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 - Someone Knows Who He Was (FINALE)
She wouldn't open that door for anyone. She opened it for a uniform. The investigation into Mary Anne Fagan's murder was consumed by a gravity well: the systematic dishonesty of "James," a council labourer whose lies ab...
Mary Anne Fagan - They Didn't Fit The Timeline
They thought they had him. For more than sixteen hours, his answers kept changing. He was never charged.In April 1978, two months after Mary Anne Fagan was murdered in her own home, the Homicide Squad sat a man down in Russell Str...
Mary Anne Fagan - He Didn't Tell Police
Police had the omissions, the contradictions, the missing time, the money, the alibi problem, and the forensic traces. If that still wasn’t enough, what was missing?On the morning Mary Anne Fagan was murdered, three council worker...
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...
