Trial By Wine
True Crime
Schmidty, Swanny and Clarky revisit crimes and run them through their jury of three, debating both sides of the case to agree an appropriate (if totally fictitious) sentence.
Location:
Australia
Genres:
True Crime
Description:
Schmidty, Swanny and Clarky revisit crimes and run them through their jury of three, debating both sides of the case to agree an appropriate (if totally fictitious) sentence.
Twitter:
@trialbywine
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.trialbywine.com/
Email:
trialbywine@gmail.com
Episodes
Episode 201 Derrance Stevenson part 2
8/30/2025
Schmidty completes the story of the murder of Derrance Stevenson and the somewhat extraordinary remarks of the judge in the case.
Duration:00:50:15
Episode 200 Derrance Stevenson
8/23/2025
Schmidty tells part one of the Derrance Stevenson murder - what really happened and was it David? Who knows, but something was off.
Duration:01:10:40
Episode 199 Anita Cobby
8/16/2025
Clarky covers the horrific 1986 murder of Anita Cobby in Blacktown, Sydney.
Duration:00:54:20
Episode 198 Cold Revenge
8/9/2025
Swanny tells the story of poor Kelli Peters, an after school volunteer who got on the wrong side of Jill Easter, or Ava Everheart, or Miss Delicious, or whatever - a woman who was bent on revenge for something that didn't happen.
Duration:01:17:09
Episode 197 The ring of Truth
8/2/2025
Clarky takes his inspiration from Dylan's Hurricane in this story of Rubin Carter, the boxer who may or may not have shot and killed three people on a hot New Jersey night.
Duration:01:09:52
Episode 196 Rodney Alcala
7/26/2025
Schmidty tells the story of Rodney Alcala, one of the USA's most prolific serial killers who predated on women and girls through the late '60's and '70's and was a vicious and brutal killer - trigger warnings for this one.
Duration:01:20:52
Episode 195 Victoria's weird laws
7/19/2025
Clarky lightens the mood with a series of weird laws that still exist in Victoria, much to the amusement of Swanny and Schmidty.
Duration:01:00:18
Episode 194 Value Chain Nut Punch
7/12/2025
Swanny breaks her rule about telling an Australian story with this one. Local boy Chris Lane was living his best life when he was murdered for absolutely no reason at all.
Duration:01:28:44
Episode 193 Facilitated Communication, or not.
7/5/2025
Clarky tells the story of Derrick Johnson and Anna Stubblefield. Did Anna find a way to communicate with Derrick that turned into a love story, or was she exploiting him?
Duration:00:53:05
Episode 192 Becky Bliefnick
6/28/2025
Schmidty tells the story of Becky Bliefnick, a remarkable woman who was shot to death in her home and the subsequent arrest and trial of her estranged husband Tim.
Duration:01:01:22
Episode 191 Bourke Street Massacre
6/21/2025
Clarky continues his anti Victorian tourism campaign by telling the story of the lead up to the Bourke Street Massacre, where six innocent people were murdered and twenty seven injured.
Duration:00:48:46
Episode 190 That was unexpected
6/14/2025
Swanny tells the story of Dr Michael Mastromarino whose redemption story took quite the turn. Our jury was not expecting that!
Duration:01:14:44
Episode 189 Utter Carnage
6/7/2025
Clarky tells one of the most unexpected stories about the aptly named band, Mayhem to the jury's surprise and at times, disgust.
Duration:01:09:25
Episode 188 Wedding Crimes
5/31/2025
Schmidty dedicates this episode to her friends Liv and Phil and their wedding - who knew crashing was such a prolific crime??
Duration:00:48:34
Episode 187 Whackjob
5/24/2025
Clarky curates a series of stories related to agalmatophilia, which certainly raised some eyebrows in the jury.
Duration:00:38:42
Episode 186 Susan Powell and sons
5/17/2025
Schmidty tells the story of the disappearance of Susan Cox Powell and the tragic aftermath. Trigger warnings abound.
Duration:01:13:54
Episode 185 Overkill
5/10/2025
Swanny tells the story of the Gonzales family murders which rocked the suburb of North Ryde NSW in 2001.
Duration:01:10:14
Episode 184 Womb Madness
5/3/2025
Julian Knight had a personality disorder with hysterical features - more your womb madness than funny. Clarky covers the horrendous story of the Hoddle street massacre, an event that scarred the psyche of Melbourne forever.
Duration:01:03:40
Episode 183 Lucy Letby
4/26/2025
Schmidty covers the story of Lucy Letby, Britain's baby killer, who was convicted of killing 8 babies whilst they were in her care in ICU. This jury isn't so sure.
Duration:01:14:21
Episode 182 Bitcoin bunko
4/19/2025
Clarky does a pretty bad job at explaining Bitcoin to the jury, whilst telling the story of Gerry Cotten who built a bitcoin empire, but didn't have a password back up plan....or did he?
Duration:01:01:32