Stranger than Fiction
Strewth
STREWTH - Episode 2: Stranger than Fiction A True Australian Mystery Podcast In 1930, struggling novelist Arthur Upfield sat around a campfire in the remote Western Australian outback, discussing with fellow workers how to commit the perfect murder, purely as a plot device for his detective novel. When three men subsequently disappeared and their remains were found burned according to the exact method Upfield had described, police didn't just investigate the obvious suspect, they investigated the author himself. Decades later, historians uncovered an even darker truth, transforming this tale...
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The Lady of the Swamp
Strewth
STREWTH - Episode 1: The Lady of the Swamp A True Australian Mystery Podcast Before South Gippsland became infamous for a recent mushroom poisoning that made international headlines, this picturesque Victorian region harbored an even darker secret. In 1952, an elderly heiress known as "The Lady of the Swamp" vanished without a trace from her crumbling mansion, leaving behind one of Australia's most baffling unsolved murders. Margaret Clement's story is a haunting tale of spectacular wealth turned to devastating poverty. Born into a gold rush fortune worth millions in today's money, she watched...
info_outlineSTREWTH - Episode 2: Stranger than Fiction
A True Australian Mystery Podcast
In 1930, struggling novelist Arthur Upfield sat around a campfire in the remote Western Australian outback, discussing with fellow workers how to commit the perfect murder, purely as a plot device for his detective novel. When three men subsequently disappeared and their remains were found burned according to the exact method Upfield had described, police didn't just investigate the obvious suspect, they investigated the author himself.
Decades later, historians uncovered an even darker truth, transforming this tale of fiction inspiring reality into something far more sinister.
This is the extraordinary case of the Murchison murders, where the line between imagination and reality, between individual crime and systemic brutality, becomes terrifyingly thin.
Title Music - by Jesse Frank from Pixabay
Cinematic Mystery Piano by TheoJT - https://freesound.org/s/611048/
Sound effects
Lultju Eve Atmos with Fire - Long Version by kangaroovindaloo -- https://freesound.org/s/396480/
Australia Outback Birds by EduFigueres -- https://freesound.org/s/562111/