True Crime Tonight: Full Show (21/06/26)

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
Warning, this is a true crime segment and not suitable for children. It contains references to sexual violence and suicide, which some listeners may find distressing. If you need support, you are not alone. Contact Lifeline on 13 11 14, or visit lifeline.org.au for 24 hour support.

**Meshel Laurie** (0:20)
It's a voice that will send shivers down your spine.

**Matthew Tankard** (0:23)
Stand off with police.

**Meshel Laurie** (0:24)
Wanted fugitive.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:25)
Stabbed 19 times.

**Ruby Bartzis** (0:27)
The suspect lured the victim into the water.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:29)
Biggest legal dramas in Hollywood.

**SPEAKER_5** (0:30)
Today is a major win to show what the system can do.

**Matthew Tankard** (0:34)
This is True Crime Tonight.

**Meshel Laurie** (0:37)
Hello, everybody. This is True Crime Tonight. I'm your host, Michelle Laurie, and I'm here with my producers, Matthew Tankard.

**Matthew Tankard** (0:43)
Hello.

**Meshel Laurie** (0:44)
And Ruby Bartzis.

**Matthew Tankard** (0:45)
Hello.

**Meshel Laurie** (0:45)
Hello. If you're just joining us, if you've just jumped in the car on a Sunday night and gone, what the hell?
Well, have we got something for you. It's true crime tonight. For the next hour, we're talking true crime. We're talking documentaries, books, and we've got an interview coming up later in the show with a lady called CeCe Moore. If you are into true crime documentaries, I promise you've seen her because she's in all of them these days. She is a DNA detective.
So hang in there for that. Don't let the kids hang in there though, because this is a true crime show. It is not appropriate for them, totes in approves. But for you, I'm not feeling like I'm talking to the kids in your car right now. But for you, it's awesome. Up next, we're actually going to hear from a listener, which is my favorite bit of the show. And we've decided to call this the True Crime Hotline.

**Matthew Tankard** (1:34)
What an incredible name.

**Meshel Laurie** (1:36)
Thanks. I've been in radio for a long time. I like snappy titles for things. How do we receive them? How do people send us a message, Matthew?

**Matthew Tankard** (1:44)
It's basically sending like a voicemail, and you can find it in the show notes of any Australian True Crime podcast episode, or you can find us on social media at Australian True Crime Podcast.

**Meshel Laurie** (1:54)
There you go.

**Matthew Tankard** (1:54)
Hey, Michelle, absolutely loving True Crime Tonight.

**Ruby Bartzis** (1:57)
I think I'm your number one fan.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:59)
Just wondering when you're doing a live show, when am I going to get to see you live?

**Meshel Laurie** (2:03)
Oh, that's so sweet. And also I love that it comes from a man because we used to say that Australian True Crime shows, we should sell tickets to men for meeting single women because that was like, I'd look out and they were just like hundreds and hundreds of great women and no men. They'd be like maybe literally two or three men who'd been dragged along by their girlfriends. But more men now. And this is an example of that. That's good.

**Ruby Bartzis** (2:26)
Yes.

**Meshel Laurie** (2:27)
So we definitely will be doing I Heart Live events.

**Ruby Bartzis** (2:29)
Oh my God, that's so exciting.

**Meshel Laurie** (2:31)
Isn't that fun?

**Ruby Bartzis** (2:31)
Yeah.

**Meshel Laurie** (2:31)
It's like on Bruno Mars or something, doing an I Heart Live event. That's how I feel.

**Ruby Bartzis** (2:36)
Right.

**Meshel Laurie** (2:36)
And yeah, so that will be definitely coming up. I love to have in every different city a local person. So I like to talk a local crime in Brisbane, a local crime in Adelaide. Haven't been to Perth yet. I know Perthlings are upset about that, but no, I have not been there yet.

**Ruby Bartzis** (2:51)
We'll get there. Let's change that.

**Meshel Laurie** (2:52)
Yeah. We haven't been to Tassie yet either. So we'll definitely now that we've got the I Heart juggernaut behind us, heaven knows where we'll end up, but that will be the plan. I will definitely be grabbing. So if you know anyone, if you are someone in those cities around Australia who would love to jump on stage with me, talk me through a case and take some questions and answers from the audience, please contact me because we will be putting that together very soon. Oh, and let's not forget that it was through one of these messages on our True Crime Hotline that we were sent away to watch Don't F with Cats Again.
There was a listener said, hey, what do you think about that documentary? And we realized, gosh, it's so long since we've watched it. We went back and watched it again, which was hard work, to be honest. I didn't want to watch it. I found myself putting it on. Now, normally, I'm more than happy to watch a good true crime documentary a couple of times. There are some that I watch annually. But this one, I kept thinking, no, not today.