All posts tagged "true crime"
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2.0KEntertainmentDr Rachel Toles brings true crime to life with must see serial killer show
Get ready to deep dive into the minds of the world's most notorious murderers with this 90-minute masterclass from expert Dr Rachel Toles.
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749Adelaide FringeAdelaide Fringe Review: True Crime Walking Tour: A Comedian’s Guide to Adelaide’s Dark Past
An example of Adelaide's "Not so Sleepy" past with a smattering of dark humour
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3.6KBooks & LiteratureThe Singh Murders, by Dr Dianne McInnes
TRUE CRIME: Police were looking at a triple homicide in a quiet Brisbane suburb. What unfolded would become the longest murder trial in Queensland history. According to some experts, however, there remains a number of questions that still, almost 20 years later, do not have answers.
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2.5KEntertainmentGlide through the River Torrens’ dark history on a on-off ghost crime tour
Experience River Torrens like never before on an after dark tour through the CBD's famous river... and discover some ugly truths along the way.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Rogues: True Stories of Grifters Killers Rebels and Crooks, by Patrick Radden Keefe
NON-FICTION: From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time.
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924Books & LiteratureBook Review: Suburban True Crime, by Emily Webb
TRUE CRIME: Featuring contemporary cases as well as some shocking historical murders you’ve probably never heard of, Suburban True Crime proves you shouldn’t say "it could never happen here".
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3.1KBooks & LiteratureInterview with criminal barrister Mark Tedeschi QC, author of true crime book Missing, Presumed Dead.
We spoke with criminal barrister Mark Tedeschi QC about his latest book Missing, Presumed Dead, and his career in the legal profession.
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1.8KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Missing, Presumed Dead, by Mark Tedeschi QC
TRUE CRIME: It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC is finally able to share all the shocking details.
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1.9KBooks & LiteratureInterview: Tim Reeves, Author of The Death of Dr Duncan
We chatted with Tim Reeves about his book The Death of Dr Duncan, a companion work to the oratorio of the same name chronicling the death of law academic Dr George Duncan.
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1.9KBooks & Literature
Book Review: The Death of Dr Duncan, by Tim Reeves
NON-FICTION: This meticulously researched and tautly written book tells a story that is disturbing yet captivating, distressing yet ultimately uplifting.
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872Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, by Sonia Faleiro
NON-FICTION: A powerful, heartrending and compelling work of investigative journalism from award winning author Sonia Faleiro
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3.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide’s Family Murders, by Debi Marshall
TRUE CRIME: Award-winning investigative journalist Debi Marshall interrogates a series of long-standing cold cases that, to this day, haunt South Australia.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Seven Bones, by Peter Seymour & Jason K. Foster
TRUE CRIME: Seven Bones is the story of one of the more bizarre murder investigations in Australia’s history. Two wives die in suspicious circumstances: co-incidence or, as husband Thomas Keir describes it, ‘bad luck’?
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: CSI Told You Lies, by Meshel Laurie
TRUE CRIME: Meshel Laurie, host of the incredibly successful Australian True Crime podcast speaks to the forensic pathologists, homicide detectives, defence barristers and victims’ families in this moving and gripping study of violent crime and largescale natural disaster.
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2.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Hitler’s Horses, by Arthur Brand, translated by Jane Hedley-Prȏle
TRUE CRIME: How the Indiana Jones of the art world took on neo-Nazis and the criminal underworld to solve the mystery of Hitler's favourite statue.
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2.1KFilm & TVFilm Review: The Mystery of D B Cooper
This HBO feature tells the story of a never-solved plane hijacking, and the perpetrator, known only as D B Cooper.
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Library Book, by Susan Orlean
Examining the unsolved crime of who set fire to the Los Angeles Public Library in 1986, ultimately destroying more than 400,000 books.
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941Books & LiteratureBook Review: Conan Doyle for the Defence, by Margarlit Fox
A well-researched true story of how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, fought tirelessly to right a terrible miscarriage of justice.
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Incest, Murder and a Miracle, by Cheryl & Robert Cuccio, with Morgan St James
This is the shocking but true story about what really happened before, during and after the high-profile murder case of Cheryl Pierson in 1986 and what drove her to arrange a murder of her father.
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3.3KFilm & TVFilm Review: Missing Pieces: The Curious Case of the Somerton Man
A beautifully put-together documentary about an enduring mystery.
