Breakthrough

Breakthrough

Breakthrough, the official podcast of the Queensland Police Service Crime and Intelligence Command, allows you to peer over the shoulders of real-time investigators and invites you to collaborate on outstanding cases – from missing persons to cold case murders to sexual assault to fraud. You may just be the listener who has information that may be critical in helping police with their next breakthrough.

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April 23, 2024 58 mins

In this episode, we continue our deep dive into the murky world of the Dark Net, an online haven for drug dealers, gun merchants and other nefarious criminal activities. Come inside Operation Oscar Fetters, as the Synthetic Drugs Operations Unit and other crack teams within the QPS Crime and Intelligence Command take down a multi-million-dollar drug operation, nabbing the mastermind only to have him go on the run, sparking a nation...

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In this episode, we take you behind the façade of respectable Australian suburbia and into the murky world of the Dark Net, an online haven for drug dealers, gun merchants and other nefarious criminal activities. Come inside Operation Oscar Fetters, as the Synthetic Drugs Operations Unit and other cracks teams within the QPS Crime and Intelligence Command take down a multi-million-dollar drug operation, nabbing the culprit only to ...

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September 28, 2023 58 mins

For eight years one of Queensland’s worst serial sex offenders prowls the suburbs of south-east Queensland, casing granny flats and townhouses, attacking women then disappearing under cover of darkness. He becomes known as the Night Stalker. He targets women alone in their homes and attempts to hide his identity by wearing hoodies and gloves. In one case he even steals his victim’s mobile phone, delaying her call for help. But when...

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September 14, 2023 59 mins

A lonely Brisbane woman decides to try and meet the love of her life online and hooks up with a young and attractive member of the U.S. military, based in the Middle East. But all is not as it seems. Before she knows it, Wendy Smith has been trapped in a well-organised romance scam and loses a fortune to cyber-criminals. But she soon turns the tables on them with the help of QPS cyber experts who set up a tricky string and manage t...

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August 31, 2023 56 mins

In September 2008 a man’s body is discovered on the spillway of the Poona Dam near Nambour on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. A police search of his belongings, however, reveals no identification items, and he has not been reported as a missing person. So who is the man investigators have dubbed Poona Paul? After years of hard work police take a punt on genetic genealogy to try and locate living relatives and get a hit in New Zealand....

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August 13, 2023 2 mins

Breakthrough, the official podcast of the Queensland Police Service Crime and Intelligence Command, allows you to peer over the shoulders of real-time investigators and invites you to collaborate on outstanding cases – from missing persons to cold case murders to sexual assault to fraud. You may just be the listener who has information that may be critical in helping police with their next breakthrough.

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