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All Episodes of Australian Crime Stories

The stories behind what made and shaped the most notorious figures in Australian criminal history.
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Season 1

  • Chris Flannery
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    Chris Flannery

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/24/2010

    Christopher Dale Flannery earned the nickname of 'Rent-a-Kill'. He was a hit man and gun for hire who would kill anyone if the price was right. Find out about the man who killed in cold blood before returning to his home to smother his children with affection and dote after his wife, Kathleen.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Chow Hayes: Australia's First Gangster
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    Chow Hayes: Australia's First Gangster

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/29/2010

    Arguably Australia's most feared gangster, Frederick 'Chow' Hayes was a convicted double murderer, sentenced to hang in 1952 for the brazen killing of stand-over man and former boxer, Bobby Lee.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Alphonse Gangitano
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    Alphonse Gangitano

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/26/2010

    Alphonse Gangitano was known as the Black Prince of Lygon Street and was the most lethal member of Melbourne's notorious Carlton Crew in the 1980s and 1990s.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Dennis Allen: Dr Death
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    Dennis Allen: Dr Death

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/2010

    Dennis Allen was the oldest son of Melbourne crime matriarch, Kath Pettingill. Abused as a child by his mother's boyfriends, he grew up knowing nothing but crime, and it became his life.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Russell Cox: Australia's Most Wanted Man
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    Russell Cox: Australia's Most Wanted Man

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/2010

    Meet Australia's most wanted man for a record 11 years. Russell "Mad Dog" Cox was a man no prison could hold. He escaped from NSW notorious "electronic zoo", the maximum security Katingal jail that politicians had said was escape proof.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Mick Sayers: The Gambler
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    Mick Sayers: The Gambler

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/25/2010

    Mick Sayers was a run of the mill crook who got in too deep with some of the tough nuts in Sydney's organised crime scene. Turning to drug dealing, extortion, race rigging and murder, he ripped off the wrong gangsters and paid the ultimate price.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Ray Bennett: The Criminal Mastermind
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    Ray Bennett: The Criminal Mastermind

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/30/2010

    Raymond "Ray Chuck" Bennett was Australia's criminal mastermind. A brazen armed robber and thief; he did the jobs that other criminals considered were beyond them.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown

  • Lennie McPherson: Mr Big
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    Lennie McPherson: Mr Big

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/27/2011

    Lennie McPherson ruled the Sydney crime scene for three decades. He was a violent and vicious criminal and arguably the worst of the worst. We trace the rise of Lennie McPherson from a street crook in the 1940s to the Mr. Big of organised crime.

    Director: Unknown

    Writer: Unknown