Crim City

A killer is on the loose in an Australian country town. Excited for the June long weekend, bubbly 23-year-old Rachelle Childs leaves work, calls her sister, and is dead within hours. Her burning, partially naked body is found nine hours later in bushland on a lonely coastal road. Her killer has never been caught. Now innocent people, once too afraid to speak, are breaking their silence. If you’re looking for your next true crime podcast obsession, search out Dear Rachelle. An unstoppable cold case team is reinvestigating and uncovering damning new evidence. Could this finally be the break the family needs? Dear Rachelle is hosted and investigated by journalist Ashlea Hansen, who teams up with retired detective and renowned cold case specialist Damian Loone. The first episode of Dear Rachelle is now available on all podcast platforms. If you’re looking for your next true crime podcast binge and you want to be first to hear what’s next, visit dearrachelle.com.au - your News Corp Australia subscription grants you access to podcast episodes three weeks before everyone else, as well as exclusive access to videos, interactive evidence, behind-the-scenes content, and more. Dear Rachelle is a podcast from True Crime Australia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Moz goes back to the vault, digging out an interview with Detective Superintendent Joe Doueihi. He’s seen the worst humanity has to offer - but was still shocked by the brutality of the kidnappings now happening in Crim City. Field recording for this episode by World Tree Studio Subscribe to CrimeX+ today for ad-free access See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Moudi Tajjour is one of Crim City’s survivors. A cousin of John ‘the King of the Cross’ Ibrahim, he became a senior bikie, founded a new gang in prison and was jailed over a killing. Moudi knows those who’ve died on both sides in the city’s gang wars. A warning - this is confronting listen. Subscribe to CrimeX+ today for early, ad free accessSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The inside story of the supergrass who’s helped bring peace to Sydney’s gang war, rumours spread about a looming contract killing and Moz wonders if he needs artificial stimulation. To get episodes early and ad-free and unlock content from our suite of award-winning podcasts, subscribe to Crime X+ today Follow Crime X+ on socials: Instagram, TikTok and Facebook Watch Crim City on the True Crime Australia YouTube Daily Telegraph Socials: Instagram, TikTok, FacebookSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this special Q&A bonus episode, Moz and Josh sit down with the show's executive producer, Dan Box, to reveal the stories behind the story from their new documentary series on Sydney's gangland killings - The War IISee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A chance conversation uncovers a new witness to the disappearance of nine-year-old Samantha Knight. Moz and Josh discuss the missing children who haunt the generations. Subscribe to CrimeX+ todaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The cops catch up with one of Australia’s most-wanted during a raid in Turkey. Moz and Josh ask whether the future of these international law-enforcement operations could be under threat with the AFP and NSW Police seeming to have thrown their toys out of the pram. Subscribe to CrimeX+ todaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Josh is joined by Clementine Cuneo to talk about what it’s like to work the crime beat, covering the murders of Lilie James, Michelle Beets and the Sydney gangland shooting that left a nine-year-old girl with life-long injuries. Moz misses the conversation this time round as he is off on a jolly with the cops (but will report back next week). Subscribe to CrimeX+ todaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

EXPLICIT CONTENT WARNING. Moz and Josh are back for a second series of Crim City and this time they’re going back to the 1984 shoot-out between rival bikie gangs that left seven people dead, and sowed the seeds of the conflict raging in Sydney’s streets today. Subscribe to Crime X+ today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Moz comes clean on his old friend, drinking companion and later convicted killer Roger Rogerson, the ‘hero cop’ who flew high then fell hardSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. The new police commissioner starts to really earn her salary after two sudden deaths, one on the street and one in a nursing homeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. A visit to the Australian Federal Police, to see some of the close to a billion dollars worth of assets confiscated from criminals, and why Sydney’s underworld bosses like stepping out wearing a priceless watchSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.