The Coniston Massacre is the name given to the officially-sanctioned murder of hundreds of Indigenous people of the Warlpiri, Anmatyerre, and Kaytetye tribes, committed by Northern Territory police and landowners in 1928. The massacre was motivated, ostensibly, by the murder of Fred Brooks, a white station hand who worked at Coniston Station. In retaliation, William George Murray led a series of expeditions in search of Brooks’ murderers. Murray and his party indiscriminately murdered almost...

Australia had a bit of a tourism boom in the late ‘80s, with people travelling from all over the world to experience a bit of the Crocodile Dundee life for themselves. Inns, roadhouses, and campgrounds were full of tourists braving the brutal heat, the isolated highways, and the third degree sunburn for the chance to experience the wonders of the Australian Outback. Josef Schwab was not one such tourist. Inside his rented 4WD were army fatigues, camouflage gear, high-powered rifles, and over...

CU in the NT, m***********s! Our first foray into the Top End covers the murder of Peter Falconio, a British tourist who was murdered while on holiday with his girlfriend, Joanne Lees, on a road trip from Sydney to Darwin. Bradley John Murdoch played the role of concerned fellow motorist when he signalled to Joanne and Pete to pull over, saying that sparks were coming out of the exhaust on their Kombi. Knowing that car trouble could lead to serious trouble if they were stranded on the...

Merry Crisis! Yes, that magical time of year is upon us where we give gifts, wear ugly Christmas sweaters despite the 35 degree heat, and suppress emotional breakdowns for the benefit of our loved ones. Some of you may be struggling with what to get the morbidly-inclined person in your life. But don’t despair, the MITLOO team are here to suggest a range of products to satisfy anyone’s dark desires. This episode was not sponsored by any of the businesses mentioned here but having said that...

Welcome to our final episode in Western Australia, for real this time. In Part Two of our discussion of Eric Edgar Cooke, we discuss Cooke’s final crimes, his trial and subsequent execution, and two of the many destroyed lives that Cooke left in his wake – John Button and Darryl Beamish, the two men who went to prison for crimes that Cooke had committed.

Eric Edgar Cooke terrorised the people of Perth for years, but they didn’t know it. The people didn’t know that the nighttime prowler breaking into people’s homes and stealing money from purses while they slept, the peeping Tom who watched women getting changed and young couples getting busy, the maniac striking women down in deliberate hit-and-runs, the murderer of two young, well-known socialites, and the perpetrator of the Australia Day weekend massacre were all one person. How could...

The ghosts keep comin’ and they don’t stop comin’ in the second Halloween special from your favourite amateur paranormal investigators. Turn on your head-mounted GoPro, loosen the top of your flashlight and get ready to record some EVPs, because it’s time to go ghostbusting, Aussie style. Who cares that it’s November? It’s always Halloween in our hearts!

Aaron Pajich had dreams he wanted to fulfil. He worked hard, he wanted to get a good job, and he wanted to live in Japan. Aaron was autistic, loved video games and computers, and by all accounts, he was as friendly and good-natured as they came. Jemma Lilley’s dream in life was to be a killer. She had concocted a fantasy life in which she was a sadistic killer named SOS, with a ‘murder cult’ of worshippers, more powerful than any killer before her. Trudi Lenon was Jemma’s lover and SOS’...

This episode discusses domestic violence and the murder of children. Anthony Harvey was obsessed with serial killers, and in order to cope with life, he created a fantasy world in which he was a serial killer. He decided to make this fantasy a reality, and begin “hunting”, but in order to do so, he needed to eliminate those closest to him. In September 2018, Anthony Harvey murdered his wife, his three young daughters, and his mother-in-law, in a violent attack a judge deemed to be “so far...

LISTEN TO WOMEN, FOLKS. Phew, now we’ve got that out of the way. This is the story of Catherine and David Birnie, sure, but more importantly, it’s the story about a survivor, Kate Moir, and how her ingenuity, bravery, and commitment to the truth led to the arrest of two serial murderers and rapists. Kate survived an abduction, several rapes, imprisonment, and narrowly escaped being murdered, but when she went to the police, they tried to ‘stitch her up’ into giving a false report. But...

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Welcome to the first episode of our Western Australia season! Fair warning, this episode discusses the death of children. Remember when we said we weren’t gonna cover child murder cases? We’re massive liars. Life’s tough out there for a kid in 1907. You have to write on a literal rock at school, the only thing you have to play with is a hoop and a stick, there are no video games yet, and you’re dodging the Grim Reaper at every turn. If the ol’ infant mortality rate doesn’t get you, or the...

Throughout our South Australia season, we’ve unintentionally covered a number of cases that have involved missing persons. Approximately 38,000 people are reported missing in Australia each year, and 99.5% of those that are reported missing are located. There are currently 1600 long-term missing persons cases in Australia. In this Very Special Episode, we want to shine a light on some of these long-term missing cases in true MITLOO fashion – one per each state in Australia. We also discuss...

Oof, you guys. This hit home. Carly Ryan was a bright, loving young girl who had a solid relationship with her mum, Sonia. Carly was a typical teenage girl in 2006 – she loved emo music, alternative fashion, and she was heavily invested, like we all were back in the glory days, in her MySpace profile. On MySpace, she met a guy – Brandon, who liked all the things Carly liked, and most importantly, liked Carly. Carly and Brandon began an online relationship, but Carly found out that Brandon...

Listener warning: this episode will discuss paedophilia, sexual abuse, murder, torture, dismemberment, and other gross things we’ve managed to repress from our psyches. If you want your psyche to remain intact, consider not listening to this episode. It’s fine, we understand. This week, we look back on how the Snowtown murders all began, what made John Bunting and Robert Wagner the people they would become, and the evidence that Jamie Vlassakis gave at trial that put them behind bards for...

Be warned, this episode covers some seriously f****d up s**t. This episode will discuss paedophila, sexual abuse, assault, torture, murder, dismemberment, and many other horrific things. Listener discretion isn’t just advised, it’s mandatory. We explicitly stated at the start of this season that we weren’t gonna cover Snowtown… and yet here we are. The Snowtown murders, or the Bodies in the Barrels murders, is the name given to a series of killings committed in the nineties in Adelaide,...

It’s kind of a Criminal Minds-style cliché to have a murderer be motivated by his sexual inadequacies, but truth is sadly often much worse than fiction. Mark Errin Rust was a sexual predator, rapist, arsonist, and murderer who was convicted of the sexual assault and murder of two women, 30-year-old Maya Jakic, and 18-year-old Megumi Suzuki. Maya Jakic had been murdered and left in the bushes outside the old Payneham police station in Adelaide, South Australia, in April of 1999. Calls were...

This bad boy has been the big kahuna of Australian mysteries for a long time, and it’s time for your girls to take a swipe at the Somerton Man, the mystery man whose body was found lying on Somerton Beach in Adelaide in 1948. The man had no identification, no money, no labels on his clothes, and a mysterious clue in his pocket – a rolled up piece of paper bearing the words tamam shud, meaning ‘the end’ or ‘finished’. To solve the mystery of how he died, the police first had to establish who...

South Australia, we’ve been waiting to get inside you for a long, long time. To start our journey around Australia's most messed-up state, we have the Truro murders, the name given to the truly traumatic series of serial murders committed by Christopher Worrell and James Miller. From 1978 to 1979, a series of human remains were located in remote bushland near the town of Truro, eighty kilometres away from Adelaide, South Australia. As more bodies turned up, police became convinced they’d...

Conspiracy time! Environmental activist and political leader Brenda Hean went missing in 1972 after her plane mysteriously vanished while she was on her way to the nation’s capital to protest the government-sponsored flooding of Lake Pedder. Brenda had been fighting the government and the Hydro-Electric Commission, who’s damming system was to flood the lake, at every turn. She formed the United Tasmania Group, the world’s first Green political party, to try and save the lake. But the...

Tassie has a reputation of being an inbred backwater twenty years behind the rest of Australia, and to a certain extent that’s true (less so with regards to the inbreeding perhaps). But sometimes, Tassie is ahead of the times. That was the case when the murder of David Crawford caused a breakthrough in forensics. Murdered brutally with an axe in his own home, police quickly zeroed in on a suspect – friend and neighbour, Ivan Jones. The police needed a way to destroy Jones’ alibi, and they...

In this bonus episode, we discuss the infamous murder of JonBenet Ramsey, and have a surprisingly civil debate about the possible perpetrators of this horrible crime.

Warning: this episode contains brief mention of sexual assault, and not at all brief mentions of cannibalism. All of Australia has some pretty messed up history from the convict days, but that s**t reaaally got concentrated in Tassie. The convicts of Van Diemen’s Land, as it was known back in the day, were some of the weirdest, most brutal, and most messed up lads around. Alexander Pearce was perhaps the best example of this. A career criminal, alcoholic, occasional bushranger, and...

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For our second Tassie episode, we cover one of the worst mass shooting in Australian history. The shooter was Martin Bryant, a 25 year old man with the IQ of an eleven-year-old. Having the mind of a child didn’t stop him from getting his hands on a bunch of semi-automatic weaponry and murdering 35 people and wounding 23 more at Port Arthur Historic Site on April 28, 1996, though. The massacre lead to a massive overhaul of Australia’s gun control laws. The ability to purchase firearms were...