True Crime Conversations

The case of Jodi Arias, the woman who murdered her former lover, Travis Alexander, in 2008, captivated audiences around the world. When the trial began in 2013, media coverage intensified, driven by a disturbing question: what could compel a young, attractive woman to kill so violently? To shoot, stab, and nearly decapitate a man she claimed to have loved?
These are just some of the questions journalist Briana Whitney set out to explore in her True Crime Arizona documentary, Obsessed: Unravelling Jodi Arias.
Whitney has even been in direct contact with Arias herself, who continues to blog and exchange emails from inside her prison cell.
Watch Obsessed: Unravelling Jodi Arias here.
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Guest: Briana Whitney
Host: Gemma Bath
Senior Producer: Tahli Blackman
Group Executive Producer: Ilaria Brophy
Audio Engineer: Jacob Round
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Two 15-year-olds vanish after heading to a disco in Wollongong.
An 18-year-old Belgian backpacker disappears after a night out in Byron Bay.
A 20-year-old Navy recruit vanishes from a casino lobby in a matter of minutes.
These are just a few of Australia’s missing persons cases you may never have heard of. Each year, more than 56,000 people are reported missing across the country. Most are found. But over 2,500 remain missing long-term, their names and stories slowly fading from public memory.
Nicole Morris, Director of the Australian Missing Persons Register and author of Vanished and Missing, refuses to let them be forgotten.
Find the Australian Missing Persons Register here.
Find Nicole's books here.
CREDITS
Guest: Nicole Morris
Host: Gemma Bath
Senior Producer: Tahli Blackman
Group Executive Producer: Ilaria Brophy
Audio Engineer: Jacob Round
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Who would try to hire a hitman to kill an innocent young girl?
In early 2021, Riley ended a relationship with a man she had been in a year-long online relationship with after she alleges he assaulted her. Despite the breakup, he continued to message her relentlessly.
Instead of backing down, Scott escalated his feelings of anger, turning to the dark web. He paid $19,000 AUD to hire a hitman to kill her.
The reality of the plot became clear when police knocked on the door of Riley’s family home. It was her mother, Jamie Elder, who answered, learning that someone had tried to arrange her daughter’s murder.
Jamie is now Riley’s advocate, fighting for justice while the man accused of orchestrating the hit walks free. You can follow Jamie on TikTok and support her advocacy here.
CREDITS
Guest: Jamie Elder
Host: Gemma Bath
Senior Producer: Tahli Blackman
Group Executive Producer: Ilaria Brophy
Audio Engineer: Jacob Round
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On September 7, 1971, at a remote farmhouse 40 kilometres south of Adelaide, Clifford Bartholomew killed 10 people. His wife, his seven children, his sister-in-law and her 19-month-old son. He shot them all dead.
He was sentenced to death, but because of changes to the law, he wasn’t killed. Instead, he was re-sentenced to life in prison and managed to serve just eight years before being released on parole.
He changed his name, his identity and created an entirely new family who knew nothing about his previous life or his crimes… until now.
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CREDITS
Guests: Craig Cook & Allen Arthur
Host: Gemma Bath
Producer: Tahli Blackman
Audio Producer: Jacob Round
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On a summer evening in January 1983, 10-year-old Louise Bell went missing from her bedroom in Adelaide's Hackham West.
It was a case that horrified Australia, as every parent's worst nightmare became reality for the Bell family. How could a young girl tucked up in her bed in a safe, suburban neighbourhood just go missing in the middle of the night?
It would take 30 years, and advances in DNA technology, to find out who was responsible for the disappearance of Louise Bell.
Supporting audio supplied by ABC South Australia.
CREDITS
Guest: Candice Prosser
Host: Gemma Bath
Executive Producer: Gia Moylan
Audio Producer: Scott Stronach
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If any of the contents in this episode have caused distress, know that there is help available via Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636
Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
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