It's an early September morning, 1934, in Aulbury NSW, and Tom Griffith is taking his prized bull for a walk. Whilst walking he smells kerosine and upon investigating he discovers the body of a pyjama cald young woman, very dead and very burned and this discovery will spark a murder mystery that wont be resolved for years.

Who is Pyjama girl? Who killed her? And how did this murder result in a dead body being put on public display in the hopes of identifying her?

Join Belinda over a coffee - or cocktail - or two as she discusses the infamous and equally fascinating Pyjama Girl murder.

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Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans

It's New Years Eve, 1901, in the small German farming town of Towitta, South Australia and the Schippan children are settled in for the night. That is, until their 14 year old sister, Bertha, is brutally murdered by a 'bearded man' in a seemingly unprovoked attack. With no suspects to go on, police quickly arrest Mary, Bertha's older sister who was sharing a bed with Bertha that night. But did Mary really do it?

Grab your beverage of choice and join Belinda as she discusses this still unsolved case and looks at each suspect one by one, each of them capable of this brutal killing.

This episode will leave you wanting more from this awful yet fascinating case and asking - who did kill Bertha Schippan?

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Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans

Join your host Belinda over a beverage or two as she discusses baby farmers John and Sarah Makin and yes, it is as bad as it sounds.

In 1893, married couple John and Sarah Makin were trusted and paid for to care for infants by desperate, often destitute, parents, a practice known as baby farming, which was not uncommon in those times, but horrifically, they did anything but, with a blocked pipe in a backyard bringing their heinous crimes to light.

*WARNING - This episode discusses infant murder. Listener discretion advised *

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Crime Scenes with Coffee Beans