Inside the global cocaine industry, where profits are counted up in millions and losses measured out in murders.
This worldwide investigation from The Times, Sunday Times and NewsCorp Australia, reveals how the drug business works like any multi-billion dollar corporation.
Cocaine Inc. is hosted by Fiona Hamilton, chief reporter at The Times, David Collins, northern editor at The Sunday Times, and Stephen Drill, national correspondent at News Corp Australia.
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Dear Rachelle - Australia's new true crime obsession
An expert cold case team investigates the 2001 death of Rachelle Childs after she leaves work and mysteriously dies within hours.
4 Apr 2025
NEW PODCAST: Dear Rachelle
A killer is on the loose in an Australian country town.
Excited for the June long weekend, bubbly 23-year-old Rachelle Childs leaves work, calls her sister, and is dead within hours. Her burning, partially naked body is found nine hours later in bushland on a lonely coastal road. Her killer has never been caught.
Now innocent people, once too afraid to speak, are breaking their silence.
If you’re looking for your next true crime podcast obsession, search out Dear Rachelle.
An unstoppable cold case team is reinvestigating and uncovering damning new evidence. Could this finally be the break the family needs?
Dear Rachelle is hosted and investigated by journalist Ashlea Hansen, who teams up with retired detective and renowned cold case specialist Damian Loone.
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Dear Rachelle is a podcast from True Crime Australia.
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7 Sept 2024
Bonus episode 3: The Journalist
Stephen Drill talks to Richard McColl about living and working at the centre of the global cocaine trade.
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13 Jul 2024
Bonus episode 2: Question Time
Cocaine Inc. hosts Fiona, David and Stephen answer your questions about the drug business and how they made the series.
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6 Jul 2024
Bonus episode: The Artist
Stephen Mee, a former cocaine trafficker who worked with the Cali Cartel, sits down to discuss how he built an illicit empire.
David Collins and executive producer Will Roe meet Stephen in his artist’s studio.
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29 Jun 2024
Bringing it Home | 8
The investigation takes us to a $10 million home in a leafy city suburb.
Back home in Melbourne, Stephen Drill picks up a money trail leading right past his front door.
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25 Jun 2024
The Dubai Gold Rush | 7
Undercover in a gleaming world where nobody asks questions.
David Collins follows the money trail through Dubai’s crowded gold souk to its luxurious office blocks.
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22 Jun 2024
Sunshine and Lollipops | 6
Drug money is carried out of the UK in suitcases carried by passengers travelling in luxury.
A cash mule tells David Collins about the brazen operation used to smuggle millions to Dubai.
This episode contains descriptions of suicidal thoughts.
If you or someone you know has been affected by the issues raised, the following organisations can help:
Samaritans (https://www.samaritans.org/) in the UK - 24-hour helpline - 116 123
Lifeline (https://www.lifeline.org.au/) in Australia - 24-hour helpline 13 11 14
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18 Jun 2024
The Woodchurch Estate | 5
On the streets of northern England where chaos reigns among those doing the selling.
David Collins spends time in Merseyside, speaking to those working in the retail arm of the cocaine business.
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16 Jun 2024
Get in touch | Q&A
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15 Jun 2024
The Pineapple Trader | 4
Europe’s vast ports act as logistic hubs in a worldwide operation that relies on corruption and torture.
In the Netherlands, Fiona Hamilton reveals the industrial scale of the cocaine business - and how it always leads to violence.
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11 Jun 2024
The 64 Million Percent Mark-up | 3
As cocaine is smuggled out of South America it multiplies in value, driving people to extremes.
Stephen Drill follows the trail to Mexico and uncovers how the numbers used by law enforcement do not add up.
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8 Jun 2024
The Sweet Song | 2
Where people fight and die in the coca plantations.
In Colombia, Stephen Drill discovers how the international cocaine business starts, and the cost paid by everyone it touches.
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8 Jun 2024
A Shooting at Christmas | 1
A brutal attack on an innocent young woman sends the reporters on a global investigation.
David Collins visits Merseyside in northern England, where 26-year-old Elle Edwards was shot while celebrating Christmas Eve.
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30 May 2024
Introducing - Cocaine Inc.
Coming on 9 June - Inside the global cocaine industry, where profits are counted up in millions and losses measured out in murders.
This worldwide investigation from The Times, Sunday Times and NewsCorp Australia, reveals how the drug business works like any multi-billion dollar corporation.
Cocaine Inc. is hosted by Fiona Hamilton, chief reporter at The Times, David Collins, northern editor at The Sunday Times, and Stephen Drill, national correspondent at News Corp Australia.
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