• The Manhunt for Dezi Freeman
    Sep 18 2025

    In the first of our weekly episodes, Wayne Flower looks at the gripping and ongoing manhunt for Dezi Freeman, a sovereign citizen fugitive accused of killing two Victorian police officers. With Australia’s largest tactical police operation underway, Paul Cale, known as the country’s toughest soldier, joins the podcast to analyse the manhunt. He explains why Freeman may have remained undetected, what it might take to bring him in, as well as what could happen next in this shocking case.


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    Presenter: Wayne Flower

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    Creative Director: Caroline Cheetham

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    18 mins
  • Erin Patterson - No Pity
    Sep 8 2025

    In this emergency episode Caroline and Wayne have the moment Erin Patterson was sentenced to life in prison.


    She will serve at least 33 years for the murders of Don and Gail Patterson and Heather Wilkinson, and the attempted murder of Heather’s husband Ian.

    For the first time ever in Melbourne’s Supreme Court, the judge was broadcast live as he told her she had shown no pity for her victims.

    He also said it would never be known if their lives could have been saved, if doctors had known sooner that they had eaten death cap mushrooms.

    He said her crimes fell into the worst category and she knew her victims would suffer.

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    33 mins
  • Erin Patterson - The Final Injustice
    Aug 25 2025

    In this special extra episode Caroline and Wayne have the words from the victims of Erin Patterson as they addressed a court in Melbourne today. Erin Patterson sat in the dock listening intently as members of the families told her she had taken the lives of people who only did good in the world, and they asked over and over again how she could have gone through with her “cold and calculated” plan to murder. They said the “ultimate injustice” was never having an explanation for why she did what she did. The statements delivered in court today will now be considered by the judge who will hand down her sentence in two weeks.

    The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript.


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    39 mins
  • Erin Patterson - The Secret Episode
    Aug 8 2025

    In this special episode Caroline and Wayne have more shocking allegations made against Erin Patterson in court. These were kept from the jury during the trial and until today we weren't allowed to reveal them to you either. But we can now explain the details of four attempts she made to poison and kill her husband, Simon - months before she murdered his parents with death cap mushrooms.

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    35 mins
  • Erin Patterson - “Where the Fuck is She?”
    Jul 10 2025

    In this final episode of this series - for now - Caroline and Wayne interview one of the key witnesses in the case. Dr Chris Webster suspected Erin Patterson of doing something “macabre” within minutes of seeing her at the hospital and he said as two of the people she poisoned were lying in beds feet away from her she didn’t even go to see them. His evidence was crucial in helping to convict her of triple murder.

    The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript.


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    28 mins
  • Erin Patterson - The Secret Footage
    Jul 9 2025

    In this episode Caroline and Wayne have exclusive CCTV footage of Erin Patterson visiting a tip - within half an hour of her lunch guests leaving her house. The video has never been seen before and this tip visit was never disclosed to the jury. So what exactly was she getting rid of?

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    26 mins
  • Erin Patterson - Me Me Me
    Jul 8 2025

    It’s the day after the jury returned their guilty verdicts for Erin Patterson. She is now one of the world’s most notorious killers and today we wanted to try to analyse what makes someone so seemingly ordinary become a mass killer.

    The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript.


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    27 mins
  • Erin Patterson - A Deadly Marriage
    Jul 7 2025

    Erin Patterson is a mass murderer. The jury in Victoria, Australia have today found her guilty of murdering her in-laws by poisoning them with deadly death cap mushrooms. The jury agreed that she lured them to her house by lying about having cancer, before she fed them a deadly meal. Then as they got sicker and sicker, she played lego and she went to Subway. In today’s episode Caroline and Wayne have the full story from court.

    The Trial series uses actors and some voices generated by AI. Their words are taken as verbatim from the official court transcript.


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    49 mins