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Real Crime with Adam Shand

Real Crime with Adam Shand

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Join investigative journalist Adam Shand each week as he takes you into his world of real crime, honed from forty years of covering Australia's biggest law and order stories. These are the firsthand stories of the cops, robbers, and victims who lived them.

2026 Podshape
Politics & Government True Crime
Episodes
  • Florence Broadhurst: The Evidence Left Behind | Tony Russell
    Jan 27 2026

    On his first day at Paddington Police Station, 19-year-old Tony Russell attended a welfare check at the Sydney factory of celebrated wallpaper designer Florence Broadhurst. What he discovered inside would become one of Australia’s most notorious unsolved murders — and the beginning of a lifetime of unanswered questions.

    In this powerful episode of Real Crime with Adam Shand, Tony Russell speaks publicly about that day for the first time. He describes finding Florence Broadhurst’s body, the evidence he says was overlooked and the extraordinary decision to erase his presence — and his testimony — from the official investigation.

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    42 mins
  • Five Years for a Crime He Didn’t Commit | John Button
    Jan 25 2026

    In 1963, a 19-year-old Perth man became the face of one of Australia’s most devastating miscarriages of justice.

    In this episode of Real Crime with Adam Shand, Adam speaks directly with John Button, now in his 80s, about the night that changed his life, the brutality of a forced confession, and the system that chose expediency over justice. Button recounts living under the shadow of a wrongful conviction for nearly 40 years, the toll it took on his mental health and family and the bitter reality of being exonerated but never truly compensated.

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    50 mins
  • Thirteen Years On: Living With the Attack | Lance White
    Jan 20 2026

    In this episode of Real Crime with Adam Shand, Adam speaks with former radio newsreader Lance White, who was the victim of a savage attack at a suburban Perth train station. Set upon by a group of young men simply looking for someone to bash, Lance survived — but the long-term psychological toll would change his life forever.

    Thirteen years on, the attackers have never been caught. Despite CCTV footage and detailed descriptions, justice never came. But the story takes an extraordinary and disturbing turn when Lance’s DNA, later places him under suspicion for a completely separate and serious crime.

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    43 mins
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