2005

S1.E1 ∙ No More Grannies/The Granny Killer

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Elderly women found on the ground with blood around their heads are initially assumed to have fallen. After they are picked up by ambulance, kindly neighbors clean up the scenes, eliminating crucial forensic evidence. Newspapers coin the term "The Granny Killer" for the man who stalks and bludgeons unsuspecting women in broad daylight near their homes. Police have almost no clues until one woman survives an attack and is able to provide a description. Once they do charge a suspect, will he be able to convince a jury that he MUST be crazy to do such things?

7.6 /10

S1.E2 ∙ Kid for Ransom/Tears for Daniel

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

In the late 1980s and early 1990's a series of violent murders took place near Sydney's famous Bondi Beach. Three innocent men were attacked and thrown to their deaths from a cliff top. The murders were part of a much wider wave of violent hate crimes as gangs of youths roamed Sydney's inner suburbs randomly bashing and killing gay men for sport.

7.8 /10

S1.E3 ∙ Death in a Heartbeat/The Body in the Bag

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

CI examines the Dr. Victor Chang extortion murder as well as the horrific Jane Doe's case where a girl is found lying on the side of the road of an inner Sydney suburb, wrapped in two plastic garbage bags.

7.2 /10

S1.E4 ∙ Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Murders

Mon, Sep 24, 2007

A brutality which left Australia on the map. Seven lives justify the sole conviction of Australia's worst serial killer; but strong evidence suggests he didn't act alone.

7.3 /10

S1.E5 ∙ Contract to Kill/The Mornington Monster

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Rodney Francis Cameron was dubbed 'The Lonely Hearts Killer' after he used a radio match-making program in 1990 to lure an unsuspecting woman to her death. Incredibly, he had only just been released from prison for two other killings in 1974. Cameron's psychopathic tendencies appeared early in his life. At the age of ten, he tried to strangle a young girl.

7.8 /10

S1.E6 ∙ The Moorhouse Horrors/The Call Girl Killing

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

We investigate the story of David and Catherine Birnie, Australia's most sadistic husband and wife killing team who tortured, raped and murdered four women in 1986. We also look into the murder of Call Girl Roslyn Watson which had remained unsolved for more than 15 years and would have stayed that way if it wasn't for the tenacious efforts of a bright young Western Australian Police Detective.

7.5 /10

S1.E7 ∙ The Killer Punch/The Will of Death

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

On the evening of October 19, 1990, the flamboyantly gay Sydney socialite Ludwig Gertsch was strangled with an elastic strap in the bedroom of his lover, Mr. Vincent Esposito. His body was found, wrapped in a doona, in the Blue Mountains scrub on November 11, 1990. In September 1994 a Sydney Coroner found that Ludwig Gertsch was strangled "by a person or persons unknown".

6.6 /10

S1.E8 ∙ The Anita Cobby Murder

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

In February 1986, nurse Anita Cobby, a former entrant in the Miss Australia quest, is walking home from Blacktown station in Sydney's outer western suburbs. A Holden sedan pulls up and Anita is dragged into the vehicle. She is taken to a lonely spot where five young men take turns to bash and rape her. Finally, her throat is cut, almost severing her head, and her body is left in a paddock.

8 /10

S1.E9 ∙ Snowtown: Bodies in the Barrels

Mon, Oct 22, 2007

The shocking story of one of Australia's most evil serial killings - The Snowtown "bodies in the barrels" case.

7.9 /10

S1.E10 ∙ The Kimberley Killer

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

For the first time, the complete story of one of Australia's most horrific serial murderers is finally revealed. Almost twenty years ago in June 1987, a crazed gunman begins a journey which will take him thousands of kilometers across the vast Australian outback. The killer's journey will result in the murders of five innocent tourists, spark one of the biggest manhunts in Australian history.

6.6 /10

S1.E11 ∙ The Wanda Beach Murders/Beaumont Children Mystery

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Two of the most infamous unsolved mysteries in Australian criminal history are examined in The Wanda Beach Murders and The Beaumont Children Mystery. In 1965, when Australian teenage culture was centered on sun, sand, and surf, the nation was shocked by the brutal bashing, rape, and murder of two 15-year-old girls in the sand hills at Sydney's Wanda Beach.

6.8 /10

S1.E12 ∙ The Greenough Family Massacre

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

Some 400 kilometers north of Perth, will forever be associated with one of the most horrific murders in Australian criminal history. In 1993, Karen MacKenzie and her three small children were violently murdered at their isolated house. The brutal and random nature of the attack was eerily similar to "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote's world-famous study of a family murder.

7.9 /10

S1.E13 ∙ The Disappearance of Donald Mackay

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

A small group of local criminals, with mafia connections, were making vast fortunes in the famous NSW Riverina irrigation district from marijuana plantations. Corrupt police and a vast bribery network had kept the drug barons immune from prosecution until Donald Mackay's campaign finally led to raids by the State drug squad and several local marijuana growers were arrested and fined.

6.8 /10

S1.E14 ∙ The Body in the Sports Bag

Wed, Aug 29, 2007

Hosted by Steve Liebmann, The Body In The Sports Bag explores the disappearance and brutal murder of Sydney teenager, Lyndsay Van Blanken. This chilling episode features detailed re-enactments, interviews with key homicide detectives and heartbreaking accounts from Lyndsay's family and friends. The gripping special features an exclusive interview with Brandon Leonard, Lyndsay's American fiancé.

6.9 /10

S1.E15 ∙ The Assassination of John Newman

Wed, Sep 26, 2007

John Paul Newman was a member of the New South Wales state parliament and Member of the seat of Cabramatta. He was the first politician to be assassinated in Australia. For many years, Newman had been waging a campaign to break up the Asian crime gangs and corruption that had plagued the area. He had been the target of numerous death threats from such gangs but did not seek police protection.

7 /10

S1.E16 ∙ The Butchered Boys

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

This episode revisits Adelaide's notorious Adelaide Family Murders case, where six young Adelaide men were murdered during the 1970s and '80s. The victims were found in random locations throughout the state, their bodies neatly cut into pieces. Although each attack and mutilation appeared different, police investigators soon began to link the horrific murders to one another.

8.2 /10