CIA: Crime Investigation Australia

Crime investigation Australia takes you deep into the Most horrific crimes Australia has ever seen.

Cast:Erryn Arkin , Olivia Stambouliah , Steve Liebmann , Andy Trieu , Jamie Vergan , Nicola Furst , Ryan Hance , Ashley Whalan , Vico Thai , Angus McGruther , Dana Newell , Jace Pickard , Rohan Brooker , Thomas Kearney , Brianna Carvalho , Nick Teoh , Warren Lee , Trevor Zadro-Jones

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ No More Grannies/The Granny Killer

2005

Elderly women found on the ground with blood around their heads are initially assumed to have fallen. After they are picked up by ambulance, kindly neighbors clean up the scenes, eliminating crucial forensic evidence. Newspapers coin the term "The Granny Killer" for the man who stalks and bludgeons unsuspecting women in broad daylight near their homes. Police have almost no clues until one woman survives an attack and is able to provide a description. Once they do charge a suspect, will he be able to convince a jury that he MUST be crazy to do such things?

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Kid for Ransom/Tears for Daniel

2005

In the late 1980s and early 1990's a series of violent murders took place near Sydney's famous Bondi Beach. Three innocent men were attacked and thrown to their deaths from a cliff top. The murders were part of a much wider wave of violent hate crimes as gangs of youths roamed Sydney's inner suburbs randomly bashing and killing gay men for sport.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Death in a Heartbeat/The Body in the Bag

2005

CI examines the Dr. Victor Chang extortion murder as well as the horrific Jane Doe's case where a girl is found lying on the side of the road of an inner Sydney suburb, wrapped in two plastic garbage bags.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Ivan Milat: The Backpacker Murders

Tue, Sep 25, 2007

A brutality which left Australia on the map. Seven lives justify the sole conviction of Australia's worst serial killer; but strong evidence suggests he didn't act alone.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Contract to Kill/The Mornington Monster

2005

Rodney Francis Cameron was dubbed 'The Lonely Hearts Killer' after he used a radio match-making program in 1990 to lure an unsuspecting woman to her death. Incredibly, he had only just been released from prison for two other killings in 1974. Cameron's psychopathic tendencies appeared early in his life. At the age of ten, he tried to strangle a young girl.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ The Moorhouse Horrors/The Call Girl Killing

2005

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 for more than 15 years and would have stayed that way if it wasn't for the tenacious efforts of a bright young Western Australian Police Detective.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ The Killer Punch/The Will of Death

2007

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 the Blue Mountains scrub on November 11, 1990. In September 1994 a Sydney Coroner found that Ludwig Gertsch was strangled "by a person or persons unknown".

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ The Anita Cobby Murder

Sep 2006

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 spot where five young men take turns to bash and rape her. Finally, her throat is cut, almost severing her head, and her body is left in a paddock.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Snowtown: Bodies in the Barrels

Tue, Oct 23, 2007

The shocking story of one of Australia's most evil serial killings - The Snowtown "bodies in the barrels" case.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Kimberley Killer

2007

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 kilometers across the vast Australian outback. The killer's journey will result in the murders of five innocent tourists, spark one of the biggest manhunts in Australian history.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ The Wanda Beach Murders/Beaumont Children Mystery

2006

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 centered on sun, sand, and surf, the nation was shocked by the brutal bashing, rape, and murder of two 15-year-old girls in the sand hills at Sydney's Wanda Beach.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ The Greenough Family Massacre

2006

Some 400 kilometers north of Perth, will forever be associated with one of the most horrific murders in Australian criminal history. In 1993, Karen MacKenzie and her three small children were violently murdered at their isolated house. The brutal and random nature of the attack was eerily similar to "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote's world-famous study of a family murder.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ The Disappearance of Donald Mackay

2006

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 prosecution until Donald Mackay's campaign finally led to raids by the State drug squad and several local marijuana growers were arrested and fined.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ The Body in the Sports Bag

Thu, Aug 30, 2007

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 heartbreaking accounts from Lyndsay's family and friends. The gripping special features an exclusive interview with Brandon Leonard, Lyndsay's American fiancé.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ The Assassination of John Newman

Thu, Sep 27, 2007

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 gangs and corruption that had plagued the area. He had been the target of numerous death threats from such gangs but did not seek police protection.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ The Butchered Boys

2006

This episode revisits Adelaide's notorious Adelaide Family Murders case, where six young Adelaide men were murdered during the 1970s and '80s. The victims were found in random locations throughout the state, their bodies neatly cut into pieces. Although each attack and mutilation appeared different, police investigators soon began to link the horrific murders to one another.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Killing Fields of Truro

2006

"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 days between December 23, 1976, and February 12, 1977. James William Miller confessed that during this time he helped the man he loved, Christopher Robin Worrell, dispose of the bodies of young women whom Worrell sexually assaulted and then murdered.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ No Mercy: The Killing of Virginia Morse

2006

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 liters of petrol. They then kidnapping Virginia Morse, a young mother of three, raped and tortured her as they drove to Queensland. Virginia's torture ended there when she was tied to a tree and shot.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Night Caller: Eric Edgar Cooke

2006

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 at point blank range as they slept. Another was shot between the eyes as he opened his front door.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Headless Body: The Kim Barry Murder

2007

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 damage to the skull showed she had been bludgeoned to death. Detectives discovered that when she died Kim had been in the company of 24-year-old Graham Potter.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Gonzales Family Murders

2006

In July 2001 Sef Gonzales killed his father, mother and sister in cold blood and told police that he discovered the bodies in the family's North Ryde home.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Thrill Kill: The Janine Balding Murder

Thu, Jul 31, 2008

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Hunt for a Killer: The Claremont Murders

Thu, Aug 28, 2008

The Claremont serial murders is the case of the unsolved murders of two young Australian women and the unresolved disappearance of a third in 1996 and 1997 in Claremont, a wealthy western suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Devil Inside - John Ernest Cribb

Thu, Sep 25, 2008

A chilling investigation of John Ernest Cribb, who on August 11th, 1978, broke into the home of the Connell's. On a winter's afternoon, Valda Connell and her four-year-old son Damien arrived home after having collected ten-year-old Sally from school. What was as an average day for the family turned to horror when Valda and the children were confronted by a man brandishing a knife.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ The Predator: Leonard John Fraser

Tue, Oct 21, 2008

Serial killer Leonard Fraser was suspected of killing at least five women over a 17 year period but took the complete truth about his life of crime to his grave. Fraser was convicted of the murders of three people, including a 9-year-old girl and the manslaughter of another woman.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Evil Heart: The Murder of Donna Wheeler/The Disappearance of Trudie Adams

2008

The bloodied, semi-naked body of 30-year-old Donna Wheeler is discovered by her estranged husband Keith Bond and 12-year-old son. Donna had been brutally beaten and stabbed and when police investigate they discover that Donna's estranged husband is a suspect but evidence also points to Keith's brother Colin. Which brother really killed Donna Wheeler?

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ The Girls Who Knew Too Much: Sallie-Anne Huckstepp and Juanita Neilsen

Fri, Feb 27, 2009

In the 70's and 80's, Sallie-Anne Huckstepp and Juanita Nielsen drove King's Cross' scene. But challenging the status quo only led to their mysterious and violent deaths.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Bloodsport: The Bondi Gay Murders

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

In the late 1980s and early 1990s a series of violent murders took place near Sydney's famous Bondi Beach. Three innocent men were attacked and thrown to their deaths from a clifftop. The murders were part of a much wider wave of violent hate crimes as gangs of youths roamed Sydney's inner suburbs randomly bashing and killing gay men for sport.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ A Killer Amongst Us: The Norfolk Island Murderer

Wed, Oct 14, 2009

29-year-old Patton had been stabbed to death in a frenzied attack that had left more than 60 wounds from her head to her feet. She had multiple bruises and broken bones and it was clear she had bravely fought back against a sustained attack. What followed were years of difficult investigations plagued by numerous false leads based mainly on gossip.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Night of Terror: The Bega Schoolgirls

2009

In 1997, 14-year-old Lauren Barry and 16-year-old Nichole Collins disappeared while walking towards home along the Snowy Mountains Highway. A huge manhunt by police and the girls' families and friends failed to find any trace of them. The girls had been abducted by Leslie Camilleri and Lindsay Beckett who had a combined record of more than 200 convictions.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Murder of Innocence - Sian Kingi

2009

On 27 November 1987, 12-year-old Noosa schoolgirl Sian Kingi was grabbed off her push bike by Valmae Fay Beck and Barrie John Watts as she rode home from school. Beck and Watts gagged the innocent, terrified child. Watts then raped and bashed her. He then callously, and without remorse, cut her throat while his cowardly wife and mother of six watched on.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Date with a Serial Killer: Rodney Cameron

2009

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Cop Killer: The Winchester Assassination

2009

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 has been kept secret by police until now for fear its release could jeopardize the investigation.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Michael Kanaan: Shoot to Kill

2009

Michael Kanaan is an angry young man wanting to make a name for himself in the underworld. His penchant for violence soon led him to kill three men before his capture in a wild shoot out with police.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Buried Alive: Luckman and Reid

Thu, Oct 29, 2009

Crime Investigation Australia brings again another shocking and true story about two 13 year old boys abducted and tortured by two psychotic and naive killers.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Mystery of the Homestead Murders

2009

The quick mind of a country telephone exchange supervisor led to a horrific discovery at an NSW country homestead in 1978. The supervisor had been checking complaints that the phone line to "Summerfield" station, near the southern town of Jerilderie, was out of order. Living at the old homestead was a celebrated "gun" shearer Mick Lewis, his wife Sue and their two small children.

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ The Cangai Siege

Sun, Feb 27, 2022

Over a period of nine days, Leonard Leadbeater, Robert Steele and Raymond Bassett, subjected regional Queensland and NSW to reign of terror culminating in a siege at Cangai. During this time they killed five people and took the four Lasserre children hostage. This siege was also notable for the actions of journalists Mike Willesee and Mike Munroe.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Kerry Whelan: Wife for Ransom

Sun, Mar 20, 2022

Examines the sad disappearance of wife and mother Kerry Whelan and the quest to convict her abductor and killer, Bruce Burrell.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Baby in the Suitcase

Sun, Mar 13, 2022

The skeleton of a small girl turned up inside a tattered suitcase on a dusty South Australian highway in 2015. Police knew immediately they were the remains of a murdered child.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Catching A Killer - The Claremont Murders

Wed, Apr 19, 2023

Using police recordings and re-enactment vision, this is the complete story of Australia's biggest crime investigation and longest-running manhunt: the chase after the Claremont serial killer.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Almost a Perfect Murder - Bill & Pamela Weightman

Sun, Mar 6, 2022

In 2000, the bodies of Pamela and Bill Weightman were found in the wreck of their car. Police said it was an accident, but Pam's sister was convinced they were murdered.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Murder & Mayhem - George Brown & Fine Cotton

Fri, Apr 15, 2022

A likeable horse trainer was tortured, his mutilated body found in a burnt-out sedan beside a freeway south of Sydney. His killers were never found, and the murder was filed away as a cold case.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ On Borrowed Time - The Michael McGurk Assassination

Sun, Mar 27, 2022

In June, 2018, millionaire Sydney businessman Ron Medich, aged 70, was sentenced to 39 years for arranging the contract killing nine years earlier of his former business partner, Michael McGurk.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Hero to Hitman - Lindsey Rose

Sun, Apr 3, 2022

The story of Lindsey Rose, a paramedic who became a brothel owner, drug dealer and private investigator before going on a killing spree.