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Listed as iTunes Best Podcasts of 2015, True Stories returns with a five-part investigation into the untold stories of Adelaide's gay-hate murders.

 

Each episode explores the intriguing circumstances of an unsolved case, told by award-winning Australian investigative journalist and writer, Mark Whittaker, and are adapted from Mark’s investigative long-read which will published online at the end of the series.

 

True Stories Season Three is inspired by the SBS network event Deep Water - a drama, documentary and online investigation unearthing gripping true crime stories and a buried chapter of Australia’s recent history.

 

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Season Three
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True Stories Podcast S3 Ep5 How to get away with murder

There is a way you can take a gay murder and make it not a gay murder.
There is a way you can take a gay murder and make it not a gay murder. You get a good lawyer. This is what happened in 2011 to the brutal killing of Andrew Negre - a case that continues to bounce around the legal system.   Listen below: L...
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True Stories Podcast S3 Ep4 An ordinary guy

David “John” Saint was murdered in 1991. From day one, police said publicly that robbery was the motive, but this didn’t sit well with the gay community.
David “John” Saint was an ordinary guy. He worked, bought three houses, did them up and sold them. On April 16, 1991, he was found covered in blood on a main street in Adelaide by a passer-by. He died soon after. From day one, police said ...
True Stories

True Stories Podcast S3 Ep3 The beats generation

Examining the significant role of gay 'beats' for men seeking male sexual partners - and how they soon became the target of a series of menacing attacks
Beats are secretive places – they provide anonymity for men seeking sex, but this secrecy also provides a cover and protection for their attackers. “Todd” ran away at 16 and lived on the streets of Adelaide. The street kids he hung out wit...
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True Stories Podcast S3 Ep2: Police become the suspects

The plot thickens in episode two of True Stories as the police become suspects too.
Dr George Duncan’s body was pulled from the River Torrens in 1972. At the time, homosexuality was illegal. Police were the suspects in the murder. It’s a case that’s gone on to become one of South Australia’s most notorious unsolved murder...
Deep Water

True Stories Podcast S3 Ep1 Rex, the beat, and the bashing

Listed as iTunes Best Podcasts of 2015, True Stories returns with a true crime story: a five-part investigation into the untold stories of Adelaide's gay-hate murders.
Late one night in 1992, Rex Robinson pulled his car into one of Adelaide’s most notorious beats. High beam on, Rex sees a man lying face down, motionless in the middle of the road. It’s the night that embroiled Rex in a vicious bashing cas...
Deep Water

Introducing True Stories podcast Season Three

Listed as iTunes Best Podcasts of 2015, True Stories returns with a five-part investigation into the untold stories of Adelaide's gay-hate murders.
Each episode of the new series explores the intriguing circumstances surrounding unsolved cases that span the last four decades, told by award-winning Australian investigative journalist and writer, Mark Whittaker, whose full investigation...
Season Two: Untold Australia
By Abigail Ulman

True Stories podcast S2 Ep5: Diary of a Tumbleweed

Living in Melbourne and struggling to become a writer, Abigail quits her job, grabs a backpack, and a buys a one-way ticket to Paris.
By Osamah Sami

True Stories podcast S2 Ep4: Mosque, Mourning & Girls

Osamah is 19, and his main aim during Ashura, a ten-day Islamic ritual, is to score the chat-room nickname of Houda, the girl whose long eyelashes feed his new obsession.
By Sofija Stefanovic

True Stories podcast S2 Ep3: Ex-Yugos

Born in a country that no longer exists, Sofija arrives in Australia as a child who has escaped a civil-war. Her home country Yugoslavia is divided, but as she discovers late one night on a Melbourne tram, ex-Yugos are still united in other ways.
By Andre Dao

True Stories podcast S2 Ep2: Greyhound

In the hope of settling himself, Andre leaves the city behind and journeys to what he thinks is the empty heart of Australia. Except, as he discovers, it isn’t empty at all.
By Nakkiah Lui

True Stories podcast S2 Ep1: Late night in a car park

Nakkaih Lui has just started to question if she was raped... late one night in a car park. But facing the question is harder than the answer itself.

True Stories in pictures

True Stories podcast comes to life in these animation and audio-comic adaptations!

Animation

Chinese Straight

Award-wining poet and author, Maxine Beneba Clarke, teams with award-winning artist and animator, Isobel Knowles, to create this visual, animated adaptation of an SBS...
Audio Comic

Liverpool Boys

Enter the world of Liverpool Boys High as you’ve never seen it before in this audio comic. Presented by award-winning writer Luke Carman and cartoonist Sam Wallman.
Season One: High School
By Luke Carman

True Stories podcast S1 Ep1: Liverpool Boys

With award winning writer Luke Carman as your guide, enter the world of Liverpool Boys High. Luke wants to be a writer, but with an English teacher more interested in designing an air-conditioned coat than teaching, Luke finds inspiration elsewhere.
By Maxine Beneba Clarke

True Stories podcast S1 Ep2: Chinese Straight

High School, a time of metamorphism for most of us. For award-winning poet and author, Maxine Beneba Clarke the transformation brings hope that the school-yard taunts will be over. It seems just within reach, but can she really change herself?
By Michael Mohammed Ahmad

True Stories podcast S1 Ep3: Punchbowl Boys

Welcome to the layered world of Punchbowl Boys during its dark periods in the late 90s. Told through the eyes of master storyteller Michael Mohammed Ahmed. LANGUAGE WARNING applies.
By Ellen van Neerven

True Stories podcast S1 Ep4: Confidence Game

Eight years on, acclaimed author Ellen van Neerven reflects on the daily teases and taunts she suffered at high school. But there was one place she could escape. The soccer field.
By Omar Musa

True Stories podcast S1 Ep5: Small Town Boy, Big Town Book

This is the late 80s in regional NSW. The time of revolutionary politics and revolutionary artists. A time that made its mark on award winning author, poet and rapper, Omar Musa.
By Tamar Chnorhokian

True Stories podcast S1 Ep6: Carmelina and Me

Bullying and humiliation are a dark part of emerging writer and novelist Tamar Chnorhokian’s high school life. But a special friendship sees her through the toughest moments.
By Cyrus Bezyan

True Stories podcast S1 Ep7: What's In A Name

What’s really in a name? And what happens when you change your name? Hear writer and comedian Cyrus Bezyan grapple with just that question in his signature laconic style.
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