Today, Monday November 9, marks the launch of the first season of Investigate throughTapt Podcasts. Investigate is part of the also brand new Crime Central Australia, where Tapt Media will house an expanded slate of true crime and investigative podcasts.
The Crime Central team features three extraordinary women.
Tara Cassidy, the award-winning crime and investigative journalist, multiplatform reporter for ABC News Queensland and former State Editor with SCA, she has hosted the major true-crime series Killer Charm.
Amelia Oberhardtis an investigative journalist who has worked with the ABC andSCA, creating the hit and award winning podcast Secrets We Keep.
Jess Lodge, who while a senior TV producer for9News Queensland, co-created the international award-winning podcasts Hannah’s Story and The Ultimate Sacrifice.
Emma Lawson, the Video and Social Media Manager at Tapt Podcasts, has also been essential to the build of this podcast, vodcast & social media brand.
First from Investigate comes Finding Priscilla, withe the first two episodes out this morning.
In July 2018, Priscilla Brooten, a 46-year-old American woman living in Brisbane, went missing, although it took six months before police began searching for her. The subsequent investigation took police to the United States and back, where rumours, secrets and a potential cover up threatened to unravel the case.
“Cases like this are often reduced to the moment someone disappears, or to what happens inside a courtroom.
Rarely do the public, or even family and friends, get to hear the full story – the how and why about what happened to their loved one.
There are always questions that remain after the verdict. We wanted to go back through this case, speak to people who have never told their stories publicly, and examine what we still don’t know.”
Despite a man being found guilty of her murder, Priscilla has never been found.
Across six episodes, Tara takes listeners back to the period leading up to her disappearance, uncovering people connected to Priscilla, who cared about her, who have never before spoken publicly about what they know.
Investigate will combine major seasons, each devoted to a single case, with weekly episodes that look at the biggest crime stories making headlines across Australia.
Investigate: Finding Priscilla is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube.
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