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The Night Driver

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  • Episode 11 - Fate

    December 30, 2020 · 1 hr 49 min

    Was Janine Vaughan murdered by a Bathurst man with a propensity for shocking acts of violence? Women who have been with him describe his depravity and cruelty. Or was she killed by a different man who has been dead for years? A man who…

  • Episode 10 - The Screams

    December 21, 2020 · 1 hr 7 min

    John Haynes is a former senior cop in Bathurst who still lives at Mount Panorama. He’s been retired for a decade and for the first time he’s speaking publicly about blood-curdling screams he and his family heard near the local university…

  • Episode 9 - Love You, Sis

    October 18, 2020 · 1 hr 26 min

    In the search for Janine’s murderer, her sister Kylie who devotes much of her life to this case is taken to the brink of what she believes is a breakthrough, only to have her hopes dashed. Every time there’s a discovery of bones near…

  • Episode 8 - Trying Like Mad

    October 11, 2020 · 1 hr 6 min

    Janine’s private life came under close scrutiny and details were aired publicly as the Coroner Mary Jerram heard evidence about a young woman overwhelmed by sadness at times in the final days of her life. Janine was in financial and…

  • Episode 7 - The Cops

    October 4, 2020 · 1 hr 23 min

    A local woman’s evidence was dramatic and deeply disturbing - she was adamant that she saw Janine with her hands bound with baling twine and a look of grave distress on her face while in a small red car being driven by the town’s top cop…

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  • Episode 6 - The Pharmacist

    September 27, 2020 · 1 hr 18 min

    Andrew Jones is a deeply spiritual man who came to Bathurst after studying pharmacy, travelling and working in a small hospital in Nepal, and studying religion in Sydney. When Janine disappeared, Jones lived alone at The Scots School in…

  • Episode 5 - Bad Denis

    September 20, 2020 · 1 hr 2 min

    When Janine disappeared there was no crime scene or body. One man in Bathurst stepped up to tell a chilling story of having raped her at White Rock and cut her throat. Denis Briggs called himself ‘Bad Denis’ when a reckless side of his…

  • Episode 4 - The Dirty Tav

    September 13, 2020 · 1 hr 11 min

    Lynette Boreland ran terrified and hid in the pre-dawn darkness as the mystery driver of a small red car stalked her. In the minutes before Janine took her fateful last steps, Lynette feared for her life. She saw the driver and the…

  • Episode 3 - Innuendo

    September 6, 2020 · 1 hr 27 min

    Brad Hosemans was a top Bathurst cop and the town's deputy mayor. Some colleagues tipped him to rise to the top of the police force but when Janine Vaughan disappeared his life and standing began to crumble around him as rumours and gossip…

  • Episode 2 - Stalking

    August 30, 2020 · 1 hr 13 min

    The stalking of Janine Vaughan escalated when her boyfriend Phil Evans was away for work. A shadowy stalker would leave menacing handwritten notes on her car and send lacy panties to her. There were troubling telephone calls and a home…

  • Episode 1 - Sisters

    August 23, 2020 · 1 hr 5 min

    Janine Vaughan was a young woman with many friends, a loving family and a good job. She lived in a country town famous for one of the world's great annual car races. She stepped into a red car in front of friends 19 years ago - and…

  • Introducing The Night Driver

    August 5, 2020 · 3 min

    A young woman disappears into a rain-soaked night. A country town divides on rumour and speculation. And the relentless quest of a family to uncover the truth. The Walkley Award-winning investigative journalist behind The Teacher’s Pet…

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About the show

Janine Vaughan’s disappearance 19 years ago is at the heart of a mysterious case that has split a close-knit community left wondering if a murderer walks among them.