All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Chris Flannery

    • July 24, 2010
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Christopher Dale Flannery earned the nickname of 'Rent-a-Kill'. He was a hit man and gun for hire who would kill anyone if the price was right. Find out about the man who killed in cold blood before returning to his home to smother his children with affection and dote after his wife, Kathleen.

  • S01E02 Chow Hayes: Australia's First Gangster

    • July 29, 2010
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Arguably Australia's most feared gangster, Frederick 'Chow' Hayes was a convicted double murderer, sentenced to hang in 1952 for the brazen killing of stand-over man and former boxer, Bobby Lee.

  • S01E03 Alphonse Gangitano

    • August 26, 2010
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Alphonse Gangitano was known as the Black Prince of Lygon Street and was the most lethal member of Melbourne's notorious Carlton Crew in the 1980s and 1990s.

  • S01E04 Dennis Allen: Dr Death

    • September 30, 2010
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Dennis Allen was the oldest son of Melbourne crime matriarch, Kath Pettingill. Abused as a child by his mother's boyfriends, he grew up knowing nothing but crime, and it became his life.

  • S01E05 Russell Cox: Australia's Most Wanted Man

    • October 28, 2010
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Meet Australia's most wanted man for a record 11 years. Russell "Mad Dog" Cox was a man no prison could hold. He escaped from NSW notorious "electronic zoo", the maximum security Katingal jail that politicians had said was escape proof.

  • S01E06 Mick Sayers: The Gambler

    • November 25, 2010
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Mick Sayers was a run of the mill crook who got in too deep with some of the tough nuts in Sydney's organised crime scene. Turning to drug dealing, extortion, race rigging and murder, he ripped off the wrong gangsters and paid the ultimate price.

  • S01E07 Ray Bennett: The Criminal Mastermind

    • December 30, 2010
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Raymond "Ray Chuck" Bennett was Australia's criminal mastermind. A brazen armed robber and thief; he did the jobs that other criminals considered were beyond them.

  • S01E08 Lennie McPherson: Mr Big

    • January 27, 2011
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Lennie McPherson ruled the Sydney crime scene for three decades. He was a violent and vicious criminal and arguably the worst of the worst. We trace the rise of Lennie McPherson from a street crook in the 1940s to the Mr. Big of organised crime.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Nikolai Radev: The Invader

    • June 29, 2011
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Nikolai Radev invaded the lives of his extortion victims and terrorized them until they met his demands. Children, wives, family members were dragged into his world of violence and horror. No one was safe.

  • S02E02 Stan "The Man" Smith: The Enforcer

    • July 28, 2011
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Stan 'The Man' Smith was a feared enforcer for Sydney's underworld. George Freeman's right hand man; he was a cold-hearted assassin, drug trafficker and murderer, turned man of God.

  • S02E03 Ray Denning: The Runner

    • August 25, 2011
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Brutal killer, armed robber, heartbreaker and prison escapologist, Ray Denning was the ultimate anti-hero who spent his whole life running from the nightmares in his head.

  • S02E04 Tilly Devine: Madam Razor

    • September 27, 2011
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Tilly Devine was a drug dealing brothel madam, a criminal sociopath and Sydney's Queen of vice, who clawed her way to the top of the city's sex trade with a razor in her hand. She was a prostitute who founded a criminal empire.

  • S02E05 Jockey Smith: Public Enemy No.1

    • October 27, 2011
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Criminal lunatic, gunman, arch-thief and armed robber, Jockey Smith terrorized Australia at gunpoint for three decades. When confronted, the short angry guy with a bad case of small man syndrome invariably reached for a gun.

  • S02E06 Dino Dibra: The Sunshine Boy

    • November 26, 2011
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Murderer, drug dealer, kidnapper, extortionist and street hoon, Dino Dibra grew up in Sunshine, a working class suburb where he became friends with a group of boys who would all go on to make their marks in Melbourne's underworld.

  • S02E07 Stewart John Regan: The Magician

    • December 29, 2011
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Murderer, extortionist, pimp, child killer and violent thug, Regan is arguably the most violent and terrifying person in Australian criminal history. A psychopath, Regan spent his childhood torturing animals before graduating to people.

  • S02E08 George Freeman: The King Of Sydney

    • January 26, 2012
    • Crime & Investigation Network (AU)

    Murderer, standover man, race fixer, and crime lord, George Freeman was the King of Sydney for over three decades. His skills as a gambler and race fixer meant he could enrich his associates who would keep him out of trouble with police.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Justice For Lucille

    • February 21, 2019
    • Nine Network

    In 1969, 20-year-old Miss Tasmania aspirant, Lucille Butterworth disappears from a bus stop in Tasmania. Seven years later, Geoffrey Charles Hunt confesses to the crime, but despite damning evidence police did not lay charges.

  • S03E02 Packer's Gold

    • February 28, 2019
    • Nine Network

    We uncover the true story of how an audacious thief broke into Kerry Packer's office and cracked his personal safe, getting away clean with $5.4 million in gold bars. This is a story about loyalty, betrayal and revenge.

  • S03E03 John Friedrich

    • March 7, 2019
    • Nine Network

    We uncover the true story of a leader and hero, John Friedrich who was also a criminal mastermind that seduced governments and defrauded banks. For 25 years this story was swept under the rug but today we look at the case once more.

  • S03E04 Mark Standen: A Dirty Cop

    • March 24, 2019
    • Nine Network

    This is the true story of the international drug plot that brought down one of Australia's top law enforcers, Mark Standen. We reveal how far his corruption spread and whether there are more like him still operating in our police forces

  • S03E05 Billy Longley: The Texan

    • March 31, 2019
    • Nine Network

    The life story of one of the central figures in the notorious Painters and Dockers wars that claimed more than 15 victims in 1960s and 70s Melbourne.

  • S03E06 The Vampire Gigolo

    • April 7, 2019
    • Nine Network

    When Melbourne prostitute Shane Chartres-Abbott was accused of raping and mutilating a client, few doubted his guilt. The victim said Chartres-Abbott boasted that he was a 200-year-old vampire.

  • S03E07 Mr Cruel

    • April 14, 2019
    • Nine Network

    A serial predator dubbed 'Mr Cruel' had an incredible impact on Australia in the late 1980s - '90s. Police believe he may be responsible for around a dozen attacks on children across Melbourne, and could still be alive.

  • S03E08 Murphy's Law

    • April 21, 2019
    • Nine Network

    Brian Murphy was regarded as Australia's toughest cop, finding himself in the middle of several gang wars throughout a 30-year career in the Victoria Police. Bad guys who crossed "The Skull" had a habit of dying violently.

Season 4

  • S04E01 The Dark Side

    • September 16, 2020

    It's the brutal crime that shocked a nation. A homicide on CCTV. We examine the damning evidence that reveals,the cold-hearted planning and execution of a young, naive wannabe gangster, by Roger Rogerson and his accomplice Glen McNamara.

  • S04E02 The Money Or The Bomb

    • September 23, 2020

    In 1971 an extortionist calling himself “Mr Brown” claimed he’d placed a bomb on a Qantas flight. With passenger safety a priority, Qantas handed over a $500,000 ransom. We follow the money trail and reveal the true identity of “Mr Brown”.

  • S04E03 The X Factor

    • September 30, 2020

    The "Lawyer X" saga sparked a Royal Commission. Nicola Gobbo was the barrister who played on both sides of the law, spending 15 years two-timing the police and drug lords.

  • S04E04 Killing Florence

    • October 7, 2020

    In 1977, a famous designer, Florence Broadhurst was bludgeoned to death in her own factory. She had many enemies but was she the victim of a notorious serial killer? Australian Crime Stories rebuilds the case, piece by piece.

  • S04E05 Bodies Of Evidence

    • October 14, 2020

    He was South Australia’s top forensic pathologist for 27 years, but Dr Colin Manock didn’t always get it right. From questionable methodology to performing a public autopsy, ACS reveals the high-level cover-ups.

  • S04E06 Attack on Police HQ

    • October 21, 2020

    Constable Angela Taylor was killed and 22 other's injured when a car bomb exploded outside the Victoria Police headquarters in Melbourne's CBD in 1986. ACS talks to survivors and the investigators who forensically hunted down the bomber.

  • S04E07 The Chinese Takeaway

    • October 28, 2020

    In 1988, thieves broke into a bank in Chinatown, Sydney, from a neighbouring building and escaped with gold bars, rare coins, jewellery, and bundles of cash. In a world exclusive, we name the mastermind who got away with the loot.

  • S04E08 A Deadly Friendship

    • November 10, 2020

    Jonathan Dick was one of Australia's most wanted men for more than two years after killing his brother with a sword in a Melbourne shopping centre. The terrorised family tell ACS exclusively about living on Jono's kill list.

  • S04E09 The Queen of Con

    • November 17, 2020

    Con artist Jody Harris had a thing for cops, bluffing her way into police stations and charming her way into their beds. The young grifter swindled many wary men and women, as she hustled her way up and down Australia's eastern seaboard.

  • S04E10 The Hunter

    • November 24, 2020

    The 2011 the disappearance of Prison boss David Prideaux is a mystery that bristles with possibilities. The story that began as a missing person case is now clouded with accusations of betrayal, adultery, conspiracies and murder.

Season 5

  • S05E01 Who Killed Juanita

    • August 11, 2021
    • Nine Network

    The disappearance of Juanita Nielsen is one of Australia's most infamous murder mysteries. ACS examines the three main suspects and answers a crucial question, who killed Juanita?

  • S05E02 Deadly Deception

    • August 18, 2021
    • Nine Network

    Renae Marsden died by suicide on the day her relationship ended. Her family reveal the inside story and the tragic twist, where Renae's tormenter is yet to be brought to justice.

  • S05E03 Derek Percy: The Face of Evil

    • August 25, 2021
    • Nine Network

    He's been described as Australia's Hannibal Lector, an opportunist killer, with unspeakable obsessions. Is this Australia's worst child killer?

  • S05E04 Million Dollar Mystery

    • September 1, 2021
    • Nine Network

    In 1994 twenty-two-year-old dancer and model, Revelle Balmain vanished. What really happened that night remains a mystery. We re-trace Revelle's final steps.

Season 6

  • S06E01 Jane Doe

    • November 20, 2023
    • Nine Network

    When the body of a young woman was found dumped in an industrial area in Sydney's south in 1991, the odds were stacked against the lead investigator, Detective Mick Plotecki.

  • S06E02 'Til Death Us Do Part

    • November 27, 2023
    • Nine Network

    ACS uncovers one of the most bizarre murder investigations in Australia's history. Two women die in suspicious circumstances: coincidence or as their husband Thomas Keir describes it, just bad luck!

  • S06E03 Murder Without Motive

    • December 4, 2023
    • Nine Network

    Kim Meredith was aged 19 when she was savagely murdered in central Albury as she walked to meet friends at a nearby hotel after work in 1996.

  • S06E04 TBA

    • Nine Network

  • S06E05 TBA

    • Nine Network

  • S06E06 TBA

    • Nine Network