This is Australian True Crime International with Michelle Laurie.

Do you believe that clairvoyance can be helpful in solving crimes?

Well, whether you do or you don't, we've got two episodes for you today that I'm sure you will find fascinating.

The first one is from the perspective of the childhood friend of a missing man,

and the second episode features the clairvoyant who helped crack the case.

This is Australian True Crime. We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this

podcast is created, the Wurundri Woi Warang people of the Kulin Nation.

And a warning, this episode of the podcast

contains graphic descriptions of violence. Jim Cosgrove studied journalism very seriously as a young

man and he worked as a journalist for a long time. His own childhood was haunted by the

disappearance of a boy from his

neighborhood. And as you'll hear shortly, the children in Jim's neighborhood were a very,

very close-knit bunch. So it was like losing a cousin and it obviously made a huge

impression on him. But there's yet another event that links Jim's life to the true crime

genre. I couldn't help but ask Jim

Cosgrove about the rather stellar quote on the front of his book, Ripple, under the words

riveting true crime storytelling, chilling and unforgettable, is the very impressive name of John

Douglas, who a lot of us will know is the co-author of Mind Hunter and the man widely recognized as the

world authority, if not the inventor of criminal profiling. I mean, it's not every first time

author who gets such a luminary to read their manuscript and contribute a nice big fat quote

for the cover. Jim was clearly very proud but also a little bit embarrassed when I asked about the

quote and he told me very humbly that he knows John Douglas through a crime that happened in his

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