Small Town, Big Secret
Serious true crime podcast episodes built from documented records, clear sourcing, and careful language.
Documentary standard
Crime Path follows available records, labels uncertainty, and avoids invented motive, dialogue, or atmosphere. The focus is the person, the evidence, the official findings, and the questions that remain.
Case files
Lightning Ridge, New South Wales
Bennett Campbell Dominick disappeared after travelling to the Coocoran opal fields near Lightning Ridge on 10 January 2015. The NSW State Coroner later found that he died on or shortly after that date, but the cause and manner of death could not be determined.
Taree / Lansdowne, New South Wales
A planned episode on Hazel Clare Vidler, described in the project notes as a decades-old disappearance involving family silence, inconsistent stories, and no body.
Forster / Taree / Ulladulla links
A planned episode on Marlon Shawn McDonald, described in the project notes as a suspicious death with rumours, conflicting stories, and a mystery caller.
Coming soon
Each case is shaped from available records, with uncertainty kept visible and the people at the centre treated with care.