I Catch Killers with Gary Jubelin

Armed with beer glasses and metal knuckle dusters, the Finks bikie club violently crashed a police Christmas party. Former detective Craig Semple got caught on the wrong end of one bulked-up bikie who king-hit him, knocking him to the ground. For years after, he spent nights lying awake fantasising about vengeance. This is his revenge story.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In just two years, former detective Craig Semple dealt with 12 murders and a budding serial killer. There were jail murders, drug murders and domestic violence murders. He even spent Christmas morning at a murder scene, after spending the night setting up a swing set for his young kids. But ultimately, locking up the bad guys took its toll. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Meet one of the baddest figures of Sydney’s underworld. He committed his first crime at 12 years old. He was acquitted of several armed robberies involving millions of dollars, fast cars and balaclavas, and he was charged with attempted murder. His identity has been hidden - until today. Read more about this fascinating story at thebaddest.com.au.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Max Sica horrifically killed three of Shirley Singh’s children. They were found dead in a spa bath. The water was overflowing. There was blood on the walls. Years before he committed the horrendous triple murder, Max Sica was described by a prison psychologist as having the hallmarks of a psychopath. This is how a quiet family home became the scene of one of the most gruesome crimes Australia’s ever seen.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shirley Singh’s three youngest children were brutally murdered in the family home. Max Sica killed his girlfriend Neelma, 24, and her two siblings, Kunal, 18, and Sidhi, 12. He attacked them with a garden fork, dumped their bodies in the spa bath and flooded them with scalding hot water. Just a decade earlier, Sica had been sentenced to nine years behind bars for 83 offences. The fearless mum joins Gary to share her chilling story, keeping the memory of her three kids alive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While many paedophiles face a few years behind bars, their victims are given a life long sentence of suffering. Fighting lawyer Andrew Carpenter has one mission - to make Australia the most dangerous place for child sex offenders, and it starts with seizing super. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrew Carpenter is a lawyer and a mixed martial arts ring announcer. He’s also known as the most hated man in Australia by child sex offenders - and it’s his badge of honour. As a voice for survivors of child sexual abuse, Carpenter has spent years locking up the lowest of the low criminals.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jack Roney had a secret. Between searching for missing children and attending heartbreaking murder-suicides as a detective, he was looking for something more. During his commute to work, Jack secretly spent months fiercely bleeding words onto the page. Soon after, he left his career as a cop in favour of life as a crime writer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jack Roney joined the police fresh out of high school. He attended fatal car crashes, got in fights with bikies, was sent to the scene of tragic murder-suicides and interviewed children whose parents were shot and killed in their own home. Needing to escape the heavy toll of child protection, Jack Roney found a way to process the hard truth of what he was seeing by becoming a crime fiction writerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former detective senior sergeant Ed Kinbacher has seen a lot of crime in the past 40 years. He locked up notorious con man Danny Shakespeare. He observed the horror left behind by a mother who killed eight children days before Christmas. But one case that still bugs him is that of the mysterious Jet Set Bandit. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ex top cop Ed Kinbacher has a reputation for unorthodox investigations. He’s conducted his own backyard experiments to catch killers, he’s taken unusual measures to track down persons of interest, and he’s been first on the scene as an active shooter fired at a Queensland hospital. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather and father, policing very much runs through the recently retired detective senior sergeant’s blood.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Craig Foster sacrificed his entire life for a man he’d never met. Foster spent months flying around the world between FIFA, the UN and European embassies fighting for footballer Hakeem al-Araibi, who was wrongfully detained on his honeymoon. Prepared to lose whatever it took, including his house, Foster assured al-Araibi’s wife that her husband wasn’t going to die in prison. What unfolded was an incredible race against the clock.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Craig Foster is a former Socceroo captain, TV presenter, law student - he’s even won the odd Logie Award. But at his core, he’s just a guy from rural Australia, hoping to make an impact on the world. When he heard Hakeem al-Araibi had been wrongfully detained in a Thai prison, Foster reacted the only way he could. He quit his job, packed up his life and went overseas to save a man he’d never met.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tony Hoang was a teenage drug dealer hanging out with violent gangs and feeding a raging heroin habit. Not far away, Russell Manser had robbed his first bank at 22 - the first in a string of several violent burglaries. This is how they escaped the deadly world of crime.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nader Hamdan was just 16 when he punched a cop in the jaw and grabbed his gun. On the other side of New South Wales in Redfern’s notorious streets, Jeffrey Morgan was running riots with police and robbing banks. Both men were heading to an early grave or life behind bars. Instead, they turned their troubled lives around. This is their redemption story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In part two of Gary's chat with Damien they talk about his incredible survival and how his positive attitude and drive helped push him forward and achieve what many thought was going to be impossible. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Private Damien Thomlinson is a former member of the elite 2nd Commando Regiment of the Australian Army who was terribly injured after a bomb explosion in Afghanistan. His inspiring journey back from the dead stands as proof that no challenge is too great and that the ANZAC spirit is truly alive and well.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's been a lot of headlines about the William Tyrrell investigation recently. This is what Gary Jubelin has to say.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Imagine if your loved one suddenly vanished. Just disappeared into thin air with no trace left behind. Every year in Australia, 38,000 missing persons reports are made. While many are found, thousands are left with no answers. Former cop-turned-reporter Meni Caroutas, host of The Missing Australia podcast, talks to Gary about some of the most chilling unsolved investigations.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

King's Cross in the '80s for a young cop was like Mardi Gras, the circus and New Year's Eve all rolled into one. Whatever you wanted, you could get it. For former detective Meni Caroutas, working the glitter strip was his dream job - until everything suddenly came crashing down. Meni joins Gary to chat about the moment his career ended, and how it led him to his lifelong mission of finding missing persons. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Here's a special treat - the first few chapters of Gary's book I Catch Killers from Audible. Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of a homicide detective.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Bunnings employee and a nail gun. That was the key to foiling a potentially very deadly Christmas terrorist attack in Victoria. AFP's Lindsay Hall and Amanda Glover walk Gary through some of their biggest stings.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As acting members of the Australian Federal Police, Amanda Glover and Lindsay Hall have spent more than 40 years investigating police fraud, drug crimes and preventing terrorist attacks. The duo sit down with Gary to chat about the tricks they use to catch crims, and Glover reveals how she busted a suspicious family daycare syndicate that falsely claimed $13 million of taxpayer money.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adults-only funny man Paul Fenech has written a Bogan Bible, holds a record for the most amount of swearing on TV, and he’s thong-slapped his fans right around Australia. Working his way up from cleaner to comedian, he’s walked a fine line between humour and causing offence. But Pauly tells Gary the one time he took it too far. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paul Fenech is the Logie-winning Maltese-Australian comedian who created smash hits Pizza, Housos and Bogan Hunter. But he says woke sensibilities have changed so much that his career would be impossible today - and he’s waiting for the day he gets cancelled.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Having spent 18 years behind bars, ex-bikie Matt Law knows the problems of prison better than anyone. He’s lived much of his adult life maximum security, he’s been addicted to opiates, but now he’s found a new sense of calm. Working as a peer mentor, Matt is helping ex-prisoners find their feet upon release. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Matt Law has spent half his life in jail. When he was a kid, he escaped a difficult home life and became a ward of the state. As he got older he searched for a tribe and found it - in an outlaw bikie gang. Matt takes us into the dark world of bikie life, revealing the strict club rules and what it takes to be nominated.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Fingerprints identify the victim as 26-year-old Kelly Hodge, but a killer is still on the loose. Homicide detective Charlie Bezzina talks us through each of the five suspects, only to end up with dead ends, until months later they receive a call. This is what led them to her murderer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. A naked body was found wrapped in a blanket on the side of the road. Legendary homicide detective Charlie Bezzina takes us through every step of the investigation as the cops experienced it, in real-time, revealing the vital clue that led them to the killer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. What do you get when you combine a mushroom dealer and a prison sentence? In Andrew Hamilton's case, the answer is comedy gold. In part two Andrew takes Gary through his time behind bars and the prison food reviews that helped launch his stand-up comedy career. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Andrew Hamilton was a PR young-gun with a bright future, he also owned a high-profile pizza shop in Potts Point. From the outside everything looked great. But underneath it all Andrew had a secret life as one of Sydney's biggest magic mushroom dealers, and his gambling and drug addictions were running rampant. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Enjoy a sneak peak into the new series, The Missing Australia. Episode one is here for your listening pleasure. Former cop-turned-reporter Meni Caroutas investigates some of Australia's roughly 2,600 unsolved missing persons cases. If you enjoy this episode, you can listen early and ad-free to The Missing Australia podcast now on Crime X+. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Nicole Madigan felt like she couldn't escape her stalker Karissa as she continued to bombard her with endless harassment. Finally, she was pushed too far. In part two Nicole talks to Gary about the long process to get justice and protect herself and her family. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Nicole Madigan is an accomplished and confident journalist, but her life was totally turned upside down by the actions of a stalker. In part one, she tells Gary how a chance encounter with a stranger led to a campaign of abuse and harassment that would last for years. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. He walked beside John Ibrahim for a decade, and now Neil Cummins tells us why he had to walk away. He also shares what it was like to pick up the pieces of his life and rebuild into something stronger. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Neil Cummins has dealt with bikie brawls, street fights and the general chaos that was life on the streets of King's Cross. Neil worked his way from nightclub doorman to personal bodyguard to John Ibrahim, the king of the cross himself, today he takes us into the seedy underbelly of that time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Chris O'Connor was the lead investigator on Task Force ‘Spectrum’ which was responsible for investigating the abduction and sexual assault of several schoolgirls in Victoria and sadly the murder of one of those girls. This case is wildly known as the Mr Cruel Investigation. Today Chris gives us a rare inside look into the decades-long investigation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Chris O'Connor is a former Detective Senior Sergeant specialising in Sex Crime Investigation and during his 36-year career in the Victorian Police, he was widely regarded as one of the most experienced detectives in this field. In part one, Gary and Chris talk about what it was like investigating some of the worst predators in the country, from child abusers to a man who was purposefully infecting people with HIV.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. The road to recovery is seldom a straightforward and easy path. Duncan Burns cheated death and walked away from his club, but it took some more hard lessons to put him on his current mission as a youth worker looking to keep young offenders out of detention centres and change the way we look at crime. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Duncan Burns was a lost young man searching for a tribe when he first met a bikie gang member who introduced him to a lifestyle of fast rides, fast living and plenty of drugs. Unfortunately for Duncan, this world isn't one you can survive in long and in 2005 he was shot in a gang war and left dying in the gutter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Looking at Nader Hamdan's early life, a betting man might expect him to end up in and out of jail - or even dead. But Nader defied the odds through grit, determination and his unrelenting passion for becoming a champion boxer. In part two of his chat with Gary, Nader talks about what gave him the drive to change and what he wants to tell young men who are struggling to stay on the right side of the law.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Nader 'Lionheart' Hamdan is a legend of the boxing world, in 2003 he was ranked number two in the world in the middleweight division, just behind Oscar De La Hoya. But Nader's rise to the top wasn't easy, he was troubled and violent in his youth, in part one he talks about his years in a juvenile detention centre after an incident with a policeman's gun. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Leesa and Ron Topic felt like they were in a living nightmare, they had endless questions about how their average ordinary daughter could end up shot dead by police. It took an inquest for them to find answers. In part two, the couple shares what Courtney's legacy is and why they will never stop fighting for change.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. ‘Make sure you hang out the washing’ - This was the last communication Leesa Topic had with her daughter Courtney. It was written on a note she left in the kitchen of their West Hoxton Park home.Within hours of hanging out the family’s washing, Courtney Topic aged just 22, who had never been in trouble was shot dead by police.Today, we are talking to Leesa and Ron Topic, the parents of Courtney.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Tom Carroll was at the top of his game, he had it all: world championships, a loving family, fame and fortune - but he also had a dark secret, Tom was an addict. In part two of his chat with Gary, he talks about his experiences with crystal meth and cocaine, and the rock bottom moment that led him to recovery and enlightenment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Tom Carroll has caught his share of killer... waves. A two-time world champion surfer, Tom has had huge highs and crashing lows. In part one of his chat with Gary, Tom talks about what drew him to surfing, his career and how he became involved in drugs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. Matt Klein says that he was drawn to the kindness and community spirit of the Twelve Tribes, but eventually, the bizarre and sometimes cruel rules governing the group led to him fleeing with his children. His wife remains in the group and has cut off contact with Matt and the family. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. The tables were turned when Matty Johns sat down with Gary to ask him about everything from his early career to his post-policing life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. The inside workings of the Twelve Tribes religious group here in Australia and around the world are shrouded in mystery. We're joined by Journalist Tim Elliott who is pulling back the curtain and exposing some dark truths.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Subscribe to Crime X+ today. In part two of Gary's chat with recently retired Scotland Yard Detective David Leach, the pair talk about David's work in some very high-profile counter-terrorism investigations and his work on a decade-old unsolved murder.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.