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Australian True Crime

Shortcut: What a Forensic Pathologist Actually Does

Australian True Crime

Bravecasting

True Crime

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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This is a "Shortcut" episode. It’s a shortened version of this week’s more detailed full episode, which is also available on our feed. 

 

David Ranson is one of Australia's most experienced forensic pathologists.

 

I wrote a chapter about him in my book CSI I Told You Lies, in which he described traveling to Holland in 2014 to join the International Victim Identification Team after MH17 was shot down over Ukraine. David also worked in victim identification after the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 and the Black Saturday bushfires in 2009.

 

David has given forensic evidence in some of Australia's biggest criminal cases, including those of serial killer Peter Dupas, the Walsh Street police shootings and countless Melbourne underground murders.

 

These days he's trying to move toward retirement, in his words, and concentrating on teaching, and he joins us on Australian true crime to talk about the kinds of things he's passing on to his students.

 

Australian True Crime LIVE is coming to Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne this July! It'll be full of special guests and Q+A's, and we can't wait to see you in person. You can find tickets by clicking this link.

 

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CREDITS:

Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram 

Guest: David Ranson

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

 

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0:00.0

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

0:04.3

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

0:07.4

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

0:10.3

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

0:15.2

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

0:19.9

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.

0:26.0

This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.

0:29.0

So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will

0:33.8

contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian

0:38.4

true-crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

0:42.0

listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.

0:47.0

The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.

0:59.5

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

1:07.0

David Ranson is one of Australia's most experienced forensic pathologists.

1:17.0

I wrote a chapter about him in my book CSI Told You Lies, in which he described

1:22.0

traveling to Holland in 2014 to join the international victim

1:25.8

identification team after MH17 was shot down over Ukraine.

1:31.9

David also worked in victim identification after the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 and the Black Saturday Bush fires in 2009.

1:40.0

David has given forensic evidence in some of Australia's biggest criminal cases, including those of serial killer Peter Du Pass, the Wall Street police shootings, and countless Melbourne underground murders.

1:52.0

These days he's trying to move toward retirement in his words

1:56.2

and concentrating on teaching and he joins us on Australian True Crime to talk about the kinds of things

2:02.0

he's passing on to his students,

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