About this season
Crime Investigation Australia shines new light on some of Australia's most notorious crimes.
Episodes (10)
1. The Kimberley Killer
Aired 4 April 2021 • 49 min
A German tourist randomly shoots dead five people in a series of mysterious attacks across the Top End of the Northern Territory and the vast Kimberley region of Western Australia.
2. A Killer Amongst Us - The Norfolk Island Murder
Aired 11 April 2021 • 50 min
A young Sydney woman dies a violent death on a remote Norfolk Island in the South Pacific. Everyone expects police to quickly solve the case. But it takes four years and involves new DNA technology.
3. Buried Alive
Aired 18 April 2021 • 52 min
Abducted by two Satan-worshippers, two Queensland schoolboys are bound, tortured slowly with knives, sexually assaulted, and savagely beaten.
4. Date with a Serial Killer - Rodney Francis Cameron
Aired 2 May 2021 • 54 min
On a Melbourne ‘lonely hearts’ talkback radio show, a trap is laid by a psychopathic murderer recently released from jail and hunting for his next victim.
5. The Predator - Leonard John Fraser
Aired 9 May 2021 • 50 min
A 9 year-old girl in Queensland is raped and murdered in a crime that horrifies the people of the tropical city of Rockhampton.
6. The Assassination of John Newman
Aired 16 May 2021 • 50 min
In Australia’s only assassination of a serving politician, New South Wales MP John Newman is gunned down outside his Sydney home. A tip off leads police to a political rival, Vietnamese club owner Phuong Ngo.
7. The Night Caller - Eric Edgar Cooke
Aired 4 July 2021 • 53 min
Terror grips the city of Perth as police search for a crazed killer who's conducted a 4-year-long series of bizarre murders. The massive investigation involves fingerprinting more than 30,000 men.
8. John Ernest Cribb - The Devil Inside
Aired 11 July 2021 • 58 min
A psychotic killer abducts and rapes a young Sydney mother before killing her and two of her children. He even makes a cruel phone call to tell her husband she has run off with him.
9. The Moorhouse Horrors
Aired 18 July 2021 • 51 min
Serial killers David and Catherine Birnie abduct five women in Perth. Four are murdered and buried in a forest but the fifth manages a miraculous escape and leads police to the House of Horrors.
10. The Killer Punch & Contract to Kill
Aired 29 August 2021 • 59 min
Australian boxing’s ‘Royal Family’ is torn apart in 1988 when one of its sons is driven by his brutal father to commit a murder.