What initially seemed to be a robbery gone wrong turned out to be something far more complicated. Dino “The Sunshine Boy” Dibra was a violent thug by the age of 12, jailed by 19, a rut ...…

The Headmistress and the Millionaire Doctor and The Burning of Mary Channing... In 1980, Jean Harris, the headmistress of the prestigious Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, made national headlines after the murder of her lover Dr. Herman Tarnower, a wealthy cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Scarsdale Diet. Mary Cha ...…

Sexy Sadistic Slayer Sheila LaBarre with Kate Wallinga from Ignorance Was Bliss... Diagnosed as acutely delusional and sadistic, rabbit-loving Sheila LaBarre murdered at least two of her boyfriends, Michael Deloge and Kenneth Countie, on her remote farm in Epping, New Hampshire. She said she had died of a drug overdose and was sent back to Eart ...…

Jill Coit’s Deadly Deception and The Dominos Pizza Murder Spree... In October 1993, 52-year-old hardware store owner Gerald Boggs was found murdered in his Steamboat Springs, Colorado home. Suspicion soon fell on his former wife, Jill Coit, a con artist and serial bigamist who had been married nearly a dozen times. Investigators would reveal Ge ...…

The Many Dead Wives Of Robert Spangler and Crappy Kidnapper Edwin Eastwood... Robert Spangler loved hiking in the Grand Canyon. He also loved being married. What he didn't like was the pesky financial burden of divorce. After the 1990 death of his third wife Donna, whilst hiking in the Grand Canyon, investigators were alarmed to discover his wi ...…

Diabolical Doctor Anthony Pignataro and Emma LaDoux and Her Hat Of Doom... In the late 1990’s Anthony Pignataro was a big-shot plastic surgeon in New York. He drove around in his red Lamborghini and gained international fame for inventing a “Snap on” hairpiece that connected to bolts he drilled into the skulls of bald men. His image was shatter ...…

The Removal Revelation: The Ron and Dan Lafferty Story... On July 24th, 1984, bearded brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, radicalised by extreme Mormon beliefs and convinced they were prophets from God, forced their way into a duplex in American Fork, Utah. Here they brutally killed their brother's wife Brenda Lafferty and infant daughter Erica, bel ...…

The Green Widow and The Maitland Double Headless Murders... Realising she’d be better off financially as a widow than a divorcee, Mary Ellen Samuels orchestrated the murder of her husband, Hollywood camera operator Robert Samuels. Then to cover her tracks, she organised the murder of the man who she paid to have her husband killed, her daughter ...…

The Pettingill Family - The True Animal Kingdom... The phenomenal Australian crime film “Animal Kingdom” is one of our favourites but did you know it’s based on a true story? Ruled by murderous matriarch Kath, the notorious Pettingill family dominated the Melbourne Underworld in the 1970’s and 80’s. They were drug dealers, armed robbers, rapist ...…

Bushrangers the Kenniff Brothers and Deadly Grandmother Caroline Grills... Paddy and Jimmy Kenniff were cattle-duffers, pony-pinchers and general rabble rousers. They were the last of the great Australian bushrangers. Roaming the land fully armed and living in caves in country Queensland, in the early 1900s. They would come undone due to the br ...…

Evil Thomas Halliday and The Murder Of Rhoni Reuter... In early March 2006, mother of three, Shelley Stephenson vanished from Mildura in northern Victoria, Australia. Suspicion fell upon her ex-partner Thomas Halliday, who had a history of brutal and stalkerish behaviour. What followed was an amazing police investigation and court case, that yi ...…

The Identity Theft Murder and Little Tommy the Gun... Sienky Lallemand was a career conman who used his good looks and charm to take advantage of people. He not only slept with Marcus Toney's wife, but also stole his identity and murdered him. This story has everything: blackmail, Whitney Houston impersonators, pipe-bombs and face-altering plas ...…

Bloody Murder on True Crime Christmas Island!... This is an ad-free bonus Christmas episode that we recorded with our good mate Cambo! On this yuletide special, we’ll be talking about a horrendous Christmas massacre that happened in Covina and a bunch of ridiculous Chrissy crimes from all around the world. As always, we had a blast recording wi ...…

The Pied Piper of Tucson and The Ballad of Justin Cox... Serial killer Charles Howard Schmid Jr was a bizarre young man who dyed his hair black and tanned his face with make up. He drew a mole on his cheek to look meaner and stuffed his boots full of tins cans and rags in an attempt to disguise his tiny stature. He was also an unlikely cult her ...…

The Michael Kanaan Story - Special Edition... To celebrate our 100th Episode we’ve joined forces with Cambo Ford to bring you Bloody Murder on True Crime Island: The Michael Kanaan Story! Michael Kanaan is an Australian triple murderer from Sydney. He was second in charge of the notorious gang DK’s Boys who controlled the cocaine trade in Kings ...…

The Vampire of Paris and Gangster Chow Hayes... Nicolas Claux was a blood-drinking, cannibalistic hospital worker whose hobbies included desecrating graves and worshipping Satan. Nicknamed "The Vampire of Paris," this death-obsessed ghoul decided to kill someone, because…well it fit his image. Chow Hayes was a violent, sadistic standover man, a ...…

Murderous Mary and the Vanishing of Paddy Moriarty... Described as a woman with "lovely russet hair, fine blue eyes, of normal build, with nice shapely hands" Mary Pearcey was a rather unconventional English woman who was convicted of murdering her lover's wife and child. She was sentenced to dangle on the end of a noose for her crimes. This is ...…

Bloody Babs and You Me Car Park Now!... Nicknamed "Bloody Babs" by the press, vamp from the wrong side of the tracks, Barbra Graham had multiple convictions for disorderly conduct, vagrancy, suspicion of prostitution and perjury by her early twenties. In 1953, she stepped it up a notch when she and her no-good boyfriend murdered 64-year-old wid ...…

The Killer Bride and Take my Last Beers and I'll Kill You... Ashley Laney and Tracey Humphrey were married on the 4th of July, 2003. The next day, Ashley murdered Tracey’s ex-girlfriend Sandra Rosso, who was due to go to court to testify against him in an assault case. Did Ashley commit this murder of her own accord, or was she just a puppet fo ...…

The Lies of Teri Deneka and The Chicken Millionaire... Divorced father of two Don Huckstep thought he’d met the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with on match.com. But as his wedding to Teri Deneka grew closer, he discovered the woman of his dreams wasn’t just a pathological liar, she was also a murderer. In January, 2008 chicken m ...…

The Sinister Minister and The Mad Scientist... Pennsylvania Pastor AB Schirmer’s wives had an unfortunate habit of dying suddenly in - rather ridiculous circumstances. Due to his stature, nobody thought to be suspicious of their deaths. But after the suicide of his mistress Cindy Musante’s husband, everything started to come undone for the Sini ...…

The Abduction of Stephanie Slater and Murder by the River Lark... Michael Sams was a one legged rapist, murderer and piss-poor extortion artist. After he abducted real estate agent Stephanie Slater, the police thought she was dead for sure, but she courageously managed to survive 8 days in his captivity. In 2005, the small village of Fornham St ...…

The Friendship of Mariette Bosch and When Patrick Crowe met Christopher Brilliantes... Wealthy South African woman Mariette Bosch was a having an affair with her best friend Ria Wolmarans' husband Tienie. Impatient for him to leave her, Mariette murdered Ria so she and Tienie could live happily ever after...but did they? Patrick Crowe was a you ...…

The Millionaire, the Architect and the Chorus Girl and The Boob Butts Boob Murder... Harry Thaw was an entitled sadist who abused his wife Evelyn Nesbit and believed a famous architect named Stanford White was the cause of all the issues in his life. After murdering Stanford, Harry expected he'd hailed as a hero – and due to a huge media campai ...…

Australian Gothic - The Murder of Angelo Agostinelli... In May 1994, caravan park owner Angelo Agostinelli went missing from the small town of Millicent in South Australia. The gossip around town was that he'd run off with another woman, but as days turned into weeks an intricate murder conspiracy unfolded. Angelo's disappearance sent the commu ...…

The Quiet Dell Murders and Two Home Invasions in West Sydney... Herman Drenth was a vile pig of a man with several aliases who trotted his way into women’s lives through lonely hearts club letters that were made of lies. Once under his spell, he not only robbed them of everything they had but sometimes murdered them and their children. A violen ...…

The Absurdly Motivated Murder of Joey Fisher and The Stalking Murder of Adriana Donato... Surgeons wife and mother of 5 Dora Cisneros was very upset that her 17-year-old daughter Christina's boyfriend Joey Fischer had broken up with her. When nagging Joey to get back with Christina and even offering to bribe him to do so failed, Dora decided to ...…

The Latex Catsuit Murder and The kidnapping of Peter Aston and Terry Ryan... Édouard Stern was a millionaire French banker who had received many death threats due to his business dealings and links to the Russian mafia. On March 1st 2005, he was found shot dead in his apartment in Geneva, Switzerland, wearing a head-to-toe latex catsuit. Out of ...…

The Hunter Killer Club and The Gun Alley Murder of 1921... Florida couple Deidre Hunt and her boss/lover Konstantinos Fotopoulos committed the shooting murders of two men. One of which was supposed to kill Fotopoulos' wife so they could get the insurance money and the other who threatened to blab to the authorities about a counterfeit money sch ...…

The Watery Graves of Tom and Jackie Hawks and Two Time Murderer Anthony Sullivan... Loving couple Tom and Jackie Hawks had retired early to live an adventurous life on the sea in their boat "the Well Deserved." After the birth of their first grandchild they decided to move to Arizona. Failed child actor Skylar Deleon and his wife answered an ad ...…

The Murders of Denise Huber and Tosha Thakkar... 23–year–old Denise Huber went missing in the early hours of June 3rd, 1991, after attending a Morrisey concert. It would take three years and a strange series of events before her family would discover what had happened to her and how she ended up in John Famalaro's freezer. Daniel Stani-Reginald ...…

The Murders of Ramon Navarro and Alan Henry... Talented actor Ramon Novarro was a big star in Hollywood during the silent era. His career faded over the years, but he still enjoyed entertaining young male escorts with stories of his time in the spotlight. This is how he met hustlers the Ferguson brothers, who would end his life during an alcoho ...…

The Murders of Aaron Pajich and Matthew Digby... Vile goblins Jemma Lilley and her house mate Trudi Lenon had a selfish and stupid plan to make history as serial killers. Their first and only victim was Aaron Pajich, a trusting 18 year old computer game enthusiast with Asperger's syndrome, who was friends with Trudi's son. After Lauren Batcheld ...…

Spree Killer Carl Brown and the Murder of Joseph Durrant... 51 year old Carl Robert Brown was a High School teacher who refused to seek help for his deteriorating mental health. After being put on forced leave to seek psychiatric counselling, he massacred eight people in a Miami, Florida welding shop and headed towards the school, loaded with g ...…

The Murders of Sophie Lionnet and Senior Constable David Rixon... 21 year old Sophie Lionnet was a shy and reserved French woman working as a nanny in the UK. Her delusional employer Sabrina Kouider, believed Sophie was colluding with her ex Mark Walton, a founding member of Irish boyband Boyzone, to drug and sexually assault her family, so the ...…

Sick Ripper William Howell and The murders of Michelle Lewis and Kenny Harris... William Devin Howell is the most prolific serial killer in Connecticut history. He murdered 7 people in his van "the murder mobile" and buried them behind a shopping centre in a marshy woodland area he called "his garden." Cheeky tomboy Michelle Lewis and disabled ...…

Rakesh Bhayani and Nicholas Vernage... Rakesh Bhayani claims he started gambling when he was 8 years old, playing the slot machines at fairgrounds. By the time he was in his late 30's his epic gambling addiction was dangerously out of control and he would go to any length to support it - even murder. Nicholas Vernage was a career criminal who s ...…

William Beggs and Rodney Collins... William Beggs is the so called "limbs in the loch murderer." This case became one of Scotland's most high profile and gruesome murder investigations after a police diver on a routine training exercise found a bin bag containing a severed forearm and leg. Rodney Collins was one of Australia’s most prolific hit ...…

Pierre Basson and Dennis Bagwell... Pierre Basson was South Africa's first documented serial killer. His lack of empathy made him a very dangerous man. He was described by police as 'a scoundrel from infancy' due to his violence towards animals and later graduated to murdering innocent people for insurance money. Former meat salesman Dennis Bag ...…

Lenny McPherson Special Edition with Cambo from True Crime Island... Cambo from True Crime Island joins forces with Tara and Barney to discuss one of the most powerful and scary Australian career criminals of all time; Lenny McPherson. Lenny controlled much of Sydney's organised crime activity from the 1950's right into the mid 1990's and has b ...…

Judy Buenoano and Donald Webb... Judy Buenoano was a stone cold, psychopathic serial killer who murdered her son and several lovers for insurance money. Although she favoured poison as a weapon, she wasn't afraid to branch out and try other rather dramatic methods. Donald Webb was a mob connected, slippery bastard. Police described him as "an i ...…

Richard Beasley and Daniel Camargo Barbosa... Serial killer Richard Beasley always had a racket going on, including selling drugs, making moonshine or pimping out down on their luck women. He came up with the idea to use Craigslist to lure unemployed, middle aged men to him by promising them the job of a lifetime. Then he'd kill them, rob them ...…

Dorothea Kraft and The Berrima Axe Murderer John Lynch... Widow Dorothea Kraft had a tough time trying to raise her daughter on a failing farm in the early 1900's in South Africa. After relying on the kindness of strangers backfired horribly and threatened to leave her homeless she felt she had no choice but to turn to murder. John Lynch, nasty ...…

Cleophus Prince Jr and Bold Jack Donohue... Cleophus Prince Jr. raped and killed 6 women in San Diego in 1990. Most of the attacks took place in or around the apartment complex in Clairemont where he and his girlfriend lived. He would stalk the women - usually after seeing them at the gym, break in to their homes during the day and attack them ...…

Harold Landry and Ann Marie Anastasi... Cajun millionaire Harold Landry murdered his much-younger wife by stabbing her 23 times outside their English manor. He claimed it wasn't murder because she had been provoking him but a violent incident in his past proved he always felt his brutality was justified. A strange living arrangement saw Ann Mar ...…

Dean Faiello and Peter Shoobridge... New Yorker Dean Faiello was a self-obsessed laser hair removalist who liked to big-note himself and increase his income by pretending to be a doctor. Despite being prosecuted and having to stop treating people as a condition of his parole, he secretly continued to do so and the consequences were devastating. ...…

Gary Evans and Malcolm Clarke... Gary Charles Evans was a serial killer, escape artist and burglar who specialised in stealing antique furniture and jewellery. His accomplices on the robberies were his closest friends but they had a nasty habit of "going to California" never to be seen again. For over twenty years police believed the death of s ...…

The Maurizio Gucci Murder and The Kane Brothers... When former head of the Gucci fashion empire, Maurizio Gucci was gunned down on a spring morning in 1997, suspicions initially fell on his volatile and litigious family whom he'd out manoeuvred to get control of the company. However his bitter and dramatic ex-wife Patrizia was also a suspect. S ...…