TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains information relating to inappropriate sexual conduct towards children.

Joshua Dale Brown, a 26-year-old former childcare worker from Melbourne, has been charged with over 70 serious offences including sexual penetration of a child under 12, sexual assault of a child under 16, and production of child abuse material.

Tamika Sueann-Rose Chesser, a former contestant on the 2010 season of Beauty and the Geek Australia, has been charged with the brutal murder and decapitation of her partner, Julian Story, in Port Lincoln, South Australia.

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are warned that this story details the accounts and names of deceased persons.

Since the fateful day in 1986 when Yindjibarndi boy, John Pat, died in police custody, the 28th of September has been known as John Pat day in Australia. It is a constant reminder of the oppression and injustice that the indigenous people continue to face. His death launched the landmark Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody and exposed the fractured relationship between the justice system and First Nations people. To this day, no one has ever been found guilty of an Indigenous death in custody in Australia.

Frederick Deeming is not only Australia’s most notorious criminal of the 19th century, but also one of the world’s first ever recorded serial killers. With over 35 aliases, the globetrotting conman has left a hazy trail of crimes that may never fully be realised, but the most pressing question continues to persist; was Frederick Deeming Jack the Ripper?

The Perth suburbs of 1986 were thrown into fear when multiple young women suddenly started to go missing. Too late for several victims but thanks to one, police eventually discovered the “house of horrors” where sadistic couple Catherine and David Birnie would rape, torture and ultimately, murder.