Cases

Season 1
16
The Butchered Boys

This episode revisits Adelaide’s notorious Adelaide Family Murders case, where six young Adelaide men were murdered during the 1970’s and 80’s. The victims were found in random locations throughout the state, their bodies neatly cut into pieces. A... Full Synopsis Videos
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The Assassination of John Newman

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... Full Synopsis Videos
14
The Body In The Sports Bag

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 heartbreakin... Full Synopsis Videos
13
The Disappearance of Donald Mackay

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... Full Synopsis Videos
12
The Greenough Family Massacre

The small hamlet of Greenough, near Geraldton, in Western Australia, some 400 kilometres north of Perth, will forever be associated with one the most horrific murders in Australian criminal history. In 1993, Karen MacKenzie and her three small chi... Full Synopsis Videos
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The Wanda Beach Murders / Beaumont Children Mystery

CI investigates into 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 centred on sun, sand, and surf,... Full Synopsis Videos
10
The Kimberley Killer

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 kilometres across the vast Austr... Full Synopsis Videos
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Snowtown: Bodies in the Barrels

In 1999, eight bodies are found in six barrels filled with acid in a former bank vault in rural Snowtown, 50 kilometres north of Adelaide. Their investigation was to lead police to discover another four victims, in and around Adelaide. Four men were... Full Synopsis Videos
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The Anita Cobby Murder

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 sp... Full Synopsis Videos
7
The Killer Punch / The Will of Death

Sometime 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 Blue Mountains scrub on... Full Synopsis Videos
6
The Moorhouse Horrors / The Call Girl Killing

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 f... Full Synopsis Videos
5
Contract to Kill / The Mornington Monster

Crime Investigation Australia has conducted a major investigation which reveals the inside story of the Megan Kalajzich murder and the extraordinary Police investigation which will rock the Harbour City's elite to the core. We also detail the true ho... Full Synopsis Videos
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Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Murders

The backpacker murder case in the Belanglo State Forest, south west of Sydney, has entered Australian criminal folklore. The brutal murders of seven young people, most of them overseas tourists hitchhiking around Australia, attracted international me... Full Synopsis Videos
3
Death in a Heartbeat / The Body in the Bag

CI examines the Dr Victor Chang extortion murder as well as the horrific Jane Doe Case where a girl is found lying on the side of the road of an inner Sydney suburb wrapped in two plastic garbage bags Full Synopsis Videos
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Kid for Ransom / Tears for Daniel

CI examines two notorious abduction cases. The first case is the Graeme Thorne ransom kidnapping at Bondi in 1960. Thorne, aged eight was the son of winners of the Sydney Opera House Lottery. The second case is the recent Daniel Morecombe Queensland... Full Synopsis Videos
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No More Grannies / The Granny Killer

CI delves into the twisted mind of one of Australia's most prolific serial murderers. John Wayne Glover, The Granny Killer, was truly an evil man. Glover's terrifying random attacks, targeting defenceless elderly women on Sydney's lower North Shore,... Full Synopsis Videos
Season 2
10
Evil Heart: The Murder of Donna Wheeler

The bloodied, semi-naked body of 30-year-old Donna Wheeler is discovered by her estranged husband Keith Bond and 12-year-old son. Donna had been brutally beaten and stabbed and when police investigate they discover that Donna’s estranged husban... Full Synopsis
9
The Predator: Leonard John Fraser

Serial killer Leonard Fraser was suspected of killing at least five women over a 17 year period but took the complete truth about his life of crime to his grave. Fraser was convicted of the murders of three people, including a 9 year old girl and... Full Synopsis
8
The Devil Inside - John Ernest Cribb

A chilling investigation of John Ernest Cribb, who on August 11th 1978, broke into the home of the Connell's. On a winter’s afternoon, Valda Connell and her four-year-old son Damien arrived home after having collected ten-year-old Sally from schoo... Full Synopsis
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Hunt for a Killer: The Claremont Murders

This chilling CIA episode details the long and difficult investigation which began with the disappearance of 18-year-old secretary Sarah Spiers from a night club in the up-market Perth suburb of Claremont on Australia Day, 1996. The new information h... Full Synopsis
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Thrill Kill - The Janine Balding Murder

On a September night in 1986, two police officers climbed through a barbed-wire fence beside the F4 freeway at Minchinbury in Sydney’s west. They were accompanied by two teenage boys who guided them to the edge of a shallow dam where the beams... Full Synopsis
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The Gonzales Family Murders

On July 10 2001 Sef Gonzales murdered his sister Clodine 18; mother Mary Loiva Josephine 43, and his father Teddy 46, in their North Ryde home. He claimed that he had discovered the bodies when he arrived home, and that racist graffiti was sprayed on... Full Synopsis
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Headless Body: The Kim Barry Murder

In 1981, the headless and fingerless body of 19-year-old Kim Narelle Barry was found dumped in the bush at a mountain lookout near Wollongong, south of Sydney. Kim's head and fingers were later found in bushland some distance from the lookout and dam... Full Synopsis Videos
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The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke

In 1959 the carefree culture of Perth changed forever when a plague of crime hit the city. By early 1963 the crime wave had escalated to serial murder. A couple was shot at as they sat in their car. In separate incidents two men were shot and killed... Full Synopsis Videos
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No Mercy: The Killing of Virginia Morse

The horrific story of killers Allan Baker and Kevin Crump who began their murderous spree in rural NSW by killing a complete stranger for $20, a packet of cigarettes and a couple of litres of petrol. They then kidnapping Virginia Morse, a young mothe... Full Synopsis Videos
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The Killing Fields of Truro

For the 2008 launch of Crime Investigation Australia CI presents the complete and compelling story of "The Killing Fields of Truro", one of the most infamous crimes in Australia and yet another set in Adelaide. Seven young women disappeared in the 51... Full Synopsis Videos
Season 3
7
Cop Killer: The Winchester Assassination

The highest ranking police officer in Australia to be murdered, Assistant Federal Police Commissioner Colin Winchester was shot twice in the head at point blank range as he was getting out of his car outside his Deakin home on January 10, 1989. At th... Full Synopsis
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Date With a Serial Killer: Rodney Cameron

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. &... Full Synopsis
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Murder of Innocence-Sian Kingi

On 27 November, 1987, 12-year-old Noosa school girl, Sian Kingi was grabbed off her push bike by Valmae Fay Beck and Barrie John Watts as she rode home from school. Beck and Watts gagged the innocent, terrified child. Watts then raped and bashed her.... Full Synopsis
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Night of Terror: The Bega Schoolgirls

On the 6th October 1997, 14-year old Lauren Barry and 16-year-old Nicole Collins disappeared while walking along a road near their home town of Bega, on the New South Wales south coast. A huge manhunt by police and the girls’ families and friends... Full Synopsis
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A Killer Amongst Us – The Norfolk Island Murder

On Easter Sunday, 2002, on sleepy Norfolk Island in the south west Pacific, the body of 29-year-old Janelle Patton was found lying in an open field. She had been stabbed to death in a frenzied attack that had left more than 60 wounds from her head... Full Synopsis
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The Bondi Gay Murders

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 crime... Full Synopsis
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The Girls Who Knew Too Much

Sallie-Anne Huckstepp and Juanita Nielsen were iconic figures in the shadowy King’s Cross scene of the 1970s and 1980s. They lived dangerous lives – challenging the status quo of the period and met with mysterious and violent deaths. Neither murder h... Full Synopsis
Season 4
8
CIA: FAMILIES OF CRIME - King of the Cross

Dubbed ‘Mr. Sin’, and ‘the Boss of the Cross’, Abe Saffron ruled his family with an iron fist. A tireless womaniser, he even had his son, Alan, committed to the infamous Chelmsford Psychiatric Hospital, and denied him acces... Full Synopsis
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CIA: FAMILIES OF CRIME - 'Mr Bigs'

Lennie McPherson controlled most of Sydney's organised crime activity for several decades, with his associate George Freeman. Lenny was born in the inner-Sydney suburb of Balmain in 1921, the tenth child of metalworker William McPherson and hi... Full Synopsis
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CIA: FAMILIES OF CRIME - Killer Couple

David & Catherine Birnie were a Perth couple who embarked on a depraved killing spree in Perth in 1988. Together they would cruise the city’s streets picking up unsuspecting young women who were then kidnapped raped and murdered. It was... Full Synopsis
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CIA: FAMILIES OF CRIME - Blood Brothers

Les, Michael and Gary Murphy, brothers from an Irish family of nine children, were three of the five men convicted of the savage rape and murder of Sydney nurse and beauty queen, Anita Cobby, which sparked calls for the reintroduction of the death... Full Synopsis
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CIA: FAMILIES OF CRIME - Backpacker Bloodshed

The torrid details of the notorious Milat family are explored in this episode. Members of the family continue to support Ivan Milat, the nation's worst serial killer. Clearly, this is a family with “ issues”. According to one repor... Full Synopsis
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CIA: FAMILIES OF CRIME - Mother of Evil

One eyed crime matriarch Kath Pettingill mothered a brood of 10 children, many of whom variously went to early graves, prison or witness protection. She has a string of convictions and wrote an autobiography titled “The Matriarch” She... Full Synopsis
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CIA: FAMILIES OF CRIME - Dockers & Death

Painter and docker, Les Kane was described by his widow, Judi, as "the most violent man in Australia". Les came to prominence when he declared war on the armed robber Ray Chuck, the mastermind of what is known as the Great Bookie Robbery... Full Synopsis
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CIA: FAMILIES OF CRIME - Baby Faced Killer

The notorious baby-faced underworld figure who police believe killed 10 people pleaded guilty to the murders of Mark Malia (August 2003), Jason Moran (June 2003) and Lewis Moran (March 2004). He was killed in April 19, 2010 with extreme violence b... Full Synopsis