NewsCast, News Corp Australia’s on-demand audio arm, has released The Missing Australia, a new six-episode true crime podcast investigating unsolved missing persons cases across the country.
The Missing Australia examines some of the more than 38,000 missing persons reports made to police each year – that’s one every 14 minutes.
Hosted by former policeman Meni Caroutas, The Missing Australia relies on the simple truth that someone, somewhere, knows something. These are cases that can be solved and the podcast sets out to do that.
Investing in and producing new episodes of The Missing Australia under its True Crime Australia arm, NewsCast will build on the success of Caroutas’ freelance work investigating missing persons cases.
Mani Caroutas
Editorial director, audio Dan Box said NewsCast was really pleased to welcome The Missing Australia franchise to its suite of programming.
“Meni Caroutas has done some outstanding work with this podcast and again he has uncovered new leads,” Box said.
“Now with NewsCast, The Missing Australia will feature on our industry-leading CrimeX channel on Apple Podcasts, and be supported by the company’s state-based mastheads with editorial coverage as each episode drops, giving the podcast the showcase it deserves.
“By helping put these cases back in the headlines we hope it might be possible to generate even more new information. Because, like Meni, we believe that for every unresolved disappearance, someone, somewhere, knows something.”
Caroutas said: “I’m excited to work with an organisation like News Corp Australia and to use their resources to reach as many people as possible. The more people we reach the more chance someone with information about a case will come forward and hopefully help police solve one of these cases.”
Subscribers of the company’s state-based mastheads and CrimeX+ in Apple Podcasts will have first access to episodes of The Missing Australia as they are released each Thursday.