Crimes That Shook Australia
Crimes That Shook Australia

Crimes That Shook Australia

2013 3 Seasons 24 Episodes ⭐ 8.0 Documentary Crime

Through gripping interviews, drama reconstructions and archival footage, piece together the murders that shocked Australia. The detailed events leading up to the crime, the crime itself and the aftermath will be revealed.

Through gripping interviews, drama reconstructions and archival footage, piece together the murders that shocked Australia. The detailed events leading up to the crime, the crime itself and the aftermath will be revealed.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Murder of Ebony Simpson

On 19th August 1992, Andrew Garforth grabbed nine-year-old Ebony Simpson just 1 kilometre from her home.

EP 2

The Port Arthur Tragedy

On 28th April 1996, 28-year-old Martin Bryant shot and killed 35 people in the popular Tasmanian tourist site of Port Ar

EP 3

Peter Dupas

On 19th April 1999, several times convicted criminal Peter Dupas posed as a new client of psychotherapist Nicky Patterso

EP 4

Jason Downie

On 8th November 2010, Jason Downie broke into the house of his friend's girlfriend, where Chantelle Rowe and her parents

EP 5

Katherine Mary Knight

Katherine Mary Knight lived in the small town of Aberdeen, NSW. In the early hours of March 1st 2000, Knight attacked he

EP 6

Derek Percy

On 20th July 1969, Derek Percy approached 12-year-old Yvonne Tuohy and her friend Shane Spiller whilst they were playing

EP 1

Robert Farquharson

The crime committed by Robert Farquharson has been etched on the minds of Australian's since 2005. Farquharson drove his

EP 2

Peter Falconio

On the 14 July 2001, British couple Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees stopped on the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territo

EP 3

The Strathfield Massacre

The Strathfield massacre in Sydney on the 17th August 1991 will be forever remembered as one of Australia's most shockin

EP 4

Darcey Freeman

Five-year-old Darcey Freeman suffered a horrific death at the hands of her father on the 29th January 2009. Driving her

EP 5

The Russell Street Bombing

On Easter Thursday in 1986, a car bomb exploded outside the Russell Street Police HQ in central Melbourne. Constable Ang

EP 6

Raechel Betts

Raechel Betts was a young woman from the Melbourne suburbs whose life spiralled out of control after she began selling d

EP 7

Hoddle Street Massacre

In August 1997, Hoddle Street in Clifton Hill, Melbourne became the scene of utter carnage as disgraced Army cadet, Juli

EP 8

Gerard Baden-Clay

Allison Baden-Clay was a beauty queen with a successful real estate husband. They lived in Queensland with their three

EP 1

Snowtown

On reopening several missing person's cases police found they were all connected to two men. The trail of missing people

EP 2

The Bega Schoolgirl Murders

In 1997, teenagers Lauren Barry and Nichole Collins left their friends at a campfire and walked through the bush to a pa

EP 3

The Queen Street Massacre

On the 8th of December, 1987, Frank Vitkovic entered the Australia Post headquarters in Melbourne and opened fire with a

EP 4

Matthew Milat

In November 2010, in the quiet Belanglo State Forest, Matthew Milat fulfilled his desire to follow in his infamous uncle

EP 5

Anu Singh

In October 1997, Law student Anu Singh held two dinner parties to say goodbye to her friends after she had allegedly div

EP 6

Morgan Huxley

Morgan Huxley's decision to have one last beer lands him in the deadly hands of Daniel Kelsall, a disturbed young man wh

EP 7

Raymond Edmunds

In 1966, two teenagers, Garry Heywood and Abina Madill, went missing in Shepparton, Victoria. Their bodies were found da

EP 8

Patricia Byers

Dubbed the ‘Black Widow’, Patricia Byers effectively stripped her lovers before killing or trying to kill them to co

EP 9

The Walsh Street Massacre

In the early hours of October 12, 1988, two Police officers were murdered in Walsh Street, Melbourne. The ensuing police

EP 10

Jill Meagher

The story of the shocking rape and murder of 29-year-old Jill Meagher, who died on her walk back home in 2012. A crime t

Popular Cast

Matt Doran
Matt Doran
Self - Presenter
Tom Roberts
Tom Roberts
Self - Narrator (voice)