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The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

Naked City

A weekly True Crime and News podcast
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Naked City

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

Naked City

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Naked City

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

Naked City

A weekly True Crime and News podcast
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Tyler Cassidy was a troubled kid. Police officers Colin Dods and Richie Blundell were working an afternoon shift in the Northcote divisional van. Their lives would collide on a balmy summer evening in late 2008 at a Northcote skate park.A dist
Very few people have heard of Detective Sergeant Dion Achtypis - but there may well be no more important investigator in Australia.You won’t see him holding a press conference at a murder scene or commanding a squad of detectives. And he doesn
Belinda Bozykowski was never a police officer. But her partner, Laurie Fox, was.On the last day of 2012, Fox took his own life, leaving her with two young sons, a broken heart and a million questions.Belinda is as brave as any Valour Award wi
Prodigious armed robber and expert escaper John Killick escaped custody in three states, once in a helicopter hijacked by his girlfriend. Most of the police and prison officers who chased or caged him over more than 50 years are long gone, whi
It was early on Monday, June 18, 2007, just as city workers were arriving at their jobs that Hells Angel Christopher Wayne Hudson finally imploded. First he beat and kicked a woman in a strip club before dragging her along King Street. Then h
As a policeman, Tony “Kid” Currie lived on the edge. In the SOG he shot and killed one suspect and in a second incident left one with life-altering injuries. Some thought he was a loose cannon and were happy when he resigned.Tony and his wife
Keith Pickering was just 19 and a young cop when he was on point duty outside Flinders Street Station in January 1974. He heard a vendor yell out and saw a man crouching with a bloodied carving knife.The mentally disturbed man, James Belsey, h
Kevin Knowles was a brute, a thug and a suspected double murderer. Kirkstall was a lovely county town inhabited mainly by young families looking to build a safe and caring community. That is until Knowles moved into town. Travis Cashmore was
From the age of two, David Freeman was hidden with a group of children in a remote country house, described as a school that was actually a prison.The cult, led by the charismatic and seriously loopy Anne Hamilton-Byrne, survived for 20 years.
Howard Nathan was a Supreme Court judge for 14 years. Many of his peers did not accept him because he was gay, Jewish and left-wing. One judge did not speak to him during his entire time on the bench.In a frank interview, Nathan talks of the h
Join John Silvester, Australia’s longest-serving crime reporter, as he talks to the cops and the crims in the sixth season of crime podcast Naked City.The new season will premiere on Wednesday, June 14, and new episodes will drop each Wednesda
The astonishing true story of how Melbourne homicide detectives broke all the rules in their quest to have Katia Pyliotis convicted for brutally murdering a dirty old man with a statue of the Virgin Mary.The Confession is a podcast where the j
Peter Morgan and his twin Doug used their identical looks to fool police while pulling two dozen armed robberies in Victoria.That is until tough country cop Rick Hasty confronted Peter in a Ballarat laneway, who hours earlier had shot Hasty's
Policeman Rod Miller came home tired from a late shift but took the time to sign more than 60 thankyou cards to friends and family who congratulated him and his wife Carmel on the birth of their first child.By the time they arrived, he was dea
When police officers Gary Silk and Rod Miller were fatally shot the crime scene was chaotic as it was believed one of the armed offenders was still there and likely to try and kill more cops.The first responders tried to comfort the mortally w
When Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rod Miller pulled over a blue Hyundai in Moorabbin in 1998 while on armed robbery stake-out duty they had no inkling they were about to be ambushed. Their murders sparked a two year investigation and
Jill Meagher sent a text to her husband Tom - "Meet me at the pub" but he was asleep and missed the message.By the the time he saw it she had been abducted and murdered as she walked the short distance from the bar to her home.The murder 10 y
When Bruce Aitken headed to an international airport for one of his hundreds of overseas trips, he would always take his golf bag – a fairly normal piece of luggage for a globe-trotting businessman.For a man who wanted to be a professional bas
Darcy Whettenhall was a champion sheep breeder, running the Stanbury stud farm near Geelong. His perfectionism, drive and achievements were famous in the area.But he had a dark side, offering work to young vulnerable men then preying on them f
There's a knock at your front door. A couple of tradies say they've been working on the house next door and they've noticed tiles missing from your roof. Not to worry. For $20, they're happy to climb up and replace them.But upon closer inspect
What he had was information on a notorious armed robbery crew, known as the gym gang, and he was prepared to talk, if the deal was right. He was The Driver, a trusted insider who turned informer on a gang that police still consider one of Melb
Their heists were meticulous, and executed with military-style precision. And as soon as one job was done, they would disappear, sometimes for years.For 40 years, police have been in a cat-and-mouse chase with one of Australia's slickest armed
Supreme Court judge Paul Coghlan has spent more than 50 years investigating, prosecuting and judging serious crooks on serious crimes.Coghlan, the grandson of a Chinese merchant, innkeeper and opium dealer, became Director of Public Prosecutio
How police caught Paul Charles Denyer, and the women who came chillingly close to the Frankston serial's orbit.In part two of John Silvester's season opening episode of Naked City, go behind-the-scenes of the investigation with the veteran cri
In the winter of 1993, a serial killer terrorised Melbourne, stalking and murdering three young women in the bayside suburb of Frankston.John Silvester is back for another season of Naked City, starting with a two-part episode on the investiga
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