← Outback Murder Highway

Season 1

4 episodes · 2026

  1. 1The Sensible Creek Killings

    22 Apr 2026 · 47 min

    Flinders Highway is dubbed Australia’s most dangerous road. Experts reinvestigate the murders of five women to see if a serial killer is behind this isolated stretch.

  2. 2The Spear Creek Killings

    29 Apr 2026 · 45 min

    The 1978 Spear Creek murders involved the brutal execution-style killings of tourists Karen Edwards, Timothy Thomson, and Gordon Twaddle near Mount Isa, Queensland.

  3. 3The Tony Jones Disappearance

    06 May 2026 · 45 min

    The disappearance and suspected murder of 20-year-old hitchhiker Tony Jones is one of Australia's most enduring outback cold cases. On November 3, 1982, Jones called his family from a phone box in Townsville, Queensland, detailing travel struggles while hitchhiking to Mount Isa. He was never seen again.

  4. 4Jayden's Disappearance: Charters Towers

    13 May 2026 · 45 min

    Newcastle man Jayden Penno-Tompsett, 22, was last seen in the early hours of December 31, 2017, near a roadhouse on Thompson Street in Charters Towers, in central Queensland. An extensive multi-day search in January 2018 followed his disappearance, but he was never found.