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Early Access is now available for the new Coffee & Crime AU episode on Keli Lane and the disappearance of two-day-old Tegan Lane.

Subscriber Companion Episode Sef Gonzales didn’t create just one false story. He built an entire life out of them. To the people around him, he could be the successful university student, the future lawyer, the singer on the edge of a breakthrough, the young businessman and, eventually, the devastated son left behind after an unthinkable crime. But those identities couldn’t all survive contact with the truth.

A clear, factual overview of the Gonzales family murders, the case against Sef Gonzales, the verdict and where the case stands today.

4:04pm. 5:30pm. 6:23pm. 7:45pm. The phone records and alibi window that became crucial to the prosecution case against Sef Gonzales.

Before the murders, Sef Gonzales was already trying to keep parts of his life hidden. University failure, alleged poisoning, false trails and the lies prosecutors said were closing in on him.

There is a temptation, when telling the story of Katherine Knight, to begin at the end. With John Price. With Aberdeen. With the crime that made her name infamous. But by the time Price entered Knight's life, there was already a long history behind her. Three men, in particular, occupied important places in that history. David Kellett. David Saunders. John Chillingworth.

In February 2000, Katherine Mary Knight and John Price were known around Aberdeen as a couple. People saw them together. They knew Knight as a hard-working and highly skilled meatworker. Price was known as a well-liked man who worked in the local mining industry. To those around them, their relationship could appear ordinary. It wasn't.

On 28 February 2000, John Price went to court. He wasn't there because a crime had already happened. He was there because he was frightened that one might.

🔒 EARLY ACCESS FOR SUBSCRIBERS Your early access is here. Before this episode reaches the public feed, Coffee and Crime AU subscribers get to hear it first. On 29 February 2000, John Price went home to his house in Aberdeen, New South Wales. He expected to wake up the following morning and go to work. He never did. What happened inside John's home became one of Australia's most notorious murder cases.

A missing man. A homicide investigation. A trial that raised difficult questions about criminal responsibility.

More than thirty years ago, a woman disappeared from a quiet street in Lennox Head, and she has never been found. In May 1993, 31-year-old Bronwyn Winfield vanished from her home on Sandstone Crescent on the far north coast of New South Wales. She left behind two young daughters, a family searching for answers, and a mystery that continues to haunt those who knew her.

More than thirty years ago, Bronwyn Winfield disappeared from her home in Lennox Head, and she has never been found. In this early access episode of Coffee and Crime AU, we follow the known timeline of Bronwyn’s final days: the breakdown of her marriage, her return to the family home on Sandstone Crescent, the night she vanished, and the investigation that followed.

On a cold winter afternoon in June 2014, two little girls waited in a running car while their mother walked back inside their home. She told them she’d only be a moment. She never came back.

Many people assume there must have been obvious warning signs that were overlooked, but the reality is far more complicated. Tiahleigh's death prompted widespread reviews of Queensland's child protection system, the foster carer approval process, and the Blue Card system. Those reviews weren't just about understanding what had happened—they were about determining whether the system itself could be strengthened to better protect vulnerable children.

Most Australians know Rick Thorburn as the foster father who murdered 12-year-old Tiahleigh Palmer.

When you hear the name Tiahleigh Palmer today, it's often linked to the heartbreaking events of her death in 2015. The investigation. The court case. The endless questions. But Tiahleigh’s story didn’t start there.

In October 2015, twelve-year-old Tiahleigh Alyssa-Rose Palmer disappeared from her foster home in Queensland. For six days, her community searched for answers. But behind the scenes, a much darker truth was unfolding. This episode explores the life of Tiahleigh Palmer — a child who spent years moving between homes, carers and court orders, searching for the one thing every child deserves: stability, safety and a place to belong. From her earliest days in the child protection

In 2015, Australia was shocked by the disappearance and murder of 12-year-old Tiahleigh Palmer. But before she became a headline, Tiahleigh was a child who spent her life searching for stability. She loved dancing. She loved horses. She loved animals. She was described by those who knew her as kind, gentle and a child people fell in love with. This episode tells Tiahleigh’s story from the beginning — her childhood, her years in the child protection system, the many

This week's bonus episode takes a closer look at the psychological evidence presented after Rachel Barber's murder. We'll examine the fictional identity of Jem Southall, the expert reports, Caroline Reed Robertson's fixation on Rachel, and the questions psychologists were still trying to answer long after the crime.

On 1 March 1999, 15-year-old Rachel Elizabeth Barber disappeared from Melbourne, Victoria. Rachel was not just a name in a case file. She was a daughter, a sister, a friend, and a talented young dancer with her whole future ahead of her. She attended The Dance Factory in Richmond, where she was studying performing arts. Those who knew Rachel described her as a bright, caring and ambitious teenager who was passionate about dance.