71: Vikki Petraitis

True Crime Binge

Bob Ruff

True Crime

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Bob chats with Australian true crime author, teacher, and PhD student, Vikki Petraitis. Vikki is also the host of two incredible podcasts, “The Vanishing of Vivienne Cameron” and “Searching for Sarah MacDiarmid,” both of which were created in collaboration with the extremely popular “Casefile” podcast. Before discussing her podcasts, Vikki and Bob discuss gender roles in true crime fiction, how to define fearlessness, and what it’s like to write so many books you’ve lost count. They then discuss the mysterious disappearance of Vivienne Cameron and the murder of Beth Barnard on Philip Island in 1986.

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0:00.0	The internet's full of true crime podcasts.
0:05.7	More and more are added to the list every day.
0:08.7	Figuring out where to start or where to go next can be overwhelming.
0:12.3	But have no fear.
0:13.5	I'm Bob Ruff, and this is the place to find your next true crime binge.
0:20.9	Thank you. the place to find your next true crime binge.
0:46.1	All right. I am joined by the very notable true crime author from Australia, Miss Vicki Petratus.
0:51.8	And for you listeners, you may have noticed that there wasn't an intro before the music. And that's because, sorry for the housekeeping Vicky, but I, for 100 episodes before I play
0:59.3	the music, I record an intro that says who I'm about to talk to.
1:02.8	And then this week, my producer said, why do you do that?
1:06.8	It just takes another extra hour of work just to put in that five second blurb.
1:10.8	So we're not going to do that anymore.
1:12.8	And Vicki, thanks so much for joining me.
1:14.8	Thank you so much for having me.
1:17.0	Oh, so you are, what part of Australia are you in?
1:21.2	I am right down the bottom in Victoria and from Melbourne.
1:27.1	Okay.
1:27.8	So now, is that because the news we're getting here, I know a few months back, there was parts
1:33.0	of Australia that were in like pretty crazy lockdown.
1:36.0	And then like last week we were getting news that it was like really crazy lockdown going
1:40.6	on.
1:40.8	Are you in that part of Australia or are you guys a little more opened up?
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