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The Crime Tree
by Jasmin | True Crime
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.
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Chloe Hoson
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…
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Olamide Adeyooye
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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Samantha Bodsworth
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...
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Amanda Plasse
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...
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Viviane Ruiz
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....
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Maria Lehner and Laura Watson-Dalton
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.…
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Jayden Parkinson
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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Jennifer, Adrian and Sarah De Gruchy
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...
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Zahra Baker
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. Linktree Instagram
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The Eastburn Family Murders
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...
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Karlie and Khandalyce
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...
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Matthew Gailie
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…
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Florence Hildreth
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...
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Gabriel Meyer
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. Linktree Sources Forensic...
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Amanda Carter
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. Instagram @thecrimetree SPONSOR Today’s episode is...
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Jasmin Crathern & Julie McColl
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...
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Chad Choice and J.C Levassar
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....
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The Missing East Bay Area Girls
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...
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Xiana Fairchild
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...
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The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre
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. For links please visit: Linktree Sources: Reddit - Unresolved Podcast Soundcloud…
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Greg Holman
14-year-old Greg Holman was, by all accounts, an awesome kid. He had a 'big brother' type reputation among the younger kids of his neighborhood and he was fiercely protective of them all; the kids knew they could go to Greg for anything. Then on the Sunday evening of October 8th 1978, Greg simply...
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Sarah Cafferkey
Sarah Cafferkey was a beautiful and bubbly 22-year-old, full of hopes, dreams, and determination. Knowing that her life was beginning to spiral out of control, Sarah knew she needed to make a change; but unfortunately, that change would never come. Due to many failures in the parole system, a...
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Missing Persons Appeal AU #1
In Australia, more than 38,000 people go missing each year, and while most are found within a short period of time, there remain approximately 2,600 long term missing persons; those who have been missing for more than 3 months. Let's work together and help bring the missing home. For photos of…
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Ashley Pond & Miranda Gaddis
12-year-old Ashley Pond vanished as she walked to the bus stop on the morning of January 9th 2002, leaving law enforcement to speculate that she may have just run away. But when her best friend 13-year-old Miranda Gaddis disappeared two months later while walking to the same bus stop, it became...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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.
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