In this episode of Real Crime with Adam Shand, Adam speaks with former radio newsreader Lance White, who was the victim of a savage attack at a suburban Perth train station. Set upon by a group of young men simply looking for someone to bash, Lance survived — but the long-term psychological toll would change his life forever.

Thirteen years on, the attackers have never been caught. Despite CCTV footage and detailed descriptions, justice never came. But the story takes an extraordinary and disturbing turn when Lance’s DNA, later places him under suspicion for a completely separate and serious crime.

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In this episode of Real Crime with Adam Shand, Adam sits down with NSW Legislative Council member Jeremy Buckingham, chair of a parliamentary inquiry into unsolved murders and missing persons cases. What begins as a New South Wales investigation is rapidly expanding into a nationwide probe, uncovering chilling links between Milat and dozens, possibly scores, of unsolved killings across Australia.

From lovers’ lane executions to savage stabbings, from Queensland highways to Victorian backstreets, Buckingham lays out disturbing patterns, missed connections and institutional failures that may have allowed one of Australia’s most notorious killers to operate for decades with impunity.

Unsolved Murders and Long-term Missing Persons Inquiry

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In this episode of Real Crime with Adam Shand, Adam sits down with retired NSW Detective Sergeant Damian Loone, a relentless investigator whose 35-year career spanned some of Australia’s most haunting cold cases. From the murder of Lynette Dawson, to the disappearance of Cheryl Grimmer and the killing of Rachel Childs - Loone reflects on the victories, the heartbreaks and the cases that still refuse to let go.

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