Listen, read and watch Twisted Minds now at twistedminds.com.au They are the men and women tasked with getting inside the minds of Australia’s most hardened criminals. Whether it’s the forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who meet the crooks once they’ve caught, or, the criminal profilers tasked with trying to predict what’s driving an offender on the loose – this is high-stakes work. If they stuff up, it’s our safety that’s placed at risk. We’ll hear what it’s like to sit across from a serial killer or a violent sex offender and ask them what makes them tick, and why they do the things they do. It’s their evidence that helps courts understand often unthinkable actions and gives parole boards insight into if - or when - they may strike again.
Introducing: Mother's Guilt
Enjoy a sneak-peak into another series from the team behind Twisted Minds. In the podcast Mother's Guilt host Jane Hansen investigates the story of Kathleen Folbigg. She tries to find out who Kathleen really is, gives you insights into the history of her case, and then follows the inquiry into the new genetic discovery that proved her innocence. Listen to the full podcast ad-free on Crime X+ on Apple Podcasts today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
6/26/2023 • 38 minutes, 54 seconds
Introducing - The Lost Ones
Tasmania is well known for it's beauty. But, deep within the dark bushland lies a string of secrets. 169 people have gone missing on the island since the mid 20th century, and dozens of those without a trace from the wilderness…..their bodies never recovered. The Lost Ones looks into the stories of those who’ve disappeared into the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, and asks the question, have they fallen victim to foul play?
Introducing The Lost Ones episode 1 - The Preacher. Search for The Lost Ones wherever you listen to your podcasts.
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3/29/2022 • 40 minutes, 26 seconds
A date with a double axe-murderer
It takes a lot to unsettle a seasoned forensic psychologist like Luke Broomhall but psychopathic axe-murderer Jose Omonte-Extrada was enough to raise his hackles.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1/11/2022 • 13 minutes, 47 seconds
Caught
A blazing fire has decimated a backpackers hostel in the rural town of Childers, Queensland. Blackened bodies are strewn across the smoking premises. 15 young travellers have died and the race is on to find the perpetrator. As a criminal behaviourist, it’s your job to compile a psychological profile to help police catch the arsonist responsible … hopefully before more people burn to death. The stakes were just as high when bombs went off across nightclubs in Bali and 88 Australians died. This was all in a day’s work for Steve Longford.
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8/24/2021 • 43 minutes, 51 seconds
Undercover
Dr David Mutton is the former chief psychologist for the NSW police and began his career as a prison psychologist at the notorious Parramatta jail. It was his job to support police in their undercover work and keep them on the straight and narrow – not always an easy task. Dr Mutton was also the chief psychologist during the Thredbo landslide and the first male psychologist to work inside the notorious women’s prison, Mulawa.
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8/17/2021 • 57 minutes, 5 seconds
Twisted
Dr Jack White is a larger-than-life forensic psychologist who has spent thirty years working in a state renowned for its serial killers. He was involved in the Snowtown trial, meeting with one of the lead perpetrators Robert Wagner each morning before court throughout the 10-month legal process.
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8/10/2021 • 41 minutes, 48 seconds
Perversion
Dr Karen Owen has sat down with hundreds of sex offenders and was instrumental in devising Australia’s first rehabilitation program for sex offenders. Dr Owen’s most frustrating client was the late child killer Derek Percy - who was linked to the murders of at least nine children in the 60s, including being a suspect in the Wanda Beach, Beaumont children, Simon Brook and Linda Stilwell murders.
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8/3/2021 • 43 minutes, 53 seconds
Madness
Dr Richard Furst has seen it all. He has sat down with Jessica Camilleri, the young woman who decapitated her mother, dropping her head in a neighbour’s frontyard. He also called Derek Barrett’s bluff, after he murdered his niece then stuffed her in a blowhole, and he’s one of the few to get inside the mind of school teacher Stephanie Scott’s killer, a depraved cleaner who simply took the opportunity to rape and murder when he spotted Stephanie alone at her desk.
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7/27/2021 • 43 minutes, 15 seconds
Murder
Dr Claire Ferguson is an expert in concealed homicide. A trained forensic psychologist turned criminologist she works closely with Queensland police to help them investigate the most complex of cases, usually when a murder has been concealed as a suicide and when investigators must re-evaluate evidence. Dr Ferguson believes Gerard Baden-Clay represents a particular type of cruelty, unique to domestic violence murderers in which the perpetrator seeks to control the victim not only during the relationship but also after death. Baden-Clay did this through a “double barrel” concealment strategy but not even that could save him thanks to the astuteness of first responding officers
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7/20/2021 • 39 minutes, 20 seconds
Stalked
Professor James Ogloff is one of Australia’s leading experts on stalking. He gave evidence in the Jill Meagher case after assessing Adrian Bailey, a matter he said was the hardest of his career as he saw the personal impact on the Meagher family. Professor Ogloff also assessed Eurydice Dixon’s killer and serial killer Paul Haigh. In this episode of Twisted Minds Professor Ogloff discusses what makes a man rape and murder a random victim, and the best thing to do if you find yourself the victim of a stalker.
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7/13/2021 • 45 minutes, 4 seconds
Deception
She’s the psychologist who calls criminals’ bluff. Dr Susan Pullman is often tasked with sitting down with Australia’s most violent men and assessing their mental health. Often, the crooks attempt to feign mental illness to achieve a lesser sentence as was the case with baby-faced killer Daniel Kelsall, who randomly followed businessman Morgan Huxley home from the Oaks’ pub in Neutral Bay and stabbed him to death. Also in this episode she discusses the Cowra based axe-murdering grandfather who killed his wife and two grandchildren.
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7/6/2021 • 37 minutes, 52 seconds
Coming Soon
Listen, read and watch Twisted Minds now at twistedminds.com.au
They are the men and women tasked with getting inside the minds of Australia’s most hardened criminals. Whether it’s the forensic psychologists and psychiatrists who meet the crooks once they’ve caught, or, the criminal profilers tasked with trying to predict what’s driving an offender on the loose – this is high-stakes work.
If they stuff up, it’s our safety that’s placed at risk.
We’ll hear what it’s like to sit across from a serial killer or a violent sex offender and ask them what makes them tick, and why they do the things they do.
It’s their evidence that helps courts understand often unthinkable actions and gives parole boards insight into if - or when - they may strike again. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.