Nice Things Nice Things. I love when the pod turns to girl talk.

Worldwide, around 1.35 million people die in road accidents each year.  Research to make road travel safer is constant, as new technology and design emerge.  Crash Test Dummies are used for most of the testing. But that hasn’t always been the case.

Kirsten is missing, and we welcome Simon Owens to the studio today in her place.  Join our massive tantrum over her (hopefully temporary) disappearance.

Ep 134 - Crash Test Dummies, and Where’s Kirsten?

The murder of pastry chef Renea Lau in Melbourne's Kings Domain has been described as one of the city's worst. Senior police were shocked by the brutality and duration of the attack and because of its random nature.

Ep 135 - Renea Lau

In the UK in 2016, Ian Stewart’s fiancee Helen Bailey goes missing. The investigation into her disappearance leads police to take another look at the death of his first wife Diane. They fear they have hit a dead end when they discover that Diane’s body was cremated.

Ep 136 - The Brain Bank Murder

Lawyer Garry Hoy fell to his death from a window on the 24th floor of a Toronto law firm in 1993. Was it suicide, was he pushed, or was there another reason behind his tragic death?

Ep 137 - Garry Hoy

Survivors of a plane crash in the Andes in 1972 had to use great ingenuity to stay alive in the blizzard conditions, with very little food, and as the days passed it seemed nobody was coming to rescue them.

Ep 138 - Plane Crash In The Andes

In 2018 Lana Clayton found her husband Steve lying dead at the bottom of the stairs in their home in South Carolina. At first it was believed he’d had a heart attack, but when toxicology showed the presence of poison, police were led to something common in most household bathrooms.

Ep 139 - The Eye Drops

Babies sent to the neonatal intensive care unit are usually the most vulnerable, and in need of the greatest care.  But instead of nursing them back to health, British nurse Lucy Letby was doing the unthinkable: attacking and killing them.

Ep 140 - Lucy Letby

A new-age health and wellness workshop went horribly wrong in Quebec, Canada, in 2011, when 38-year-old Chantal Lavigne was literally boiled to death in a bizarre therapy session.

Ep 141 - Boiled To Death

29-year-old Katie Haley was bashed to death with a dumbbell by her vicious, jealous and controlling partner Shane Robertson, while their baby daughter slept in the room next door. Katie’s sad end serves as another reminder that we need to do more as a community to stamp out domestic violence.

Ep 142 - Katie Haley

Australia, has been abuzz with discussion about the deaths of three people in Victoria, apparently after eating poison mushrooms. In this episode we look at serial poisoner  Velma Barfield, who in 1984 became the first woman to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.

Ep 143 - Velma Barfield

Two schoolgirls were abducted, raped and murdered in Bega, New South Wales, Australia on 6 October 1997. Lindsay Beckett claimed that he killed the girls under the orders of Leslie Camilleri.

Traigo Andretti was given a life sentence for killing and dismembering his wife, and pleaded guilty today to the murder of another woman named Myrna Letandre. The judge described him as "evil, vile and despicable," and said he had very little chance for rehabilitation. It was a moot point. Andretti didn’t live long enough for any chance at redemption.

Ep 109 - Traigo Andretti, and Bega School girl Murders Part 1

Have you ever seen a dead body? 

People find dead bodies everywhere, under floorboards, inside chimneys, and in their homes. They’re at crime scenes, disaster scenes and in morgues. There have been dead bodies on the red carpet, in cannibals’ dens, and even advertised in the classifieds. 

In this series, experienced crime and court reporter Sharnelle Vella, and veteran radio host Dee Dee Dunleavy look at where dead bodies have been found, how they got there, and most importantly, the effect on people who found them. 

We talk to people who deal with death daily as part of their jobs, and people who weren’t prepared for the shock of finding a dead body.

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Ep 109 - Traigo Andretti, and Bega School girl Murders Part 1

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