It's May 1942, and Melbourne, Australia, just like the rest of the world, is in the grips of WW2. As a result, Melbourne is in 'brownout' a term used to describe the low lighting the city used to avoid enemy detection (think minimal streetlights, shops lights etc).

A killer takes advantage of this low lighting and three women are found strangled, all within days of each other. As a new fear grips the area, particularly the women living in it, the last victim's death will be the one that brings a new, unheard of hatred to light and a killer to justice.

Join Belinda over a cup of joe, or a cheeky cocktail, as we travel back to wartime 1942 to discuss the Brownout Strangler.

Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans

It's early morning NYE 1921, in a quiet, yet seedy laneway known as Gun Alley in the heart of Melbourne, Victoria, and a keen bottle collector is up early to collect empty bottles from the night before, eager to beat the crowds and summer heat.

What he finds instead is so horrific it sends him running for the police. There, in Gun Alley, was the body of 12 year old Alma Tirtscke, the very girl that had been reported missing the day before by her grandmother. But how did Alma end up in this seedy laneway? Why was she there and most importantly, who did this to the shy girl with fiery red hair?

Join Belinda over a cuppa - or cocktail - as she takes a look at the crime that shook Melbourne to its core and resulted in an innocent man being posthumously pardoned of a murder charge - 96 years after he was hanged.

Coffee not compulsory - but it is recommended!

Music by Gioele Fazzeri from Pixabay

Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans

It's an early September morning, 1934, in Aulbury NSW, and Tom Griffith is taking his prized bull for a walk. Whilst walking he smells kerosine and upon investigating he discovers the body of a pyjama cald young woman, very dead and very burned and this discovery will spark a murder mystery that wont be resolved for years.

Who is Pyjama girl? Who killed her? And how did this murder result in a dead body being put on public display in the hopes of identifying her?

Join Belinda over a coffee - or cocktail - or two as she discusses the infamous and equally fascinating Pyjama Girl murder.

Music by Gioele Fazzeri from Pixabay

Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans