In this episode, Marti takes us to Australia and the devastating 2024 Bondi Junction shopping centre attack.

We look at the story of Joel Cauchi, the 40-year-old man who killed six people and injured ten others in just a matter of minutes, and the questions that followed about his deteriorating mental health, missed opportunities for intervention and why the majority of his victims were women.

We also head down the very dark rabbit hole of incel culture — where it came from, how online communities became increasingly misogynistic, and the violence that has been linked to the ideology.

Was Cauchi's attack connected to misogyny or incel ideology, or was this the devastating result of severe mental illness and a system that failed to intervene?

Sources for this episode are:
60 Minutes Australia looksmaxxing
BBC News Incels - A new terror threat to the UK
ABC News
news.com.au
Coroners court inquest of NSW doc inquest into the deaths at Westfield Bondi Junction volume one
The Independent newspaper

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Trigger Warning - This episode contains themes of child sexual abuse and the murder of children.

In our SECOND episode of the month!
Cheryl tells the story of Robert Black, the Scottish serial killer and paedophile whose horrifying murderous reign began in the 70s and continued throughout the 1980s.

We also chat about the Edinburgh Fringe, what our Mastermind Subject would be- you'll never guess! And why one of us won't be swimming in the ocean at Portobello anytime soon!

Sources for this episode are:
The Book: Fear The Stranger by Dept Chief Constable Hector Clark
The Channel 5 Documentary: Manhunt - Child Snatcher - Also on Netflix
The BBC Documentary: Searching For A Serial Killer
The Podcast: Small Town Dicks - Series 8 Episode Vanished

Hosted & Researched by Marti Jeremiah-Shelley & Cheryl Lessels

Theme Music Vampire Strut by Joybean @AudioJungle

Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mumsmysteriesandmurder/

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There's a lot going on in this episode so strap yourself in!

Today - if you're listening on the day this drops we're celebrating five years of Mums Mysteries & Murder... with our 70th episode and we've got a big announcement!

Before we get into the mystery, we're sharing some exciting news about the future of the podcast!

Then we're heading deep into the Australian Outback to investigate one of Australia's strangest unsolved mysteries: The Marree Man.

Stretching over 4 kilometres (2.5 miles) across a remote desert plateau, this enormous geoglyph appeared without warning in 1998. Visible only from the air!

How was something this enormous carved into one of the most isolated parts of Australia without anyone noticing? Was it an elaborate art project? A military prank? The work of an eccentric artist? Or is there another explanation entirely?

Sources for this episode are:
The Australian Times
Australia's Dessert Enigma - discovery.com

In this episode, we also chat about what we were doing in 1998, more cruise chat, aliens and crop circles and Cheryl drops a surprising story about her past!

Thank you for being part of our first five years, staying with us and supporting the pod. We genuinely couldn't have done it without you.
Here's to another 5 ( at least )

Hosted & Researched by Marti Jeremiah-Shelley & Cheryl Lessels

Theme Music Vampire Strut by Joybean @AudioJungle

Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mumsmysteriesandmurder/

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