Season 1

  • No More Grannies / The Granny Killer

    No More Grannies / The Granny Killer

    CI delves into the twisted mind of one of Australia's most prolific serial murderers. John Wayne Glover, The Granny Killer, was truly an evil man. Glover's terrifying random attacks, targeting defenceless elderly women on Sydney's lower North Shore, ...
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  • Kid for Ransom / Tears for Daniel

    Kid for Ransom / Tears for Daniel

    CI examines two notorious abduction cases. The first case is the Graeme Thorne ransom kidnapping at Bondi in 1960. Thorne, aged eight was the son of winners of the Sydney Opera House Lottery. The second case is the recent Daniel Morecombe Queensland ...
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  • Death in a Heartbeat / The Body in the Bag

    Death in a Heartbeat / The Body in the Bag

    CI examines the Dr Victor Chang extortion murder as well as the horrific Jane Doe Case where a girl is found lying on the side of the road of an inner Sydney suburb wrapped in two plastic garbage bags 
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  • Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Murders

    Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Murders

    The backpacker murder case in the Belanglo State Forest, south west of Sydney, has entered Australian criminal folklore. The brutal murders of seven young people, most of them overseas tourists hitchhiking around Australia, attracted international me ...
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  • Contract to Kill / The Mornington Monster

    Contract to Kill / The Mornington Monster

    Crime Investigation Australia has conducted a major investigation which reveals the inside story of the Megan Kalajzich murder and the extraordinary Police investigation which will rock the Harbour City's elite to the core. We also detail the true ho ...
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  • The Moorhouse Horrors / The Call Girl Killing

    The Moorhouse Horrors / The Call Girl Killing

    We 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 f ...
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  • The Killer Punch / The Will of Death

    The Killer Punch / The Will of Death

    Sometime on 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 Blue Mountains scrub on ...
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  • The Anita Cobby Murder

    The Anita Cobby Murder

    In February 1986, nurse Anita Cobby, a former entrant in the Miss Australia quest, is walking home from Blacktown station in Sydney's outer-western suburbs. A Holden sedan pulls up and Anita is dragged into the vehicle. She is taken to a lonely sp ...
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  • Snowtown: Bodies in the Barrels

    Snowtown: Bodies in the Barrels

    In 1999, eight bodies are found in six barrels filled with acid in a former bank vault in rural Snowtown, 50 kilometres north of Adelaide. Their investigation was to lead police to discover another four victims, in and around Adelaide. Four men were ...
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  • The Kimberley Killer

    The Kimberley Killer

    For the first time the complete story of one of Australia's most horrific serial murderers is finally revealed. Almost twenty years ago in June 1987 a crazed gunman begins a journey which will take him thousands of kilometres across the vast Austr ...
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  • The Wanda Beach Murders / Beaumont Children Mystery

    The Wanda Beach Murders / Beaumont Children Mystery

    CI investigates into two of the most infamous unsolved mysteries in Australian criminal history are examined in The Wanda Beach Murders and The Beaumont Children Mystery.In 1965, when Australian teenage culture was centred on sun, sand, and surf, ...
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  • The Greenough Family Massacre

    The Greenough Family Massacre

    The small hamlet of Greenough, near Geraldton, in Western Australia, some 400 kilometres north of Perth, will forever be associated with one the most horrific murders in Australian criminal history. In 1993, Karen MacKenzie and her three small chi ...
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  • The Disappearance of Donald Mackay

    The Disappearance of Donald Mackay

    A small group of local criminals, with mafia connections, were making vast fortunes in the famous NSW Riverina irrigation district from marijuana plantations. Corrupt police and a vast bribery network had kept the drug barons immune from prosecuti ...
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  • The Body In The Sports Bag

    The Body In The Sports Bag

    Hosted 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 heartbreakin ...
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  • The Assassination of John Newman

    The Assassination of John Newman

    John 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 ...
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  • The Butchered Boys

    The Butchered Boys

    This episode revisits Adelaide’s notorious Adelaide Family Murders case, where six young Adelaide men were murdered during the 1970’s and 80’s. The victims were found in random locations throughout the state, their bodies neatly cut into pieces. A ...
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Season 2

  • The Killing Fields of Truro

    The Killing Fields of Truro

    For the 2008 launch of Crime Investigation Australia CI presents the complete and compelling story of "The Killing Fields of Truro", one of the most infamous crimes in Australia and yet another set in Adelaide. Seven young women disappeared in the 51 ...
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  • No Mercy: The Killing of Virginia Morse

    No Mercy: The Killing of Virginia Morse

    The 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 litres of petrol. They then kidnapping Virginia Morse, a young mothe ...
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  • The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke

    The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke

    In 1959 the carefree culture of Perth changed forever when a plague of crime hit the city. By early 1963 the crime wave had escalated to serial murder. A couple was shot at as they sat in their car. In separate incidents two men were shot and killed ...
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  • Headless Body: The Kim Barry Murder

    Headless Body: The Kim Barry Murder

    In 1981, the headless and fingerless body of 19-year-old Kim Narelle Barry was found dumped in the bush at a mountain lookout near Wollongong, south of Sydney. Kim's head and fingers were later found in bushland some distance from the lookout and dam ...
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  • The Gonzales Family Murders

    The Gonzales Family Murders

    On July 10 2001 Sef Gonzales murdered his sister Clodine 18; mother Mary Loiva Josephine 43, and his father Teddy 46, in their North Ryde home. He claimed that he had discovered the bodies when he arrived home, and that racist graffiti was sprayed on ...
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  • Thrill Kill - The Janine Balding Murder

    Thrill Kill - The Janine Balding Murder

    On a September night in 1986, two police officers climbed through a barbed-wire fence beside the F4 freeway at Minchinbury in Sydney’s west.  They were accompanied by two teenage boys who guided them to the edge of a shallow dam where the beams ...
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  • Hunt for a Killer: The Claremont Murders

    Hunt for a Killer: The Claremont Murders

    This 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 h ...
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Fingerprints are one of the best forms of physical evidence. A fingerprint can conclusively identify both offenders and victims.

Ask crime scene technicians to name the biggest problem that they encounter on the job and you will consistently hear the same response - crime scene contamination by curious officers, detectives, and supervisors.

Many criminal cases, even when investigated by the most experienced and best qualified investigators, are ultimately solved by an admission or confession from the person responsible for committing the crime.