Best Australian True Crime Podcasts (2026)

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Anatomy of a Scam

Explains how scams work in Australia and who runs them.

Forgotten Australia

Strange and dark stories from Australian history, including crimes and unsolved mysteries.

Crime & Conspiracies with Coffee

Friends cover true crime and conspiracy theories.

Australian Murder

Revisits old and cold Australian murders, setting each one against the history of its time.

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.

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.

Secrets We Keep: Killer Charm

LiSTNR's investigative anthology turns to the woodchipper murder of Bruce Saunders in this season, Killer Charm.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Casefile True Crime

Listeners who prefer documentary-style narration with high production standards and zero filler; purists who want the facts and nothing else.

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.

Casefile Presents: Julie's Gone

Casefile Presents investigates the 1975 disappearance of Julie Ann Garciacelay from inner-city Melbourne.

Kiss & Kill

7NEWS goes inside Australia's most high-profile intimate partner homicides, including the cases of Gerard Baden-Clay and Borce Ristevski.

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.

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.

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.

The Lady Vanishes

A journalist and a daughter search for answers about a missing Australian schoolteacher

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.