Crime Investigation Australia

We delve 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, would leave an indelible stain on the city. Hear the compelling story surrounding the hunt for the Granny Killer and his eventual arrest and trial.

We examine two notorious abduction cases. The first case is the Graeme Thorne ransom kidnapping at Bondi in 1960. The second case is the recent Daniel Morecombe Queensland case that still remains unsolved. Crime Investigation Australia has secured exclusive interviews that shed new light on both of these infamous cases that stunned the nation.

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.

The backpacker murder case in the Belanglo State Forest, south west of Sydney, has entered Australian criminal folklore. The arrest and conviction of Ivan Milat would catapult him to become Australia's worst individual serial killer. It is believed that Milat was involved in several other killings and there is strong evidence that he didn't act alone.

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 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 and we also look into the murder of Call Girl Roslyn Watson which had remained unsolved for more than 15 years.

In September 1994 a Sydney Coroner found that Ludwig Gertsch was strangled "by a person or persons unknown". But that's where the murder trail ends - his killer has never been brought to justice. The murder of Allen Hall where he lived with Christine Hicks, the estranged wife of boxing mentor and horse trainer Cec Waters, presented a curious public with a cruel and twisted story.

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. five men are later caught and convicted of these despicable crimes and sent to jail for life, Anita's grieving parents begin a support group for the families of murder victims

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. Eventually it was proven that 11 were murdered and another woman severely dismembered. The horrific murders that occurred over a 7 year period involve torture, dismemberment, even cannibalism.

Seven years after the disappearance of baby Azaria Chamberlain at Ayers rock, a silent killer is descending into madness in the wilds of Australia. For the first time the complete story of one of Australia's most horrific serial murderers is finally revealed.

In 1965, when Australian teenage culture was centred on sun, sand, and surf, the nation was shocked by the brutal bashing, rape and murder of two 15-year-old girls in the sand hills at Sydney's Wanda Beach.A massive police hunt failed to find the killer but now, more than 40 years later, there is growing evidence that he could be a known psychotic murderer.

In 1993, Karen MacKenzie and her three small children were violently murdered at their isolated house. When the Greenough killer was finally tracked down, charged and convicted, much of the evidence was too horrific to be made public.

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 until Donald Mackay's campaign finally led to raids by the State drug squad and several local marijuana growers were arrested and fined.

A young Sydney man was found guilty of strangling his ex-girlfriend and stuffing the teenager's body in a cricket bag. In 2005 William Harold Matheson, 23, was tried in the NSW Supreme Court over the murder of his former sweetheart, 18-year-old Lyndsay van Blanken.

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. He had been the target of numerous death threats from such gangs but did not seek police protection. During the night of September 5, 1994 while outside his Woods Avenue home, he was shot and killed.

The story which recently caused national headlines with the emergence of new information on the prime suspect - explores in detail, the brutal murders of six young Adelaide men during the 1970's and 80s.