My Father's Crimes
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The Mistakes
During Dad's career in crime scene photography, there were a lot of stuff-ups. Some were mechanical faults with the cameras, some were human error and some were just bizarre. This episode speaks about the culture of forensics back in the 1950s and what...
Gruesome Cases
All crime scenes are gruesome in some way but some affect the photographers more than others. These are the crime scenes that affected dad most. Almost seventy years on and he still remembers them like yesterday.
Starting in SIB – episode 10
My father got into crime scene photography in a very unusual way. He was not even a photographer. This episode tells the story of his entry into the Scientific Investigation Bureau and the police culture of that time
corrupt cops
Throughout Dad's 36 year career in the police he came across a few corrupt cops. This episode tells about the tricks they used to get convictions. It also speaks about the police culture of the 1950s and 60s and how they turned a blind eye to what was ...
more bizarre cases episode 7
more of the stories behind the bizarre crime scenes my dad photographed
some bizarre cases Episode 6
Every crime scene is unique but during Dad’s career as a crime scene photographer he was asked to photograph some bizarre cases.In this episode I tell the story of two of them: one involving a strange suicide and another and attempted suicide.
sydney opera house lottery kidnapping
This was the first kidnapping of its kind in Australia taken from my Dad's perspective and the involvement of the Scientific Investigation Bureau. It was one of the first cases were forensics played a
Neddy Smith and others
In this episode I will talk about how I worked with forensics in identifying the bodies of murder victims including one of hitman Neddy Smith's victims
dads first job episode 3
Dad had just started working in the Scientific Investigation Bureau, He was buddied up with an experienced officer on his first job. It was very gruesome but it gave Dad a valuable lesson about how the SIB worked and how they coped with trauma