Welcome to episode 110, in which your hosts Ben and Claire are joined by regular special guest Matt Turfrey.
While beloved former producer Butch did cover the Hinterkaifeck murders in his only appearance presenting a story way back in episode 21, Matt has long been fascinated by the case and wanted to revisit it with fresh eyes and more details.
The Hinterkaifeck murders were the brutal, unsolved killings of six people on a remote Bavarian farmstead in 1922. The victims included all five members of the Gruber family and their new maid.
Ben also puts on his sleuthing hat and attempts to solve the mysterious case by looking at some infamous mass murders who were active in Germany at the time.
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Welcome to episode 109, in which Ben recounts a trio of hostage-taking tales - the 2010 attack on the Panama City school board meeting in Florida by 56-year-old Clay Allen Duke, the 1984 Sydney bank robbery and hostage crisis perpetrated by 35-year-old Hakki Bahadir Atahan and the 1996 Sand Island Incident at the Seal Masters of Hawaii building by 28-year-old John Miranda.
Then to conclude the episode, Claire coincidentally also has a compilation of cases to share - recent Tasmanian true crime stories that are all a tad on the unusual side...
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Welcome to episode 108, in which Claire tells the story of Isaac 'Ikey' Solomon, one of London's most infamous dealers in stolen property in the early 1800s, who was supposedly the inspiration for Fagin in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist.
His real life story is even more fascinating than the fictional version - hear how he ended up in Van Diemen's Land not once but twice!
Then Ben finished things off with a collection of stories about the celebrities who have earned themselves the longest prison sentences.
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Welcome to episode 107 and another instalment of the Itty Bitty Nitty Gritty with Claire and Kitty!
This month your hosts sink their teeth into culinary crimes and food-related felonies.
Claire starts off with the case of the KFC murders - an armed robbery that turned into an abduction and the execution-style killing of five people in Texas in 1983. It would take authorities 20 years to charge two of the offenders but would be an additional two decades before they could identify the final perpetrator.
Then to lighten the mood, Kitty tells the story of the seafood chowder that caused chaos among the cast and crew on the film set of the Titanic in 1996.
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Welcome to episode 106, in which Ben takes a leaf out of Claire's book and explores a historical Tasmanian crime story.
Venturing back more than 200 years, sealers working along the coastline had already been in contact with Aboriginal tribes, mainly to steal their women.
So when a large part of the state's North-West corner was taken over by the Van Diemen's Land Company to set up a grazing operation, tensions continued to rise with the Indigenous population - coming to a head with a horrendous attack that became known as the Cape Grim Massacre.
Then to finish things off, Claire marks Sir David Attenborough's recent 100th birthday with a story about a discovery made on the legendary BBC nature documentarian's London property that helped solve part of a gruesome Victorian murder mystery...
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Welcome to episode 105, in which Ben and Claire are first joined by forensic psychologist Sam to briefly follow up on a query that arose from the University of Texas tower shooting episode.
Claire then tells the story of 25-year-old Tammie Rickard, who went missing after walking home from a Launceston pub in 1999. Hear about the circumstances of the university student's disappearance and the police investigation that was starting to close in on the man responsible. Then the episode features another surprise cameo appearance to give a first-hand account of the perpetrator's arrest.
Ben then puts his average IQ to work by sharing some facts about differing degrees of murder, vehicular and assault charges.
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Welcome to episode 104, and another instalment of The Itty Bitty Nitty Gritty with Claire and Kitty!
Fancy a hot beverage? This time your hosts delve into crimes connected with cuppas, either tea or coffee.
Claire begins by telling the story of Graham Young, whose childhood fascination with chemicals took a dark turn... Sent to Broadmoor in 1962 as a 14-year-old for his devious doings, he was released in 1971, apparently reformed. But he was soon back to his old ways, with even more deadly results, earning him the name the Teacup Poisoner.
And Kitty recounts an Aussie case, which saw a Frankston man confronted with a gun-wielding wannabe carjacker. But refusing to hand over the keys to his beloved vehicle he fought back with the only weapon he had to hand...
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Welcome to episode 103, in which Ben tells the story of the 1966 University of Texas tower mass shooting. Hear about the perpetrator, Charles Whitman, the lead up to the shocking incident, how it unfolded, and the heroic actions of those who helped put an end to his deadly actions. In a final twist, something discovered after Whitman's death may possibly have explained why he did it...
And to finish things off - coincidentally - Claire also heads back to 1960s America to discuss a crime that was inspired by a Hollywood movie and led to one of the longest manhunts in US history. It was only a deathbed confession that revealed the truth after half a century.
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