Civilian Sleuths
Civilian Sleuths is a new investigative podcast shining a forensic light on Australia’s most challenging unsolved murders and missing persons cases.
For decades, these crimes have haunted families, investigators, and communities searching for answers—not for lack of effort, but because the tools of the past were limited.
Using original source material, coronial records, archived media, and modern analytical tools, Civilian Sleuths recreates timelines, re-examines evidence, and explores theories that may have been overlooked for decades. But the most powerful tool remains public memory.
Behind every cold case is a real person. A family. A life interrupted. And often, someone who still knows the truth.
If you know something—no matter how small—it may matter.
Launching January 6 with new episodes every second Tuesday, Civilian Sleuths invites you to become part of the investigation.
Unsolved. Unforgotten. Unfinished.
Listener discretion advised.
Civilian Sleuths
Latest Episodes
Mary Anne Fagan - The Best Lead
What if the best witness in the case was eventually treated as if he had seen nothing at all?At 12.10pm on the day Mary Anne Fagan was murdered, a retired Navy serviceman saw a man in RAAF uniform walk out of the front gate of 575...
Mary Anne Fagan - The Man Who Walked Out The Front Gate
Who had the opportunity to enter a house, in the middle of the day, surrounded by witnesses, and not be seen?On Friday, 17 February 1978, Mary Anne Fagan was last spoken to at approximately 10:30am inside her home at 575 Dandenong...
Mary Anne Fagan - The Door Wouldn't Open
A Friday morning in Armadale. An ordinary suburban street. A crime that remains unsolved.On 17 February 1978, Mary Anne Fagan — a 41-year-old mother of five — was killed inside her home on Dandenong Road, Armadale. No one has ever...
Mary Anne Fagan - Series 2 Trailer (1978)
She was dyeing her hair when something interrupted her. She never washed it out.On 17 February 1978, Mary Anne Fagan — a 41-year-old mother of five and wife of a senior RAAF officer — was murdered inside her locked home at 575 Dan...
Denise McGregor: An Ordinary Life, An Extraordinary Fact (FINALE)
Forty-eight years ago, thirteen-year-old Denise McGregor was murdered on a country road north of Melbourne.For forty-eight years, the case has remained unsolved — and the investigation has never been closed.Across five episodes, t...