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The Moorhouse Horrors/Call Girl Killing - Episode 6

We investigate the story of David and Catherine Birnie, Australia's most sadistic husband and wife killing team, who tortured, raped and murdered four women in 1986.

We also look into the murder of call girl Roslyn Watson which had remained unsolved for more than 15 years and would have stayed that way if it wasn't for the tenacious efforts of a bright young Western Australian Police Detective.

The Killer Punch/The Will of Death - Episode 7

Sometime on the evening of October 19, 1990, the flamboyantly gay Sydney socialite Ludwig Gertsch was strangled with an elastic strap in the bedroom of his lover, Mr Vincent Esposito.

His body was found, wrapped in a duvet, in Blue Mountains scrub on November 11, 1990.

In September 1994 a Sydney Coroner found that Ludwig Gertsch was strangled "by a person or persons unknown’. But that's where the murder trail ends - his killer has never been brought to justice.

The murder of Allen Hall at Warnervale, where he lived with Christine Hicks, the estranged wife of boxing mentor and horse trainer Cec Waters, presented a curious public with a cruel and twisted story.

Waters’ eldest son, Dean, eventually was charged with Hall's murder. However, it would be revealed later that Dean had succumbed to his father's demands.

Cec Waters was depicted as a bullying, obsessive father, who was determined to make his three sons become boxing champions but slaves to his evil will. The senior detective was Dennis O'Toole.

The Anita Cobby Murder - Episode 8

 In February 1986, nurse Anita Cobby, a former entrant in the Miss Australia quest, is walking home from Blacktown station in Sydney's outer-western suburbs.

A Holden sedan pulls up and Anita is dragged into the vehicle. She is taken to a lonely spot where five young men take turns to beat and rape her.

Finally her throat is cut, almost severing her head, and her body is left in a paddock.

The five men are later caught and convicted of these despicable crimes and sent to jail for life, their papers are marked "never to be released".

But something positive will come out of this appalling and deeply disturbing story, as Anita's grieving parents begin a support group for the families of murder victims, offering comfort and mutual help to more than 1000 loved ones of homicide victims.

Snowtown: Bodies in the Barrels - Episode 9

 In 1999, eight bodies are found in six barrels filled with acid in a former bank vault in rural Snowtown, 50 kilometres north of Adelaide.

Their investigation was to lead police to discover another four victims, in and around Adelaide.

Four men were charged with murder and other offences.

Eventually it was proven that 11 were murdered and another woman severely dismembered.

The horrific murders that occurred over a 7 year period involve torture, dismemberment, and even cannibalism.

The Kimberley Killer - Episode 10

Seven years after the disappearance of baby Azaria Chamberlain at Ayers rock, long before the murder of Peter Falconio on a remote stretch of highway in the Australian outback, and two years before Ivan Milat begins his murderous reign of backpacker murders, a silent killer is descending into madness in the wilds of Australia.

For the first time the complete story of one of Australia's most horrific serial murderers is finally revealed.

Almost twenty years ago in June 1987, a crazed gunman begins a journey which will take him thousands of kilometres across the vast Australian outback.

The killer's journey will result in the murders of five innocent tourists, spark one of the biggest manhunts in Australian history and end in a bloody last stand shootout with police at a remote outpost deep in the rugged Kimberly ranges of Australia's north.

Before it is over, thousands of residents living in communities scattered across the country's Top End will be terrorised.

Ordinary citizens will take extraordinary measures to arm themselves to protect their families from an insane murderer who appears to be hell bent on killing anybody who gets in his way.
The first of the gunman's victims are a father and son who are cold bloodedly shot dead whilst scouting for a fishing location on the banks of the isolated Victoria River in the Northern Territory.

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