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Crime Analyst
If you are curious about the ‘who dunnit’ and the ‘why dunnit’ and how and why victims become footnotes in their own murders, Crime Analyst is for you. Hosted by world renowned and award-winning Criminal Behavioural Analyst Laura Richards.
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Ep 340: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 11
In this remastered episode, Laura continues her fascinating interview with Brian Entin, senior National Correspondent for NewsNation and discusses how...
Ep 339: Breaking the Terror: Bringing a Sadistic Abuser to Justice with Miriam Lake, Part 2
Laura asks Miriam about Michael Egan’s abuse of her brother and mother and Miriam shares how she broke through the terror and fear to hold Egan accoun...
Ep 338: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 10
In this remastered episode, Laura interviews Brian Entin, senior National Correspondent for NewsNation, who covered Gabby’s case from the start. Laura...
Ep 337: Terror Behind Closed Doors: A Sadistic Coercive Controller with Miriam Lake, Part 1
Miriam Lake was terrorized as a little girl by Michael Egan, a coercive controller who groomed the family through charm and love bombing before subjec...
Ep 336: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 9
In this remastered episode, Laura discusses the other police body worn cameras and highlights new key information available from Officer Pratt’s foota...
Ep 335: Con Men and Coercive Control: The Psychology of Deception with Sarah Ferris, Part 2
Laura continues her interview with Sarah Ferris moving beyond the initial deception to unpack the deeper patterns, behaviours, and mindset of a conman...
Ep 334: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 8
In this remastered episode, Laura continues to break down Gabby and Brian’s behaviour using the police body worn camera footage from the Moab City Pol...
Ep 333: Con Men and Coercive Control: The Psychology of Deception with Sarah Ferris, Part 1
We all like to think we would know a conman when we see one – that’s what savvy Sarah Ferris thought when her sister Emma introduced her to the man sh...
Ep 332: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 7
This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive control are understood. It’s the difference between life and death...
Ep 331: Australia’s Landmark Coercive Control Conviction with Sam Bouffler, Part 2
Laura continues her in-depth analysis of the landmark case Police v Callum Fairleigh with survivor Sam Bouffler, moving beyond the initial conviction...
Ep 330: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 6
This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive control are understood. It’s the difference between life and death...
Ep 329: A Line in the Sand: Sam Bouffler and the Landmark Coercive Control Conviction, Part 1
In a landmark moment for justice in Australia, New South Wales has seen its first full-time prison sentence handed down for the crime of coercive cont...
Ep 328: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 5
This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive control are understood. It’s the difference between life and death...
Ep 327: Analysing Life’s Namaste Motherf*cker Moments, with Cally Beaton
Laura interviews comedian and author Cally Beaton and together they explore and analyse the gift of female empowerment, midlife reinvention, and “Nama...
Ep 326: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 4
Gabby would have been 27 last month. This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive control are understood. It’s t...
Ep 325: Coercive Control: A Child’s Unthinkable Journey with David Challen, Part 2
In part 2 David speaks candidly about his experience, excavating the patterns he now recognises, the behaviours that were normalised at the time, and...
Ep 324: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 3
Gabby would have been 27 last month. This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive control are understood. It’s t...
Ep 323 The Unthinkable Revisited: Coercive Control, Advocacy and Change with David Challen
Laura and David Challen, son of Sally Challen and author of The Unthinkable, unravel the insidious and lifelong harm coercive control causes a child. ...
Ep 322: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 2
Gabby would have been 27 last week. This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive control are understood. It’s th...
Ep 321: Sexual Abuse Signs, Trauma, Recovery and Healing with Ella McCrystal, Part 2
Laura and survivor, clinical psychotherapist and hypnotist Ella McCrystal share the signs of grooming, as well as what happened to the family when Ell...
Ep 320: Remastered: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Part 1
Today March 19 2026 would have been Gabby Petito’s 27th birthday. This remastered series is to honour Gabby and ensure the warning signs of coercive c...
Ep 319: Decodifying the Signs of Child Sexual Abuse with Ella McCrystal, Part 1
Laura interviews Ella McCrystal about surviving child sexual abuse, rape and domestic abuse, and the complex dynamics that can keep victims silent - i...
Ep 318: The Murdaugh Murders: Final Facts and Thoughts, Part 17
The Hulu’s series, ‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family’ has generated renewed interest in the case. This special release of the original investigative seri...
Ep 317: Meredith Kercher’s Murder: Amanda Knox Confronts the Man Who Imprisoned Her with Amanda Knox and Christopher Robinson, Part 2
Nearly two decades after her wrongful arrest for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, Amanda Knox returned to Perugia, Italy to confront th...
Ep 316: The Murdaugh Murders: The Macro Timeline continued, Part 16
The Hulu’s series, ‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family’ has generated renewed interest in the case. This special release of the original investigative seri...
Ep 315: The Mouth of the Wolf: Amanda Knox Returns to Italy with Amanda Knox and Christopher Robinson, Part 1
18 years after her wrongful arrest for the murder of 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher, Amanda Knox returns to Perugia, Italy, to confront...
Ep 314: The Murdaugh Murders Remastered: Cross Over with Mandy Matney, Part 15
The Hulu’s series, ‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family’ has generated renewed interest in the case. This special release of the original investigative seri...
Ep 313: The Murder of Mackenzie Anderson with Tabitha Acret, Part 3
While on bail for assaulting her, Tyrone Thompson broke into Mackenzie Anderson’s home and stabbed the 21-year-old mother 78 times as her toddler look...
Ep 312: The Murdaugh Murders: Analysing the Macro Timeline of Events, Part 14
The Hulu’s series, ‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family’ has generated renewed interest in the case. This special release of the original investigative seri...
Ep 311: The Murder of Mackenzie Anderson with Tabitha Acret, Part 2
21-year-old Mackenzie Anderson was stabbed 78 times with her 15-month-old son present. Her ex, Tyrone Thompson broke into her home whilst he was on ba...
Ep 310: The Murdaugh Murders: Analysing the Macro Timeline of Events, Part 13
In this episode Laura shares an update regarding Alex Murdaugh’s appeal hearing in the Supreme Court on February 11 2026.
The focus and t...
Ep 309: The Murder of Mackenzie Anderson with Tabitha Acret, Part 1
On March 25, 2022, 21-year-old Mackenzie Anderson was brutally murdered in Mayfield, New South Wales. She was stabbed more than 78 times by her ex-par...
Ep 308: The Murdaugh Murders: Analysing the Macro Timeline of Events, Part 12
The Hulu’s series, ‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family’ has generated renewed interest in the case. This special release of the original investigative seri...
Ep 307: CASE SOLVED: Cathy Thomas and Rebecca Dowski with Bill Thomas and Kristin Dilley
Between 1986 and 1989, at least six young people were murdered and two more disappeared across Virginia. The FBI long believed the crimes were likely...
Ep 306: The Murdaugh Murders REMASTERED: Analysing the Timeline of Events cont. Part 11
The Hulu’s series, ‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family’ has generated renewed interest in the case. This special release of the original investigative seri...
Ep 305: Caroline Flack: Search For the Truth with Dov Freedman
Laura is joined by Dov Freedman, co-founder Curious Films and executive producer of the powerful and disturbing two-part Disney/Hulu documentary Carol...
Ep 304: The Murdaugh Murders REMASTERED: Analysing the Timeline of Events cont. Part 10
The Hulu’s series, ‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family’ has generated renewed interest in the case. This special release of the original investigative seri...
Ep 303: Mica Francis: Analyzing the Federal Charges Against John Paul Miller with Mandy Matney and Liz Farrell
30-year-old Mica Miller, née Francis was found dead from a gunshot wound at Lumber River State Park in Robeson County, North Carolina on April 27, 202...
Ep 302: The Murdaugh Murders REMASTERED: Analysing the Timeline of Events, Part 9
The Hulu’s series, ‘Murdaugh: Death in the Family’ has generated renewed interest in the case. This special release of the original investigative seri...
Ep 301: Inside Murdaugh: Death in the Family with Erin Lee Carr, Part 22
Laura is joined by Erin Lee Carr, a two-time Emmy nominated American documentary film director and producer and co-creator and executive producer of H...