Best Australian True Crime Podcasts
The top Australian true crime podcasts — from landmark murders to cold cases from across the Lucky Country.
Australian true crime podcasts have produced some of the most celebrated shows in the genre — from Teacher's Pet to The Teacher's Pet. Australia's geographic isolation, frontier history, and complex justice system make for uniquely compelling cases. These are our highest-rated Australian podcasts.
24 podcasts — ranked by binge factor
The Teacher's Pet
True crime fans who like journalism-driven investigations with massive real-world impact; anyone fascinated by domestic crime and institutional failure.
Secrets We Keep: Killer Charm
LiSTNR's investigative anthology turns to the woodchipper murder of Bruce Saunders in this season, Killer Charm.
Lost in Larrimah
A man disappears from an outback settlement with 12 residents, lifelong feuds, and one very missing dog. The ABC's finest outback mystery — and one of the most absorbing podcasts in Australian true crime.
Trace: Murder in the Rainforest
ABC Australia's investigation into the mysterious 2001 disappearance of British backpacker Peter Falconio in the Australian outback.
Dezi Freeman: The Hunt
A 7NEWS and LiSTNR co-production on the manhunt for Dezi Freeman, wanted after two police officers were shot dead in regional Victoria.
Culpable
True crime fans interested in LGBTQ+ rights history, institutional cover-up, and cold cases that required decades of advocacy to resolve; listeners who want crime understood in its full social and political context.
Casefile True Crime
Listeners who prefer documentary-style narration with high production standards and zero filler; purists who want the facts and nothing else.
Australian True Crime (Meshel Laurie)
Australian comedian and journalist cover true crime cases from a distinctly Australian perspective.
Bronwyn
Hedley Thomas — the journalist who helped convict Chris Dawson — turns his investigative firepower on the 1993 disappearance of Bronwyn Winfield, a mother of two from Lennox Head, NSW.
Searching for Sarah MacDiarmid
Sarah MacDiarmid stepped off a Melbourne train at Kananook Station in 1990 and was never found. This podcast reopens a cold case that has waited more than 30 years for answers.
Troubled Waters
A man vanishes from a remote Northern Territory settlement of barely a dozen residents — Casefile Presents investigates who killed Paddy Moriarty and why no one has ever been charged.
Dear Rachelle
Rachelle Childs was 18 when she disappeared after a party in 1998 and was never found. True Crime Australia investigates a cold case that has waited over 25 years for answers.
Expanse: The Nannup Four
ABC's investigative strand, hosted by Dominique Bayens, on the 2007 disappearance of four people from a farmhouse outside Nannup, Western Australia.
Unravel: What Became of Jack?
ABC's award-winning investigative strand asks what happened to 27-year-old Jack McLennan, who vanished from a Queensland picnic spot in an instant.
Kiss & Kill
7NEWS goes inside Australia's most high-profile intimate partner homicides, including the cases of Gerard Baden-Clay and Borce Ristevski.
The Night Driver
Investigation into Queensland cold case disappearance of Rachel Antonio and the suspects who were never charged.
Casefile Presents: Crime Interrupted
Casefile Presents series investigating organised crime, terrorism, child exploitation and trafficking.
Casefile Presents: The Easey Street Murders
Investigation into Melbourne's famous 1977 double murder that remained unsolved for over 40 years.
Casefile Presents: Julie's Gone
Casefile Presents investigates the 1975 disappearance of Julie Ann Garciacelay from inner-city Melbourne.
Who Killed Little Grace?
Investigation into the 1921 murder of a young Australian girl in a case that was never solved.
The Lady Vanishes
A journalist and a daughter search for answers about a missing Australian schoolteacher
The Wentworth Murders
Investigation into a series of unsolved murders in a regional Australian community.
Casefile Presents: Searching for Sarah MacDiarmid
Investigation into Sarah MacDiarmid who vanished from a Melbourne railway station in July 1990.
True Crime Australia
Covers Australian criminal cases for a domestic and international audience.
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