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Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Episode 446: The Rockhampton Rapist- Leonard John Fraser

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

Inhuman Podcast

True Crime

4.62.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Leonard John Fraser is one of Australia’s most notorious serial killers. Fraser had a long history of violent sexual offenses, dating back to the 1970s but in the late 90's his crimes escalated to murder. Click here to join our Patreon.  Click here to get your own Inhuman merch.  Connect with us on Instagram and join our Facebook group.  To submit listener stories or case suggestions, and to see all sources for this episode: https://www.inhumanpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up you guys? I'm Andrea. And I'm Haley. And you're listening to case is actually a case suggestion. It is from one of our listeners from Australia and her name is Chris. So thank you,

0:41.7

Chris, for sending this case suggestion in because it is a case that I've never heard of. And it's

0:47.2

pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty bad. It's pretty rotten, terrible, horrible case.

0:54.9

Okay.

0:56.0

So, yeah, let's just dive right into it.

0:58.9

From December of 1998 to April of 1999, a true monster operated in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.

1:09.9

This man was Leonard John Frazier, also known as the Rockhampton rapist.

1:17.6

Oh my gosh.

1:19.6

But his crimes did not stop with rape.

1:23.6

Frazier also murdered at least four women and girls, and it's believed that he had many more victims because of what police found in his home when he was finally caught.

1:36.7

Oh my gosh.

1:38.5

So Rockhampton, which is located in central Queensland, is known its really do you hear that a little bit yeah

1:48.2

sorry they're doing landscaping or something outside not my house someone else's house of course

1:55.2

anyway yeah good timing on a sunday yeah so rockhampton is known as a tight-knit community. You know, it wasn't like super high crime rates back in these days. Obviously crime is everywhere, but it was kind of known as like more like chill town. Okay. But the crimes attributed to the Rockhampton rapist, shocked residents, as you can imagine.

2:23.1

And the actual period of his offenses spanned over several years.

2:28.4

And as we know, Frazier targeted women, girls.

2:32.9

And unfortunately, his crimes would just escalate over the years.

2:38.7

Frazier was born on June 27, 1951 in Ingham, Queensland, and he moved to Sydney with

2:46.9

his parents in 1957. During the 1960s, he left school after completing only the second year of high school.

2:56.5

And in 1966, at the age of 15, Frazier was arrested for the first time and jailed for 12 months for theft.

3:07.6

Oh my gosh.

3:08.9

Yeah.

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