We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,

and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.

Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.

Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,

our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in

Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly. The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.

They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.

The following podcast contains content of a graphic violent nature and is not suitable for children.

I was dreaming about his dead mother. I was dreaming about these ghosts and the victims and the smell that was coming out of the house.

That's what really opened up the whole case. It was the smell. If you think Melbourne is going through a wacky period at the moment, with former

footballer's wives being sensationally exposed on social media as lockdown dodgers and even worse as closet Kmart mums and drunk rioting fake tradesmen laying siege to a war memorial because they're

scared of needles or something. Then have we got a story for you.

This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Laurie and Emily Webb.

Come with us as we go beyond the news cycle to find out how people become killers,

how people become victims and what happens next.

Many of our recent riots have started or ended outside our famous Young and Jackson's hotel,

right in the heart of Melbourne.

It's connected in one way or another to many an Australian true crime story.

About 150 years ago, a detective was enjoying a quiet drink at Young and Jackson's when he

overheard a wine merchant talking about a very

odd man he'd met on the boat over from Perth. He said that stranger's name was Baron Swansden.

Apparently the detective was what is known today as a very good operator because he realized that this Baron Swansden was in fact a man by the name of Frederick Deeming, who Victoria Police were keen to speak to about a number of grave matters.

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