Join John Silvester, Australia’s longest-serving crime reporter, as he talks to the cops and the crims in the sixth season of crime podcast Naked City. The new season will premiere on Wednesday, June 14, and new episodes will drop each Wednesday. Subscribe now and get all the episodes straight to your device. For the latest news and views from John Silvester (aka Sly of the Underworld), subscribe to The Age https://subscribe.theage.com.au or the Sydney Morning Herald https://subscribe.smh.com.auSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Premiering on November 4, the astonishing true story of how Melbourne homicide detectives broke all the rules in their quest to have Katia Pyliotis convicted for brutally murdering a dirty old man with a statue of the Virgin Mary. The Confession is a podcast where the justice system itself is on trial. At the centre of it all, is Katia Pyliotis, accused of bludgeoning a man to death. Four years of Katia’s life is spent behind bars, until the truth emerges because of a stroke of luck. When an item thought long lost is suddenly found and the spotlight is shifted from Katia to her accusers, the police. Richard Baker tells the story of a murder, a botched trial and the system that allowed it to happen.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wrong Skin: a relationship banned under traditional law. A new podcast from Richard Baker at The Age, Melbourne, investigating an unsolved, suspicious death and a missing person in the Australian outback. Click the link or search 'Wrong Skin' to subscribe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Victorian Government announces reforms to Coroner's Act and Phobe's grandfather Lorne responds. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Victorian Government has announced a review of the Coroner's Act amid widespread public concern about the inquest into Phoebe Handsjuk's garbage chute death.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We dissect the coroner's finding in Phoebe's case, raising serious questions about his conclusion and the methods he used to reach it. We examine the consequences of challenging a poor finding. And we reveal the Facebook post that prompted this podcast.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Seven months after Phoebe Handsjuk died, forensic scientists found a piece of paper in the pocket of the jeans she was wearing when she died. Whose number was it? And what did it mean?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Phoebe is remembered by her friends and family. We chronicle the competing memorials and funerals. And we journey to the shores of her Viking farewell.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We explore the difficulties of establishing Phoebe's time of death, and a debate between police and doctors over the value of trying to estimate when somebody has died.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We explore Phoebe's tumultuous last week and examine what she and her partner, Ant Hampel, did on her final day. Then we put the blowtorch to failings and omissions in the police investigation following her death, and the early conclusion that it was a suicide.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Our investigative journalists Richard Baker and Michael Bachelard report back on the tip-offs we've received and the political developments triggered by Phoebe's Fall since we launched.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Examines the state of Phoebe's mind and the relationship that dominated her life at the time of her death. We find evidence that she was planning to leave her partner, Ant Hampel. And we play audio of a secret recording made by Phoebe's mother of Ant's reaction to her death.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
We walk through the final hours of Phoebe Handsjuk's life, challenge the plausibility of the coroner's findings, and examine the gruesome mechanics of her death in a chilling re-enactment. We also hear from a leading forensic pathologist whom we commissioned to review the evidence.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Starts with the mysterious and gruesome death of 24yo Phoebe Handsjuk and the open possibilities that it was either murder, suicide or a tragic accident. Then it steps back to hear from Phoebe herself and then her friends and family describe her many traits; her beauty, her art, her physical strength, her appetite for drugs and booze, her obsessions with forbidden men.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A major investigation by The Age newsroom in Melbourne, Australia, into the death of Phoebe Handsjuk, who was found at the bottom of a garbage chute in a luxury apartment building.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A new podcast series from The Age, Melbourne, Australia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Leanne
The boyfriend seems SUPER shady, as does his friend, but I'm surprised that no one has speculated that she was maybe afraid of something or someone and in her confused state, thought that the chute was an alternative route out of the building. Perhaps she had no idea there was a compactor at the bottom, and in her extremely drugged/drunken state she saw it as something she could slide directly down to the ground floor. If he was out at the time, maybe she thought he was on his way back and she wanted to get away fast and didn't want to encounter him on the stairs or elevator. It seems pretty crazy, but who knows how she was interpreting her reality at that point whilst so under the influence :( Such a tragedy.
Mary P
"....young for the 'role'...", WTF!?
monnie🤬
For all those looking for something that they may not have heard.
April
I believe her boyfriend is a sociopathic, narsaccist. He might not be guilty of murder but his self centered actions absolutely caused tons of problems. Along with the incompetent investigation, this is just a nightmare for her family. Obviously, I 100% believe Ant did it and his rich, connected family helped him cover it up.
ID19188824
Came here from Morbid!