The Crime Tree
The Crime Tree is a narrative-style true crime podcast, with stories from Australia and around the world; focusing on the victims and the forensics used to solve the case.
Episodes
January 1, 2022 • 26 mins
Born on the 8th of January in 1998, little Chloe Louise Hoson never made it through her first year of school; her life cut horrifically short at the hands of another. Her killer, despite admitting to murder and giving graphic details of Chloe’s last moments, including his actions afterwards, is now a free man; living alone and un-monitored, close to schools, in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia.
This is the story of 5-year-old, Chlo...
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December 22, 2021 • 27 mins
In 2005, when the body of a 21-year-old Illinois State University student was found 700 miles, or 1100km, from where she was attacked, investigators struggled to find any trace of her killer.
This is the story of Olamide Adeyooye.
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September 16, 2021 • 28 mins
In 1996, when a young mother was found murdered and dumped in parkland in Noosa, an Australian resort area along Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, detectives had to dig deep and use a tool that had never before been seen in Australia.
This is the story of Samantha Bodsworth.
SOURCES
Forensic Investigators
Wikipedia
Curtin University WA
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July 30, 2021 • 20 mins
At 6:47pm on the 26th of August 2011, a frantic 911 call shattered the otherwise somewhat peaceful city of Chicopee, located on the Connecticut River in Hampden County, Western Massachusetts.
Despite the crime rates of this area being quite high and well above the national average, its level of violent crimes is relatively low; so low in fact that in 2011 only one murder was reported.
This is the story of 20-year-old Amanda Plasse....
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June 24, 2021 • 22 mins
In 1991, when the body of a young woman was found discarded in a light industrial area south of Sydney, detectives thought she would be identified quickly. It was Christmas, and if someone's loved one was missing, this was definitely the time of year where it most likely wouldn't go un-noticed.
This is the story of Viviane Ruiz.
SOURCES
Forensic Investigators
Sydney Morning Herald
ABC News
Find-A-Grave
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June 11, 2021 • 17 mins
How did the bodies of two women, who were unknown to one another, end up in the same apartment rented by three University students, who were not only unknown to both girls, but were all away on vacation at the time of their deaths?
This is the story of Laura Watson-Dalton and Maria Lehner.
SOURCES
Pop Culture Crime
AP News
Lacrosse Tribune
Radio Iowa
The Gazette
QC Online
Iowa Courts
Forensic Files S8 E29
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May 28, 2021 • 21 mins
17-year-old Jayden Parkinson was the UK's 131st domestic abuse victim to lose her life in 2013...and this is her story.
SOURCES:
True Life Crime UK Episode 1
bbc.com
thesun.co.uk
LINKS:
Jayden's Gift Facebook page
GoGetFunding.com
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May 9, 2021 • 18 mins
Wayne and Jennifer De Gruchy and their three children were your typical Aussie family, living in Shellharbour’s middle-class suburb of Albion Park Rail, approximately 100km east of the NSW capital of Sydney.
Every Monday morning Wayne would make the hour and half commute up to Sydney where he worked, and it was not uncommon for him to spend the night at his parents' place if he’d had a long day, and this is where he was on the even...
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April 23, 2021 • 18 mins
10 year old Zahra had beaten the odds and survived cancer twice. She had fought hard for her chance to grow up; her chance to do amazing things in this world. But all that was taken away the moment Elisa Fairchild entered her life.
This is the story of Zahra Baker.
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April 9, 2021 • 32 mins
This is the story of the Eastburn Family murders and the trials of Timothy Hennis.
SOURCES
‘Three Trials for Murder’ by Nicholas Schmidle https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/11/14/three-trials-for-murder
Wikipedia
Makeup & Murder Podcast
Based on the Evidence Podcast
Crime Hounds Podcast
DEPENDAsplaining Podcast
True Crime Brewery Podcast
Military Murder Podcast
Generation Why Podcast
Serial Napper Podca...
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March 26, 2021 • 28 mins
In early February of 2012, Colleen Margaret Povey was in the final days of her breast cancer battle. As her family surrounded her hospital bedside, her eyes remained fixed on the door, desperately searching for the faces of her daughter and granddaughter whom she hadn’t seen in nearly three and a half years.
As Colleen’s body became weaker, she squeezed her husband Scott’s hand and asked; ‘Is Karlie and Khandalyce here yet?’
These ...
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March 19, 2021 • 27 mins
Across the US, intimate homicides account for approximately 9% of all murders nationwide, and while we hear accounts mainly of the cases involving victims that are women, violence against men and mariticide can quite often be less talked about. Mariticide is the killing of one’s husband, boyfriend or male intimate partner, and although a few cases have dominated headlines over the past 15 years or so, this has been due to the antic...
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March 4, 2021 • 24 mins
With modern advancements such as DNA profiling and high-tech computerized systems, the work of the Forensic Investigator has become both more complex and more straight forward. Straight forward in the sense that these days DNA can quickly incriminate or exclude someone from an investigation. But before the introduction of advanced DNA technology, forensic investigators had to rely more than ever on their own ability in locating, an...
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February 25, 2021 • 29 mins
When 17-year-old Gabe Meyer fails to return to his Innisfail, Queensland home for dinner, it is suggested that maybe he'd be taken by a crocodile. But his parents Sherrie and Doug feel that something far more sinister is wrong.
This is the story of Gabriel Meyer.
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Sources
Forensic Investigators S2E4
Murder Calls S1E4
Wikipeadia
Nine News
Google Maps
Find A Grave
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February 17, 2021 • 22 mins
When a young woman fails to return home after a night out celebrating her 22nd birthday in Hobart, Tasmania, detectives must wait 13 years and for the advancement of forensic science to help convict her killer.
This is the story of Amanda Carter.
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February 10, 2021 • 27 mins
Crime and violence committed against any person within the sex industry is generally seen as being ‘less important’ and not news worthy, but in Brisbane, Queensland, when two street workers were found brutally murdered, police wasted no time in setting up a task force and were determined to catch their killer before he could strike again.
This is the story of Jasmin Crathern and Julie McColl.
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February 3, 2021 • 21 mins
After the arrest of three men for their involvement in 2 bank robberies, detectives from Tyler, Texas had no idea that they had just set in motion the series of events that would lead to solving the murder of 80-year-old J.C Levassar in 1994, and the 1991 disappearance of 8-year-old Chad Choice.
This is their story.
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January 20, 2021 • 24 mins
Between 1979 and 1991, 5 girls, Tara Cossey, Amber Swartz-Garcia, Michaela Garecht, Ilene Misheloff and Nikki Campbell, vanished and have not been found to this day. After the announcement last month of the arrest of the man believed to be responsible for Michaela's abduction, we have decided to shine the light on not only her story, but also those of the other missing East Bay Area girls.
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January 13, 2021 • 22 mins
Born on July 8th 1992 in a Californian Prison, Xiana La-Shay Fairchild was sent to Hawaii to be raised by her maternal great-grandmother and her great-aunt. Here she blossomed into a smiley, happy and giggly little girl. But all that would change when Xiana's mother demanded her daughter back, so just before her 7th birthday, Xiana was flown over to Vellajo, California to be reunited with her mom.
6 months later, Xiana Fairchild v...
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January 6, 2021 • 27 mins
On the morning of February 10th 1990, a 911 call came in from the 'Las Cruces Bowl' bowling alley, alerting authorities to brutal massacre that has continued to haunt and devastate the community to this day.
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