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- 🇦🇺AU · True Crime#35100K to 300K
- 🇳🇿NZ · True Crime#108500 to 3K
- 🇲🇾MY · True Crime#112500 to 3K
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John Silvester answers your true crime questions
Jun 18, 2026
50m 39s
Send in your questions for a special mailbag episode
Jun 2, 2026
1m 43s
In a world of two-bit gangsters, Charlie Wootton was the last old-school crook
May 26, 2026
37m 30s
My brother, the Great Bookie robber
May 19, 2026
22m 01s
Naked City special: A conversation with John Silvester
May 12, 2026
1h 22m 41s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/18/26 |  John Silvester answers your true crime questions | For our final episode of season seven, John Silvester answers your questions about crooks, cops and crime. In this episode, Sly talks about his relationship with Chopper Read, for whom he and fellow journalist Andrew Rule ghost-wrote a series of books based on Read's prison letters. Sly talks about Melbourne's gangland war and its related characters, such as feared prisoner – and as we discover, aspiring poet – Matthew Charles Johnson. Johnson, of course, is best known as the man who killed Carl Williams in Barwon Prison. The episode, guest-hosted by producer and former crime reporter Tammy Mills, also traverses some of the cold cases that have haunted Melbourne, including the disappearance of Boronia schoolgirl Bung Siriboon, and the suspected murder of Cuckoo restaurant owner Willi Koeppen, widely regarded as Australia's first celebrity chef. Oh, and Sly also talks about the time he was accused of a violent crime. We'll see you next season.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 50m 39s | ||||||
| 6/2/26 | Send in your questions for a special mailbag episode✨ | mailbag episodelistener questions+3 | — | Fairfax Media | — | mailbagquestions+5 | — | 1m 43s | |
| 5/26/26 |  In a world of two-bit gangsters, Charlie Wootton was the last old-school crook✨ | Melbourne underworldillegal gaming+3 | Robert Wootton | Crown casinoNaked City+1 | — | Charlie WoottonMelbourne+5 | — | 37m 30s | |
| 5/19/26 |  My brother, the Great Bookie robber✨ | armed robberytrue crime+3 | Greg Carroll | Victoria ClubNaked City+1 | Melbourne | Great Bookie Robberyarmed robbery+3 | — | 22m 01s | |
| 5/12/26 |  Naked City special: A conversation with John Silvester✨ | journalismcrime+4 | John Silvester | The AgeSydney Morning Herald | — | John SilvesterErin Pearson+5 | — | 1h 22m 41s | |
| 5/5/26 |  Don’t play god, don’t mess with their mail – in prison with the worst of the worst✨ | prison lifetrue crime+3 | Brian Coghlan | Port Phillip PrisonABC | — | prison officerinmates+5 | — | 53m 15s | |
| 4/28/26 |  The champion boxer and the crime boss who wanted him dead✨ | boxingcrime+4 | Barry Michael | Naked CityThe Age and Sydney Morning Herald | — | boxingBarry Michael+5 | — | 42m 48s | |
| 4/21/26 |  The cop, the sovereign citizen and the arrest that ruined a life✨ | policingsovereign citizens+4 | Michael AstonDeanna Aston | — | ColdstreamVictoria | policesovereign citizen+5 | — | 43m 05s | |
| 4/14/26 |  The top cop who used his music career to find Tony Mokbel✨ | policingmusic career+4 | Ross Guenther | Victoria Police | — | Ross GuentherTony Mokbel+5 | — | 42m 12s | |
| 4/7/26 |  They were violent young offenders. But something happened to these ‘lost boys’ of Port Phillip✨ | youth crimerecidivism+3 | Anne Hooker | Corrections Victoria | Port Phillip PrisonVictoria | youth crimePort Phillip Prison+5 | — | 26m 55s | |
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| 3/31/26 | We'll be back soon✨ | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0m 18s | |
| 3/24/26 |  True detective, Part 2: Hunting a cannibal, and other tales of homicide✨ | homicidetrue crime+4 | Sol Solomon | — | — | homicidecannibal+5 | — | 57m 16s | |
| 3/17/26 |  True detective, Part 1: The hitman, and the corruption case of the century✨ | homicide investigationgangland crime+4 | Sol Solomon | The AgeSydney Morning Herald | — | homicideCarl Williams+5 | — | 1h 05m 02s | |
| 3/10/26 |  A cold case, a new suspect, and a mother who has never given up✨ | cold casemurder investigation+4 | Joy MembreyAndrew Stamper | Channel Ten | — | cold casemurder+5 | — | 26m 46s | |
| 3/3/26 |  The cop, the actor and the true tale of the Underbelly series✨ | gangland warUnderbelly series+4 | Rodger CorserStuart Bateson | Channel NineAndrew Rule+5 | — | UnderbellyMelbourne+6 | — | 32m 52s | |
| 2/24/26 |  The real story of Melbourne’s gangland war✨ | gangland warMelbourne crime+5 | Stuart Bateson | Channel NineNaked City: Hitmen | — | Melbournegangland war+8 | — | 38m 04s | |
| 2/17/26 |  Armed robbers and detonating bombs: Inside the elite police squad✨ | police operationsbomb disposal+3 | John Taylor | Special Operations Group | country Victoria | bomb disposalpolice squad+5 | — | 28m 15s | |
| 2/10/26 |  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 ‘body in the boot’ case. But the things that made him a crack detective, would also be the things that slowly brought him undone. In this special episode of Naked City, Peck shares his rise and fall, and rise again, with John Silvester. This episode includes a confronting discussion about suicide. If this content raises any issues for you, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 37m 42s | ||||||
| 2/3/26 |  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 Kelly has profiled them all. Now he’s turned his attention Down Under, to notorious child snatcher Mr Cruel, and his insights are compelling.You can read Sly's story here: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/a-new-profile-of-mr-cruel-who-may-have-been-a-burglar-before-he-was-a-killer-20240704-p5jr1e.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 14m 01s | ||||||
| 1/27/26 |  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-year-old Sharon Wills in 1988 and 13-year-old Nicola Lynas in 1990.In this special two-part episode on the notorious child snatcher who terrorised Melbourne streets, John Silvester speaks to the first police officer who was on the scene at the Chan abduction.The former sergeant, Rod Phillips, still wonders whether detectives were too quick to believe Karmein was taken by Mr Cruel and that they should have been looking in another direction, far closer to home.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 16m 41s | ||||||
| 1/20/26 |  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 took a year for police to identify the pattern and the extent of the burglaries – some reaching as far as Queensland and totalling millions of dollars. The chief burglar’s planning was impeccable, until one slip-up.In this episode of Naked City, crime reporter John Silvester interviews the detective who nabbed a meticulous international cat burglar.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 15m 30s | ||||||
| 1/13/26 |  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 could not have predicted what would happen next.What followed was one of the city’s most notorious child murders, that of her daughter, six-year-old Bonnie Clarke.In the first episode of a new season of Naked City, crime reporter John Silvester tells the story of a mother wrongly accused of her daughter’s murder, and a detective who, many years later, was determined to right a most wretched wrong.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 29m 00s | ||||||
| 1/6/26 |  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 City. The new season will premiere on Wednesday, January 14, and new episodes will drop each Wednesday. For the latest news and views from John Silvester (aka Sly of the Underworld), subscribe to The Age https://subscribe.theage.com.au or the Sydney Morning Herald https://subscribe.smh.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 0m 30s | ||||||
| 12/18/25 |  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 City. The new season will premiere on Wednesday, January 14, and new episodes will drop each Wednesday. For the latest news and views from John Silvester (aka Sly of the Underworld), subscribe to The Age https://subscribe.theage.com.au or the Sydney Morning Herald https://subscribe.smh.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 0m 33s | ||||||
| 10/2/25 |  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 podcast about parents who've had their children taken away, sat in the dock and even done time in prison. All for something they insist they didn't do – shake their baby. Can we trust the science behind shaken baby syndrome? Or are innocent people being locked up for a crime they never committed? Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/diagnosing-murder/id1843555473Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3LqYqSCZHW4vtA0yhiaJKB?si=f8c56f4b638b4a24Listen on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrLulycax358g-04ndbBaBg3ED4Dnyv0S&si=CVXIqoUI6AJ6DD5xSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. | 4m 02s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.
Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.