Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans

Travelling is a way of life and a rite of passage for many of us, especially when we are young and carefree, and for most of us, the worst we will experience is running out of money or getting an upset stomach.... but what happens if what you encounter is worse than that? What happens if you what you encounter is pure evil?

Sadly for seven backpackers hitchiking around Australia, this worst case scenario came true when they crossed ...

Nurses are angels in disguise, aren't they? From healing to helping they are there to help us with our healing journeys whatever that may look like...but what happens when one has other intentions. Or an addiction he was willing to kill for to cover up?

Registered Nurse Roger Dean was woking in Quakers Hill Nursing Home, NSW, and he had a secret. He was stealing painkillers and was about the be found out, so on the 18th Novembe...

Hannah Clarke wanted nothing more in life than to have a happy, simple life with her three beautiful children and her husband who she loved. What she got was a marriage riddled with abuse and coercive control, all at the hands of the man who claimed to love her, and when she finally left, that is when things turned deadly. 

Join me over a cuppa - or something stronger in this case - as I discuss the heartbreaking murder of Hannah Cl...

Maria Korp was a loving mother and wife. She and her husband Joe had been married for over a decade, had a child togehter and had just finished building their dream home in the Victorian suburb of Mickleham. Life, for the most part, was good. But Joe was bored and looking for more and he found it in the form of a online dating website where he met the young and impressionable Tania Herman.

The two embarked on a seedy affair, and soo...

Sunday the 28th April, 1996, started out as any other Sunday in Port Arthur, Tasmania. The place was buzzing with tourists and locals, keen to enjoy the beauty of the penal colony and the stunning nature that surrounds it. Unbeknownst to them, however, a blonde haired man was on his way to visit the area, but he was not interested in admiring the view.....no. His plan for that Sunday was much more sinister, and one that would kill ...

It's December 1993, and 13 year old Daniel Morcombe sets off to catch a bus to the nearby shopping centre to buy Christmas presents for his family. He never makes it to the shopping centre and is never seen alive again.

What happened to Daniel will take years and an undercover police operation to uncover, and would finally give his family closure and put a repeat offender behind bars. 

Join Belinda over a cup of joe - or two - a...

It's a Friday night in October 1989, and 47 year old Edward Baldock is enjoying a game of darts and beers with mates. Just before midnight, he bids his mates farewell and decides to try his luck hailing a cab as he staggers home. That would be that last time anyone would see the father and grandfather alive, for what happened to Edward after he left the pub that night is one of the most brutal and evil murders in Australian hi...

29 year old Jill Meagher,  was just like any other young woman on a Friday night. She was out having drinks in a local bar for a friends birthday, and like many of us, made the decision to make the short walk home. She was not seen alive again.

What happened to Jill, an Irish woman making a life for herself in Australia, in a Melbourne laneway on a cold September night in 2012 was nothing short of a nightmare and should never have h...

Lisa Harnum came to Australia from Canada with a dream. A dream of making a life for herself, raising a family and living the fairytale. What she got instead was an unimaginable nightmare, full of abuse, control and isolation - all at the hands at the man who supposedly loved her - Simon Gittany. 

Simon controlled everything in Lisa's life - what she wore, who she spoke to, where she worked out - but what he couldn't contr...

It's a cold winter's day, 1907,  in the Western Australia suburb of East Perth, and 7 year old Annie Morris dies from a suspected dose of diphtheria, her 5 year old sister Olive meeting the same fate only a few months later. Nearly a year to the day, 14 year old Arthur died the same way and when his brother George started displaying the exact same symptoms of the illness that took his siblings lives, his stepmother Martha...

It's a rainy winter's night in July 2001, and 21 year old Sef Gonzales has just returned from a night out with a friend to find his entire family brutally murdered in their family home in North Ryde, NSW.

Police are baffled. Teddy, Mary and Clodine Gonzales didn't have an enemy in the world - who would want them dead? What they find is web of lies and greed... all pointing to an enemy hiding in plain sight.

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On the 1st March, 1989 82 year old Gwendolin Mitchellhill is found dead at the entry to her Mosman, NSW, apartment building, the supposed victim of a horrific fall. Only a few weeks later, 84 year old Lady Ashton is found dead in the garbage bin area of her apartment building, having supposedly suffered the same fate as Gwendolin. Then another elderly lady is found dead, and another.....and it is very clear that police aren't ...

It's an average weekday morning in April 2012, when Gerard Baden Clay calls police and casually informs them that his wife and the mother of his three young daughters, Alison, is missing. It seems the popular real estate agent and adored mum hadn't returned from her morning walk. She just up and vanished it would seem. 

What happens next will uncover Gerard's web of lies, abuse and infedility and break a community&apo...

It's a summer's night in January 1996, and 18 year old Sarah Spiers is enjoying a night on the town with her friends in the popular Western Australia city of Claremont. Deciding to call it a night, Sarah bids her friends farewell and leaves them to catch a taxi home. She is never seen alive again. 

A few months later, 23 year old Jane Rimmer is out in Claremont with friends, when she decides to stay behind when they leave....

It's Fathers Day 2005, and recently separated dad Robert Farquharson has his three young sons, Jai, Tyler and Bailey. After taking the boys to their favourite take away for dinner, Robert made the drive back to his ex wife's house to drop the boys home - only Robert would be the only one to survive that drive. Robert's car was found in the bottom of a dam the next day, his three sons still inside. 

What happened after...

It's a hot summer's day on the 11th January, 1965 and 15 year old best friends Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock have made their way to Wanda Beach with Mariann'e siblings to cool off with a swim. After lunch, the girls leave the children on the beach while they go back to collect their bags, and they are not seen again until their bodies are found the next day, hidden in the sand dunes. Both girls had been bru...

The day is 17th August 1991, and it's a sunny Saturday afternoon in the NSW suburb of Strathfield, and many are out taking advantage of the warm winter weather by shopping or catching up with friends at Strathfield Plaza. 

Little did the shoppers enjoying a coffee in the popular 'The Coffee Pot' cafe know there was a wannabe killer amongst them, and he was ready to put his plan of mass murder into play.

What happened n...

April, 2015, and NSW school teacher, Stephanie Scott, is excitedly counting down the days until she marries her high school sweetheart, Aaron. On Easter Sunday, only days before she was due to be wed, wanting to make sure her students and teacher covering her role had all they need, Stephanie headed to the school where she taught to finalise a few things. She was never seen alive again.

What unfolded after she went missing is a hear...

As Belinda is on a little break, let's take a trip down memory lane and revisit some of Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans most popular and disturbing episodes.

A reminder - what is in the past, doesn't always stay buried. 

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