← Australian Crime Stories

Season 3

8 episodes · 2019

  1. 1Justice For Lucille

    21 Feb 2019 · 44 min

    In 1969, 20-year-old Miss Tasmania aspirant, Lucille Butterworth disappears from a bus stop in Tasmania. Seven years later, Geoffrey Charles Hunt confesses to the crime, but despite damning evidence police did not lay charges.

  2. 2Packer's Gold

    28 Feb 2019 · 42 min

    We uncover the true story of how an audacious thief broke into Kerry Packer's office and cracked his personal safe, getting away clean with $5.4 million in gold bars. This is a story about loyalty, betrayal and revenge.

  3. 3John Friedrich

    07 Mar 2019 · 41 min

    We uncover the true story of a leader and hero, John Friedrich who was also a criminal mastermind that seduced governments and defrauded banks. For 25 years this story was swept under the rug but today we look at the case once more.

  4. 4Mark Standen: A Dirty Cop

    24 Mar 2019 · 41 min

    This is the true story of the international drug plot that brought down one of Australia's top law enforcers, Mark Standen. We reveal how far his corruption spread and whether there are more like him still operating in our police forces

  5. 5Billy Longley: The Texan

    31 Mar 2019 · 45 min

    The life story of one of the central figures in the notorious Painters and Dockers wars that claimed more than 15 victims in 1960s and 70s Melbourne.

  6. 6The Vampire Gigolo

    07 Apr 2019 · 44 min

    When Melbourne prostitute Shane Chartres-Abbott was accused of raping and mutilating a client, few doubted his guilt. The victim said Chartres-Abbott boasted that he was a 200-year-old vampire.

  7. 7Mr Cruel

    14 Apr 2019 · 45 min

    A serial predator dubbed 'Mr Cruel' had an incredible impact on Australia in the late 1980s - '90s. Police believe he may be responsible for around a dozen attacks on children across Melbourne, and could still be alive.

  8. 8Murphy's Lawfinale

    21 Apr 2019 · 45 min

    Brian Murphy was regarded as Australia's toughest cop, finding himself in the middle of several gang wars throughout a 30-year career in the Victoria Police. Bad guys who crossed "The Skull" had a habit of dying violently.