The One Eyed Tiger of Little Bourke Street
Cecilia Curtain is one our prisoners at Geelong Gaol, being incarcerated there in 1893 as part of one of...
The Body in the Window
At the height of the Victorian Gold Rush, a bold plan was made by a group of bushrangers to...
Escape and Execution of Angus Murray
Angus Murray was the last man to be executed on the gallows of Old Melbourne Goal in 1924. His...
The Season of Murder
Christmas is supposed to be the season of giving and family and presents. But it is not everyone’s favourite...
Generations of Hassett’s in Geelong Gaol
The Hassett family have their origins in Birdhill, Ireland and is just one of the families with links to...
The Great Escape from Geelong Gaol
In 1889, two wily old convicts named Frederick Clarke and Christopher Farrell made the most infamous escape in Geelong...
Murder of Mary Lucas
In this episode we head back to earlier and perhaps simpler times to 1854 and Little Bourke street in...
The Only Woman Executed in South Australia – Elizabeth Woolcock
Elizabeth Woolcock’s life ended on the portable gallows inside the Adelaide Gaol in December 1873. She was only 25...