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- 2005–20231h 20mTV-MA7.6 (13)TV EpisodeElderly women found on the ground with blood around their heads are initially assumed to have fallen. After they are picked up by ambulance, kindly neighbors clean up the scenes, eliminating crucial forensic evidence. Newspapers coin the term "The Granny Killer" for the man who stalks and bludgeons unsuspecting women in broad daylight near their homes. Police have almost no clues until one woman survives an attack and is able to provide a description. Once they do charge a suspect, will he be able to convince a jury that he MUST be crazy to do such things?
- 2005–202351mTV-MA6.8 (7)TV EpisodeRodney Francis Cameron was dubbed 'The Lonely Hearts Killer' after he used a radio match-making program in 1990 to lure an unsuspecting woman to her death. Incredibly, he had only just been released from prison for two other killings in 1974. Cameron's psychopathic tendencies appeared early in his life. At the age of ten, he tried to strangle a young girl.
- 2005–202351mTV-MATV EpisodeMichael Kanaan is an angry young man wanting to make a name for himself in the underworld. His penchant for violence soon led him to kill three men before his capture in a wild shoot out with police.
- 2005–202351mTV-MA7.4 (7)TV EpisodeIn July 2001 Sef Gonzales killed his father, mother and sister in cold blood and told police that he discovered the bodies in the family's North Ryde home.
- 2005–202353mTV-MATV EpisodeThis chilling CIA episode details the long and difficult investigation which began with the disappearance of 18-year-old secretary Sarah Spiers from a night club in the up-market Perth suburb of Claremont on Australia Day, 1996. The new information has been kept secret by police until now for fear its release could jeopardize the investigation.
- 2005–202350mTV-MA7.2 (8)TV EpisodeCrime Investigation Australia brings again another shocking and true story about two 13 year old boys abducted and tortured by two psychotic and naive killers.
- 2005–202352mTV-MATV EpisodeWe 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. We also look into the murder of Call Girl Roslyn Watson which had remained unsolved for more than 15 years and would have stayed that way if it wasn't for the tenacious efforts of a bright young Western Australian Police Detective.
- 2005–202349mTV-MATV EpisodeThe horrific story of killers Allan Baker and Kevin Crump who began their murderous spree in rural NSW by killing a complete stranger for $20, a packet of cigarettes and a couple of liters of petrol. They then kidnapping Virginia Morse, a young mother of three, raped and tortured her as they drove to Queensland. Virginia's torture ended there when she was tied to a tree and shot.
- 2005–202356mTV-MA6.9 (10)TV EpisodeHosted by Steve Liebmann, The Body In The Sports Bag explores the disappearance and brutal murder of Sydney teenager, Lyndsay Van Blanken. This chilling episode features detailed re-enactments, interviews with key homicide detectives and heartbreaking accounts from Lyndsay's family and friends. The gripping special features an exclusive interview with Brandon Leonard, Lyndsay's American fiancé.
- 2005–20231h 24mTV-MA7.3 (19)TV EpisodeA brutality which left Australia on the map. Seven lives justify the sole conviction of Australia's worst serial killer; but strong evidence suggests he didn't act alone.
- 2005–202353mTV-MATV EpisodeThe bloodied, semi-naked body of 30-year-old Donna Wheeler is discovered by her estranged husband Keith Bond and 12-year-old son. Donna had been brutally beaten and stabbed and when police investigate they discover that Donna's estranged husband is a suspect but evidence also points to Keith's brother Colin. Which brother really killed Donna Wheeler?
- 2005–202354mTV-MA6.5 (11)TV EpisodeOn the evening of October 19, 1990, the flamboyantly gay Sydney socialite Ludwig Gertsch was strangled with an elastic strap in the bedroom of his lover, Mr. Vincent Esposito. His body was found, wrapped in a doona, in the Blue Mountains scrub on November 11, 1990. In September 1994 a Sydney Coroner found that Ludwig Gertsch was strangled "by a person or persons unknown".
- 2005–202356mTV-MA7.2 (7)TV EpisodeIn the 70's and 80's, Sallie-Anne Huckstepp and Juanita Nielsen drove King's Cross' scene. But challenging the status quo only led to their mysterious and violent deaths.
- 2005–202358mTV-MA8.7 (9)TV EpisodeIn the late 1980s and early 1990s a series of violent murders took place near Sydney's famous Bondi Beach. Three innocent men were attacked and thrown to their deaths from a clifftop. The murders were part of a much wider wave of violent hate crimes as gangs of youths roamed Sydney's inner suburbs randomly bashing and killing gay men for sport.
- 2005–202348mTV-MA7.0 (9)TV EpisodeJohn 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. For many years, Newman had been waging a campaign to break up the Asian crime gangs and corruption that had plagued the area. He had been the target of numerous death threats from such gangs but did not seek police protection.
- Over a period of nine days, Leonard Leadbeater, Robert Steele and Raymond Bassett, subjected regional Queensland and NSW to reign of terror culminating in a siege at Cangai. During this time they killed five people and took the four Lasserre children hostage. This siege was also notable for the actions of journalists Mike Willesee and Mike Munroe.
- 2005–2023TV EpisodeExamines the sad disappearance of wife and mother Kerry Whelan and the quest to convict her abductor and killer, Bruce Burrell.
- The skeleton of a small girl turned up inside a tattered suitcase on a dusty South Australian highway in 2015. Police knew immediately they were the remains of a murdered child.
- 2005–2023TV EpisodeIn 2000, the bodies of Pamela and Bill Weightman were found in the wreck of their car. Police said it was an accident, but Pam's sister was convinced they were murdered.
- 2005–2023TV EpisodeA likeable horse trainer was tortured, his mutilated body found in a burnt-out sedan beside a freeway south of Sydney. His killers were never found, and the murder was filed away as a cold case.
- 2005–2023TV EpisodeIn June, 2018, millionaire Sydney businessman Ron Medich, aged 70, was sentenced to 39 years for arranging the contract killing nine years earlier of his former business partner, Michael McGurk.
- 2005–2023TV EpisodeThe story of Lindsey Rose, a paramedic who became a brothel owner, drug dealer and private investigator before going on a killing spree.
- 2005–202353mTV-MATV EpisodeThe Claremont serial murders is the case of the unsolved murders of two young Australian women and the unresolved disappearance of a third in 1996 and 1997 in Claremont, a wealthy western suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
- 2005–202354mTV-MA7.9 (17)TV EpisodeThe shocking story of one of Australia's most evil serial killings - The Snowtown "bodies in the barrels" case.
- 2005–202351mTV-MATV Episode29-year-old Patton had been stabbed to death in a frenzied attack that had left more than 60 wounds from her head to her feet. She had multiple bruises and broken bones and it was clear she had bravely fought back against a sustained attack. What followed were years of difficult investigations plagued by numerous false leads based mainly on gossip.