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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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All Episodes

56:02

Episode 228 Colleen Rebelo

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2026/03/08

Clarky tells the story of the death of Colleen Rebelo. A loving mother who became victim to her son's need for fast money.

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54:09

Episode 227 Family Secrets

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2026/03/01

Schmidty tells the story of William Leslie Arnold who disappeared in 1967, having served 8 years of his life sentence, and the cold case search that spanned over 50 years.

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96:48

Episode 226 Preppy Killer AKA Shitbloke

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2026/02/22

Swanny regails the team with the case of Jennifer Levin's murder. Nicknamed the Preppy Killer, Robert Chambers and his defence team were shit blokes, introducing victim shaming as a means to get away with murder.

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48:27

Episode 225 Too much true crime

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2026/02/15

Clarky lightens the mood with an educational episode on the risks of imbibing too much true crime.

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67:48

Episode 224 Bad Angel

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2026/02/08

Schmidty tells the story of Milton Sawyer, who married an angel, only to be the victim of a devil.

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49:41

Episode 223 The Pyjama Girl

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2026/02/01

Clarky takes us back in the timey winey machine to 1934 Aubury, where a man out walking his bull made a grisly discovery. Apparently people walked their bulls in 1934.

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58:10

Episode 222 Oh the humanity (TFU)

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2026/01/25

Schmidty curates a series of horror stories from the Daily Express US, which prompts the jury to ponder the world we are living in.

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91:29

Episode 221 School Shootings

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2026/01/18

Swanny tackles the horrendous stories of the Dunblane and Sandy Hook school massacres, highlighting the different government and social responses to these tragedies. Trigger warnings abound.

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73:07

Episode 220 Code name Skora

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2026/01/11

Schmidty tells the disturbing story of Katarzyna Zowada who went missing in late 1998. Her remains were found in the Vistula river in 1999, and the investigation became known for both the macabre circumstances and the first use of DNA in Poland to identify the victim.

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51:39

Episode 219 Davine v Gene

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2026/01/04

Clarky tells the story of Davine, a young Belgian backpacker in Australia who answered an ad for work in a rural setting only to found herself in a living nightmare.

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78:43

Episode 218 Joanna Simpson

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2025/12/28

Swanny tells the story of Joanna Simpson, a successful business woman who fell for the wrong man and was let down by the legal system.

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41:21

Episode 217 Not Die Hard

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2025/12/21

Clarky brings a Christmas crime story to the jury, in celebration of the silly season. It's about as Christmassy as Die Hard, only there isn't a hero saving the day.

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71:54

Episode 216 Body Brokers

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2025/12/14

Schmidty delves into the dubious ethics of body brokering - inspired by the internet search "human remains in the mail".

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43:29

Episode 215 Murderous Mother

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2025/12/07

Clarky’s on a roll with murderous mothers. This week it’s the story of Donna Fitchett who decided her only course of action was to murder her two sons, because her husband was passive aggressive.

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54:03

Episode 214 Unreliable Historian

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2025/11/30

Clarky tells the disturbing story of Hakyung Lee, a New Zealand citizen originally from South Korea who took the lives of her children and then fled the country. Lee was sentenced to life imprisonment on the 26th of November (4 days ago as this story is published).

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97:22

Episode 213 Nothing to see

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2025/11/23

Swanny tells the story of Stephen Port, also known as the Grinder Killer, who got away with murder for a time as the police thought there was nothing to see here.

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74:53

Episode 212 Drugs, dogs and gators

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2025/11/16

Schmidty takes us to Florida, where the air is humid, the gators are huge and the meth is rife. Not to mention the curiosity shops are amazing!

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53:46

Episode 211 Scam Hostages

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2025/11/09

Clarky follows up the AI Scams episode, with this very educational piece on human trafficking and scam call centres. It takes us back to the good old days of call centre work in Moonee Ponds....

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78:41

Episode 210 No legs, no problem

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2025/11/02

Swanny tells the story of Dr Neil Hopper who tragically lost his legs and became an amazing and inspiring pillar of the community. Until.....

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65:26

Episode 209 Casey Anthony Part 2

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2025/10/26

Schmidty concludes the Casey Anthony story with Clarky and Swanny being left annoyed at no one behaving properly and no real conclusion as to what happened to Caylee Anthony.

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