Naked City
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Naked City
Take a journey into the dark depths of the Australian criminal underworld with Australia’s most formidable crime reporter - John Silvester. https://www.theage.com.au/topic/naked-city-jbi #crime #truecrime #police #news
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The top cop who used his music career to find Tony Mokbel
Former deputy commissioner and counter-terrorism boss Ross Guenther had a unique life before policing, playing in big bands with music greats Jerry Le...
They were violent young offenders. But something happened to these ‘lost boys’ of Port Phillip
Anne Hooker worked as a prison officer for 13 years for Corrections Victoria, and Port Phillip Prison for a further 23 years.
She also set up an...
True detective, Part 2: Hunting a cannibal, and other tales of homicide
Sol Solomon has investigated some of the country's worst, most high-profile and just plain bizarre homicides.
In part two of his interview with...
True detective, Part 1: The hitman, and the corruption case of the century
For former homicide detective Sol Solomon, there was only one Carl. Underworld heavy and gangland killer Carl Williams who was to be the star witness...
Elisabeth Membrey: A cold case, a new suspect, and a mother who has never given up
For more than 30 years, Joy and Roger Membrey – before he died in 2023 – have been hunting for answers over the murder of their 22-year-old daughter,...
The cop, the actor and the true tale of the Underbelly series
Melbourne's gangland war in the early 2000s captured the country's imagination. People like Carl and Roberta Williams became household names. Eventual...
The real story of Melbourne’s gangland war
The gangland war has become like folklore in the tale of crime in Australia. From 1995, dozens of murders occurred in Melbourne in a wrestle over drug...
Armed robbers and detonating bombs: Inside the elite police squad
John Taylor is one of the longest-serving and smallest (in stature) Special Operations Group members, and its longest-serving bomb disposal expert.
He lived by the three rules of policing, before it all came undone
Tim Peck was an experienced homicide detective who worked on some of the country’s most notorious murder investigations, including the Maria Korp ‘bod...
Mr Cruel, Part 2: Criminal profiler John Kelly on Australia's most notorious child kidnapper
John Wayne Gacy, the Zodiac Killer, the Green River Killer (aka Gary Leon Ridgway) – name a serial killer, criminal profiler and psychotherapist John...
Mr Cruel, Part 1: The case of Karmein Chan and whether detectives got it right
When a third girl was kidnapped in just a few years, police suspected one offender: Mr Cruel.
Before Karmein Chan, 13, in 1991, there was 10-yea...
He was an international thief targeting wealthy Australian homes, until one slip-up
During the span of one week in July 2020, designer goods, cash and jewellery were stolen from eight homes in Melbourne’s affluent Toorak.
It too...
A little girl murdered, a mother vindicated: Solving the case of Bonnie Clarke
In 1982, single mother Marion Wishart, looking to make ends meet, invited a lodger to stay in her home in the suburb of Northcote in Melbourne. She co...
We’re back next week: Naked City season 7
Join John Silvester, Australia’s longest-serving crime reporter, as he talks to the cops and the crims in the seventh season of crime podcast Naked Ci...
Coming soon: Naked City season 7
Join John Silvester, Australia’s longest-serving crime reporter, as he talks to the cops and the crims in the seventh season of crime podcast Naked Ci...
Introducing: Diagnosing Murder
For decades, families in Australia and overseas, have been accused of one of the worst crimes imaginable. Diagnosing Murder is an investigative podcas...
Listen Next - Alva Beach: Death At The Door
If you're looking for your next investigative podcast, take a listen...
One tragic night in 2018, what began as an NRL grand final party in a qu...
Coming soon - the 40/20 NRL podcast
40/20 is a brand new NRL podcast from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. During this year's State of Origin and Finals series we'll be breaking do...
Preview of 'The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace'
Search for 'The Mushroom Trial: Say Grace' wherever you get your podcasts, then press the follow button. New episodes publish weekly.
See omnys...
Ross Stevenson Podcast Preview "If I have a win... I will appear here nude"
Each week Ross Stevenson and Hamish McLachlan share the ups, downs, peaks and troughs that come along with having a punt on the weekend.
...
The Hill Family's Fight For Justice
In this episode of The Missing Campers Trial, Penny and Erin are joined by acclaimed journalist John Silvester with an update on the legal avenues Rus...
John Silvester on the Easey Street murders, and the secret he kept for years
For years, one of Australia’s best known crime reporters, John Silvester, kept a secret.
He knew there had been a significant development in a n...
The Curious Case of Zig Zag Road
Esteemed crime reporter and host of the Naked City podcast John ‘Sly’ Silvester joins The Missing Campers Trial to talk about his interview with Russe...
The Morning Edition: John Silvester on the criminal gangs infiltrating the CFMEU
For more than 45 years, John Silvester has been reporting on Australia’s criminal underworld.
Some notable figures, like Mick Gatto, a ke...
Listen to Sly on The Missing Campers Trial Podcast....
Sly joined The Age Crime and Justice Reporter Erin Pearson, and Nine News Reporter Penelope Liersch on their podcast The Missing Campers Trial, to dis...
73 seconds to a tragic death
Tyler Cassidy was a troubled kid. Police officers Colin Dods and Richie Blundell were working an afternoon shift in the Northcote divisional van. Thei...
The cyber cop chasing the crypto criminals
Very few people have heard of Detective Sergeant Dion Achtypis - but there may well be no more important investigator in Australia.
You won’t se...
Belinda's partner was beyond help. Now, he helps her save strangers
Belinda Bozykowski was never a police officer. But her partner, Laurie Fox, was.
On the last day of 2012, Fox took his own life, leaving her wit...
Bread, water and the Liquorice Mile: Inside Pentridge Prison
Prodigious armed robber and expert escaper John Killick escaped custody in three states, once in a helicopter hijacked by his girlfriend.
Most...
Kaera was shot in cold blood on a city street, and we blamed her
It was early on Monday, June 18, 2007, just as city workers were arriving at their jobs that Hells Angel Christopher Wayne Hudson finally imploded.
Kid Currie: Life and death in the Special Operations Group
As a policeman, Tony “Kid” Currie lived on the edge. In the SOG he shot and killed one suspect and in a second incident left one with life-altering in...
Blood on the steps of Flinders St: The brave men who chased a police killer
Keith Pickering was just 19 and a young cop when he was on point duty outside Flinders Street Station in January 1974. He heard a vendor yell out and...
The double murder-suicide that rocked a small country town
Kevin Knowles was a brute, a thug and a suspected double murderer.
Kirkstall was a lovely county town inhabited mainly by young families lookin...
A cultish nightmare: David’s 12 years in hell with The Family
From the age of two, David Freeman was hidden with a group of children in a remote country house, described as a school that was actually a prison.
The judge who committed three deadly sins
Howard Nathan was a Supreme Court judge for 14 years. Many of his peers did not accept him because he was gay, Jewish and left-wing. One judge did not...
Coming soon: Naked City season 6
Join John Silvester, Australia’s longest-serving crime reporter, as he talks to the cops and the crims in the sixth season of crime podcast Naked City...
Trailer: The Confession
The astonishing true story of how Melbourne homicide detectives broke all the rules in their quest to have Katia Pyliotis convicted for brutally murde...
The twin bandits and the cop who brought them undone
Peter Morgan and his twin Doug used their identical looks to fool police while pulling two dozen armed robberies in Victoria.
That is until toug...
The good people who stare down evil
Policeman Rod Miller came home tired from a late shift but took the time to sign more than 60 thankyou cards to friends and family who congratulated h...