LiSTNR releases its top 11 bingeworthy crime podcasts

Australia has been rocked by some baffling unsolved murders and missing persons cases.

Now, LiSTNR has released the 11 most bingeworthy crime podcasts you need to know about.

In each podcast series, investigation teams lay out the facts, and try to bring justice and closure to the victims’ families – from the famous disappearance of the three Beaumont children in the 60s to William Tyrell, the three-year-old boy who vanished just metres from his mum.

Here’s what you can binge on over Easter and beyond:

1. You Don’t Know Me

A teenage girl leaves her boyfriend’s house, and is never seen again …​ ever.

2. Fairy Meadow (BBC)

Three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer disappeared without a trace from Fairy Meadow beach in New South Wales in 1970. Investigators found a confession in 2016, but the suspect, known as ‘Mercury’, walked free because the confession was deemed inadmissible.

3. Crime Junkie: Missing – The Beaumont Children

In one of the most famous and still unsolved cases, Jane, Arnna and Grant Beaumont left their home in Adelaide to go swimming at the beach on Australia Day 1966 and were never seen again.

4. Morbid: The Highway of Death

In northern Queensland, many refer to Flinders Highway, which crosses the state from east to west, from Townsville to Cloncurry, as The Highway of Death, or the real Wolf Creek. Since 1970, over 12 people have confirmed to have been killed along this stretch of desolate highway and some believe a thrill killer could be behind it all.

5. Where’s William Tyrrell?

How does a child simply disappear with his mother just metres away? In 2014, Australia was rocked by the disappearance of William Tyrell, the three-year-old old boy in the Spiderman suit.

6. Crime Junkie: The Mysterious Death of Phoebe Handsjuk

In December 2010, 24-year-old Phoebe Hansjuk was found dead at the Balencea apartment building on St Kilda Road in Melbourne. She had fallen 12 floors down a waste disposal shaft, leaving many questions unanswered about what happened that night.

7. Crime Insiders: In Focus – The Day Lucille Disappeared

LiSTNR probes the 1969 disappearance of 20-year-old Lucille Butterworth from a bus stop in Hobart.

8. This Thing of Darkness (BBC)

An award-winning audio-fiction series exploring the psychological impact of murder on a victim’s family and on the killer.

9. Bear Brook (Stitcher)

An investigative piece into a cold case about two barrels containing four bodies.

10. The Children In The Pictures

The story you weren’t allowed to hear is finally out in the open. Australian documentary-maker Akhim Dev follows the Queensland Police investigation of a notorious child exploitation website.

11. Dr. Death

What happens when a doctor harms his patients? This series follows the horrifying true story of former American neurosurgeon Dr. Christopher Duntsch.