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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Suburban Legends episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Suburban Legends for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Suburban Legends episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Marcus Volke and Mayang Prasetyo

Suburban Legends

09/01/19 • 51 min

Senior Constable Robert Richardson arrived with his tracking dog named Zuma. Zuma was given the scent and quickly began tracking down Dath St towards Vernon Terrace and around to an underground car park beneath a commercial brick building.

Within this dark underground carpark were a number of commercial-sized dumpsters. Zuma indicated strongly towards one of the bins. Police swooped in swiftly and quietly, surrounding the bin, guns drawn...

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss this unnerving case from 2014 that begins on the shores of tropical Sumatra, Indonesia, and goes all the way around the world, ending up in Teneriffe, Brisbane, Queensland.

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The Cowra Axe Murders (1987)

Suburban Legends

11/23/20 • 37 min

April 14, 1987, approximately 3:40PM

Young Johnny was walking from school to his home in Victor Street, when he passed the side gate of a house at number 1 Jindalee Circuit.

He looked in to see a man and a woman arguing. As he looked on, Johnny saw the man hit the woman across the face in anger.

He kept walking and noted that a white car was parked outside the home. Who was the man with the white car?

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss the tragic murders of Catherine Holmes and Georgina Watmore in Cowra, 1987.

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The Melbourne Gangland Killings, Part 4

Suburban Legends

03/29/21 • 62 min

Mick was on a mission to find Graham’s killers.

Benji and Carl said they had nothing to do with it, but they’d heard that Asians, possibly the Chinese, had something to do with it.

Mick was unmoved by the suggestion and word had it he was next on the list. He said to Carl;

‘You walk away from this and mind your own business. But anything with you, that’s your problem, but if anything comes my way then I’ll send somebody to you. I’ll be careful with you, you be careful with me. I believe you, you believe me, now we’re even. That’s a warning. It’s not my war.’

But 3 months later the war came to Mick’s doorstep...

Join Shaun and Chloe for Part 4 of The Melbourne Gangland Killings.

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Underbelly: The Gangland War, by John Silvester and Andrew Rule
Big Shots by Adam Shand
Underbelly series of novels by John Silvester and Andrew Rule
I, Mick Gatto, by Mick Gatto and Tom Noble
Shotgun City by Paul Anderson
Carl Williams by Adam Shand
Underbelly, Series 1, Nine Network
Fat Tony & Co, Nine Network
Dead Famous, Melbourne’s underworld war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_gangland_killings

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Peter Dupas

Suburban Legends

03/10/19 • 61 min

Peter Dupas, The Mutilating Monster, is an Australian serial killer currently serving 3 life sentences without the possibility of parole. But police believe he may have at least 6 victims.

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss the background of this sickening individual, tell the stories of his victims, explore his disturbing MO, and delve into the three-decade-long reign of terror he inflicted upon the Victorian community.

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This episode was produced by True Blue Media using the open source materials referenced below. Note: portions of this episode are read directly from below-referenced resources:

R vs Dupas and associated court records
'Rot in Hell' by Jim Main
'Vicious serial Peter Dupas is the beast who roamed free to rape and kill' -
by Geoff Wilkinson and Mark Buttler, HeraldSun
'Mersina Halvagis: Serial killer Peter Dupas has inflicted misery on many' -
Paul Anderson and Geoff Wilkinson, Herald Sun
'I was petrified': fiance recounts finding Halvagis body, by Andrea Petrie, The Age
Peter Dupas charged with murder of 95yo Kathleen Downes at Melbourne nursing home' - Dan Oakes and Nino Bucci, ABC Investigations
Cold Case Files: Serial killer Peter Dupas prime suspect in Helen McMahon’s Rye beach murder, Mark Buttler, Herald Sun
Knifed 106 times: Police offer $1m to discover who killed Renita Brunton in 1993, Tammy Mills, The Age
Crimes That Shook Australia - S1E3
wikipedia.org and murderpedia.org

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The La Trobe University Shooting

Suburban Legends

06/01/20 • 32 min

3 August 1999

His hand trembled as he wrote, his sweaty fingers wrangling the pen as the words poured from his mind and became scrawl on the paper.

‘I tried every legal way possible to find justice for being wronged, this is a warning to employers, politicians, and corrupt men of authority. The little guy is getting tired of being used and shit upon with no avenue for fair play.'

‘Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war...’

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss the case of the La Trobe University Shooting, resulting in the tragic death of Eagle Bar Manager, Leon Capraro, at the hands of Jonathan Brett Horrocks.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6791239/Backpacker-killer-university-shooter-win-10-000-compensation-bashed-jail.html
R v Horrocks [2000] VSC 467 (5 October 2000)
https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/5307416
A loner's mind snaps: [1 FIRST Edition] Anderson, Paul. Herald Sun;
Student gets life over university killing; [Late Edition] Gregory, Peter.The Age;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_in_Australia
https://www.weekendnotes.com/the-eagle-bar/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_law_of_Australia#1984%E2%80%931996_multiple_killings

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The Portland Hair Salon Murders

Suburban Legends

05/18/20 • 62 min

Almost halfway between Adelaide in SA and Melbourne in VIC is a small seaside town called Portland. It's a quaint coastal haven, steeped in history, normally a calm and picturesque place. But in May of 1991, Portland was rocked by the gruesome double murder of two women in a hair salon. The crime would leave citizens scared and wondering if the killer was one of their own...

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss the twisting, unsolved case of the Portland Hair Salon Murders.

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Andy Albury

Suburban Legends

04/06/20 • 41 min

Detective Sergeant Les Chapman and his partner Detective Sergeant Dennis Hart arrived at the Lameroo Lodge in Darwin in the morning of Saturday the 25th of November 1983. Adjacent to the lodge in a flower bed lay the deceased body of who appeared to be a young indigenous woman.

A pathologist couldn’t identify one single injury that killed her, it was a cumulative mix of the entire assault, but he noted 28 external injuries, and notably, no defensive injuries. Pretty quickly the Detectives stumbled across a solid lead. And this was in a bin nearby, when they found a blood soaked cowboy shirt...

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss the sadistic, thrill-seeking murderer of the Top End, Andy Albury.

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The Wollongong Murders, Part 2

Suburban Legends

03/30/20 • 57 min

Detectives Joe Cassar and Russell Oxford inspected the scene. The house was immaculate, not an item out of place, not a dirty dish left out. Bloodstains lined the hallway leading in to the bedroom where the victim lay. there was a smear of blood on the doorjamb, and in another room nearby, a footprint on the bedspread facing an open window; the like point of escape.

The victim lay slouched over the bed, battered and mutilated, the blood spattering on the walls and bed abundant. The throat had been cut and there was noticeable slashes around the buttocks. Shocking as the crime scene was, however, the most likely perpetrator was safely locked away behind bars... or was he?

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss part 2 of the infamous and gruesome Wollongong Murders.

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Forensic Investigators - Mark Valera Part 2
Bound By Blood - John Suter Linton
R v Valera [2000] NSWSC 1220
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Valera
https://murderpedia.org/male.V/v/valera-mark.htm
https://www.9now.com.au/60-minutes/2015/clip-cil07vff8003ns3nnanydd8el

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Arthur Brown

Suburban Legends

06/30/19 • 56 min

Arthur Stanley Brown was charged in 1998 for the August 26, 1970 rape and murder of Judith and Susan Mackay in Townsville, Queensland. The jury failed to reach a verdict and a new trial was blocked on the grounds that Brown was mentally incapable of understanding the charges against him.

Brown's arrest attracted wide publicity, leading to a witness to the abduction of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon from the Adelaide Oval in 1973 identifying him as the man she had seen. Brown was subsequently linked the the Disappearance of the Beaumont Children, and other cold cases.

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss the sick and twisted life of a man who, in death, is just as much a phantom as he was in life. Nicknamed the Scarlet Pimpernel for his ability to show up anywhere, anytime, his history is largely unaccounted for, meaning we will likely never truly know just how evil he was...

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'Evil under the Sun' by Andrew Rule, The Age, 8 July 2001. Note: this episode closely follows the structure of this original work, which was later compiled into the novel Underbelly 3, chapter 'The Invisible Man', by Rule and Silvester.
'Unresolved murder case still haunts Townsville' by Kevin Meade, The Australian, 29 October 1999
wikipedia.org, murderpedia.org (including original referenced sources) and beaumontchildren.com

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The Flemington Armed Robbery

Suburban Legends

03/02/20 • 39 min

Racecourse Road, Flemington, on Friday the 25th of January 2002; Armaguard cash in transit security officers Mohammed Tabiaat and Rebecca Mitchell pulled up in their armoured van just before 10AM. The pair were restocking 2 ATM’s with cash, but the bank branch itself was no longer operational - no staff inside. They just had to enter the premises and refill the machines from the rear.

Mohammed took up his spot on the street, scanning the surrounding area as Rebecca made the cash transfer. And right around when Rebecca reached the front door of the building, Mohammed spotted two balaclava wearing men in dark clothes running towards them. Both of the men were armed; one with a rifle and a revolver, the other with a sawn-off shotgun...

Join Shaun and Chloe as they discuss the Flemington Armed Robbery and the investigation into catching the two perpetrators.

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