All posts tagged "true crime"
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365Books & 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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190Books & 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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438Books & 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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611Books & 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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585Film & 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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795Books & 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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351Books & 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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639Books & 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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1.6KFilm & TVFilm Review: Missing Pieces: The Curious Case of the Somerton Man
A beautifully put-together documentary about an enduring mystery.
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727Books & LiteratureBook Review: Unmaking a Murder: The Mysterious Death of Anna-Jane Cheney by Graham Archer
A look into the Anna-Jane Cheney murder case. Cheney was an Adelaide lawyer murdered in the 1990s. Her fiancé, Henry Keogh, was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment, only to be released and have the charges dropped 21 years later.
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1.2KFilm & TVInterview: Wayne Groom and Carolyn Bilsborow
Wayne Groom and Carolyn Bilsborow's latest documentary looks at the enduring mystery of the unidentified man found dead on Somerton Beach in 48.
