Small Town, Big Secret
Serious true crime podcast episodes built from documented records, clear sourcing, and careful language.
Documentary standard
Crime Path follows available records, labels uncertainty, and avoids invented motive, dialogue, or atmosphere. The focus is the person, the evidence, the official findings, and the questions that remain.
Case files
Belanglo State Forest / New South Wales, Australia
Between 1989 and 1992, seven young travellers disappeared while moving through New South Wales. Their remains were later found in Belanglo State Forest. In 1996, Ivan Milat was convicted of all seven murders.
Forster / Taree / Ulladulla links, Australia
Marlon Shawn McDonald was last confirmed alive on 5 September 2012. A later phone call said he was dead, but the caller and the basis for the claim could not be determined.
Taree / Lansdowne, New South Wales, Australia
For years, Hazel Vidler sent cards to her son. Around 1979 or 1980, the cards stopped. Decades later, a coronial finding confirmed Hazel had died, but could not determine where, how, or in what circumstances.
Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia
Bennett Campbell Dominick disappeared after travelling to the Coocoran opal fields near Lightning Ridge on 10 January 2015. The NSW State Coroner later found that he died on or shortly after that date, but the cause and manner of death could not be determined.
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Each case is shaped from available records, with uncertainty kept visible and the people at the centre treated with care.