Policing the Underworld and the High Country

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Former homicide detective Andrew Stamper reflects on the landmark investigations that defined Melbourne's underworld era and what it took to stop a city sliding into violence.

He shares the inside story of leading the High Country case from a missing persons report to a multi-year homicide investigation, and the emotional toll of searching for answers for families left behind.

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Host: Meshel Laurie

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0:00.0	Before we begin today's episode of Australian true crime, I want to tell you about a new project
0:04.5	we've been working on behind the scenes. It's called She Matters. It's a new podcast from
0:10.2	award-winning journalist and femicide researcher Shirel Moody. Each week, Shirel speaks with
0:15.3	families of women and children killed in Australia, sharing who they were, the joy they brought,
0:21.9	and the love they left behind. She Matters isn't a true crime podcast. It's about lives lived, lives loved and lives
0:28.7	lost. She Matters is produced by Dashmade podcasts in association with bravecasting media.
0:35.7	She Matters is available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:39.4	My priority was always to find the missing,
0:42.1	to bring people back to their loved ones.
0:46.0	There is no grief on earth,
0:47.8	like the grief that is experienced by people
0:51.0	whose loved ones just disappear,
0:54.1	just suddenly just vanish.
1:02.1	Andrew Stamper is a 40-year veteran of the Victorian Police Service,
1:06.7	and he took on major investigative roles from the early 2000s.
1:11.4	Stamper received a Chief Commissioner's commendation for his work in the Purana Task Force,
1:16.5	formed to combat the Melbourne gang war.
1:19.1	He then went on to advise the producers of the Underbelly TV series.
1:23.9	Stamper led both the homicide and missing persons units,
1:29.1	most recently overseeing the High Country murder case, a missing person's investigation that evolved into a homicide case.
1:35.4	Former Jet Star pilot Greg Lynn was eventually convicted of murder.
1:40.2	Andrew Stamper joins us on Australian True Crime to talk about his career and the reality of
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