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Estimated from 5 chart positions in 5 markets.
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- 🇦🇺AU · True Crime#9530K to 100K
- 🇮🇳IN · True Crime#1091K to 10K
- 🇳🇿NZ · True Crime#122500 to 3K
- 🇵🇱PL · True Crime#131500 to 3K
- 🇮🇪IE · True Crime#152500 to 3K
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23K to 83K🎙 Weekly cadence·23 episodes·Long inactive - Monthly Reach
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33K to 119K🇦🇺84%🇮🇳8%🇳🇿3%+2 more - Active Followers
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9.8K to 36K
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S1 BONUS | A million-dollar reward
Jun 13, 2024
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S1 Bonus | Maria James inquest finding
Apr 1, 2022
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S1 Bonus | The Inquest
Nov 3, 2021
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S1 Bonus | Breakthrough in Maria James cold case
Aug 12, 2021
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S2 BONUS — The Price
Dec 16, 2020
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/13/24 |  S1 BONUS | A million-dollar reward | Victoria Police is set to announce a one million dollar reward for information that finally solves the case of Maria James, who was murdered in the back of her bookshop 44 years ago. And for the first time in seven years of investigating this case, police grant an interview to Rachael Brown. | — | ||||||
| 4/1/22 |  S1 Bonus | Maria James inquest finding | A Victorian Coroner has failed to name a killer in the 1980 cold case of Maria James. Her sons are devastated. But there's still hope, in leads yet to be chased by police. | — | ||||||
| 11/3/21 | S1 Bonus | The Inquest | The new coronial inquest into the murder of Maria James has wrapped up. Will the Coroner be able to name her killer? And of the police exhibits that haven't disappeared, what DNA testing can be done? This episode nears us closer to the end of the James brothers' 41-year-fight for answers for their mum. | — | ||||||
| 8/12/21 | S1 Bonus | Breakthrough in Maria James cold case | The discovery of a police exhibit - thought to be missing for around three decades - could finally help unmask the killer in the 1980 cold case of Maria James. | — | ||||||
| 12/16/20 |  S2 BONUS — The Price | The Royal Commission has released its final report into defence lawyer turned police informer Nicola Gobbo. | — | ||||||
| 9/21/20 | S2 08 | End game | We reveal the story of Nicola Gobbo's audacious bid to return to Australia. | — | ||||||
| 9/14/20 | S2 07 | Reckoning | Everything unravels, for Nicola Gobbo and Victoria Police. Their secret is out. | — | ||||||
| 9/7/20 |  S2 06 | Whatever it takes | Nicola hits rock bottom, but Victoria Police wants her to take on a new role ... as a witness. | — | ||||||
| 8/31/20 |  S2 05 | Glittering prize | Nicola wants to be the best source ever, and she leads police to the biggest target of all: the mafia. Her double life is getting riskier, but she can't stop. This episode charts an addiction and a crash. | — | ||||||
| 8/24/20 |  S2 04 | Rubicon | Nicola crosses the point of no return and becomes a police informer. She'll represent clients, while passing on the underworld's secrets to Victoria Police. | — | ||||||
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| 8/17/20 |  S2 03 | The darkest night | A drug house burglary smells of police corruption and a police informer is executed. | — | ||||||
| 8/10/20 |  S2 02 | One of the crew | As the gangland war explodes, both police and criminals start questioning Nicola's allegiances. Where do her loyalties lie? | — | ||||||
| 8/3/20 |  S2 01 | Nicola | We meet Nicola Gobbo in a secret location, in hiding, now that her double life as a police informer is out, and she begins telling us her full story. | — | ||||||
| 7/27/20 |  INTRODUCING Trace season 2 - The Informer | Lawyer Nicola Gobbo represented some of Australia's most dangerous criminals, all the while secretly working as a police informer. Why did she do it, and how was it allowed to happen?When her cover was blown, the story garnered media interest from around the world. In Victoria's justice system, all hell broke loose.Questions started to be asked about whether her clients received a fair trial. One man has walked free from jail, and more appeals are pending.Did Victoria Police - the organisation entrusted to uphold the law - end up undermining it, in a desperate bid to put criminals behind bars?Whose side was Nicola Gobbo on? Did she break the rules by giving up the secrets of her clients?The only media interview she's done since going into hiding is with Rachael Brown.Join Rachael and her co-reporter Josie Taylor for the second season of Trace. They'll explore the extraordinary story behind why Nicola Gobbo became an informer, exposing the secrets of criminals and the police along the way.Multi-award-winning Australian true crime. Trace examines the fractures in Australia's criminal justice system, and the decades-long ripples they've caused. An investigative podcast hosted by Rachael Brown. | — | ||||||
| 12/3/18 |  S1 07 | Hope | More than a year on from their plea for a new coronial inquest, the James brothers get a decision.Will they finally get answers to the burning questions they've carried for 38 years about the murder of their mother?And what about those items Trace has been given that might have DNA on them?Can they identify the killer?We take them to one of the world's best DNA labs, with some of the most sensitive equipment, to find out. | — | ||||||
| 6/12/18 |  S1 06 | Limbo | New evidence has been found. So can police test it for a trace of the killer? What happened to crucial documents? And a new confession.It is nearly a year since the James brothers applied for a new coronial inquest into their mum's murder, but the case hangs in legal limbo. | — | ||||||
| 9/6/17 |  S1 05 | Wait | The fall-out from major revelations in the Maria James cold-case continue, as her sons make a desperate plea to the Coroner. | — | ||||||
| 7/12/17 |  S1 04 | DNA | There's a major break in the case, as Trace uncovers a police bungle in the murder of Maria James. But it only serves to throw up more questions than answers, as the James brothers continue their desperate search for justice. | — | ||||||
| 7/5/17 |  S1 03 | Sins | A second person of interest emerges within the church. Rachael Brown investigates their past and discovers a dark and disturbing history. | — | ||||||
| 7/4/17 |  BONUS | How your leads are helping the investigation | Since Trace was first released, the ABC has received over 50 emails from the community with leads and tip offs. In this bonus update, reporter Rachael Brown follows up with two women who got in touch to say they saw men acting suspiciously around Maria's bookshop at the time of her murder. Send us your tips: trace@abc.net.au | — | ||||||
| 6/27/17 |  S1 02 | Confessions | Rachael Brown's investigation into the death of Maria James turns to the local Church, and Rachael tracks down a new witness who saw someone covered in blood around the time of Maria's death. | — | ||||||
| 6/20/17 |  S1 01 | Bookshop murder | On a winter morning in June 1980, Maria James turned to her son Mark and looked him in the eyes. "If anything happens to me, look after your brother." Later that day she was found stabbed to death at the back of her suburban Melbourne bookshop. | — | ||||||
| 6/16/17 |  INTRODUCING: Trace, series 1 — Bookshop Murder | June, 1980, suburban Melbourne: Mother of two Maria James is stabbed to death in the back of her bookshop. Her killer has never been found. Was it a scorned lover? A random stranger? Or was Maria's murder tied up in the sins of the Catholic Church? | — | ||||||
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Chart Positions
5 placements across 5 markets.
Chart Positions
5 placements across 5 markets.