Civilian Sleuths

About Civilian Sleuths

Civilian Sleuths is a new investigative podcast shining a forensic light on Australia’s most challenging unsolved murders and missing persons cases. For decades, these crimes have haunted families, investigators, and communities searching for answers—not for lack of effort, but because the tools of the past were limited. Using original source material, coronial records, archived media, and modern analytical tools, Civilian Sleuths recreates timelines, re-examines evidence, and explores theories that may have been overlooked for decades. But the most powerful tool remains public memory. Behind every cold case is a real person. A family. A life interrupted. And often, someone who still knows the truth. If you know something—no matter how small—it may matter. Launching January 6 with new episodes every second Tuesday, Civilian Sleuths invites you to become part of the investigation. Unsolved. Unforgotten. Unfinished. Listener discretion advised.

Publisher

Alethea

Category

news · society & culture · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

7 Dec 2025

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Margaret & Seana Tapp: Someone Knows A Double Murderer (FINALE)

   Forty-two years later, the answer may still exist in one of two places: in the evidence collected in 1984 — or in the memory of someone who has not told everything they know. That is where this series ends. What survives from 13 Kelvin Drive? What could modern forensic science still reveal? And how much did the laboratory contamination that derailed the case in 2008 actually affect? Then there are the questions science cannot answer. A bright red utility seen in Kelvin Drive was never publicl...

2. 

   28 Sept 2026

   Margaret & Seana Tapp: Was Margaret His Target?

   For forty-two years, the murders of Margaret and Seana Tapp have been read through Margaret. Her relationships. The men in her life. The assumption that whoever entered that house came for her. But what if that assumption is wrong? Seana was sexually assaulted. There was no evidence Margaret was. And four crucial things were never determined: when they died, where in the house they died, what was used to strangle them, and the order in which any of it happened. In this episode, we take ...

3. 

   14 Sept 2026

   Margaret & Seana Tapp: A Stranger, or Someone She Knew?

   No broken lock. No forced window. Nothing stolen. Whoever murdered Margaret and Seana Tapp entered their home without leaving any clear sign of how—or why. Police worked through hundreds of people connected to their lives. Friends. Family. Neighbours. The men closest to Margaret. But one potentially vital figure remained beyond their reach: the unknown driver of a red Ford utility seen twice in Kelvin Drive that evening. For forty-two years, the absence of forced entry has fuelled one persist...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

13 ratings

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