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Take a journey into the dark depths of the Australian criminal underworld with Australia’s most formidable crime reporter - John Silvester. https://www.theage.com.au/topic/naked-city-jbi #crime #truecrime #police #news
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Introducing: Diagnosing Murder
For decades, families in Australia and overseas, have been accused of one of the worst crimes imaginable – child abuse. Diagnosing Murder is an invest...

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The Hill Family's Fight For Justice
In this episode of The Missing Campers Trial, Penny and Erin are joined by acclaimed journalist John Silvester with an update on the legal avenues Rus...
John Silvester on the Easey Street murders, and the secret he kept for years
For years, one of Australia’s best known crime reporters, John Silvester, kept a secret.
He knew there had been a significant development in a n...
The Curious Case of Zig Zag Road
Esteemed crime reporter and host of the Naked City podcast John ‘Sly’ Silvester joins The Missing Campers Trial to talk about his interview with Russe...
The Morning Edition: John Silvester on the criminal gangs infiltrating the CFMEU
For more than 45 years, John Silvester has been reporting on Australia’s criminal underworld.
Some notable figures, like Mick Gatto, a ke...
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Sly joined The Age Crime and Justice Reporter Erin Pearson, and Nine News Reporter Penelope Liersch on their podcast The Missing Campers Trial, to dis...
73 seconds to a tragic death
Tyler Cassidy was a troubled kid. Police officers Colin Dods and Richie Blundell were working an afternoon shift in the Northcote divisional van. Thei...
The cyber cop chasing the crypto criminals
Very few people have heard of Detective Sergeant Dion Achtypis - but there may well be no more important investigator in Australia.
You won’t se...
Belinda's partner was beyond help. Now, he helps her save strangers
Belinda Bozykowski was never a police officer. But her partner, Laurie Fox, was.
On the last day of 2012, Fox took his own life, leaving her wit...
Bread, water and the Liquorice Mile: Inside Pentridge Prison
Prodigious armed robber and expert escaper John Killick escaped custody in three states, once in a helicopter hijacked by his girlfriend.
Most...
Kaera was shot in cold blood on a city street, and we blamed her
It was early on Monday, June 18, 2007, just as city workers were arriving at their jobs that Hells Angel Christopher Wayne Hudson finally imploded.
Kid Currie: Life and death in the Special Operations Group
As a policeman, Tony “Kid” Currie lived on the edge. In the SOG he shot and killed one suspect and in a second incident left one with life-altering in...
Blood on the steps of Flinders St: The brave men who chased a police killer
Keith Pickering was just 19 and a young cop when he was on point duty outside Flinders Street Station in January 1974. He heard a vendor yell out and...
The double murder-suicide that rocked a small country town
Kevin Knowles was a brute, a thug and a suspected double murderer.
Kirkstall was a lovely county town inhabited mainly by young families lookin...
A cultish nightmare: David’s 12 years in hell with The Family
From the age of two, David Freeman was hidden with a group of children in a remote country house, described as a school that was actually a prison.
The judge who committed three deadly sins
Howard Nathan was a Supreme Court judge for 14 years. Many of his peers did not accept him because he was gay, Jewish and left-wing. One judge did not...
Coming soon: Naked City season 6
Join John Silvester, Australia’s longest-serving crime reporter, as he talks to the cops and the crims in the sixth season of crime podcast Naked City...
Trailer: The Confession
The astonishing true story of how Melbourne homicide detectives broke all the rules in their quest to have Katia Pyliotis convicted for brutally murde...
The twin bandits and the cop who brought them undone
Peter Morgan and his twin Doug used their identical looks to fool police while pulling two dozen armed robberies in Victoria.
That is until toug...
The good people who stare down evil
Policeman Rod Miller came home tired from a late shift but took the time to sign more than 60 thankyou cards to friends and family who congratulated h...
The hunt for the police killers begins
When police officers Gary Silk and Rod Miller were fatally shot the crime scene was chaotic as it was believed one of the armed offenders was still th...
Smoking guns: two police murdered, two suspects, one conviction.
When Sergeant Gary Silk and Senior Constable Rod Miller pulled over a blue Hyundai in Moorabbin in 1998 while on armed robbery stake-out duty they had...
'Meet me at the pub': The murder that stunned Melbourne.
Jill Meagher sent a text to her husband Tom - "Meet me at the pub" but he was asleep and missed the message.
By the the time he saw it she had b...
Mr Clean: The story of an international money launderer
When Bruce Aitken headed to an international airport for one of his hundreds of overseas trips, he would always take his golf bag – a fairly normal pi...
The secret life of a sheep breeder: The Wettenhall family murders
Darcy Whettenhall was a champion sheep breeder, running the Stanbury stud farm near Geelong. His perfectionism, drive and achievements were famous in...
Rats in the rafters: The travelling tradie con
There's a knock at your front door. A couple of tradies say they've been working on the house next door and they've noticed tiles missing from your ro...
The inside man who turned on Melbourne's last great armed robbery gang
What he had was information on a notorious armed robbery crew, known as the gym gang, and he was prepared to talk, if the deal was right.
He wa...
'A heist like a Hollywood movie': The hunt for the Gym Gang
Their heists were meticulous, and executed with military-style precision. And as soon as one job was done, they would disappear, sometimes for years.<...
The knockabout judge and the gangland war
Supreme Court judge Paul Coghlan has spent more than 50 years investigating, prosecuting and judging serious crooks on serious crimes.
Coghlan,...
The Frankston serial killer: The net closes
How police caught Paul Charles Denyer, and the women who came chillingly close to the Frankston serial's orbit.
In part two of John Silvester's...
When it rained: Seven weeks to catch a serial killer
In the winter of 1993, a serial killer terrorised Melbourne, stalking and murdering three young women in the bayside suburb of Frankston.
John S...
Coming soon: Naked City season five
The much anticipated fifth season of Naked City arrives on June 22.
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Coming soon - Liar, Liar: Melissa Caddick and the Missing Millions
Since late 2020, the case of missing Sydney woman Melissa Caddick has captivated the country. A seemingly successful businesswoman from Sydney's easte...
From undercover to under lock and key
Cliff Lockwood was just 19 when he left the peace of a tiny town to join the police force. “I know it sounds funny but I just wanted to do good. Ninet...
Purana: Melbourne's gangland taskforce
For a time gangland figures lived a fast and often lucrative life, but very few made it out alive. After 11 unsolved murders, including Moran brothers...
A country school kidnapping: An unbelievable tale
The rookie teacher at the tiny country school was startled during morning recess when some of the kids ran into the single weatherboard classroom, yel...