Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans
True Aussie Murders. Caffeinated.
Join your host, Belinda Brady, as she takes a deep dive into some of the most gruesome, brutal, and unbelievable Australian murders over a cup of coffee...or two. Some murders are well known and are etched into Australia’s crime history, others not so much, but each as brutal and real as they come. Coffee not mandatory to listen to this fortnightly true crime podcast, but it certainly helps!
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Episodes
19 episodes
Ordinary Monster - Serial Killer Peter Dupas
For three decades, from the 1970' to the late 90's, a predator stalked and raped innocent women in the Melbourne, VIC, area and surrounds. This man was arrested for his crimes time and time again, and despite police warnings, was released time ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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31:31
Samantha Knight - Little Girl Lost
August 19th, 1986 started like any other day for mother Tess Knight and her daughter, Samantha. But by the time the sun went down taht day, Tess would be living every parents worst nightmare - her precious daughter Samantha had come home from s...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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30:48
The Night Caller - Eric Edgar Cooke
This episode takes us to the beautiful suburb of Perth, Western Australia, and between 1958 and 1963, locals and police were at the mercy of a brazen thief, who bounced from grand theft auto to breaking and entering. But all that changed on the...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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30:07
The Mack Truck Murderer
Most of us like to unwind by enjoying a cold drink or two with our loved ones. Whether that is while we are on vacation, or just relaxing after a hard day, or week, at work, the bar/pub is a place where we can relax, take a breath and catch up ...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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24:46
Are You Gunna Let Me Go? - The Murder of Ebony Simpson
August 1992, and the idyllic rural town of Bargo in New South Wales, is rocked by the senseless and cold blooded murder of nine year old schoolgirl, Ebony Simpson. Ebony's killer, a father himself, wasn't too hard to catch, however...
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Episode 15
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26:27
The Mutilator
Sydney, NSW, 1961 and the body of a man is found stabbed to death in a public bath, his genitals cut clean off and thrown into Sydney Harbour.What followed after this grim discovery was only the beginning for the serial killer the media...
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38:01
I've Got the Munchies - David and Catherine Birnie
In October 1986, pretty university student Mary Neilson goes missing without a trace. Then another girl goes missing, and another, and unbeknownst to police, there is a serial killer couple making the rounds in the working class West Australian...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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39:13
I Just Hate ‘Em - The Frankston Serial Killer
It's a freezing cold winter night in June 1993, Frankson VIC, and 18 year old Elizabeth Stevens is due home from school. When she didn't come home, her worried relatives search for her, but to no avail and report her missing to the police. When...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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47:55
Dumped in a Stump - The Murder of Chrissie Venn
On a summer's day in February 1921, in a small country town called North Motton, located in Tasmania, Australia, 13 year old Chrissie Venn set off to run errands for her mother, as chore she had done many times before. Only on this day, she did...
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Episode 11
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27:13
Served for Supper - The Murder of John Price
Love hurts, love scars..... yes, we all know the song, but what happens when those lyrics ring true and not only does love hurt, but it becomes homicidal?Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans has hit double digits - yes, we are at episode 10!! ...
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Episode 10
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28:37
Stolen for Money - The Kidnap and Murder of Graeme Thorne
Most of us dream of winning the lottery, right? We fantasise about the things we'd buy, the jobs we'd quit, and the places we'd see and for Bazil and Freda Thorne, this dream became a reality when the couple $100,000 pounds in the Sydney Opera ...
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Episode 12
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36:40
Deadly Tourist - The Kimberely Killer
When most of us travel, we make sure we have all we need, and if we forgot something we'll grab it when we get to our destination. Which is exactly what German tourist Joseph Schwab did when he arrived in Queensland, Australia in 1987. Except i...
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Episode 8
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28:58
I Never Intended to Kill Anyone Else But my Wife - The Hope Forrest Massacre
It's the day after Fathers Day, 1971 and Hope Forrest, a small town in South Australia, will wake up to the news that a horrific shooting has taken place in their beautiful country town, leaving 10 people from the same family dead, and earning ...
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Episode 7
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27:56
The Brownout Strangler
It's May 1942, and Melbourne, Australia, just like the rest of the world, is in the grips of WW2. As a result, Melbourne is in 'brownout' a term used to describe the low lighting the city used to avoid enemy detection (think minimal streetlight...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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29:21
The Gun Alley Murder
It's early morning NYE 1921, in a quiet, yet seedy laneway known as Gun Alley in the heart of Melbourne, Victoria, and a keen bottle collector is up early to collect empty bottles from the night before, eager to beat the crowds and summer heat....
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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33:47
Pyjama Girl
It's an early September morning, 1934, in Aulbury NSW, and Tom Griffith is taking his prized bull for a walk. Whilst walking he smells kerosine and upon investigating he discovers the body of a pyjama cald young woman, very dead and very burned...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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29:09
Who Killed Bertha Schippan?
It's New Years Eve, 1901, in the small German farming town of Towitta, South Australia and the Schippan children are settled in for the night. That is, until their 14 year old sister, Bertha, is brutally murdered by a 'bearded man' in a seeming...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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23:40
John and Sarah Makin - Baby Farmers
Join your host Belinda over a beverage or two as she discusses baby farmers John and Sarah Makin and yes, it is as bad as it sounds. In 1893, married couple John and Sarah Makin were trusted and paid for to care for infants by desperate, often ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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27:20
Frederick Deeming - Australia’s Jack the Ripper?
Join Belinda as she discusses the life and many crimes of one of Australia's first recorded serial killers, Frederick Deeming. From theft to bigamy to murder, nothing was off limits for this egotistical career conman turned serial killer, and h...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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35:04