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Trial By Wine

Schmidty, Swanny and Clarky revisit crimes and run them through their jury of three, debating both sides of the case to agree an appropriate (if totally fictitious) sentence.

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01:28:44

Episode 194 Value Chain Nut Punch

Trial By Wine ·

2025/07/12

Swanny breaks her rule about telling an Australian story with this one. Local boy Chris Lane was living his best life when he was murdered for absolutely no reason at all.

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53:05

Episode 193 Facilitated Communication, or not.

Trial By Wine ·

2025/07/06

Clarky tells the story of Derrick Johnson and Anna Stubblefield. Did Anna find a way to communicate with Derrick that turned into a love story, or was she exploiting him?

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01:01:22

Episode 192 Becky Bliefnick

Trial By Wine ·

2025/06/29

Schmidty tells the story of Becky Bliefnick, a remarkable woman who was shot to death in her home and the subsequent arrest and trial of her estranged husband Tim.

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48:46

Episode 191 Bourke Street Massacre

Trial By Wine ·

2025/06/22

Clarky continues his anti Victorian tourism campaign by telling the story of the lead up to the Bourke Street Massacre, where six innocent people were murdered and twenty seven injured.

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01:14:44

Episode 190 That was unexpected

Trial By Wine ·

2025/06/15

Swanny tells the story of Dr Michael Mastromarino whose redemption story took quite the turn. Our jury was not expecting that!

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01:09:25

Episode 189 Utter Carnage

Trial By Wine ·

2025/06/08

Clarky tells one of the most unexpected stories about the aptly named band, Mayhem to the jury's surprise and at times, disgust.

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48:34

Episode 188 Wedding Crimes

Trial By Wine ·

2025/06/01

Schmidty dedicates this episode to her friends Liv and Phil and their wedding - who knew crashing was such a prolific crime??

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38:42

Episode 187 Whackjob

Trial By Wine ·

2025/05/25

Clarky curates a series of stories related to agalmatophilia, which certainly raised some eyebrows in the jury.

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01:13:54

Episode 186 Susan Powell and sons

Trial By Wine ·

2025/05/18

Schmidty tells the story of the disappearance of Susan Cox Powell and the tragic aftermath. Trigger warnings abound.

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01:10:14

Episode 185 Overkill

Trial By Wine ·

2025/05/11

Swanny tells the story of the Gonzales family murders which rocked the suburb of North Ryde NSW in 2001.

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01:03:40

Episode 184 Womb Madness

Trial By Wine ·

2025/05/04

Julian Knight had a personality disorder with hysterical features - more your womb madness than funny. Clarky covers the horrendous story of the Hoddle street massacre, an event that scarred the psyche of Melbourne forever.

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01:14:21

Episode 183 Lucy Letby

Trial By Wine ·

2025/04/27

Schmidty covers the story of Lucy Letby, Britain's baby killer, who was convicted of killing 8 babies whilst they were in her care in ICU. This jury isn't so sure.

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01:01:32

Episode 182 Bitcoin bunko

Trial By Wine ·

2025/04/20

Clarky does a pretty bad job at explaining Bitcoin to the jury, whilst telling the story of Gerry Cotten who built a bitcoin empire, but didn't have a password back up plan....or did he?

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01:21:39

Episode 181 Patty Hearst

Trial By Wine ·

2025/04/13

Clarky forgot his laptop so Swanny tells Schmidty the story of Patty Hearst who was kidnapped, brainwashed and then used as an example to put young radicals off their cause.

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45:36

Episode 180 The Beaumont Children

Trial By Wine ·

2025/04/06

Clarky covers one of Australia's most famous mysteries - what happened to the Beaumont Children? Jane, Grant and Arnna Beaumont went to Glenelg beach on a hot summers day on the 26 January 1966 and were never seen again.

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57:11

Episode 179 Faecal Matters

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2025/03/30

Schmidty talks turd and its application to crime and warfare.

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55:43

Episode 178 Balwyn Murder

Trial By Wine ·

2025/03/23

Clarky tells the correct suburban murder story in this case of the domestic abuse and murder of Julie Ramage and a defence that changed Victorian law. If you, or someone you know are the victim of domestic abuse seek help at www.whiteribbon.org.au

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01:20:49

Episode 177 Crazy Love

Trial By Wine ·

2025/03/16

Swanny tells the story of Vicky White and Casey White (not related to each other), star crossed lovers who circumstance brought together and who tried to defy the law and the odds.

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43:51

Episode 176 Melbourne society murders

Trial By Wine ·

2025/03/09

Clarky tells the story of Margaret Wales King and her husband Paul who were murdered by her son Matthew over alleged financial abuse. We're not buying it.

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01:42:22

Episode 175 Larrikins or Louts

Trial By Wine ·

2025/03/02

Schmidty tells the remarkably extensive story of Ned Kelly and his gang - were they victims of an oppressive government, or plain old violent criminals...or both?

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