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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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Christopher Bernard Wilder

The Crime Tree Jul 27, 2023

Christopher Bernard Wilder

Christopher Bernard Wilder

Christopher Bernard Wilder first became known to police at just 17 years old, after his involvement in the brutal gang rape of a 13-year-old girl in Sydney, Australia. 20 years later, he would become one of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugatives as he embarked on a cross-country killing spree across the United States.
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Jul 27, 202321:29
John Myles Sharpe: The Mornington Monster

John Myles Sharpe: The Mornington Monster

In 2004, the beautiful seaside community of Mornington, Australia, was thrust into the national spotlight for what has become one of Australia's most brutal and heinous double murders. This is the story of John Myles Sharpe, The Mornington Monster.

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Crime Investigation Australia : The Mornington Monster

Jul 27, 202320:57
Chloe Hoson
Jan 01, 202226:27
Olamide Adeyooye

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.
Dec 22, 202126:58
Samantha Bodsworth

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.

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Forensic Investigators
Wikipedia
Curtin University WA
Sep 16, 202128:07
Amanda Plasse

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 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.
Jul 30, 202120:38
Viviane Ruiz

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.
This is the story of Viviane Ruiz.

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Forensic Investigators
Sydney Morning Herald
ABC News
Find-A-Grave
Jun 25, 202122:41
Maria Lehner and Laura Watson-Dalton

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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Pop Culture Crime
AP News
Lacrosse Tribune
Radio Iowa
The Gazette
QC Online
Iowa Courts
Forensic Files S8 E29
Jun 11, 202117:31
Jayden Parkinson
May 28, 202120:60
Jennifer, Adrian and Sarah De Gruchy

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 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 evening of Tuesday the 12th of March in 1996. Wayne had called Jenny earlier that day to let her know that he wouldn’t be home, just as Jenny was getting ready to go pick up their two youngest children, 15-year-old Adrian and 13-year-old Sarah from school. What Wayne didn’t know was that this quick phone call would be the last time he spoke to his wife, and that within hours, Jenny and two of their three children would be brutally murdered.
This is the story of Jennifer, Adrian and Sarah De Gruchy.
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Crime Investigation Australia
Wikipedia
NZ Herald
Sydney Herald
May 09, 202118:44
Zahra Baker

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.

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Apr 23, 202118:13
The Eastburn Family Murders

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 DEPENDAsplaining Podcast True Crime Brewery Podcast Military Murder Podcast Generation Why Podcast Serial Napper Podcast The Criminally Obsessed Podcast Partners N Crime Podcast Innocent Victims by Scott Whisnant
Apr 09, 202132:16
Karlie and Khandalyce
Mar 26, 202127:59
Matthew Gailie
Mar 19, 202127:51
Florence Hildreth

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 before the introduction of advanced DNA technology, forensic investigators had to rely more than ever on their own ability in locating, analyzing and interpreting the evidence that had been left at the scene of a crime and what had been taken away; which more often than not could be of very little value in obtaining that crucial link between victim and perpetrator that’s needed to secure a conviction. But then there are the rare crime scenes that contain such an overwhelming amount of forensic evidence, that even before the use of DNA, it can result in a quick open and shut case. This is the story of 17 year old, Florence Hildreth. Linktree Sources FIND LAW https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-supreme-court/1774484.html A Jental Heart https://ajentleheart.wordpress.com/2018/05/20/1759/ US Courts https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/03/27/10-99004.pdf Find A Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130645666/florence-yvette-hildreth Lipstick Alley https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/his-niece-paid-the-price-for-her-uncle-feeling-sorry-for-an-unemployed-man.485891/ Gov Info https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-caed-1_95-cv-05309/pdf/USCOURTS-caed-1_95-cv-05309-23.pdf cncpunishment.com http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?88-Rodney-Berryman-Sr-California-Death-Row/page2&s=6de0d752be6fe2f10db46866c54d48b1 Incognito Forensic Foundation https://ifflab.org/
Mar 04, 202124:08
Gabriel Meyer

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.

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Forensic Investigators S2E4
Murder Calls S1E4
Wikipeadia
Nine News
Google Maps
Find A Grave
Feb 26, 202129:50
Amanda Carter
Feb 18, 202122:55
Jasmin Crathern & Julie McColl
Feb 11, 202127:50
Chad Choice and J.C Levassar
Feb 04, 202121:17
The Missing East Bay Area Girls
Jan 21, 202124:58
Xiana Fairchild
Jan 14, 202122:37
The Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre

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.
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Las Cruces Sun News
Jan 06, 202127:11
Greg Holman

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 vanished, and it would take 30 years for detectives at the Scottsdale, Arizona, Police Department to finally close the case.
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Murder Book
Dec 31, 202022:09
Sarah Cafferkey

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 serious violent offender was on the streets in her hometown of Bacchus Marsh, Australia, and Sarah Cafferkey was about to cross his path.


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Dec 23, 202022:29
Missing Persons Appeal AU #1
Dec 20, 202012:29
Ashley Pond & Miranda Gaddis

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 clear that evil was lurking in their neighborhood.

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Dec 16, 202019:56