Capital Crime Files Podcast

PRELUDE: Exploring the unsolved & unexplained at the heart of a nation

Created & hosted by journalist, history investigator & author, Nichole Overall.

 

Over half a century, within the orbit of the Australian capital, Canberra, there's been multiple mysterious disappearances and murders specifically of young women.

 

Each remains unsolved.

Keren Rowland: The 50 Year Mystery Ep 1 - End of the Road -

Keren Rowland: The 50 Year Mystery Ep 1 - End of the Road -

A series of missing and murdered women in the heart of a nation. Reaching back 50 years. Each unsolved. Could any of them be linked in the most insidious fashion? Capital Crime Files begins with the mysterious disappearance of Keren Rowland.

Created & hosted by journalist, history investigator & author, Nichole Overall.

 

Case File Fragments I - What if it were you?

In the lead-up to the next episode on the 50 year mystery of the tragedy that befell 20-year-old Keren Rowland on Feb 26, 1971, an additional puzzle piece to ponder.

Episode 2 - Trail of Heartbreak - to be released shortly.

Created & hosted by journalist, history investigator & author, Nichole Overall.

Episode 2 - Trail of heartbreak

Known as both haunting and haunted, in the midst of the whispering pine forest, you can feel you’re miles from anywhere. And yet, just to the west, it’s possible to make out the twinkling lights of the heart of the Australian Capital, Canberra. What part then, did this eerie location play in the unexplained disappearance of 20 year old Keren Rowland on an otherwise ordinary evening 50 years ago?

Created & hosted by journalist, history investigator & author, Nichole Overall.

Case File Fragments II - Could you detect a mystery?

In this "Case File Fragment", I interview current lead investigator in the 50 year mystery of Keren Rowland, Detective-Sergeant Adam Rhynehart of the Australian Federal Police.

Created & hosted by journalist, history investigator & author, Nichole Overall.

Episode 3 - Devil in disguise?

Shrouded in mystery for 50 years - when Keren Rowland stepped out of that Mini Minor and into the headlines, was she greeted by a devil in disguise?

Case File Fragments III - Spectre of a Canberra serial killer?

Unsolved disappearances and murders of young women within the orbit of the national capital of Australia over the last 50 years: does the bloodied fingerprint of Ivan Milat stain the postcard-perfect image of Canberra?

Episode 4 - What remains

The unsolved mystery of Keren Rowland's death: suicide, botched abortion, strangulation? How could it be so hard to determine the cause?

Episode 5 - Exhibit Q

In the unexplained death of 20-year-old Keren Rowland, means, method and motive remained cryptically clouded, yet a further compelling development emerged: the strong indication of the presence of another with her in that darkened, lonely forest.

Case File Fragments IV - A true confession?

Keren’s skeletal remains were stumbled across on May 13, 1971. Almost precisely 50 years later, a highly credible source has revealed new information to me involving a potential confession from as early as 1973. What then, came of it?